Jet2 exchange rate

tpm

It may seem insignificant cost wise but I warn people to pay onboard in £ Sterling. Recently I bought food on a flight amounting to £12.50 and was charged 20 Euro. I queried this with customer care and was left very disatisfied after several emails. :mad:

eDicky

tpm wrote: »

It may seem insignificant cost wise but I warn people to pay onboard in £ Sterling. Recently I bought food on a flight amounting to £12.50 and was charged 20 Euro. I queried this with customer care and was left very disatisfied after several emails. :mad:

A useful warning - at current cross rates that's £2.64 extra (maybe less when you flew) - not so insignificant. You must have been hungry! Had you no way to pay is GBP?

Kernow666

so you signed up on MSE forums just to tell us this

zagfles

tpm wrote: »

It may seem insignificant cost wise but I warn people to pay onboard in £ Sterling. Recently I bought food on a flight amounting to £12.50 and was charged 20 Euro. I queried this with customer care and was left very disatisfied after several emails. :mad:

You can sometimes use rip-off airline exchange rates to your advantage. What you do is pay with a large note in the airline's main currency, then ask for change in the other currency.

I've mainly used it on Ryanair - their main currency is EUR. I try to pay with a 50EUR note. Then I ask for the change in GBP. They often don't have enough EUR to change a 50 anyway, especially if you're travelling between two non EUR countries.

So you get the change calculated at their rip-off rate but as it's change, it's in your favour!

It's not as good when GBP is the main currency as everyone is suspicious of £50 notes and cashpoints never give you them. But buying something cheap and paying with a £20 and asking for change in EUR could still be worth it.

Eg buy a small juice for £1.50 and pay with a £20, ask for change in EUR, if the rate is 1.6 as above, you'd get EUR29.60 change, which at current interbank rate is worth £22.60! So you make a profit of £2.60 plus a free drink :rotfl:

eDicky

With Ryanair and easyJet the on board prices seem roughly equivalent (although I never buy so I could be wrong) - so having never flown with Jet2 the big difference is (for me anyway) surprising. Maybe they don't handle euro coins..?

zagfles

eDicky wrote: »

With Ryanair and easyJet the on board prices seem roughly equivalent (although I never buy so I could be wrong) - so having never flown with Jet2 the big difference is (for me anyway) surprising. Maybe they don't handle euro coins..?

A few years ago Ryanair had a 1-1 exchange rate ie 1GBP = 1EUR, last time I flew with the a couple of months ago it was something like 1.25 IIRC when the interbank was over 1.4.