Opodo selling Ryanair flights at a discount

Mark_Xa

As many of you may have noticed, Opodo have started to sell Ryanair flights cheaper than Ryanair themselves. This appears to be a loss-leader to induce people to sign up for entropay (any other payment method is more expensive). Entropay costs 5% to top up, but you can still end up paying less.

Has anyone ever gone through the entire booking process and got a budget airline flight cheaper?

richardw

Don't want entropay and don't want to get involved with Opodo/eDreamsawful so no point really.

jpsartre

Goes to show that no matter how many complaints a company has, there will always be some people willing to use it if they think they can save a few quid.

NiftyDigits

Run, Forrest, run!

Mark_Xa

jpsartre wrote: »

Goes to show that no matter how many complaints a company has, there will always be some people willing to use it if they think they can save a few quid.

Does it?

That's really the point of my question: has anyone done it?

jpsartre

Lots of people have booked from Opodo and lots of people have been burned.

SaveTheEuro

Wouldn't touch Opodo with a barge pole.

Voyager2002

Mark_Xa wrote: »

As many of you may have noticed, Opodo have started to sell Ryanair flights cheaper than Ryanair themselves. This appears to be a loss-leader to induce people to sign up for entropay (any other payment method is more expensive). Entropay costs 5% to top up, but you can still end up paying less.

Has anyone ever gone through the entire booking process and got a budget airline flight cheaper?

No, they are offering Ryanair flights at impossibly low prices. People who attempt to buy from them get told that the flight is no longer available at that fare, and are invited to pay substantially more than the airline would have charged had they booked direct. Oh, and there is the twenty pound "service charge" to compensate them for going to all the trouble of not selling you a ticket...

Voyager2002

jpsartre wrote: »

Goes to show that no matter how many complaints a company has, there will always be some people willing to use it if they think they can save a few quid.

In fairness, I recently bought an air ticket from another site with a dreadful reputation that was a little cheaper than anywhere else, and everything was fine.