Ryanair website to close for ten hours (checkin as well as reservations)

Source:

http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1136862.php

Ryanair passengers are being told they must check in online in advance of
the airline's website closing for ten hours.

The site www.ryanair.com will close from 19.00 on June 24 until 05.00 the
following morning due to an "essential upgrade maintenance".
Web check-in passengers travelling on Thursday, June 25 must ensure that
they have checked in online before 18.00 on Wednesday, June 24, the airline
said.

Ryanair's website will not be available for passenger bookings or other
passenger services from 19.00 due to the upgrade works.

Passengers who booked flights on or before the May 21 and selected to use
airport check-in will be unaffected and can check-in at the airport as
normal.

"Ryanair apologises for any inconvenience caused by this maintenance work,"
a statement said.

by Phil Davies

In message , at 14:42:16 on
Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Graham Harrison
remarked:
The site www.ryanair.com will close from 19.00 on June 24 until 05.00
the following morning due to an "essential upgrade maintenance".

Will the upgraded website be available on ipv6, enquiring minds want to
know...
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 16:14:50
on Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Jim Mason remarked:
The site www.ryanair.com will close from 19.00 on June 24 until 05.00
the following morning due to an "essential upgrade maintenance".

Will the upgraded website be available on ipv6, enquiring minds want to
know...

How will that improve things? Please excuse my ignorance!

It means that people whose connection to the Internet is by ipv6, will
get a much better experience.

Some background info: http://www.ipv6actnow.org/

(disclaimer: my day job).
--
Roland Perry

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:25:01 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:


In message , at 16:14:50
on Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Jim Mason remarked:
The site www.ryanair.com will close from 19.00 on June 24 until 05.00
the following morning due to an "essential upgrade maintenance".

Will the upgraded website be available on ipv6, enquiring minds want to
know...

How will that improve things? Please excuse my ignorance!

It means that people whose connection to the Internet is by ipv6, will
get a much better experience.

What sort of better experience? Incomprehensible numeric IP addresses?
Being able to be indentified by your ethernet MAC address being
embedded in
your IP6 address? Making static addressing on your home network a
thankless
task? Not being able to connect to most sites using IP6 anyway?

Enquring minds want to know!

I do hope you're not going to try and convince us that IP6 waves its
magic
wand at the HTTP protocol and makes jpegs more vibrant and mp3s richer
sounding...

B2003

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 14:42:16 on Tue,
16 Jun 2009, Graham Harrison
remarked:
The site www.ryanair.com will close from 19.00 on June 24 until 05.00 the
following morning due to an "essential upgrade maintenance".

Will the upgraded website be available on ipv6, enquiring minds want to
know...

What's the point, since most of the internet's infrastructure doesn't yet
support it?

In message
, at
08:42:46 on Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Boltar remarked:

The site www.ryanair.com will close from 19.00 on June 24 until 05.00
the following morning due to an "essential upgrade maintenance".

Will the upgraded website be available on ipv6, enquiring minds want to
know...

How will that improve things? Please excuse my ignorance!

It means that people whose connection to the Internet is by ipv6, will
get a much better experience.

What sort of better experience?

Faster access to the site, without having to go through (eg) a v4/v6
proxy.

Incomprehensible numeric IP addresses? Being able to be indentified by
your ethernet MAC address being embedded in your IP6 address? Making
static addressing on your home network a thankless task?

None of that is important to the average user.

Not being able to connect to most sites using IP6 anyway?

It's a bit like Digital TV switchover. Need more space for more channels
(more users/content) but to persuade new users eventually to be
'digital-only' you need at least the majority of content available by
the new system as well as the old.

That can be achieved in the short term with content being available both
ways (like TV channels 1-5 currently) but eventually everyone will have
to shift to the new scheme.

Not an ideal analogy, but in the right direction.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 17:00:33 on Tue, 16
Jun 2009, Graculus remarked:
The site www.ryanair.com will close from 19.00 on June 24 until 05.00 the
following morning due to an "essential upgrade maintenance".

Will the upgraded website be available on ipv6, enquiring minds want to
know...

What's the point, since most of the internet's infrastructure doesn't yet
support it?

It has to start somewhere (after all, it ends [whatever that means] in
as little as two years).

ipv6 is starting to be available and a few major ISPs (eg Free.fr) are
already rolling it out to end users, plus major sites like Google as
content providers.
--
Roland Perry

Graculus wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 14:42:16 on
Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Graham Harrison
remarked:
The site www.ryanair.com will close from 19.00 on June 24 until
05.00 the following morning due to an "essential upgrade
maintenance".

Will the upgraded website be available on ipv6, enquiring minds want
to know...

What's the point, since most of the internet's infrastructure doesn't
yet support it?

Indeed, I don't know why the first person to do so bothered buying a
telephone, no on else had one.

In message , at 17:53:45 on
Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Brimstone remarked:
Indeed, I don't know why the first person to do so bothered buying a
telephone, no on else had one.

Mr Bell and his assistant both had one...

But this reminds me of the famous quote:

"What are you planning to do Mr. Bell...... wire up every house in the
country? (Ridicule levelled at Alexander Bell as he presented plans for
wire telephony to bankers and investors in Philedelphia).

But also:

"There will never be a mass market for motor cars - about 1,000 in
Europe - because that is the limit on the number of chauffeurs
available! (Spokesman for Daimler Benz)

Which is perhaps not unlike the original expectation that there wouldn't
be more than 230 (ish) networks connected as the Internet - Class A
addresses.

Ryanair might be interested in:

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. (Lord Kelvin,
President of the Royal Society 1890-5)

"All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human
life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
(Engineering Editor, The Times, 1906)
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 17:53:45 on Tue,
16 Jun 2009, Brimstone remarked:
Indeed, I don't know why the first person to do so bothered buying a
telephone, no on else had one.

Mr Bell and his assistant both had one...

But this reminds me of the famous quote:

"What are you planning to do Mr. Bell...... wire up every house in the
country? (Ridicule levelled at Alexander Bell as he presented plans for
wire telephony to bankers and investors in Philedelphia).

But also:

"There will never be a mass market for motor cars - about 1,000 in
Europe - because that is the limit on the number of chauffeurs available!
(Spokesman for Daimler Benz)

Which is perhaps not unlike the original expectation that there wouldn't
be more than 230 (ish) networks connected as the Internet - Class A
addresses.

Ryanair might be interested in:

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. (Lord Kelvin, President
of the Royal Society 1890-5)

"All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life,
but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. (Engineering
Editor, The Times, 1906)

Likewise "640KB of RAM should be plenty for running all forseeable software"
and "there may be a market for four or five computers in the UK" (I'm
paraphrasing these - I'm not sure of the source).