Ryanair 1 flights // Airline credit card fees

Ryanair are doing their 1 flights to a range of destinations, throughout July and August, so clearly they are struggling to fill their planes.

I found a great way to avoid some airlines horrendous credit and debit card fees (Ryanair is currently 5 per person per flight, FlyBE charges credit card fee AND booking fee) if you don't already have a Visa Electron card (currently no fee applies for payments this way).

http://www.entropay.com does a prepaid Electron card.
You top it up with 10, for a fee of 50p. (4.95%). They then generate an online card and number, which you then use to pay for a flight. Naturally, 4.95% becomes significantly higher if you are topping up more, and in this instance the best thing to do is to get a Visa Electron card from the Post Office or with certain bank accounts.

[Darren Wheeler]

1 flight?

Don't you mean 1 for flight, plus taxes, random charges including toilet usage, checked baggage, using stairs to enter and exit, seating fee, carpet wearing, looking-at-staff-in-funny-way charge and the O'Leary I-can-charge-for-anything-else-I-like surcharge?

Grand total 153.98, plus credit card fee and premium rate call to Timbuktu to pay it.

[:D][}:)]

No not those ones! The 1 including taxes, check-in fee, toilet use free-as-that-was-just-a-way-to-get-acres-of-media-coverage and a carry on bag. ONE bag mind. Just one.

But you still have to fly with Ryanair - think I'll give it a miss.

[Darren Wheeler]

Including taxes?!?! Has the real Michael O'Leary please been kidnapped?

[RichardMannion]

There is proabaly 1 per flight. MOL will do anything for publicity, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Heaps of availability. Ryanair currently can't give them away, which is fine for me.

[honey lamb]

quote:Originally posted by Darren Wheeler
1 flight?

Don't you mean 1 for flight, plus taxes, random charges including toilet usage, checked baggage, using stairs to enter and exit, seating fee, carpet wearing, looking-at-staff-in-funny-way charge and the O'Leary I-can-charge-for-anything-else-I-like surcharge?

Grand total 153.98, plus credit card fee and premium rate call to Timbuktu to pay it.

[:D][}:)]

I've taken a couple of Ryanair flights costing me exactly 0.00. Yup! That's right. Nothing! Nada! Zilch! No credit card charge. No baggage charge. No going to the toilet charge. This had been a 1 million free seats promotion. I hadn't intended to take advantage of it but two hours before it was due to end it showed which flights still had seats available (and no, Richard, it wasn't 1 per flight). Suddenly a trip to my niece in Dublin became a necessity! It was just fine and for a flight of 25 minutes one can easily close one's ears to the aggressive marketing on board.