Ryanair has issued guidance after passenger fears over new smartphone-only boarding passes. Michael O'Leary, the Ryanair boss, has sought to ease passenger concerns about the plan to make smartphone boarding passes mandatory.

Ryanair plans to stop accepting paper print-outs of boarding passes from 3 November. Passengers will be expected to present their boarding pass from the Ryanair app.

The carrier says the move will “eliminate almost all airport check-in fees” and allow “direct updates from Ryanair’s operations centre during disruption”. O’Leary said: “Between 85 and 90 per cent of passengers show up with smartphones.

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"Almost 100 per cent of passengers have smartphones, and we want to move everybody onto

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