beauvais, france – June 5 2024: beauvais airport. Ryanair plane waiting for passengers (Image: NGCHIYUI via Getty Images)
Ryanair has explained some fourteen reasons why people, or their baggage, could be refused entry to its flights. The budget airline is one of the UK’s most popular, with thousands of flights across Europe each day,
On its website, Ryanair lays out all of its terms and conditions, as well as rules travellers must abide by. Among them is the following guidance: “We may refuse to carry you or your baggage on any flights operated by an airline of the Ryanair Group, if one or more of the following circumstances apply, or we have good reason to believe that they may apply”, before the airline lists the following reasons:
- “This is necessary under any law, regulation or order that applies.
- Carrying you or your baggage may affect the safety, health or acceptable comfort of other passengers or crew members.
- Your mental state, physical state, attitude, behaviour or appearance, including the effects of alcohol or drugs, presents a risk to you, other passengers or crew members, or any property.
- You have behaved in an unacceptable way on a previous flight, and we have reason to believe that you may behave that way again.
- You have refused to go through a security check.
- You have not paid any necessary fare, tax, fee or charge.
- You owe us any money in respect of a previous flight or (Flight related services) owing to payment having been dishonoured, denied or recharged against us
- You do not appear to have valid travel documents;
- You may try to enter a country you are joining a connecting flight in or do not have valid travel documents for;
- You have destroyed your travel documents during a flight; or
- You have refused to give your travel documents to the crew when asked to do so.
- You cannot prove that you are the person named on the boarding pass.
- You have not followed our instructions relating to safety or security.
- You have smoked, or tried to smoke, on a previous flight with us.”
Ryanair further explains that if a person is refused entry to a flight, or removed from the plane, due to any of the above reasons, “we may cancel any unused part of your ticket and refund you the price you have paid for this unused ticket”.
It adds: “We will not be liable for any loss, damage death or physical injury alleged to be due to our refusal to carry you or your baggage in these circumstances.”