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Ryanair Credit Card Charges
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »The best way to pay Ryanair, though, is not to pay them at all!
Care to explain your comment? Or are you just one of the Ryanair bashers who has never even flown with them?!Gone ... or have I?0 -
Care to explain your comment? Or are you just one of the Ryanair bashers who has never even flown with them?!
I'm not sure I have long enough to explain....
OH and I flew with them once, and found them rude and dirty.
But far more importantly as far as I'm concerned, they treat people very, very badly. The fact that they wanted to charge disabled people extra horrified me. When they were no longer legally allowed to do that, they put an extra 50p "charge" on all tickets to "pay" for disabled passengers. That is appalling....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
simongregson wrote: »This is also the reason why you can buy a 24p stamp from royal mail with a credit card but not a debit card!
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Well actually you can - though an individual Post Office might try to discourage you or even refuse. There's no centrally laid down minimum, so they should accept it.0 -
I look at it this way - think back 10 years say to when there was no Ryanair or Easyjet or Jet2.com or any other budget airline - how much would a flight to any destination cost?
Answer - a great deal more than now even allowing for 10 years of inflation etc.
Yes it is annoying that they do not do an all in price but at least you get a choice of say whether you want to take luggage in the hold or payment by credit card.
I think the situation (and competition) today is far superior to when British Airways had a near monopoly of scheduled flights and Thomson/Thomas Cook chartered ones.0 -
Thanks for the advice but do i have the same protection when using my debit card on-line against fraud?
Depends what you mean by protection against fraud.
You have exactly the same protection against a totally fraudulent transaction - ie one you didn't make at all.
You have less protection against a transaction that you have authorised going wrong - eg the airline going bankrupt, the merchant not supplying the goods.0 -
In this country we have chioce so if you don`t like Ryanair`s "attitude" or cheap flights
don`t use them.
Just go and get ripped off for four or five times the price by BA and the likes.0 -
In this country we have chioce so if you don`t like Ryanair`s "attitude" or cheap flights
don`t use them.
Just go and get ripped off for four or five times the price by BA and the likes.
Firstly, I don't think Ryanair's always the amazing value it's cracked up to be.
But secondly, it's not OK to discriminate against part of the population (disabled people) and say, "if you don't like it, get lost" any more than it would be to discriminate on the grounds of race or gender....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
simongregson wrote: »This is also the reason why you can buy a 24p stamp from royal mail with a credit card but not a debit card!
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Well actually you can - though an individual Post Office might try to discourage you or even refuse. There's no centrally laid down minimum, so they should accept it.
I've never tried in the post office, I meant on https://www.royalmail.com where you can buy postage online. I don't think post office branches accept credit cards anyhow.0 -
If you have a VISA debit card, try this thread:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=620963
[In 1980 I made regular fortnightly flights to Geneva that cost my employer 180 GBP return. I eventually managed to make them see sense and flew "Caledonian". Got 50 GBP a return tickets, via a bucket shop set up in a hotel bedroom. Did feel a bit of a prat as most of the other passengers were wearing bobble hats and had skis on their shoulders.]0 -
the basic 'foundation' to this queery remains that you purchases tickets via a credit card and was charged. If you would have asked the charge before you booked it they would have told you, and there would have been something to indicate the charge if booking online.
If you didnt like how much they were charging you then pay by another method.
This is the same with bank and credit card charges, they have to make their money somewhere, and if they didnt impose charges such as this then there would certainly be standing charges on credit cards and you would have to pay at least £50 a year to run your credit card, would you rather this?INCREASE INTEREST ON SAVINGS!
...I will thank you if youve been helpful, please do the same! :j0
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