MSE News: Ryanair's new card charges come into effect

grubby23

2sides2everystory wrote: »

If you select a UK Card Billing Address too then there is no avoiding it now, Patrick.

Right, I just tried a dummy booking from London to Memmingen in Germany in december. I selected a UK billing address, filled out my details, selected pre-paid mastercard and filled out all required details.

I did not hit the booking button, but it did not show me an extra fee of £6 which is shown for all other credit cards (except the Ryanair one of course).

So I am a bit confused (but of course happy) that it works for me. Weird that others are having problems!

Toe-Jam

grubby23 wrote: »

Right, I just tried a dummy booking from London to Memmingen in Germany in december. I selected a UK billing address, filled out my details, selected pre-paid mastercard and filled out all required details.

I did not hit the booking button, but it did not show me an extra fee of £6 which is shown for all other credit cards (except the Ryanair one of course).

So I am a bit confused (but of course happy) that it works for me. Weird that others are having problems!

Try deleting your temporary internet files and then doing it again. It looked like it was free for me too until you clear the cache and then its not.

grubby23

Indeed, trying it with another web browser and the fee is added to the price...

The last chance is now to still use the pre-paid mastercard but give a different country than the UK as billing address. Curious if this will be working.

antenna

victorkee wrote: »

I read somewhere, that, if you book flights with the new Ryan Air card, it is only the card holder who doesn't have to pay for the charge of £12 return. If you are boking for a family of 4, it is only free for the registered card holder, and not free for the other 3 family members on the booking? Has anyone booked for more than one person on the booking? Was it free for all the people on the booking? Victor Kee. Twickenham

What a crazy post...........starting.......I read somewhere......that a man down the pub knew a man who's brother told him.....and so on and on...............The card holder that pays for the flights does NOT have to be travelling with the other people on the booking,or even travelling at all.

The_Machine

Disproportionate credit/debit card charges like those imposed by airlines should be banned.

Does it really cost Ryanair £48 to make a reservation and collect payment from a family of four booking return flights? The booking system is all automated, nothing is mailed out, and eight tickets (4 x returns) bought at the same time will be paid for in a single transaction. This seems an unjustifiable surcharge.

These practices only serve to reduce transparency in the market and such charges should be included in the ticket price. If this rule rule applied across the market to all airlines, ticket prices would be more comparable.

How long do you think it would take to get 100,000 signatures on an e-petition to ensure this is debated in Parliament?

Toe-Jam

grubby23 wrote: »

Indeed, trying it with another web browser and the fee is added to the price...

The last chance is now to still use the pre-paid mastercard but give a different country than the UK as billing address. Curious if this will be working.

It doesn't work by selecting a different country, if you press the button it will say it couldn't match your address properly and to try again entering the details exactly as they are on your card statement

I will just use travelrepublic to book from now on its free for visa elecron on that site and only something like 50p for visa debit, and if i need a one way flight I will just suck up the £6 charge. Still cheaper than the rip off card that they are trying to make people use.

frazzo

noncemale wrote: »

I live in Northern Ireland but use Ryanair frequently, flying out of Dublin. To that end, I have a pre-paid Mastercard in euros.

I have made a dummy booking from Dublin and it does not appear to charge for using this, even when I put in UK as my billing address.

I presume that this is because the Ryanair Cash Passport is not available in the Republic of Ireland. It is only available in the UK and Italy so far.

I'm in the same boat (island ho ho)

So the new card only applies to flights originating in the UK regardless if the card is actually registered there?

Also is it better to have a euro card as I'm
Sure fair fax charges you a conversion at time of purchase. I've noticed that when the euro purchase is
Converted to sterling it's only slightly better than Ryanairs in house conversion. (another hidden rip
Off which is easy to miss!)

grubby23

Could someone explain me how I can book a Ryanair flight with travelrepublic? When selecting London Stansted as destination it just gives me the following airports as departure airports: Aberdeen, Belfast, Jersey and three others ones here on the island. No airports offered in other countries such as Germany for instance...

jonnyjackov

grubby23 wrote: »

Could someone explain me how I can book a Ryanair flight with travelrepublic? When selecting London Stansted as destination it just gives me the following airports as departure airports: Aberdeen, Belfast, Jersey and three others ones here on the island. No airports offered in other countries such as Germany for instance...

Same for me when I tried. I think you can only book return flights FROM the UK. You can't book flights that start outside the UK.

Thomsonfly used to be like this and it drove me mad.

Toe-Jam

grubby23 wrote: »

Could someone explain me how I can book a Ryanair flight with travelrepublic? When selecting London Stansted as destination it just gives me the following airports as departure airports: Aberdeen, Belfast, Jersey and three others ones here on the island. No airports offered in other countries such as Germany for instance...

Looks like they've change their site also, they ryanair flights are not on it now:mad::mad::mad: