Cheap Flights! Thieves ?
Well here we go another day another rant. OK Cheap flight merchants like Ryanair are good and have revolutionised flying in Europe making it cheaper and making the rest of the industry price more reasonably. They could also be accused of being thieving gits who use every trick in the book to conceal the real cost of their own flights so that they can get good headline prices whilst charging you far more. But that's not "fare" is it!
The latest wheeze they are doing is rather ironic. As an internet only booking service one would expect every purchaser to be using a credit card. Astonishing really but there you go. So one would think that the airlines concerned (and I won't mention Ryanair by name as they might sue) would be aware of this and would not charge extra for this priveledge.
Wrong again! Ryanair- Silly me, a non-descript Irish discount air operator, ( in all reasonableness?) charge a flat rate per person for booking with a credit card.
Why you ask a flat rate per person when they are charged by the transaction? Because this way they get more of course! But no it does not stop there. It is not one charge per transaction per person, it is one charge per flight per person, so if you are booking return flights you pay the fee on each flight as well- how very reasonable I hear you all shout, not charging unreasonably per transaction like the credit card companies might do but charging per flight, per person, a much more equitable and appropriate way of doing things obviously. They are not thieves they are clearly saints and we should just stop bleating about it and pay with a smile in our hearts....
Elsewhere credit card charges, if charges at all, are often added at between 1% and 5% per transaction.
The charges I have just paid (without realising until after the event) equate to 10% of the ticket price (after of course all of the taxes have been added!) or for my £174.90 worth of flights I have paid £17.50 in credit card charges and a further £45 in "taxes fees and charges." Wouldn't the description "taxes fees and charges" normally cover this?
Deep deep joy.... does the office of FairTrading have nothing better to do?
The latest wheeze they are doing is rather ironic. As an internet only booking service one would expect every purchaser to be using a credit card. Astonishing really but there you go. So one would think that the airlines concerned (and I won't mention Ryanair by name as they might sue) would be aware of this and would not charge extra for this priveledge.
Wrong again! Ryanair- Silly me, a non-descript Irish discount air operator, ( in all reasonableness?) charge a flat rate per person for booking with a credit card.
Why you ask a flat rate per person when they are charged by the transaction? Because this way they get more of course! But no it does not stop there. It is not one charge per transaction per person, it is one charge per flight per person, so if you are booking return flights you pay the fee on each flight as well- how very reasonable I hear you all shout, not charging unreasonably per transaction like the credit card companies might do but charging per flight, per person, a much more equitable and appropriate way of doing things obviously. They are not thieves they are clearly saints and we should just stop bleating about it and pay with a smile in our hearts....
Elsewhere credit card charges, if charges at all, are often added at between 1% and 5% per transaction.
The charges I have just paid (without realising until after the event) equate to 10% of the ticket price (after of course all of the taxes have been added!) or for my £174.90 worth of flights I have paid £17.50 in credit card charges and a further £45 in "taxes fees and charges." Wouldn't the description "taxes fees and charges" normally cover this?
Deep deep joy.... does the office of FairTrading have nothing better to do?
posted by Toomuchgrief at 7:29 AM
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