Pay in £ Sterling from the eurozone

Infidel

Hi.

I'm just wondering if it's standard to have to pay overly excessive charges to pay for online flights in £ sterling from other EU countries back to the UK.

When I click through a flight via Skyscanner it automatically changes the price to Euros - but then when I click pay in £ sterling the flight cost suddenly shoots up by around 15%.

Is this a modern day standard sneaky trick? As I've been on loads of flights from Europe to the UK in the past few years and this has never happened before.

Voyager2002

Which site is selling the flights?

Skyscanner is a search engine, and once you decide to book a flight that it tells you about you should look for an airline or agent selling it: if you just click then you get taken to an agent that has paid to advertise on Skyscanner, and many of these agents are disreputable. If the flight is operated by Ryanair then it is important that you book on the Ryanair web site and nowhere else. And yes: if a Ryanair flight is priced in Euro but your card is not based in the Euro area then the price increases dramatically, but there are ways around this -- search for discussion of this.

Infidel

That particular flight was with Jet2.

So what are the 'ways around this'? :cool:

ManAtHome

You're getting done by the airlines conversion rate - best bet is to get a Halifax Clarity or Metro Bank debit card and pay in Euros.

Skyscanner (when it gets the prices right...) uses current-ish exchange rates to show you the price in quids - pretty close if you have a 'no fees' card, but 3-5% more expensive if not. The extra 10% could just be skyscanner out of date prices and/or exchange rates - have you done your own exchange rate calculations?

richardw

easyJet allow you to have flights in your basket in £, you just delete the flights you don't want.