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Beating Ryanair Card Payment Fees
I'm new to this site but I wanted to share this. I have just gone to book flights through Ryanair but due to not having a pre paid master card I was going to be liable for admin fees up to nearly £20. I have just booked the same flights through Travel Republic without the card admin fees. Just thought it was worth a…
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BA and Virgin Flight Sales
Would anyone have an idea when the next BA or Virgin flight sales will be? Or if they knew when they were last year? Cheers
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Best Pre Paid card for Asia
Hi, I have been looking at the pre paid cards on this site and others and they all seem great if you are spending in Euro's or dollars. However, i am heading off to Asia for 2 months in October. I will be going to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. What card would be best to use in these countries? Some advise would be…
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Why can't I find any flights to Orlando? Am I too late/early?
Looking for flights to Orlando for next August (2012) and am struggling to find any. Have used as wide possible choices on the various flight sites-would prefer flying from Newcastle but have looked at Leeds/Bradford and All London and can't find any flights unless we only go for 14 days, (even then only 1 flight appears)…
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Help, continental cant verify my card?
Hi, over the past 2 days I've tried 3 times to book flights on continental website. I get all the way through to payment, enter my mastercard details then add my security info as prompted by mastercard/natwest and I get the message; We could not process your request. Please see the message below and make revisions. !…
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Ryanair Telephone Number
Anyone got a currently-working non-0871 number? The ones on noto0870 don't work.
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MSE News: Ryanair makes charges clearer in website update
This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story: "Ryanair has changed its booking process to ensure it is now compliant with European regulations ..." Read the full story: Ryanair makes charges clearer in website update
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How do I reclaim taxes for an unused flight?
I had a flight to Toronto with Sunwing, a Canadian company and was unable to fly due to illness. My Halifax Ultimate Reward insurance have advised me that I should seek to claim the taxes portion of the ticket back directly from the airline, as Halifax will not refund me this as part of my claim; They will only refund the…
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Best way to change currency back to pounds
My father in law is from SIngapore and has lots of savings but cannot get more than 1% interest. he suggested we set up a saving account or isa in the uk in his daughters name for 3 per cent ish interest. If it earns a hundred pounds or so a year he is happy. If he gave us a few thousand singapore dollars whats the…
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Advice on Airline Changing Flight Time
Hi all, I am due to fly to Malaysia for a few weeks in September. Today I recieved an email telling me that my return flight will be arriving at 1645 instead of 1615. I had already booked a train ticket which anticipated my arrival at the earlier time. I now doubt that I will have enough time to make the train. Can anyone…
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Airport lounge advice T3 Manchester
Hi Anyone any tips on how to gain access to the lounges at T3 in Manchester? My other half and I are travelling on Saturday and he booked the Escape lounge only to discover the only lounges in T3 are Flybe/BMI and BA. I'm a points member of all of these but not enough for an airport lounge unf. I tried calling Flybe and…
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Car hire - Theft and Damage Excess
Just back from a great holiday in Italy but I had the worst car hire experience ever with Avis. As I'm part of their "Preferred" programme (!) I paid up front for the rental in February. On picking up the car at Florence airport I was told that the damage / theft excess was 2500 Euro and to reduce it to nothing would cost…
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easyJet Gatwick to June 2012 now on sale
Including June bank holiday weekend.
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Tips on booking Airmiles flights
I can never get what I want. Have been browsing now for over 18 months - currently trying to book flights for NEXT summer and not a bean to anywhere in Southeast Asia during school summer holidays. I suppose some dates have not yet been released, but can't get anything for 22nd July 2012 week, which are on the system. How…
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Ludicrous fare increases on "Cheap" Flights
I booked 2 return flights to Malta through a well known site. Total cost around £375. Due to a change in personal circunmstances we wanted to move the flight back 2 days. The flights were not until end October. Same airline same time, flight 2 days on. I was quoted an extra £206 ; about half for "Upgraded" tickets ie the…
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Luggage in pockets & other queries - Ryanair
Flying Ryanair next week, no hold bags just one carry-on case per each of us. I'm going to tip my handbag contents into my carry-on bag (apart from liquid cosmetics etc. which will go in a clear bag) but was wondering about my phone and purse. Is it allowed to go through security with these in my pockets? Do you have to…
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BA or United Airlines?
I'm busy researching destinations for our honeymoon next May. We'd initially looked at Chicago then Las Vegas and back to London via BA, however flights were coming in around £860 each (£1720 total). I then found that for £730 each (£1460 total) we can fly with United Airlines with Chicago, then Las Vegas, then San…
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Ryanair - claiming refund for airport taxes & checked baggage, any ideas?
Hi I mistakenly booked a flight with Ryanair and checked in online before i realised I booked wrong date - flight left this morning. needed it tomorrow. so i have had to buy new ticket. however I have since heard that although Ryanair won't refund for whole flight they will for the airport taxes and checked baggage?? So i…
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BA worse then Ryanair and Easyjet etc
I booked a UK internal return flight with BA and for reasons outside my control, I needed to make alternative arrangements for the outbound portion. This was done, and I then contacted BA to tell them that I no longer needed the outbound flight, and they could go ahead and re-sell it. I had no great expectations of a…
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Easyjet API information
Hi all I have submitted the question to Easyjet but they give a upto 5 day response time so l was wondering if anyone knew the answer quicker as my booking is showing a red attention marker. Approx. 2 weeks ago l booked online a flight to Spain in May 2012 as yet l haven't submitted the required API information i.e. name…
