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Easyjet ends fee-free bookings as it now charges for Visa Electron

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  • jayok
    jayok Posts: 753 Forumite
    It will be interesting to see if flights will now be more expensive for everyone (across all airlines) as a result of the crackdown on payment fees. If someone moaned because they paid £48 for a flight before (£40 + £8 payment fee), will they now be happy that they will pay £49 for an equivalent flight (£40 + £9 admin fee)?
  • mad_rich wrote: »

    Any guesses for when it will be a nice round £10?

    It's nearly there.

    If you are a booking a flight to the UK the admin charge is €11, which is £9.20 at today's exchange rate.
  • zagfles
    zagfles Posts: 21,444 Forumite
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    jayok wrote: »
    I don't pay a card fee so what I see at the flight stage is what I pay

    So you've paid your fee up front then? Or is the Ryanair cash passport free now? I thought they charged for it, and charged if you didn't use it for so long.
  • richardw wrote: »
    Is it £9 if you pay with nectar points?

    Yes.

    The Nectar website indicates the exact same fees:

    Are there any additional fees?
    A booking fee of £9.00 will be added to your total. Standard card payment fees apply for balances paid by Visa Credit cards, American Express payment cards and MasterCard Credit cards. Fees are calculated at 2.5% of balance amount with a minimum payment of £4.95, and will be added to your booking total.


    Here's the link:

    http://www.nectar.com/easyjet/index.rnectar
  • zagfles
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    mad_rich wrote: »
    Seems the old charging structure was:

    - £8 per booking for all cards except Visa Electron
    - an extra 2.5% for credit cards (min £4.95)

    So they've snuck an extra £1 on, and of course removed the benefit for Visa Electron holders.

    Any guesses for when it will be a nice round £10?

    They've still got a long way to go to get to the charge I last paid Ryanair (£48 - added at the last minute).
  • More fool you - people spend all their time ranting about Ryanair and fail to realise that most of the airlines do exactly the same thing, just under a different guise.

    We shouldn't forget that this slap in the face for easyjet customers with electron cards comes on top of the "up to 20% off sale" in which many of us struggled to find a discount of even a penny.
  • zagfles wrote: »
    They've still got a long way to go to get to the charge I last paid Ryanair (£48 - added at the last minute).

    At least that £48 Ryanair charge can be reduced to zero by arming yourself with the right plastic.

    How can you avoid easy jet's new admin charge?
  • zagfles
    zagfles Posts: 21,444 Forumite
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    mad_rich wrote: »
    Why do I have to select the flight to see the true price? It's not as if they need any more information to display it inclusively. It would be a trivial matter to divide this fee among the passengers.

    I am whinging that they charge single travellers more. Well, not whinging, but pointing out that a cheap one-way is much less attractive with a fixed charge. Not that that has changed today.

    It's bound to cost them more per flight in admin to book one person one way than it does to book 8 flights in one go (eg 4 people return).
  • zagfles
    zagfles Posts: 21,444 Forumite
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    At least that £48 Ryanair charge can be reduced to zero by arming yourself with the right plastic.

    How can you avoid easy jet's new admin charge?

    So come on, how do I reduce it to zero? I've just checked on the Ryanair site. The only card which avoids their "admin fee" is the Ryanair cash passport. And you have to pay to get that! And you have to pay almost every time you use it. And you have to pay even if you don't use it (there is an inactivity fee!).

    It might be cheaper if you make a lot of Ryanair flights, but the cost is not zero.
  • zagfles wrote: »
    So come on, how do I reduce it to zero? I've just checked on the Ryanair site. The only card which avoids their "admin fee" is the Ryanair cash passport. And you have to pay to get that! And you have to pay almost every time you use it. And you have to pay even if you don't use it (there is an inactivity fee!).

    It might be cheaper if you make a lot of Ryanair flights, but the cost is not zero.

    The Ryanair cash passport is a lot more troublesome than an electron card or master card prepay but the £6 I paid for it was refunded on the first booking and by using it at least once every six months there is no inactivity fee.

    How does easyjet's new arrangement compare to that?
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