Saturday, March 14, 2009

When Ryanair says "Your session has been locked"

For some reason, Ryanair's site screws up every once in a while when booking a flight and it will only show you a page saying "Your session has been locked", "if not redirected in 10 seconds click here" -- but obviously that doesn't work and you're stuck.

In order to start a new session, you need to remove the cookie ASP.NET_SessionId. If you don't know how to do this, here's the step by step with Firefox:
  1. While on the "Your session has been locked" page, right click anywhere in the page and select "View Page Info"

  2. Go to the "Security" tab and click the button "View Cookies"

  3. You'll see a list with a few elements. Click on the line that has ASP.NET_SessionId in the "Cookie Name" column

  4. Click "Remove Cookie"


Alternatively you can try to restart your browser.

42 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice Work. thanks.

Anonymous said...

nice work, helpful! thanx

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much!

artshortfilms said...

Mille Grazie!

Rembrandt said...

Handig!

Happy googling :)

Peter said...

This doesn't work for me in IE8, but another option is to use InPrivate. That does work because it does not use cookies.

tsuna said...

Yeah but you shouldn't be using IE8 anyway. Get a proper browser :)
And in order to make a reservation I wouldn't be surprised if cookies were actually required.

Unknown said...

THANK YOU SO MUCH! IT WORKED BEAUTIFULLY#

courses said...

If you get a 'session locked' message, check your emails to see whether Ryanair has accepted your booking.

Otherwise, you may clear your cookies, book a flight, and then discover your have made two bookings.

rlongo said...

^^ listen to this poster. I just received this message, then an e-mail confirming my booking.

So in other words, this error message isn't necessarily an error messsage!

Be patient an wait for an e-mail.

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for posting this little hint! Very helpful! :-)

Anonymous said...

Thanks ;) I would have been stuck there all day!

Anonymous said...

Wow thanks

prieka.berns said...

how long should i wait for that e-mail? :/ because i really dont want to pay twice.

Anonymous said...

thank u very much

Anonymous said...

Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the suggestion.

If this can be useful to anyone, five days ago I got the "Your session has been blocked" screen after trying to book with Ryanair, no confirmation email followed. After repeating the procedure today (price went down in the meantime :), I got the same screen, but this time I have received a confirmation email.

Unknown said...

HELP! I got the error message "Your session has been locked" and did not receive any confirmation email for an hour. So, I proceeded to book another flight. I booked it ok. And after two hours I got the confirmation of the first one. Now I book the flight twice! Does anyone know how can i get my money back???????????? I'd really appreciate any help! THANKS

Unknown said...

HELP! I got the error message "Your session has been locked" and did not receive any confirmation email for an hour. So, I proceeded to book another flight. I booked it ok. And after two hours I got the confirmation of the first one. Now I book the flight twice! Does anyone know how can i get my money back???????????? I'd really appreciate any help! THANKS

Shannon Eileen said...

Thanks a million for your help :=)

Anonymous said...

Thank you so so much! you're a star!

Anonymous said...

Thanks!

Cat said...

Hey! Thanks a lot!!!

Anonymous said...

You're a babe. Thank you! You have no idea how much that has helped me! LOVE! <3

Suzy said...

You saved my life ;)

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU!!!!! SO HELPFUL!!!

Anonymous said...

Still works, Firefox 4.0, Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks!!!

Anonymous said...

Magic - that undoubtedly saved some hassle - thanks

Anonymous said...

absolutly brilliant! I was about to smash my computer screen with frustration at these crooks. Everything they do make it such hard work. I hope our flight goes ok.... Thanks again

Anonymous said...

Man you are awesome.. I have been struggling with this for half a day..Ryan air help desk also asked to delete cokkies but not specifically about the one you mentioned. And your suggestion worked. Thanks a ton!!!!

peace said...

I got this " Your session has been locked" in IE8. and i paid twice. first payment has been done night 01:30 second payment almost at the same time and i didnt got any conformation epost after that i tried firefox at around 14:00 kl it worked perfect for me. i got conformation E-post. if u did as i then dont remove the cookie from IE8. otherwise u will pay for the conformation u have done in IE8.

hOPE IT HELPS SOME OF U.

Anonymous said...

Thank u so much

Anonymous said...

Thanks. Either remove all cookies in the browser history or use the secure surfing mode in google chrome since it doesn´t store cookies.

Anonymous said...

Haha this just helped me :) Many thanks (bow)

Anonymous said...

I cleared my cookies, refreshed and could book my flight. Price went up from EUR19 to EUR75! Bastards!

Anonymous said...

thank you very much!!!

Anonymous said...

If this happens try using mozilla firefox or internet explorer instead of google chrome for example. This worked for me. Hope this helps

Alda said...

Thank you!!!

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much! It worked!

Markus said...

Wow wasted a few hours,,, but then this worked great, thank you for the tip....

Anonymous said...

I have wasted days and missed cheap flights, having to check back, putting in all my info and then getting the locked paged. Can't believe i didn't Google it earlier! thank you so much!

Adam LibuĊĦa said...

Thank you, it helped to delete all their cookies.