Ryanair find another charge

[maccasa]

I have just booked a flt with ryanair in Oct - they have now added a fee of £2 each for "delay/cancellation" I am still trying to find out what its for as you can't actually cancel a Ryanair flt!!

The flt was very cheap at £14.99 each with NO taxes or charges (total 29.98), but it still added up to £57.98 for two of us when I finally got to paying - despite "no taxes or charges".

[laserblazer]

This was announced by Ryanair at the end of last month. http://www.traveltradejobs.com/news/rya ... 9031105779

[e-richard]

For some perverse reason, I actually am in support of Ryanair in this case.

From an Airline's point of view, the EU261 regs are punitive to the airline.
The ash cloud incident highlighted how vulnerable airlines are to making huge payments in the event of delays beyond their control.

The £2.00 levy that Ryanair have implemented is simply a mandatory insurance premium for any similar future payouts, but my question is why should the airlines become insurance companies? Travel insurance should be the way to cover those costs, where travellers choose to pay premiums to cover them for disasters.

Do not believe, as the article above states, that Ryanair are doing this to just be "transparent". While most other airlines collect this "premium" within their fees, Ryanair are making a public statement about the unfairness of this EU directive - and, of course, getting their usual heavy media exposure as a result.

[joeysoap]

Do not believe, as the article above states, that Ryanair are doing this to just be "transparent". While most other airlines collect this "premium" within their fees, Ryanair are making a public statement about the unfairness of this EU directive - and, of course, getting their usual heavy media exposure as a result.

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ryanair are based in Ireland and last year they went on Irish tv to complain about the unfairness of having to compensate passengers for something beyond their control, and pointing out that train companies, ferry companies etc etc were not obligated to do so. a spokesperson for the eu regulator then replied that if RY didn't comply they would be fined heavily by the EU for breaking EU regulations. (this spokesperson appeared to be Irish for what its worth, and she also managed to appear to be anti RY even though she purported to be neutral)

Ry do have a history of thinking up new methods of collecting dosh and then upping the charges from time to time. good example is the free online check in then went to €4 and is now €6. baggage charges which started at €5 are now €10 (€20 during the summer) and crying blue murder when anyone else dares to impose a charge ie BA with petrol surcharges and recently the irish government with a €10 travel tax. this was reduced to €3 after one year and michael still cried that it was putting tourists off. (no mention of his little extra charges putting tourists off)

I think in this case though he is trying to kick the EU where it hurts and hoping if enough people shout that the EU will change the rules and make insurance companies more liable. I also think it might work.

[e-richard]

By the way, I did read somewhere that O'Leary has said that he is making this a separate (not built-in) charge, so that if the EU change their rules, he could then remove the charge.

Hmmm, some may find that hard to believe, but it does kind of emphasise the point

[joeysoap]

see ryanair have now upped their credit charge to €6 from €5. so thats €1 extra cc, €1 extra check in fee, €2 extra new delay/cancel. total €4 extra per passenger multiplied by 70,000,000 passengers. I am now going to apply for a netteller prepaid mastercard to avoid the cc charges.