MSE News: Ryanair forces ALL customers to pay booking charge

jfdi66

jayok wrote: »

I have never paid £40 for car parking at the Airport

Forty quid is a seven day tariff at Beziers and five days at Girona.
In the UK a return taxi from my home to Bristol (the most horrible airport in the UK) is forty-five quid. You're not another of these business class flyers are you, and take a private hire car to the airport?
Will you share your money saving secret with us - please - as I am flying out of Beziers next week and I'd like to save some money!

jayok

jfdi66 wrote: »

Forty quid is a seven day tariff at Beziers and five days at Girona.
In the UK a return taxi from my home to Bristol (the most horrible airport in the UK) is forty-five quid. You're not another of these business class flyers are you, and take a private hire car to the airport?
Will you share your money saving secret with us - please - as I am flying out of Beziers next week and I'd like to save some money!

You have a strange way to ask, calling me a business class flyer with private hire just because I never pay £40 for a weeks parking

I use Top Cash Back and generally there is at least 10% cashback on parking. The last sites I used through TCB was Purple Parking and a Mon - Fri stay at a car park beside Glasgow Airport was £24 (with £3.63 cashback!). I usually park at off site car parks at Glasgow, Prestwick & Edinburgh airports so your first money saving tip is to use the comparison sites and go for the off site ones. The 2nd money saving tip is to use TCB to get 10%-15% back from your booking.

I just checked Purple Parking for Bristol and got a 7 day tariff for the onsite car park for £37 (not including the cashback which will be £3.70)


From my account page at TCB

tobiascurious

Some info which may help people if they want to book separate one-way flights

MOL wrote:

In addition, Ryanair’s €6/£6 admin fee (which covers costs associated with Ryanair’s website, https://www.ryanair.com) will apply to all new bookings made from 30 November, except those bookings made using a Ryanair Cash Passport in Ireland, Germany and Spain, where admin fees can be avoided until 1 February, 15 February and 21 March 2013, respectively.

(from Daily Mail)

kfsimpson

"Ryanair’s €6/£6 admin fee (which covers costs associated with Ryanair’s website, www.ryanair.com)"
Ryanair 2011 72 million passengers If running the website costs them 432 million Euros per year, I want to become one of their website employees! Anyone for presenting this to the OFT?

tobiascurious

Good news!

The entry level price was £12 / €12 + avoidable £6 / €6 admin fee
It then became £18 / €18 but with possible £6 / €6 discount
It is now £14 / €14

A fair compromise I think

tripled

It's now down to £12 although for very limited routes and seats. Quite a few available for 14 quid now though.

JungleMartin

Regarding the new 2% credit card fee... I had booked and paid for two flights *before* it was introduced, but I expected to add chargeable hold baggage later. I've just done that (added baggage) and paid using credit card, but there was no additional 2% fee charged.

Just thought some people might be interested or might be wondering whether they would be affected by this, if they were in a similar scenario to mine.

NFH

JungleMartin wrote: »

Regarding the new 2% credit card fee... I had booked and paid for two flights *before* it was introduced, but I expected to add chargeable hold baggage later. I've just done that (added baggage) and paid using credit card, but there was no additional 2% fee charged.

I wonder whether this could be used to get Section 75 protection without being stung with a 2% surcharge for the privilege. Provided the total price of the return flights is over £100, if you pay any part of it (even just £1) by credit card, you will be covered by Section 75.

Louisdf

NFH wrote: »

I wonder whether this could be used to get Section 75 protection without being stung with a 2% surcharge for the privilege. Provided the total price of the return flights is over £100, if you pay any part of it (even just £1) by credit card, you will be covered by Section 75.

If Ryanair goes bust, ALL aqirlines will!

NFH

Louisdf wrote: »

If Ryanair goes bust, ALL aqirlines will!

Protection under Section 75 is not only about the airline going bust, but also where the airline fails to carry out the service with reasonable care and skill. Given Ryanair's poor record at dealing with complaints, it helps customers if they can pursue their credit card issuer, who are likely to be more cooperative but equally liable.