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I was being sarcastic and thinking of the £3,80 versus £25 to go on the Thomas the Tank Engine type experience that is the Stansted Express.

I do not think that Visa Electron cards are available in the USA. For this reason, the OP would probably have to pay a booking fee. All the other charges, though, can, in principle, be avoided. The airport check-in fee only applies if you do not opt for "online check-in/0 bags".

Spanish domestic fares have been notoriously expensive so I doubt whether a better deal could be obtained elsewhere. (Having said that, though, I have seen Iberia offer what are, for them, extremely low fares for selected flights on routes which they share with Ryanair.)

I'd like to emphasise what a previous poster contributed: despite what ryanair.com may say, the airline does not fly to Barcelona, a fact that might not be well-known in the US.

You are correct Seat62K - the US is one of the few countries where you can't get an Electron Card

Visa Electron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's not all that frequent in the UK mind - there's only 3 or 4 banks that offer the card.

Final3Greens - don't worry, I spotted your sarcasm. I was thinking of the £16 one way cost for Heathrow Express compared with the more respectable £6 odd Connect single, or of course, the much cheaper Tube fare...

But back to the topic in hand - do your research, and if you do decide to go for Ryanair, make sure you don't fall into the trap of inadvertently buying their travel insurance...

There are other airlines that fly between Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona. Try Vueling and Clickair (Spanish low-cost airlines), whose fares start at €35 one-way. I've never flown with them, nor do I know anyone who has, but I doubt they can be any more dispiriting to fly with than Ryanair.

(Sorry... I misread the original post and thought you were trying to get to either Santiago de Compostela or Barcelona from London)

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I have the same problem as you had in January. I booked Fez to Girona, unknowingly clicking online check in. Did they end you charging you high fees for airport check in? Also does anyone know how I can switch to airport check-in online? there is no option in manage my booking. Apparently I will be charged 40 euros just to check in. Has this happened to anyone else? Is this strictly inforced? I am frustrated, seeing as it allowed me to choose an impossible option.

It has been quite a while since I have flown ryanair (living in Canada) and I do not remember all of these fees or this stress.
I am feeling very ambivalent already.

Was just watching Working Lunch on BBC Two - Ryanair's controversial move to get rid of airport check in will be applied to new bookings made from next Wednesday apparently.

Nothing new there - we've known it's coming since late February. However, there are suggestions regards to what they will do with the self service check in kiosks when they become redundant. The current suggestion is they'll be changed into boarding pass print stations, for those who've forgotten their passes - for a small fee of course, of £40 per passenger... :eek:

The item can be found here: BBC iPlayer - Working Lunch: 13/05/2009 when it's been uploaded (UK residents only) - about 10 mins in if I remember rightly

All these draconian add-on charges is fast making travelling by air with RYR a complete farce. Some of their latest policies, such as charging for airport check-in, are bordering on the ridiculous. How long before even the most gullible punters begin to smell the coffee and seek alternatives?

Very few. We are in the worst global recession since the Depression and those who want to fly will use anything they can get their hands on. FR have rewritten the rules and made much money as a result. Just because some of us remember how it used to , and had got used to that, does not mean it was sustainable or anything at all.

Not having a go at you, Avman, just playing Devil's advocate on behalf of a company that I hugely admire and try not to travel on.

From RYR's website:

Accordingly, Ryanair will remove its £10/€10 airport check-in fee and introduce a £5/€5 online check-in fee per person, per flight, on new bookings, other than promotional fares (fares of “Free”, “€1” and “€5” will include web check-in on a free of charge basis), while a €40/£40 ‘boarding card re-issue fee’ will be introduced to encourage all passengers to arrive at the airport with their pre-printed web check-in boarding card.


If I read this correctly, they're going to charge me £5.00 to check in using my own PC, paper and print cartridge:mad:


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On the FR a/c are all the toilets at the back? Or do they also have some at the front? Cheers.

You say:then continue:Which is it?

I think he means you can no longer check in for free on line.

Good business opportunity here - set up a stall near the Ryanair checkin with a computer, 3G modem for internet link and a printer and charge people €10 to print their boarding pass. It's cheaper than MOL is asking, and provided you're nice to the airport management and give them a cut, you might not get moved on.

Accordingly, Ryanair will remove its £10/€10 airport check-in fee and introduce a £5/€5 online check-in fee per person, per flight, on new bookings, other than promotional fares (fares of “Free”, “€1” and “€5” will include web check-in on a free of charge basis), while a €40/£40 ‘boarding card re-issue fee’ will be introduced to encourage all passengers to arrive at the airport with their pre-printed web check-in boarding card.

The cheek of it......not....

If people dont want to fly with them then dont !!!!! people have had it so good lately they forget what air travel used to cost !!!

So they started to charge 10 pounds/euros to check in at the airport to encourage people to check in online, and now wherever you check in you are going to get charged?
Honestly what is the point of this charge? Why not just add it to the cost of the ticket? I don't think anyone is fooled by the 'fly for 1 pence' gimmick anymore so you might as well just pay for everything upfront

Do I understand correctly that unlike other "frills" such as priority boarding and checked-luggage this fee is unavoidable?

In other words everyone has to pay it?

In which case why not just add it to the fare? It seems to be becoming obvious that Ryanair's "low Fares" are unsustainable.

ManofMan, as someone aptly noted somewhere else, "RYR are charging me 5 quid for the use of my PC, my paper and my ink"!

Perhaps each pax should send MOL a bill.

Here's one!
 

ASFKAP It's simple really, I've just booked with Ryanair to fly to Perpignan. Total price £52.99 return, inclusive. I could go on the same dates with Fly-be, total price £287.17; or EasyJet, £107.88 (To Barcelona, with 2 hour car journey to Perp). Even if I pay £10.00 to print my own boarding ticket, it's still a no brainer!

Don't get me wrong, O'Leary's charges pi$$ me off as well, but I, and many others, cannot afford the luxury of saying "I'll fly with another carrier."

WP

Love it!

Funily enough I had a similar idea along the lines of selling 50 quid old bangers for 500 quid outside of a car dealers, so people could reclaim the 2 grand government scrappage bonus!

I cannot beleive that this shoddy airline will be around in its current form for much longer.

I also firmly beleive that the EU should clamp down on this sort of dodgy marketing.
Any 'fees' that are not optional should be forced to be advertised in the headline price.
i don't mind e.g thomas cook wanting to charge me 10 quid for a meal - because I can choose not to have it, but you cannot choose not to check in, not to pay etc etc on ryanair. A 20 quid ticket turns into 100 quid and none of those extras are optional.
They are not the only people who do this - i also get fed up with ticketmaster charging me 60 quid for a 45 ticket.
Surely if something is advertised at a given price you should have the option of actually paying that price, sure if you want extras you can have them, but if you don't then you should be able to pay the advertised price. The car industry were forced to do that a decade ago - why not this horrible little company?

I still don't get it. What's next, a £5 surcharge if you actually show up for the flight?