Easyjet on-line check in - WHERE IS IT ?? !!

[WHBM]

Well I have been onto the EZY website to do OLCI and I am blowed if I can find where the relevant link to the process is. That includes going into all the likely headings, the FAQ, everything.

Can anyone offer a pointer please ?

[Cyrano]

I haven't tried this myself, but the relevant text from the easyjet website says:

Check-in online
If you opt to check in online you can print out your boarding pass after making your booking (From 60 days before you travel and until two hours prior to the scheduled departure time of your flight). You can then go straight to security when arriving at the airport where airport staff will check your passport and/or other travel documents.

Is this suggesting that you have to do the online check-in as part of the booking transaction, immediately after making the original booking, rather than in the more typical '2-3 days before' window? If so, it would explain the absence of an online checkin function on the home page.

Not 100% clear, I fear.

C.

[fly22]

Go into manage bookings and click on the view button beside flight you will find on line check in there

[ShedsRus]

Easyjet OLCI

Just been to Ams with the big orange. Booked flights late Nov. Went on early Dec to pay for the Special Boarding (not bad for the money both at LTN and AMS). While on site found the print your boarding pass link, follwed through and printed. Straight to security (hand baggage only) pass scanned and straight into shoes off and through - no probs.

However, that said I've just booked AMS mid Jan and I can't find the link either.

So - either it's too successful and cabin bags are getting on which are in excess of the meas (certainly true on the flt I was on) and they've been told to stop by DAFTRA
or - the links fell off site.

I shall keep checking 'cause I want the pass for Mid Jan and I'm not queueing if I can help it.

[ShedsRus]

Easyjet OLCI

Originally Posted by fly22

Go into manage bookings and click on the view button beside flight you will find on line check in there

You are quite right ! Thanks. Just been on and printed off the pass no probs.

Must have missed the manage booking tab before

[fyrefli]

Originally Posted by ShedsRus

Just been to Ams with the big orange. Booked flights late Nov. Went on early Dec to pay for the Special Boarding (not bad for the money both at LTN and AMS). While on site found the print your boarding pass link, follwed through and printed. Straight to security (hand baggage only) pass scanned and straight into shoes off and through - no probs.
However, that said I've just booked AMS mid Jan and I can't find the link either.
So - either it's too successful and cabin bags are getting on which are in excess of the meas (certainly true on the flt I was on) and they've been told to stop by DAFTRA
or - the links fell off site.

The issue with AMS may be that the combination of the new security farce, sorry, regs and H pier mean the boarding process has gone from probably the most sorted (easyJet) anywhere - sit in lounge 3 and wait to be called, walk through to H pier, down the stairs, form four orderly queues and board in sequence with no queue of 70 people all claiming to be in group A - to complete lottery - walk through to security queue, stand in line for 20 mins, trot to gate to find everyone else is still in queue - in one fell swoop.

Having said that, I just booked my January trip a couple of days ago and it did give me the option for both BRS and AMS. Because of above security fiasco I, however, will be printing my own pass (which means you're in Group D, so I never normally bother), going through security 15 mins before called (and thus before almost everyone else), sauntering down the long corridor with the pretty piccies, down the stairs and onto the plane before more than about ten other people have turned up

If it's late, I'll sit with me lappy on one of the chairs and do some work - you know it makes sense

Cheers,

Rich.

[Getoutofmygalley]

Fyrefli, in response to customer feedback, online check-in now puts you into group C and not group D

[fyrefli]

Originally Posted by Getoutofmygalley

Fyrefli, in response to customer feedback, online check-in now puts you into group C and not group D

Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately it is now rendered completely pointless at Schiphol, due security farce detailed above; Bristol, which used to be well-managed, has gone to the dogs again, with seventy, eighty people queueing up as soon as the "priority boarding and passengers needing assistance" announcement is made. All it would take is a simple addition that "anyone getting to the desk before their group is called will be made to board last" but seeing as most people still haven't worked out that you can disembark from the back at Schiphol, so crowd immediately up the front stairs I don't really care

Cheers,

Rich.

[redfield]

fyrefli - can you make that request a little more diplomatic??? I think "you will be made to board last" might not be taken too well by some passengers! Good idea though, worth thinking about! What isit with passengers? Why do they queue up in a huge line for absolutely ages beforethe flight is called? I don't understand it.....

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by Mike Jenvey

Ludicrous to stick rigidly to Group boarding system if using a bus

Except that as we have found out elsewhere in aviation, SOPs are the way to go. Sure it may be irrelevant to a bus transfer but it organises the queue the same way for each flight, and the ground staff (bearing in mind the "hired-yesterday" experience of seemingly many at LCC stations) have just one set of procedures to follow.

There are all sorts of variables (eg two buses required, doing it by group preserves at least a bit of the priority boarding sequence approach). Yes, possibly not in the case cited. But one set of SOPs.

[Pax Vobiscum]

What is it with passengers? Why do they queue up in a huge line for absolutely ages before the flight is called?

Because if you don't join the queue, you'll be last on board and find there's no space left in the overhead bins (assuming security haven't restricted everyone to a matchbox and two thimbles)!

[fyrefli]

Originally Posted by Pax Vobiscum

Because if you don't join the queue, you'll be last on board and find there's no space left in the overhead bins (assuming security haven't restricted everyone to a matchbox and two thimbles)!

Yes, but if you're in group D you're supposed to be one of the last on board. Either it's a policy or it's not. Same again yesterday: "passengers in boarding group A only please"; c. sixty people join the queue (we're in D as usual so don't care, btw.); the queue is never shorter than c. sixty people until it gets to the last sixty. We, because we play the game like anyone, join the queue when it's halfway through the Bs, judging it as it happens spot on and being the very first from D to board, coming to the front the moment D is called.

Now, I can see that the way the game gets played in BRS actually suits EZ because they get people boarded with the minimum of delay and just have to tell the people who aren't very skilled at playing the game to stand aside if they get to the front too early; but it sure infuriates the hell out of a significant number of their customers. As someone who's surprised if he squeezes into group C, I don't really care; as per my first post on the thread, I'm just pointing out that the system at some airports does not carry the Ronseal approval mark

[Itswindyout]

EZI allocated seating due soon

Allocated seating will be introduced soon.
Seats will be allocated on a first come first served, so no1 at the check in has 1A, no 2 has 1B etc, etc.
Then in the sheep pen, there will a raffle for seat swops, seems like a plan to me.
Pre-loads will have first option.
Expect impementation 23h59 31st March 2007.