My favourite part about FR is them bitching about increasing airport charges, when their own charges just go up and up.
Fair enough a lot of charges are avoidable (airport charges are not), but their latest increases mean we need to pay £4for the pleasure of buying a ticket. Yes, it is avoidable, but I've never even seen an electron! PB has also doubled, and baggage fees have pretty much doubled.
I've had current accounts with Barclays, Nationwide, Northern Rock - and I've a joing HSBC account - and they just gave me a Visa/MC debit card by default.
So yes, the plastic fee is avoidable, but only for a very small portion of people, and only for a limited time.