Last updated: 31 October 2026.
Ryanair expects you to check in online. Check-in at the airport costs a fee per passenger, shown in its table of fees.
24 hoursbefore departure when online check-in opens (60 days with a pre-reserved seat)
2 hoursbefore departure when online check-in closes
40 minbefore departure when check-in and bag drop desks close
30 minbefore departure when you must be at the gate
Key times
- Online check-in opens
- Up to 60 days before departure if you pre-reserved a seat (outbound and return must fall in that window); 24 hours before departure if your seat is assigned at random
- Online check-in closes
- 2 hours before departure
- Check-in and bag drop desks
- Open no later than two hours ahead and shut sharp at the 40-minute mark, unless Ryanair says otherwise
- Boarding gate
- Arrive half an hour or more before take-off
- Miss the cut-off and boarding can be refused with no money back.
- Airport check-in desks in Morocco close 60 minutes before departure, and all passengers departing Moroccan airports check in online and then collect a free boarding pass at the desk.
- The airline suggests reaching the desk two hours early, which also applies if an online travel agency booking has to be verified there.
Online and airport check-in
- Check in on the website or the myRyanair app and keep the digital boarding pass.
- Not checked in online by the two-hour mark? The airport desk accepts you until 40 minutes before, for a fee.
- Checked in online but cannot display the app pass? You get a free printed one.
- Non-EU/EEA passengers whose visa documents are verified through the app get a boarding pass and no airport fee; if the app rejects or cannot scan documents after at least 3 tries, they check in and verify at the airport without the fee. Without trying before online check-in closes, the fee applies.
- Minors under 16: add them to an adult's booking by making a separate booking and linking it; check both in online, then pick up proper boarding passes at the desk.
Questions travellers ask us
When does online check-in close?
Two hours before departure.
When do the bag drop desks close?
Forty minutes before departure, according to the help page.
Is airport check-in free?
No; a fee applies per passenger.
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