Electron cards no longer fee-free on Ryanair
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Yes, you are correct and I am wrong. The annoying thing about that is the mrs got fleeced by one of these online ticket websites earlier this year, had used her debit card, and I told her to tell her debit card issuer to give her a chargeback! Silly old me 
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To Sober Lark Flying with low cost airlines has become too expensive these days
Is this is meant to be a provocation, then it has worked 
I had to register (it took longer than booking a flight on RyanAir) to react to "Low Cost Flights have become too expensive".
How old are you? Or has your memory failed over the years?
BLC (Before Low Cost), flying was restricted to big airports and expensive (30 years ago, a return from Big London airport to Big Airport in South of France cost at least £170)
Now, I can fly from an airport closer to home to an aiport closer to my destination for... 1p each way.
Even when I end up paying as much as £15
, I thank RyanAir to allow me travel more frequently
Can you name an airline company with all inclusive flight for under £5?
Bon voyage
I had to register (it took longer than booking a flight on RyanAir) to react to "Low Cost Flights have become too expensive".
How old are you? Or has your memory failed over the years?
BLC (Before Low Cost), flying was restricted to big airports and expensive (30 years ago, a return from Big London airport to Big Airport in South of France cost at least £170)
Now, I can fly from an airport closer to home to an aiport closer to my destination for... 1p each way.
Even when I end up paying as much as £15
, I thank RyanAir to allow me travel more frequentlyCan you name an airline company with all inclusive flight for under £5?
Bon voyage
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Can you name an airline company with all inclusive flight for under £5?
But this argument has raged - and continues to rage - elsewhere on this forum.
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Uumm, I don't think that was the question of the thread? I don't think anyone in this forum would question the value of a £/€5 fare (or whatever it is this particular minute).
Since there are a thousand FR threads, this one has concentrated on the (long expected) change by them to make more money by removing the Electron card benefit. This forum serves a useful purpose to circulate such changes more rapidly than might otherwise be the case.
Welcome aboard PPRuNe and into the cabin of happy folks that make up this manifest ...
Can you name an airline company with all inclusive flight for under £5?
Since there are a thousand FR threads, this one has concentrated on the (long expected) change by them to make more money by removing the Electron card benefit. This forum serves a useful purpose to circulate such changes more rapidly than might otherwise be the case.
Welcome aboard PPRuNe and into the cabin of happy folks that make up this manifest ...
Why not send yourself some RYANAIR GIFT VOUCHERS? RA only asks a 5 GBP administration fee, instead of the 20 GBP credit card fee.
Vouchers are issued in denominations of €25/€50 or local currency equivalent.
If a voucher is partially redeemed the remaining balance is void.
If a voucher is partially redeemed the remaining balance is void.
If anything, vouchers when issued by commercial airlines have a remarkably high rate of non-use or part use - the trick is to make the terms and conditions sufficently restrictive that it remains clear how to use them, but awkward enough that it never quite fits what the voucher recipient actually wants. Thus the issuing airline gets your money up front, but for a high percentage of cases, only part (or even none) of the voucher is redeemed for travel. Makes for quite a profitable business !
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Just imagine how many book and record tokens have never been / will never be cashed? I was given a new style record token - magnetic stripe card but when I got it out of the draw to use, found it had a USE BEFORE date and it had expired. Very smart of them.
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Just imagine how many book and record tokens have never been / will never be cashed? I was given a new style record token - magnetic stripe card but when I got it out of the draw to use, found it had a USE BEFORE date and it had expired. Very smart of them.
Now back to whinging at Ryanair...
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Prepaid Mastercards
Please give as many info as possible on prepaid mastercards deals so that by 1st January, the 30% battalion of "won't be beaten by new tactics" RyanAir travellers be ready for action.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Friend told me about prepaid MCs over the weekend as he is a distributor for Utility Warehouse where can get Gas / Electric / Telephone etc as well as prepaid MC.
He uses the MC in Sainsburys and some other places and gets 5% of spend credited back against utility bills for those stores who signed up to it.
He stated £9.99 for the card and its free of charges for 6 months and then a small charge after that on usage and per month. As he lives 1 mile from a Sainsburys he claimed a £500 spend a month including fuel more than helped his utility bills and when I mentioned FR no charge on a prepaID mc he was interested as its just another big selling point.
Friend agreed if I signed up to him to rebate 50% of his commission on my account for the 1st year.That includes the fee for every utility I sign up for so in the event of anybody think of signing up with someone then his advice was to get them to ask for this. As once he has sold it in there is little extra he needs to do so its a passive income which was something I wouldn't have considered.
He uses the MC in Sainsburys and some other places and gets 5% of spend credited back against utility bills for those stores who signed up to it.
He stated £9.99 for the card and its free of charges for 6 months and then a small charge after that on usage and per month. As he lives 1 mile from a Sainsburys he claimed a £500 spend a month including fuel more than helped his utility bills and when I mentioned FR no charge on a prepaID mc he was interested as its just another big selling point.
Friend agreed if I signed up to him to rebate 50% of his commission on my account for the 1st year.That includes the fee for every utility I sign up for so in the event of anybody think of signing up with someone then his advice was to get them to ask for this. As once he has sold it in there is little extra he needs to do so its a passive income which was something I wouldn't have considered.
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Please give as many info as possible on prepaid mastercards deals so that by 1st January, the 30% battalion of "won't be beaten by new tactics" RyanAir travellers be ready for action.
http://www.pprune.org/passengers-slf-self-loading-freight/397426-electron-cards-no-longer-fee-free-ryanair.html#post5353406
for details on best buy prepaid cards
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Saturday's Guardian also carried a comparison of best-buy prepaid Mastercards:
Ryanair's latest card trick is tough to master | Money | guardian.co.uk
Best buys are Caxton, which charges a fixed £1.50 per transaction, and Ice, which charges 2% loading fee. Which is best for the individual obviously depends upon the likely value of the transactions for which the card will be used.
Ryanair's latest card trick is tough to master | Money | guardian.co.uk
Best buys are Caxton, which charges a fixed £1.50 per transaction, and Ice, which charges 2% loading fee. Which is best for the individual obviously depends upon the likely value of the transactions for which the card will be used.
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Try the escape-prepaid-card.com from phones4u, its the best value I can find at £9.99 one off, everything else is free if you bend over variuos barrels and jump through the various customary hoops. Its not an advert and I have no connection to them. Just trying to find the best way to get one over on MOL!!!
expat - have you had a chance to look at this external personal finance website ? There's a fairly extensive discussion of prepaid Mastercards for use with Ryanair
MSE News: Ryanair to charge for Visa Electron bookings - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums
MSE News: Ryanair to charge for Visa Electron bookings - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums
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I have a FairFX prepaid Mastercard and have used it to book tickets with Ryanair - no problems, cost of transferring £100 onto the card was £ 1.50 and there was no set-up cost and more importantly, no fee found it's way to MOL's coffers...
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Neteller sounds better than FairFX
Many thanks for the Moneysaver thread.
Glad I didn't rush into getting yet another card in January.
Has anyone booked any flight in euros?
Say, how much would a 14.99 euros flight cost in sterling?
M.
Glad I didn't rush into getting yet another card in January.
Has anyone booked any flight in euros?
Say, how much would a 14.99 euros flight cost in sterling?
M.
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