Rion Air
in [UK Air Travel]
|
Prev: Compensation refusal by scheduled airline - no proper reasongiven - what further action can I take
Next: Gave up seat and got all this!!!!
From: tim.... on 1 Dec 2009 08:30 "Buddenbrooks" <knightstemplar(a)budweiser.com> wrote in message news:OnWQm.1255$lV2.1162(a)newsfe18.ams2... > > "Roland Perry" <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote in message > news:rLYqbbPfiCFLFArE(a)perry.co.uk... > > >> That's like a Tuxedo Card, I suppose? Any particular brands, or all of >> them? >> -- > > It would appear to be any. None will be as cheap as Electron. although > cheaper than paying the credit card usage fee. Only if you fly about 20 times per year with Ryanair. It seems impossible to have one of these cards without racking up substantial fees. tim
From: tim.... on 1 Dec 2009 08:34 "Roland Perry" <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote in message news:KjKixTSVRNFLFA9e(a)perry.co.uk... > In message <4b142a65.694881633(a)news.individual.net>, at 20:28:14 on Mon, > 30 Nov 2009, Neil Williams <wensleydale(a)pacersplace.org.uk> remarked: > >>Ryanair encourages all passengers to sign up to the widely available >>MasterCard Prepaid so that they can continue to snap up unbeatable fares >>such as the 250,000 ?5 Christmas seats which are available on over 500 >>routes until Thursday."" > > Can you really obtain a prepay card in as little as 3 days? I imagine that you can subject to the Royal mail not being on strike ;-) tim
From: tim.... on 1 Dec 2009 08:42 "Roland Perry" <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote in message news:oDhqJlR7ONFLFAaB(a)perry.co.uk... > In message <4b1427de.694234931(a)news.individual.net>, at 20:19:29 on Mon, > 30 Nov 2009, Neil Williams <wensleydale(a)pacersplace.org.uk> remarked: >>On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:50:49 -0000, "Buddenbrooks" >><knightstemplar(a)budweiser.com> wrote: >> >>>Rion Air are dropping Electron in favour of Pre Paid MasterCard. >> >>That wasn't quite what I heard. > > The news items say Ryanair is dropping the Electron "promotion" from 1st > Jan. > >>What I heard was that the banks were dropping Electron, slowly but surely. > > And people have been niggling away at Ryanair about that, so now they've > changed horses. > >>As the Ryanair exemption only exists so they can justify having a >>credit and debit card fee, I don't think they care until it is >>abolished completely. > > They obviously do care, because they've swapped. I wouldn't be surprised > if the bashing they got this weekend was the last straw. Eh!? Molly doesn't care about the bashing, he thrives upon it. He cares because too many people have gone out and got Electron cards simply to book their Ryanair flights with no card processing fee, costing him money. So he's switching to a card that costs real money to have so that it is (almost) never going to be cost effective to own one just to book your Ryanair flights (and in case it's not obvious, he has to have a free card so that he doesn't have to include the card fee in his headline price) tim
From: Roland Perry on 1 Dec 2009 09:53 In message <7nkkrkF3mk9vsU1(a)mid.individual.net>, at 13:42:23 on Tue, 1 Dec 2009, tim.... <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> remarked: >Molly doesn't care about the bashing, he thrives upon it. > >He cares because too many people have gone out and got Electron cards simply >to book their Ryanair flights with no card processing fee, costing him >money. I'm not quite that cynical. They seemed to be quite proud that 30% of bookings used the otherwise rare Electron Card, as an excuse to cream the other 70%. If the percentage of pre-pay cards falls much below that, they'll have a harder time justifying the pricing structure. (As an aside, can you pay cash if you go to an airport and buy a ticket from their sales counter - or do they not accept regular bookings?) >So he's switching to a card that costs real money to have so that it is >(almost) never going to be cost effective to own one just to book your >Ryanair flights > >(and in case it's not obvious, he has to have a free card so that he doesn't >have to include the card fee in his headline price) Yes, I know. -- Roland Perry
From: tim.... on 1 Dec 2009 10:38
"Roland Perry" <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote in message news:eDFnJYtq3SFLFANX(a)perry.co.uk... > In message <7nkkrkF3mk9vsU1(a)mid.individual.net>, at 13:42:23 on Tue, 1 Dec > 2009, tim.... <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> remarked: >>Molly doesn't care about the bashing, he thrives upon it. >> >>He cares because too many people have gone out and got Electron cards >>simply >>to book their Ryanair flights with no card processing fee, costing him >>money. > > I'm not quite that cynical. They seemed to be quite proud that 30% of > bookings used the otherwise rare Electron Card, as an excuse to cream the > other 70%. If the percentage of pre-pay cards falls much below that, > they'll have a harder time justifying the pricing structure. > > (As an aside, can you pay cash if you go to an airport and buy a ticket > from their sales counter - or do they not accept regular bookings?) only if you want to pay more for the actual fare tim |