So your statement that "60 % of passengers don't pay cc fees" was inaccurate then, or rather at best it was out of date, so back to the point I was making, Ryanair made £400 Million last year from reselling CC charges without which their profitability as a business would have been zero. Electron hasn't been FOC for 12 months or so.
Note, before I am jumped on by yet another O'Leary worshipper, at no point have I actually criticised them for this, they make their money through somewhat sharp business practice that penalises the less savvy traveller. I don't have a huge problem with that as it allows those who do have some knowledge to access cheaper fares.
That said I really don't see why they can't simply absorb the CC fee and online check in fee into their base price, they'd still be the cheapest (in most cases) and customers wouldn't constantly feel like their being cheated.
Dear oh dear
Electron was not available in Ireland and with in excess of 7 million passengers carried from Ireland then clearly many people were paying the charges with no option to avoid.
Now with prepaid mastercard being more widely available the 30% figure of people avoiding paying is likely to have risen. (The 60% number is incorrect
it should read 30% in 2009)
As for making £400 Million well that would mean they had 80 million passengers which was not the case, nobody had availed of avoid the charges, again not the case so aside from another anti FR whinge what exactly is your point ?
If you dislike them you have the option of using someone else.