Ryanair hike their card fee to £5 per person per flight

Written by Karen Bryan

Ryanair have now hiked their card handling fee to £5 per person per flight. This is a massive increase, as the fee for payment by most debit cards was £1.20 per person per flight in June 2008.

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If you book a return flight for two passengers you’ll pay £20 in card fees, whether you pay by debit or credit card. All the more reason to follow my advice, featured by Guardian Money and get a Visa Electron card meaning that you can, at least for the moment, avoid Ryanair’s card handling fees.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm and is filed under Air travel, Europe travel news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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6 Responses to “Ryanair hike their card fee to £5 per person per flight”

1. Car on February 16th, 2009 at 11:17 am

   What, thats a huge increase!? What was their reasoning?

2. Karen Bryan on February 16th, 2009 at 11:22 am

   Thanks for your comment, Car. Yes it’s an increase of almost 20%. Ryanair seem to just keep putting up their “additional” charges which certainly increase the cost of that cheap flight unless you pay ny Electron and take no hold luggage.

3. James on February 16th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

   At the same time that Ryanair put up these fees Ryanair were reducing routes from Dublin, blaming the move on the Government’s new airport tax. Seems Ryanair think it’s ok to charge high fees but not the airports.

4. Karen Bryan on February 16th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

   James, good point. I am ambivalent about Ryanair, they do offer cheap flights and are very punctual and they are a business wanting to make a profit so obviously they want to minimise costs and maximise revenue. It’s just that their attitude toward customers seems so hostile.

5. Kyle on February 23rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   I fondly call RyanAir LiarAir.

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