MSE News: Ryanair forces ALL customers to pay booking charge

NFH

callum9999 wrote: »

As has been mentioned time and time and time and time and time again, their pricing is perfectly honest.

You have to be joking! The only reason they have the £6 admin fee is to mislead potential customers that the fares are £6 cheaper than reality. The majority of customers who pay the £6 admin fee are subsidising the minority who don't, and this current system exists purely to legitimise a misleading indication of price.

tobiascurious

Dave_save wrote: »

The losers in the above example are 20 out of 100 passengers.

Me and callum9999 are within those 20 and even in your revenue-neutral example we will lose out to the tune of £38.40 per return trip for a family of four!!

tobiascurious

There is a similar Guardian article http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/nov/06/ryanair-extends-booking-fee-cards
and as usual in the comments, people are saying how full-service airlines are cheaper anyway once you include fees. I guess they are not very good at getting the cheapest Ryanair fares!

richardw

If you are flying from A to B for a total cost that is a lot less than it 'actually costs' Ryanair, then you're saving money. That's all that really matters, and most money savers do.

jpsartre

tobiascurious wrote: »

The problem is that everyone is now going to have to pay the fee, which actually is £48 for a return flight for a family of four.

Blame Ryanair for that. Nobody is stopping them from offering a discount to passengers paying with the Ryanair card. Of course, the fact that they don't simply reveals why the fee was there in the first place, namely to exploit a loophole which allowed them to keep advertised prices artificially low and hide part of the ticketprice until passengers were ready to pay and . Now that the loophole has been closed, there is no longer any reason for them to offer a free payment method. Tough for those that took advantage of this in the past (myself included) but thankfully fair trading laws aren't there to keep benefits in place for a small minority of customers.

MarkBargain

callum9999 wrote: »

Just give it a rest already... Or at least stick with your "we need to protect morons" stance instead of fabricating outrage at something non-existent.

"Outrage"? Hahaha.

callum9999 wrote: »

Because of this "help our idiots" campaign, my flights with Ryanair will shortly cost £6 extra. Thanks...

Every cloud...

By the way, I have a Cash Passport myself, before it a FairFX Mastercard Prepay and before that a Visa Electron. I know all the loopholes to get cheap flights. That doesn't mean I think card fees or admin fees are right.

Dave_save

callum9999 wrote: »

Just give it a rest already... Or at least stick with your "we need to protect morons" stance instead of fabricating outrage at something non-existent. It's irrelevant WHY it's there, it IS there - end of. All people and companies do certain stuff only because they are "pressured to do so by law", I hardly see how that could possibly be a valid criticism. And it's not included in the individual flights on the next screen yet because it is not a non-optional fee until December 1st.

Because for the millionth time, people with an ounce of brain cells can use the previous system to get a cheaper flight. Because of this "help our idiots" campaign, my flights with Ryanair will shortly cost £6 extra. Thanks...

If all these 'idiots' ceased to become idiots and had got a cash passport, and each saved the £6 'fee', do you really think Ryanair would continue to lose this revenue from the 'idiots'? What would have happened is the price of his flights to everyone, idiots and non idiots alike, would rise to compensate. So in future you'll be paying the true cost of the flight and the idiots could pay less and you'll pay more. So who are the idiots now?

Dave_save

tobiascurious wrote: »

Me and callum9999 are within those 20 and even in your revenue-neutral example we will lose out to the tune of £38.40 per return trip for a family of four!!

No. In the past you have saved, now you'll be paying the true price the same as the other passengers on your plane. So how is that 'losing'?

marchamona

Quite happily booking a Ryanair return flight, and noted the €6 each way admin fee. No problem, except when it totaled up, the two fees came in at €13.20. Could find no explanation at all on the web page. This was not an exchange rate question as the site clearly stated €6 not £6. Didn't book.

jtk_2

It won't make the slightest bit of difference to me as I can think of no circumstances where I would fly Ryanair. I would sooner walk, or just not go.