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expensive credit card charges for flight booking

Does anyone know whether this heavy surcharge is legal. The company in question is Monarch. The charge was £24.75 for two flights for booking on the card?

Can it be claimed back and how?
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  • Azari
    Azari Posts: 4,317 Forumite
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    red_devil wrote: »
    Does anyone know whether this heavy surcharge is legal. The company in question is Monarch. The charge was £24.75 for two flights for booking on the card?

    Can it be claimed back and how?

    No.

    It's outrageous but not illegal.
    There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.
  • scottishblondie
    scottishblondie Posts: 2,495 Forumite
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    Sadly not. I was hit with a £24 charge for flights totalling £265 just yesterday. Grr. It is totally outrageous since I'm fairly sure that the CC companies only charge 2.5% of the transaction as a fee.

    On a side note I also find the other "fees" that get added on at the last minute totally ridiculous. Our flights very suddenly cost £90 more than I had been expecting.
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