Low cost airline will only accept digital ones from later this year, and start serving Saarbrücken in 2026.
The budget airline Ryanair said it would switch to 100% digital boarding passes.
Starting 12 November, “passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass generated in their ‘MyRyanair’ app during check-in to board their Ryanair flight,” the carrier said on Wednesday.
Ryanair said it planned the change for “the less busy travel period after the mid-term break.”
The company claimed that 80% of its 206 million passengers already use digital boarding passes. That means roughly 20% of its passengers still have been using printing out paper boarding passes.
Its press release noted that numerous festivals, music venues and sporting events already “have successfully switched to digital-only ticketing.”
Ryanair flies from Luxembourg to Barcelona, Dublin, Lisbon, London Stansted, Madrid, Milan Bergamo and Toulouse, along with several other cities in France, Spain and Portugal, according to its website.
Ryanair flights from Saarbrücken
In a separate announcement, officials said Ryanair would start service at Saarbrücken airport in summer 2026. Destinations include Trapani and Lamezia Terme in Italy and Alicante in Spain, the DPA news agency reported.
Five airlines – Aegean Airlines, DAT Airlines, Eurowings, SkyUp Airlines and Sun Express – currently fly out of Saarbrücken airport, which recorded 340,000 passengers last year and nearly 200,000 passengers from January to August of this year.
Credits: Ryanair
