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All non EU/EEA passengers must do this in order to ensure compliance with immigration authorities.
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No other airline requires this "stamp" that Ryanair require. What this is is a money making scam. Ryanair makes massive profits from finding reasons to deny passengers boarding. In one spanish airport, the airline was refusing to allow passengers to repack their bags to make them both within their miserly 10kg hand baggage limit. When the passengers insisted, they denied them boarding for being "uncooperative".
The Ryanair excuse is that the airline must check there is a valid Visa before allowing the passenger to board. It is the same people who work on the Visa approval desk as work at the gate. Therefore, they can just as easily check that it is valid at the gate. The reason they impose this rule is the same reason they come up with complicated labrythine rules in other areas.. it is to confuse the passenger and to fleece them if they make any slip up.
Other tricks to watch for:
Hand luggage bag size requirements are smaller than for all other airlines. Even if you buy a bag which is "approved for hand luggage", it will not fit in Ryanair's sizer because they only approve one bag. A special Samsonite bag costing over $100.
If you have a printer failure and cannot print your boarding pass, expect to pay £40 each way for 1 A4 size piece of paper.
If you want to take a guitar, expect to pay an additional £100 round trip.
Often hand luggage is checked at the gate just as you are boarding. They will then refuse it, and demand money with menaces. You will be told, pay now or you cannot board. They will then charge you £20 per kilo!! excess baggage fee, plus a fee for the extra bag. If you refuse, you denied boarding. If you protest, you are denied boarding and then charged an exhorbitant fee often over £300 to board the next flight.
If you need a second checked bag, which many passengers travelling on transatlantic flights have... do not transfer to a Ryanair flight for the next leg. Let's say your second bag weighed 20Kg, a fairly typical weight, Ryanair would charge you an unbelieveable £180 each way for your bag.. that is £360 for your second bag. Your first bag would cost you an additional £50 each way. So your total baggage fees would be £460... for two bags weighing 20kg each.
They are cynical, hostile and deceptive. It remains a mystery why anyone, except perhaps a weekend backpacker would ever fly on this horror story of an airline.