Ryanair reminds passengers of move to digital boarding pass in own app on nov 12

Re:Ryanair reminds passengers of move to digital boarding pa... by dfxm12 on Monday November 10, 2025 @01:47PM (#45879328)

Yes. Scooping up user data is just another revenue stream. That is the point.

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Re:Ryanair reminds passengers of move to digital boarding pa... by mschuster91 on Monday November 10, 2025 @01:52PM (#45879379)

Particularly for airlines. For years actually flying passengers hasn't been profitable, it's all about side income that makes a profit [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/the-four-biggest-us-airlines-al...

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Re:Ryanair reminds passengers of move to digital boarding pa... by canucker2016 on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:59PM (#45880197)

There's a YouTube video that talks about how valuable the major US airlines reward program is. The market cap of each airline is less than the value of each airline's reward program at the time the video was made.

I recall Apple was valued in a similar manner back in the late 1990s. Their market cap was barely more than cash on hand. Talk about missed investing opportunities...

Not that I'm saying airlines are the next AAPL.

edit - here's the video - "How Airlines Quietly Became Banks" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUduBmvQ_4

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