Ryanair website shutdown

From Times Online
June 15, 2009
Ryanair website shutdown
A Ryanair plane taking off

(Chris Radburn/PA)
Ginny McGrath

Ryanair plans to close its website for upgrade work, but passengers
must still check in online or face a £40 charge.

The Ryanair.com site will be unavailable between 7pm on Wednesday June
24 and 5am on Thursday June 25.

Online check-in will not be possible during the shutdown and the
airline will be unable to take bookings for the ten-hour period.
Additionally, the airline's UK reservations call centre is open 9am to
5.45pm - so no bookings can be taken over the phone either.

The site closure will affect passengers travelling with the carrier
early on the morning of Thursday June 25, as the airline stipulates
that online check-in must be completed at least four hours before
scheduled departure.
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Flights booked before May 21 are still exempt from this and passengers
on these tickets can still check in at the airport if they have paid
the relevant airport check-in fee in advance. Otherwise, a statement
on the airline's website reads: "If you do not check-in online you
will be required to pay the relevant fee to re-issue your boarding
card at the airport (Euro 40/ GBP 40)."

The carrier says the shutdown is necessary to carry out "essential
upgrade maintenance".

A spokesman said in a statement: “All web check-in passengers who are
due to travel this Thursday should check-in and print off their
boarding passes before 18:00hrs Wednesday.”