I cannot believe they have jacked up the fee for 98% of card users to £9.50/return
I have an Electron card, so could quite easily adopt the 'I'm alright Jack' attitude' and not care about the high credit card fee. However, something tells me that if the cost of flying a plane is loaded too heavily towards ancillaries and less of the cost to Ryanair comes from the part of the ticket relating to the route and time/date selected... doesn't this then diminish the power of differential pricing ?
Filling a plane from (for example) London on a Saturday morning is much easier, compared to Tuesday afternoon. As the ticket price differential between the two decreases, those offpeak flights rather start to lose their appeal and their load factors begin to fall