MSE News: Ryanair forces ALL customers to pay booking charge

NFH

peter_percent wrote: »

I have used a Halifax easycash Electron with Aerlingus 5 times in the last year with no card charge, yesterday I booked a flight and was charged the £14 return fee, a check on the site and I can no longer find anything that says there is no charge for an Electron, just that it is accepted

Aer Lingus's £7/€7 admin fee is irrelevant. It is not based on means of payment and it is included within headline fares (at least for UK customers). It is no more relevant than "fees" included by other airlines within their headline fares, such as British Airways' fuel surcharge.

SaveTheEuro

peter_percent wrote: »

I have used a Halifax easycash Electron with Aerlingus 5 times in the last year with no card charge, yesterday I booked a flight and was charged the £14 return fee, a check on the site and I can no longer find anything that says there is no charge for an Electron, just that it is accepted

Aer Lingus thought they could get away with showing the full price and then giving a discount to Electron card holders but it would appear the Office of Fair Trading have made them fall into line.

NFH

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

Aer Lingus thought they could get away with showing the full price and then giving a discount to Electron card holders

What was Aer Lingus's objective in doing this? It doesn't cost them any less to accept Electron so why give a discount for it? It wouldn't facilitate the advertising of a lower headline fare either. What were they trying to achieve?