Ryan Air admin fees for refunds

exel1966

And even if you did book with BA and then decided not to fly they would charge you a HIGHER admin fee than Ryanair - It's either £20 or £25 !!!! So consider yourself as getting a bargain with Ryanair for £14 !!!

Please, let's go back to the days of paying £150 minimum to get a return ticket to Paris :rolleyes:

cuteusmaximus

I don't understand how anyone can choose to fly on an airline whose owner has such contempt for its punters - the people lining his pockets.

budgetflyer

peterbaker wrote: »

I have a feeling that Ryanair takes millions in "taxes" that it never passes to the authorities even when the flight is completed. When the Government increased Airport Duty recently you didn't see Michael O'Leary complain about being a tax collector, did you, eh?

As usual, absolute rot Peter.Just like your stupid scratch card post where you hinted that the scratch card promoters were in administration. A libelous post btw.You twist the words to suit your arguament
from their press release 27/12

[SIZE=+1] GORDON “SCROOGE” BROWN TAXES THE POOR AT CHRISTMAS [/SIZE]


Ryanair Europe’s largest low fares airline today (27th December) branded Gordon Brown as Scrooge for his decision this Christmas to double air passenger duty on low fare tickets from 1st February next. In so doing “Scrooge” Brown is guilty of taxing the poor and in many cases, doubling the cost of low fare air travel.
From 1st February 2007 Gordon “Scrooge” Brown has decided to double the rate of APD from £5 to £10 per ticket which means that the Government taxes will be higher than many of the air fares charged by Ryanair to ordinary people travelling to and from the UK. The Chancellor claims that this will be good for the environment. This claim is rubbish. These extra taxes on ordinary people, which will generate over £1bn. per year, will go straight into Scrooge’s deep pockets, and will have no effect on the environment whatsoever.
The Stern Report recently confirmed that aviation accounts for just 1.6% of greenhouse gas emissions. If everyone stopped flying tomorrow, it would have next to no effect on reducing worldwide greenhouse gases. Aviation is neither the cause of , nor the solution to global warming, and the decision by Chancellor “Scrooge” this Christmas to double the taxes on low cost flights wont affect the environment, while ordinary people pay over £1bn. more in taxes for low fare flights next year.
If Gordon “Scrooge” Brown really wanted to do something about the tiny 1.6% of greenhouse gas emissions that aviation generates, then he would encourage passengers to fly on economic modern, fuel efficient aircraft like those of Ryanair and increase the taxation on business class which generates far more emissions per passenger, or on older, noisier, fuel guzzling aircraft like those operated by British Airways among others. “Scrooge” Brown should be taxing the polluters, not the ordinary people who can only fly because of the low fare flights that Ryanair among others provides.
Calling today on Gordon “Scrooge” Brown to reverse these unfair taxes on low fare flights, Ryanair’s Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, said:
“Gordon Brown’s Christmas present to the travelling public is to double the taxes on low fare flights from £5 to £10 per ticket. This decision will hit the poor much harder than the fat cats in business class, and these taxes, while generating over £1bn. for “Scrooge” Brown, wont make any difference to the environment whatsoever.
“Ordinary people should not suffer high taxes. British tourism will be damaged by these taxes which deter visitors coming to London and the UK at Christmas and the New Year.
“Ryanair is today inviting all passengers booking tickets over the Christmas period to write to Gordon “Scrooge” Brown “the ghost of Christmas present” asking him to reverse this unfair and regressive tax on travel, a taxation which will do nothing at all for the environment when aviation only accounts for 1.6% of global greenhouse gases.
Gordon Brown’s New Year resolution should be tax the rich, not the poor. Tax the fat cats in business class, not the ordinary families on average wages who can only afford fly thanks to Ryanair’s low fare flights.
If “Scrooge” Brown wont listen to Ryanair, then perhaps he will listen to the pleas of ordinary passengers many of whom –next year – will have to pay more in taxes to Gordon Brown than they pay to Ryanair for their tickets next year”.
Write to “Scrooge” Brown to tell him what you think of his stupid and ineffective tax at

It costs in many cases far more to collect and process the tax than they charge for the flight. Like their 1p flights for instance.

Beate

Has anyone watched Watchdog the other night about the admin fees airlines charge for changing a name on the booking? Up to £200 if I remember correctly. Someone wrote in and said he had his name changed by deed poll and back - cost only £25. LOL

budgetflyer

Beate wrote: »

Has anyone watched Watchdog the other night about the admin fees airlines charge for changing a name on the booking? Up to £200 if I remember correctly. Someone wrote in and said he had his name changed by deed poll and back - cost only £25. LOL

:D:D


Of course b4 anyone tries this, they would need to change their pasport too;)

richardw

exel1966 wrote: »

And even if you did book with BA and then decided not to fly they would charge you a HIGHER admin fee than Ryanair - It's either £20 or £25 !!!! So consider yourself as getting a bargain with Ryanair for £14 !!!

BA's fee is £15 for e tickets https://ukprepin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ukprepin.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1034&p_created=1141992309&p_sid=t66boQxi&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD00MiZwX3Byb2RzPSZwX2NhdHM9JnBfcHY9JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1hZG1pbmlzdHJhdGlvbiBmZWU*&p_li=&p_topview=1

Paper tickets are £25.

BA do e ticket refunds online, Ryanair should do the same.

peterbaker

richardw wrote:

BA do e ticket refunds online, Ryanair should do the same.

They already do when it suits them.

When Ryanair experiences a spate of weather cancellations they set up a very very simple link on their website and you can get all your your money back in moments (well in moments you can press the buttons...it takes a while longer to appear on your statement!)

Don't be fooled. Any "admin charge" for making a change to an e ticket like these is groundless. It is pure penalty, and like credit card and bank charges it should be outlawed pronto just so that the good citizens of this country don't get conned into thinking these companies are actually doing any work for the money. They aren't. None of these businesses make anything or add significant value to their sectors. They are simply traffickers. Their business is based on grabbing, controlling and TAKING many cuts of transaction flows up to the limit the herd is prepared to bear without causing the occasional stampede.

PS BTW budgetflyer, none of my posts are libelous. I speak as I find. On the other subject of scratchcards, the administration message was on the website. Apart from annoying me, it caused me to wonder several things including whether it or they were bust.

The fact that the website wasn't working all day yesterday and for goodness know how long before that is scandalous and I am not afraid to speak my mind against the paid threats of corporate lawyers in situations like this, or against silly comments like yours which come from the same stable.

The website is now working. Funny that, isn't it?

PPS Budgetflyer I will now concede that Ryanair issued a press release siding with the great unwashed about the increase in airport tax, but they didn't complain about having to collect it like Easyjet did, and the press release was 'twisted' to re-emphasise the greenness of Ryanair's operation.

And what is that you have written

It costs in many cases far more to collect and process the tax than they charge for the flight. Like their 1p flights for instance.

So? What kind of point are you trying to make with your complex comparison? The model that enables headline charges of 1p for some flights relies on the net profit they make on more expensive sales (later bookers), from non-returned cancelled flight tax, from other non-pass-on-able collected "tax" anomalies, from scatchcard sales, from terravision ticket sales, from UK fuel tax subsidies, from hidden DCC charges, from credit card surcharges, from baggage charges, priority boarding charges - what does the 1p mean in all of that? Absolutely Zilch. It's a marketing headline. It is impossible to buy a flight from Ryanair for 1p.

dmg24

The fact that the website wasn't working all day yesterday and for goodness know how long before that is scandalous and I am not afraid to speak my mind against the paid threats of corporate lawyers in situations like this, or against silly comments like yours which come from the same stable.

A website down for ONE DAY?

Scandalous!!!

peterbaker

Who knows how long it was down for? I don't suppose many people even bother to use it most days. It could have been down for many days and perhaps few would have noticed, fewer still bothered to investigate it.

It's one of those marketing wheezes like the ones on chocolate wrappers - you get a chance of an instant win at the point of sale, but the other chance requiring you to put wrapper or scratchcard in your pocket and take it home and login to a website mostly gets binned.

Sam_Bee

peterbaker wrote: »

The fact that the website wasn't working all day yesterday and for goodness know how long before that is scandalous and I am not afraid to speak my mind against the paid threats of corporate lawyers in situations like this, or against silly comments like yours which come from the same stable.

The website is now working. Funny that, isn't it?

I'm confused. Is this a joke? Are you taking the mick?

Seriously, are you being serious? You're not are you? Please, tell me you're one big massive wind up merchant?

Seriously?