Ryanair Cash Passport no longer bypasses admin fee!!!

Alisha2008

Exactly.. no good news at all. We all pay now!!!

2sides2everystory

Alisha2008 wrote: »

Exactly.. no good news at all. We all pay now!!!

Don't be silly boys and girls - surely you don't believe you were ever clever to allow yourself to be shepherded into Ryanair Cash Passport???? Did you really think you were flying Ryanair subsidised by less clever flyers like me who never bought into it?

More transparency was key. And now we have it. Less tricks equals fairer play on fares.

See the big picture, not just what is put in front of your noses to sniff at. Do you want fair play? Do you even believe in it in business? If you've been brought up to believe money is for fools who ain't you to lose and business to gain then I do understand. But it's wrong of course.

tobiascurious

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Don't be silly boys and girls - surely you don't believe you were ever clever to allow yourself to be shepherded into Ryanair Cash Passport???? Did you really think you were flying Ryanair subsidised by less clever flyers like me who never bought into it?

More transparency was key. And now we have it. Less tricks equals fairer play on fares.

See the big picture, not just what is put in front of your noses to sniff at. Do you want fair play? Do you even believe in it in business? If you've been brought up to believe money is for fools who ain't you to lose and business to gain then I do understand. But it's wrong of course.

If you make 20 similar trips this year, I'd genuinely interested to know whether these cost you more than or the same as last year.

2sides2everystory

tobiascurious wrote: »

If you make 20 similar trips this year, I'd genuinely interested to know whether these cost you more than or the same as last year.

Me too Tobias ... remembering that I avoided the admin fees in 2012 (and the need to play Ryanair's Cash Passport game) my gut feeling is that it is looking like it's heading to be about the same at the moment. I generally block book up to about 3 months in advance and I do in fact have the makings of a spreadsheet somewhere with the costs noted.

However there are much larger forces at work on the Ryanair environment than their games with card admin fees so who knows. I was actually taken completely by surprise in the last 48 hours by the doubling of the cost of one part of my journey: Bloody Boris and Barclays have arbitrarily doubled the cost of my bike to the airport bus :mad:

donal_f

tobiascurious wrote: »

Good idea. IIRC this didn't work from Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland as you could obtain a Cash Passport in those countries.

That's includes all the countries that I travel to with Ryanair!!

2sides2everystory

donal_f wrote: »

That's includes all the countries that I travel to with Ryanair!!

Yeah - I was lucky in 2012 :money:

So may it be so for us ALL in 2013. Fares fair - that's the ticket

donal_f

2sides2everystory wrote: »

I realise those of you who got led up one garden path and down a couple of others by Ryanair and who may now be left with surplus cash on the card you can only spend with a surcharge of 50p per transaction, or by some other hoop-jumping or merry dance, will be miffed.

As per my post and other posts, it cost me £2 to get my money off the card via an ATM (thanks to others help on this board). This is the only charge I ever paid for the card (the initial £6 was offset by a £6 voucher). And I have probably saved £150+ in the year I had the card. So, not sure its as bad as you're implying?

I am sitting smuggly having beaten Ryanair at their own game for the whole of 2012 by having flown with them about 20 times in the year without succumbing to applying for their card Cash Passport card, AND without incurring a single fee

How? As I use the same route constantly I just reversed the return pattern and bought the tickets the other way round i.e. Abroad->UK->Abroad instead of UK->Abroad->UK using my trusty Neteller prepaid Mastercard. I appreciate most people couldn't do that but it is always worth checking the opposite way terms/price.

As per the other posts, this doesn't work in most of the popular countries Ryanair fly to? In addition, as you say most people don't do the same route regularly so don't have this option anyway?

2sides2everystory

donal_f wrote: »

As per my post and other posts, it cost me £2 to get my money off the card via an ATM (thanks to others help on this board). This is the only charge I ever paid for the card (the initial £6 was offset by a £6 voucher). And I have probably saved £150+ in the year I had the card. So, not sure its as bad as you're implying?

Glad you haven't had to spend too much to get your own money back!

As per the other posts, this doesn't work in most of the popular countries Ryanair fly to? In addition, as you say most people don't do the same route regularly so don't have this option anyway?

Well it is all academic now, isn't it? The Ryanair rip-off admin fee experience cost you two quid and a card application last year (well done you) and it cost me nothing (well done me) and now we have a more level playing field.

Just been looking at prices to the Med this July. Much easier to compare the likes of Ryanair, Easyjet and BA. Currently Ryanair (ex hold bags) are the most expensive of the three although because their website is not clear to me I am not sure if BA includes a hold bag or not (if they do then they are by far the cheapest!)

MeanExpat

Spend your total balance in one transaction (buying goods, e.g. petrol) and see if Raphael claim their 50p.

Macareus

Great idea. It works. I had forty something pounds something pence left on my card and with the 6 months inactivity charge only days away I went to a supermarket and bought just short of £50 goods there. I asked the checkout person to key in the amount I had left on the card and I paid the rest in cash. The transaction went through with no probs. Later, I checked my account online. Guess what? Zero balance. Sticking it to Ryanair at last.