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MSE News: Budget airline fee blow as Visa Electron bank cards phased out

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"Numerous banks are axing the plastic, which can often be used to bypass payment charges on flight bookings ..."
"Numerous banks are axing the plastic, which can often be used to bypass payment charges on flight bookings ..."
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Edit: citation: http://www.nationwide.co.uk/current_account/card-changes2.htm
The card described seems to function like an electron, but they don't actually use the word 'electron' anywhere, so slightly unconfirmed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8384034.stm
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Thinking of spending???..YNAB says "NO!!!!"
It is not a fair practice and is it is thus misleading and unlawful when it is translated by Ryanair and others as an "avoidable charge" which they do not quote as part of the upfront price.
Clearly an internet or telephone only booking service (which effectively is what all the lo-cost services offer), requires a debit or credit card. There is no other way to pay.
The OFT should simply force the airlines to include whatever the airline wishes to charge as the "norm" for card payments within its upfront price.
But OFT won't do this because they are years behind the curve on almost everything ...
But it is possible to avoid the payment fee with the RIGHT card.
A growing number of mail order suppliers were accepting "all credit cards except Electron".
Now mine has been replaced by the Co-op Bank I'm going try and order from a well known supplier which states this in their catalogue.
The peculiar thing is I have never managed to find out from any supplier just why they were so anti-Electron.
Vandermerwe
I don't use the account (current account) very often as I bank elsewhere so I hope they'll let me do it. Any ideas how long it'll take for the Electron card to come through?