Budget Airlines
Budget airline add-on fees When it comes to budget airlines, Ryanair is the traditional whipping boy. People love to hate Ryanair, and automatically assume that it is the worst airline for underhand practices and add-on fees. The truth, however, is that Ryanair has largely eliminated many of its naughtiest habits. Yes, it charges a fortune [...]
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Profiting on a Ryanair flight A week or so ago, I wrote about how I’d made a profit out of Ryanair by buying a Mars bar. I paid in euros, got my change in pounds, and came out a couple of euros and a Mars bar up. Mistake on part of staff or bosses? [...]
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Budget airlines and Visa Electron There’s probably not a human being on the planet that doesn’t despise the absurdly high fees that budget airlines charge to pay with credit and debit cards. The best way around this, as Karen Bryan explains, is to get a Visa Electron card. Easyjet debit card loophole But fellow [...]
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(Or the world’s most satisfying Mars Bar) Earlier today, I had one of those brilliant moments where I realised I’d stuck it to The Man: I made money out of Ryanair. Ryanair loophole A couple of months ago, I read a story about a customer finding a loophole in Ryanair’s in-flight service that [...]