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MSE News: Ryanair to charge for Visa Electron bookings
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How is someone falling for the speil?!
They (at the moment) manage to get flights to Europe for 2p, £2, £10 return using the current method of payment. Thats not falling for anything, it's money saving to the best of your ability!0 -
How is someone falling for the speil?!
They (at the moment) manage to get flights to Europe for 2p, £2, £10 return using the current method of payment. Thats not falling for anything, it's money saving to the best of your ability!
Current yes, not for long though.... but hey ho, enjoy flying with Ryanair if it tickels yer fancy...0 -
It does indeed. I went to Paris for 2p return this month, reckon British Airways would offer me that?!
And pretty soon I'll need to pay an initial outlay for my card and a small transaction fee, but would I rather pay 52p (50p transaction fee and 2p for the flights when the sale is back!) for some flights or £60 with Easyjet with a further half an hour on my journey by flying with them?0 -
it does indeed. I went to paris for 2p return this month, reckon british airways would offer me that?!
And pretty soon i'll need to pay an initial outlay for my card and a small transaction fee, but would i rather pay 52p (50p transaction fee and 2p for the flights when the sale is back!) for some flights or £60 with easyjet with a further half an hour on my journey by flying with them?
N1 Good on yer..0 -
If we can mount a campaign over high bank charges, they are out of proportion and banks are changing. Even though we lost.
How can Ryanair justify 10 times the amount your local corner shop may charge you for paying by card if you spend £10, it is terrible.
In all honesty I would rather the powers at be stamped out the practice of hidden fees just like they did with car on the road costs being added on after the advert. Everyone must remember those.
Yes 2p flights are great but they are rare, it would be better if they were £10 as a minimum and more people could benefit from them. We are spoiled and lets be honest how sustainable are 2p flights in the long run.New PV club member. 3.99kW system. Solar Edge with 14 x 285W JA Solar panels. 55° West from south and 35° pitch.0 -
The latest chapter in the puppet and puppeteer relationship between Ryanair and us the customers. We all must now put time and effort into researching and obtaining what piece of plastic we must put in our wallets, because MOL has decided so.
As for the UK regulators getting tough on Ryanair? I can't see it anytime soon. There are other airlines with no free payment method. And look at the banking charges on-going fiasco, and everyone took that for granted as being a dead cert!0 -
Anyone know the costs of the Prepaid Mastercards you buy at WHSmiths?0
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Being a frequent flyer with ryanair (malta - luton - malta every 3 weeks etc) and electron card holder I know its a pain but the Visa Electron card is being phased out by a number of banks anyway so we may have to switch sometime
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4622775/1/
Since more of us are using top-up mastercard cards like fairfx.com anyway to get euros from sterling i'll just use that to buy the tickets instead
as an aside, i got round to watching that panorama one on ryanair, and as much as i love the bbc, it does makes me wonder what planet the bbc is on sometimes :rolleyes:
Anyone noticed the change at ryanair to "no taxes" flights in the schedules? for the luton-malta route it still worked out about the same as before anyway (£60 odd quid return) with the tenner flights still around if you time it right0 -
The ICE Travellers card mentioned in the MSE post above looks pretty good actually - the 2% top-up fee seems to be the only charge.
2% fee seems to be only for the £ card. Would it be a good bet to get a Euro card instead (minimum load £100 still, but no fees ever from what I can see?) Then always make sure to book Ryanair flights in Euros? (i.e. if you wanted Stansted to Hahn return, actually book a return Hahn to Stansted (with "dummy" outward flight) then a single back from Hahn to Stansted??)
Or will Ryanair stuff me on DCC anyway by converting to pounds...................?!
Thoughts??0
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