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Old 23rd May 2011, 03:33
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Dan Winterland
 
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My family and I flew from MAN to FCO with a ''low cost carrier'' last summer. Flights advertised at 39GBP one way and 49GBP the other seemed quite reasonable. Until I started to click the boxes! On top of the fares were purchase tax, airport duty, fuel surcharges, booking fee, card fee, check in fee (a bit rich as I did the on-line check in and printed my own boarding pass), baggage fees, seat fees and a meal. Total cost for four - 930GBP!

Some of this was optional - but the total was excessive in comparison to the originally advertised fare.
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