MSE News: Ryanair 'sticks two fingers up at passengers' with new card fees

I got a Visa Electron card to avoid Ryanair's card fees and found it worked well with other airlines, ryanair stopped accepting visa electron fee free and I couldn't be bovverred with these prepaid load em up cards and haven't flown ryanair since they stopped, I continue to fly the visa electron fee free airlines though.

worriedfirsttimebuyer wrote: »

So they still make you pay the £6, but then give you it back as a 'voucher' presumably to be used onboard? Have I got this right?

Using this card you will not have to pay the debit/credit charge fee of £6 per person per flight.

You will have to buy the card for £6 but that fee is returned in the form of a voucher. It's unclear how the voucher is spent.

You have to load the card with a minimum of £150 and the foreign transaction fee (for booking a flight to the UK) is an incredible 5.75%.

MSE_Martin wrote: »

I don't care if they want to add a charge, they are dirt cheap, yet its now got to the point where this paymetn fee needs to be incorporated into their advertised price. That's the issue here.

Why? This means that everyone has to pay the £6 fee included in the flight cost.

The way it is now is better because that people are willing to jump through the hoops and play the game, get it cheaper.

Ryanair keep changing the goalposts but the really savvy customers still get to pay less than £10 per one way flight, which is great value

We have been using Ryanair for years now, we've had several 1p flights and rarely pay over £75 for return flights to Italy.

Ok so they try at every opportunity to get more money out of you, but at the end of the day they are in business to make money.

I play him at his own game, prepay card, no baggage, get food and drinks from Boots in the departure lounges, maybe get a hot drink on board (no more expensive than the departure lounges). I estimate that in the last 2 years we have saved over £200 just in the fees for the flights we have used.

This "booking fee per person per sector" is a real joke that the regulators need to clamp down on, it is not a card fee as the banks have no way of knowing who is flying.

Overall Ryanair are OK to fly with, new aircraft and mostly pleasant staff and crew. Ive had far worse experiences with some of the more well known airlines.

If you dont like them, dont fly with them, if you find a better deal then great, but from airports out of the major cities then there is really no other option. A 20 minute £5 return bus ride, compared to 2 hrs in a car then £60 for a weeks parking?

I used to use BmiBaby from East Midlands to Brussels, flight was always pretty full and fares were sub £100 all the time, they dropped the route, BMI proper took over and now flights are £400/500 if your'e lucky. (plus a card charge!!)

Personally I am very fond of Ryanair at the moment after I arrived at the airport 20 minutes before scheduled take off at a quiet European airport and I was allowed to go through security and board with no problem! I bought some scratchcards out of gratitude!

I arrived 30 minutes before take off for a full-price major airline at Heathrow once but was turned away