BBC News: Credit and debit card surcharges 'are excessive'

malkie76

Unfortunately both Lydd Air and Aurigny Air both fly there, so you don't have a point.
(that's ignoring of course how easy it is to get there by car or train)

dzug1

malkie76 wrote: »

I totally disagree - drip pricing is only an issue to people who are a bit simple and perhaps shouldn't be shopping online.

So - 50% of the population then?:D

jammin_2

malkie76 wrote: »

Unfortunately both Lydd Air and Aurigny Air both fly there, so you don't have a point.
(that's ignoring of course how easy it is to get there by car or train)

Sorry to butt-in, but Lydd Air (the mini airline based in Kent) do not fly to Dinard according to their website and Aurigny Air fly there but from Guernsey, not from the UK.

malkie76

The Lydd Air flights are seasonal (which I'm guessing Vendee's trips are), and the fact that Aurigny Air fly from Guernsey is completely irrelevant to the point I'm making.

jammin_2

malkie76 wrote: »

The Lydd Air flights are seasonal (which I'm guessing Vendee's trips are),

Mmmm.. perhaps they used to be. Nothing on the Lydd Air website about Dinard now though, see. Even the Dinard airport website mentions nothing about Lydd Air or Kent as a destination. Maybe you could update Wikipedia?

malkie76 wrote: »

and the fact that Aurigny Air fly from Guernsey is completely irrelevant to the point I'm making.

Then I must have missed your point. I thought you were trying to point out that Vendee is incorrect to say that only Ryanair fly to Dinard from the UK.

malkie76

No, my point was that there is no airport which is exclusively served by RyanAir.

Originally I had stated that if you don't like RyanAir then don't use them, to which I was counterargued that there was no choice. I'm merely highlighting that there is a choice, but perhaps not one which is a direct route (which I already conceeded).

I'm happy to be proven wrong..........

jammin_2

Right.....

WickedWolfie

whatmichaelsays wrote: »

Which, quite simply, are an irrelevance.

Ryanair make a proposal to you and you can either accept or reject those terms. Nobody is forcing you to fly Ryanair and they are not the only airline.

O'Leary makes it clear - you do business with him on his terms. If the likes of Boeing, Airbus and some of the world's biggest airports have tried and failed to break O'Leary's policy, what makes a poxy magazine think it can do different?

Probably something to do with their legal status, along with CAMRA for example, as a "super complainant" under section 11 (6) (a) of the Enterprise Act (2002).

If you are going to vent at least do some basic research.....

WickedWolfie

WickedWolfie wrote: »

Probably something to do with their legal status, along with CAMRA for example, as a "super complainant" under section 11 (6) (a) of the Enterprise Act (2002).

If you are going to vent at least do some basic research.....

For "their" read the Consumers Association, the parent body of Which?

See: http://www.bis.gov.uk/files/file18136.pdf

Vendee

malkie76 wrote: »

Unfortunately both Lydd Air and Aurigny Air both fly there, so you don't have a point.
(that's ignoring of course how easy it is to get there by car or train)

As someone else has pointed out, Lydd Air dont fly to Dinard Pleurtuit and Aurigny only fly there from the Channel Islands. I will also ignore how easy it is to get there by car or train because a) you specifcally were referring to alternate air routes and b) its not that easy as you suggest. I know.... I've done it in the past.

Like I said, I've got a point and your arguments seem to be pointless.