MSE News: Ryanair 'sticks two fingers up at passengers' with new card fees

2sides2everystory

omelette451 wrote:

The first airline to send planes through the ash cloud was British Airways. Would you say the same about them?

What are you talking about omelette? - you trawled a long way back for my comments - are you trawling to City of Edinburgh in June 1982 to support your assertion about British Airways being first or did I miss something?

mikeeboy wrote:

I can't work out if you're a comedian or just arrogant?

Isn't that what they all said about Mikey Baby?

mikeeboy

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Isn't that what they all said about Mikey Baby?

Yep, so if you're comparing yourself to him, I think the answer must be arrogant :rotfl:

richardw

mikeeboy wrote: »

Anyway, the jobsworths won't be happy until all card charges are abolished. Then the £6 will go into the usual taxes/charges or on the flight price, so instead of most people paying it, we'll all have to pay.

No it won't.
Card charges would be 'actual cost' charged by the card companies passed onto the passenger. Other truly optional fees such as checked baggage would go up, and there would be the inevitable large hand luggage bag in the overhead locker charge.

malkie76

It is not a fact at all, it is merely an obtuse assertion and would only ever be stated by someone arguing that a safety cloak existed in the airline business.

It's 100% a fact.

http://www.airfleets.net/crash/fatalities_year.htm vs http://www2.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/accidents/reported-road-casualties-gb-main-results-2010.html

kevinc6

The answer is simple you treat Ryanair with the contempt Michael O'leary treats his passengers with -DONT FLY WITH THEM

I have used this dreadful airline but wouldn't now use them if they were the last airline on the planet. Their prices once you include all the extras can be extremely high.

It really does pay to compare with what I always think of as a real airline like British Airways where what you see is what you pay, you can check bags in, you get a snack and drink and the staff always look the part unlike the Ryanair crew, who's uniforms look like they came from a jumble sale! - ok it maybe a little more but as they say you get what you pay for!

2010

kevinc6 wrote: »

The answer is simple you treat Ryanair with the contempt Michael O'leary treats his passengers with -DONT FLY WITH THEM
QUOTE]

How can you NOT fly with them (see my post 253) when I`ve just booked Birm to Malaga in Nov for £23-98 return TOTAL price.

Search to your hearts contents via Skyscanner or anyone else and you`re talking triple.
I can`t really see the ppoint of this thread anymore because you`re going to get those that will never fly with RA and those that know a bargain when they see one.

We all know about the new card now, which is free (technically)
You can use it all over the UK free until the end of March 2012.
After that there is a charge of 50p every time you use it BUT NOT for Ryanair.
The inactivity charge is easily avoidable and the min load is £150.

End of story.

Quentin

will-in-estoril wrote: »

By having some principles, I suppose.

Principles are irrelevant to this discussion.

£24 to fly to Malaga is the issue surely! This is MSE not "Where are your principles?"

MarkBargain

It seems very anti-competitive to restrict customers to a card offered by the airline itself in order to buy a flight for the advertised price. What a lot of hassle to go to to apply for yet another card (after Electron and Mastercard Prepay previously), to pay £6 and get a voucher and use the code, to have to top up £100 or £150 or whatever it is, to then have to remember to keep using the card every six months to avoid penalties...

Would those who defend Ryanair also apply the same freedoms to other organisations? Should we have to take out National Express cards to use the train, First cards to use buses, Sainsbury's cards to shop in a supermarket to avoid card fees?

Another question is, when people start getting these Ryanair cards, what next? What's to stop Ryanair changing the T&Cs to apply further card charges for money uploads, transactions, harsher dormant card fees etc. etc. etc. Where does it all end???

jayok

MarkBargain wrote: »

Would those who defend Ryanair also apply the same freedoms to other organisations? Should we have to take out National Express cards to use the train, First cards to use buses, Sainsbury's cards to shop in a supermarket to avoid card fees?

If it saves money, yes!

Another question is, when people start getting these Ryanair cards, what next? What's to stop Ryanair changing the T&Cs to apply further card charges for money uploads, transactions, harsher dormant card fees etc. etc. etc. Where does it all end???

No idea, I live for today to be honest. If I can save money by getting this card, I will get the card

2sides2everystory

I see Martin has been taking some stick from Ryanair for over-reacting!

And Martin's tweeted Apparently Ryanair being rude about me in the Sun tomorrow (which is now today)