Ryanair

cupcake23

Master_C wrote: »

The Visa Electron card does not void you from taxes. Its ONLY benefit is when selecting what card to pay your flight with - visa electron is free to pay with, whereas other cards such as visa or maestro can cost up to £20 to pay with.

If your lucky though you can actually find flights where the taxes are £0.00 (these are generally special online fares)

Hope that helps

Thanks that does help,
I can only find ones where the flight is 0.00 but the taxes etc come to £30!

hollydays

sashyy wrote: »

Thanks that does help,
I can only find ones where the flight is 0.00 but the taxes etc come to £30!

Which month are you searching?are you searching week by week.With these offers,it may not be the date we most want but the date that is left.

ONLY look for the £1 figure-nothing else matters in this offer.Even if it says 89p -it is not worth looking at.

cupcake23

hollydays wrote: »

Which month are you searching?are you searching week by week.With these offers,it may not be the date we most want but the date that is left.

ONLY look for the £1 figure-nothing else matters in this offer.Even if it says 89p -it is not worth looking at.

Im looking for anytime next month,
Looking at east midlands to barcelona

Okay thanks for the tip!

hollydays

Then I would say that although they SAY the offer includes july and august they are popular months,so I doubt there are actually any flights then.

dorry_2

sashyy wrote: »

Hiya,
What about all the taxes etc ?
Becuase of the card does it wipe all the charges?
I feel stupid but I really cant get my head around this!

this visa electron card only saves u money ie: £5 for each passenger, if u were going to book flights in the sale with our debit or credit card:money:

dorry_2

afternoon :wave:

ryan air have 5 million seats at £5 each way. just been on and priced flights from durham tees valley 23/9/09 for a week £60 all in for the 3 of us!

priced a thomson hotel in tossa with b & b £197---


total cost £260 for a week for 3 of us:j

rpb424

Master_C wrote: »

The Visa Electron card does not void you from taxes. Its ONLY benefit is when selecting what card to pay your flight with - visa electron is free to pay with, whereas other cards such as visa or maestro can cost up to £20 to pay with.

Up to £20, I should have been so lucky :mad:

The current fee for any non-Electron booking is £5 per person per trip - even on Debit cards. My fee for 2 adults and 2 children last year therefore came to £40 (4 return trips) and there was no way to make it any cheaper since I don't have an Electron card. Also, be very careful if you want to subsequently amend your booking in any way, however minor, because they charge you AGAIN. The night before we travelled last year we thought it would be a good idea to add an extra suitcase to our checked-in hold baggage. Knew that the charge for the bag was going to be £16 and accepted this, but when I got to the checkout screen the system automatically slapped the £40 credit card fee on again, despite having already paid it when I originally booked. Needless to say I didn't carry on, there was no way they were stinging me for 80 quid in card charges.

I think the only reason they have no fee on an Electron card is to give them a 'get out' in terms of being able to claim that there IS a way of avoiding paying fees, even though Electron cards can be hard to get hold of. They used exactly this 'excuse' when interviewed on the radio a few months ago about the paying to use toilets debacle when also challenged about their charges in general.

I think their overall policy on card charges is shameful. I won't be using them again.

jacx_2

rpb424 wrote: »

Electron cards can be hard to get hold of.

Electron cards are not, in my experience, hard to get hold of. I opened up a Halifax Easycash account a few months ago just to get one. It's a very basic account - no cheque book, credit or overdfrafts etc, so I would think anyone could open one. It was very easy and quick to open, and I've already saved on fees with Ryanair and Jet2. There's been so much talk about the Halifax account and other methods of getting Electron cards at the Post Office and Thomas Cook etc on this and other forums that I really can't understand why people complain about paying card charges instead of just making that little bit of effort to avoid them.

Searcher2

rpb424 wrote: »

Up to £20, I should have been so lucky :mad:

The current fee for any non-Electron booking is £5 per person per trip - even on Debit cards. My fee for 2 adults and 2 children last year therefore came to £40 (4 return trips) and there was no way to make it any cheaper since I don't have an Electron card.

You may not have an Electron card but you can get one (Travel Money card) at any Post Office that does foreign exchange. Just take your passport and some other id down and some money to load onto it. You can activate it the day after. (1.5% loading charge)

If you need it immediately then sign up to Entropay (4.5% charge). http://www.entropay.com/ It doesn't say it is Electron but it works apparently. My friend did this last week as he didn't have a card.

I am afraid you just wasted £40 there.

stephen77

rpb424 wrote: »

Up to £20, I should have been so lucky :mad:

The current fee for any non-Electron booking is £5 per person per trip - even on Debit cards. My fee for 2 adults and 2 children last year therefore came to £40 (4 return trips) and there was no way to make it any cheaper since I don't have an Electron card. Also, be very careful if you want to subsequently amend your booking in any way, however minor, because they charge you AGAIN. The night before we travelled last year we thought it would be a good idea to add an extra suitcase to our checked-in hold baggage. Knew that the charge for the bag was going to be £16 and accepted this, but when I got to the checkout screen the system automatically slapped the £40 credit card fee on again, despite having already paid it when I originally booked. Needless to say I didn't carry on, there was no way they were stinging me for 80 quid in card charges.

I think the only reason they have no fee on an Electron card is to give them a 'get out' in terms of being able to claim that there IS a way of avoiding paying fees, even though Electron cards can be hard to get hold of. They used exactly this 'excuse' when interviewed on the radio a few months ago about the paying to use toilets debacle when also challenged about their charges in general.

I think their overall policy on card charges is shameful. I won't be using them again.

they have got to make there money though. I do not mind for charing for tiolets or standing if I can fly for £1 each way. I can not get a taxi to the city centre 2 miles away, yet I am only paying £1 to fly 800 miles. They can charge as some one has to administer the change in your flying requirement. If they were not to charge for this they would have to charge everyone else more to cover off administration costs