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MSE News: Ryanair to charge for Visa Electron bookings

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  • lufcgirl
    lufcgirl Posts: 1,875 Forumite
    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!
  • aj2703
    aj2703 Posts: 876 Forumite
    lufcgirl wrote: »
    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...
  • lufcgirl
    lufcgirl Posts: 1,875 Forumite
    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?
  • aj2703
    aj2703 Posts: 876 Forumite
    lufcgirl wrote: »
    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?


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  • Oneday77
    Oneday77 Posts: 1,242 Forumite
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    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.
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  • bagand96
    bagand96 Posts: 6,562 Forumite
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    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!
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  • squidworth
    squidworth Posts: 170 Forumite
    edited 1 December 2009 at 12:10AM
    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 right
  • JPD23
    JPD23 Posts: 42 Forumite
    edited 1 December 2009 at 1:13AM
    benjus wrote: »
    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??
  • JPD23
    JPD23 Posts: 42 Forumite
    JPD23 wrote: »
    Would it be a good bet to get a Euro card instead...

    And using a Nationwide flex card to load it of course!
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