1 of party cant travel - do Aer Lingus need to know?

[TreeTiger]

A relative booked flights departing this weekend for a group of friends - Z class - but one has been injured and can't go. Will it be a problem if one less person checks in on the booking reference or should Aer Lingus be told in advance?

Thanks for any info.

 

[undo]

There is no need to do anything in advance. Each flight is a separate booking. They only share a reference number because they were bought together - but each passenger checks in separately and is free to just not show.

 

[Sol28]

As a related - but possibly seperate note. Last year there were 3 of us flying on the same booking to Berlin with Aer Lingus. We were checking in baggage and had checked in online the night before. Unfortunalty i was running late and was getting frantic calls from the others in the airport from the others that if I didnt arrive they couldnt fly as we had checked in online together and they pooled the baggage.

It was a mad dash from the airport bus to the standby desk to see some angry faces on my friends - thank God I made it!

So while the booking may be made together - check in online seprately if you are coming from different locations to the airport.