MSE News: Ryanair to charge for Visa Electron bookings

Donnie

Tuxedo reckon to give you a £5 credit, so I guess the card costs you £5.
£1 charge if there are no transactions within 30 days. Same card as the Sun.

The Sun refund the purchase price if you top up by £20: http://www.thesunprepaid.co.uk/tariff.html

hsbcarter_2

For me the Caxton FX Global Card seems best as it doesn't charge a £1 monthly fee like The Sun / Tuxedo card.

Am I going mad, or is the Caxton FX Global Card the best value?

benjus

hsbcarter wrote: »

For me the Caxton FX Global Card seems best as it doesn't charge a £1 monthly fee like The Sun / Tuxedo card.

Am I going mad, or is the Caxton FX Global Card the best value?

As stated above, the £1 fee only applies if you don't use the card. Surely you could buy a newspaper or something with it once a month? I know it's a bit of a hassle, but...

The Caxton card looks pretty good, although the high transaction charge (£1.50) could mount up pretty quickly if you buy a lot of flights. Once you've used it 7 times it becomes more expensive than the Phones4U card.

apt

As it appears to be impossible to have a Mastercard prepaid card in the UK without some sort of charge I hope the OFT will show some balls and prevent Ryanair from advertising fares without a card fee added.

onlypaddy

is the FairFX card included in this? I know its in euros but the comission would be lower than the fees on some of the other cards?

Former_MSE_Dan

hey folks,

we are finalising our research on the top Mastercard Prepaid card, but it looks like either the

ICE Travellers Cashcard (loaded in Sterling) http://www.iceplc.com/cashcard


or

Caxton FX Global Traveller Card http://www.caxtonfxcard.com/cards_description.asp

More info will go in this week's email

Dan

kookai9

Well that it then, to complicated now; & cheaper to pay for luggage on other carriers .One firey hoop to many!
If any1 wants to listen to the great michael o leary you can hear his interview from last saturday on Rte radio 1 marian finucane show as BBC Panorma werent given one.

Donnie

benjus wrote: »

As stated above, the £1 fee only applies if you don't use the card. Surely you could buy a newspaper or something with it once a month? I know it's a bit of a hassle, but...

The Caxton card looks pretty good, although the high transaction charge (£1.50) could mount up pretty quickly if you buy a lot of flights. Once you've used it 7 times it becomes more expensive than the Phones4U card.

Yes, but then there's the extra 50p purchase charge with the newspaper.

Phones4u is only any good if you have a shop local to you.

I'm thinking of either sticking with the MoneySupermarket first choice of Bread, as I only fly Ryanair when it's really cheap.

Can't be bothered with the high maintenance of the Sun/Tuxedo card or the complicated paying in fee structure of the Phones4u.

lufcgirl

The bread card seems quite interesting. Although slightly put off by the £1.50 charge per transaction. I was used to this with Electron when paying with euro but not sterling.

Looks like I'm going to get additional charges whatever way I do it with one of these cards, it's just a case of trying to keep it as low as possible now.

dmg24

MSE_Penelope wrote: »

This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:

"Ryanair will charge passengers to book flights using a Visa Electron card from next year..."

Read the full story:
Ryanair to charge for Visa Electron bookings

The two threads have been merged to avoid duplication. Thanks to hsbcarter for the original post.

Will MSE ever be able to produce a balanced 'News Article' on Ryanair? :rolleyes: