ryanair declining payment from 3 separate cards!

callum9999

MCGONIS wrote: »

*slightly off topic of this thread*



I would happily pay £40 for a return flight to Spain. I don't see them any more. For 4 years I flew Glasgow Prestwick to Girona for a maximum of £30. Often it was £10 or £16 return.

Then they had a fall out with the incoming Government of Catalunya and the route was taken off. In its place we then got Alicante which was really cheap, maybe £40 return and then the price shot up after about 2 years as the airport operator would not allow them to use steps to board/disembark, they wanted the jet bridges instead.

Fast forward two years and their prices are nothing special. I hardly fly with them now. You said earlier they were making a loss selling at £40 but when I was flying regularly with them for less than £40 return, they still made bumper profits and the aircraft was full.

Probably all the other charges they stung on some meant there was anything but a loss on each flight. I am no expert though. Just an ex-passenger who misses the bargain flights!

Well the reason I said £40 was I had just that minute looked and found £40 returns this month from Glasgow to Girona.

They didn't make bumper profits off you... £10 return doesn't even cover the tax Ryanair must pay the UK government, let alone the myriad of other expenses they have. I agree that they aren't as cheap as they used to be, but moaning that it's costing you £20 to be transported a THOUSAND miles in only a few hours is rather ridiculous in my book!

samanthag

I have just booked flights with Ryanair using a post office mastercard
and it has gone through fine.
sammy

MCGONIS

callum9999 wrote: »

Well the reason I said £40 was I had just that minute looked and found £40 returns this month from Glasgow to Girona.

Awww thank you, you should not have gone to the trouble. The flight arrives at 9.30 at night and there are no buses then to the Costa Brava. Just a taxi service at fifty euro. Like I say, I miss the old Ryanair.

Thanks again!

deary65

Use Paypal!

antenna

2% extra to use Paypal.

brianposter

melb wrote: »

still trying and still being declined. Spoken to their "helpline" twice today - all I can say is "oh dear". there is no problem with our website, your bank must have declined the payment. No they didn't in fact spoke to halifax and the payment request hadn't even reached them so that means a problem with website i would think. Use latest version of chrome - i am doing
Decided to bite the bullet and ring them to book on the phone - surprise due to volume of calls they couldn't deal with me and hung up - wonder if it's all the people who can't book on their website (that isn't broken)

That is more or less how I discovered the problem. The website says the card has been rejected and the card issuer says nobody has ever asked for payment.
Computer programmers tend to be very careless about error messages and it probably means that you are filling in the card details in a way that the website does not like. Blanks or zeroes in the wrong place seems to be a possibility.