Very cheap flights (ryanair)

Drew · Banned Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Karma :

https://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/

£2.50 each way including taxes - for some of them.

providing....

you have an visa electron card (all other cards have a stupidly high surcharge).
You take no hold baggage (hand baggage only).
you check in online.
You don't take out their insurance.

I'm off to Dublin for £5 return in March Mr. Green

expires 2/2/09

Found on net forum maybe, unsure.

JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

It's fecking stupid.

Who the fook owns a Visa Electron card FFS?

This is the exact reason why I have nothing but contempt for Ryanair. I'm pretty sure it doesn't cost £4.75 a flight, per person to process a Visa card, or my Maestro card for that matter. So the £10 trip I was just about to book for myself and Shell to go to Dublin would now cost £29.00 because of card fees.

I'm sorry, but scum, filth and vermin come to mind when it comes to Ryanair's underhand tactics. What's the point in having an amazing sale and then punish you just as you reach for your wallet? Rolling Eyes

Nice find, but meh.
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Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

The Barclays debit card I own which has a big VISA logo on it also has an electron logo on the back.

Its their company they can attach whatever strings they like to their products
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Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

Fucking lol Jon, £29 to fly you to dublin and back, the robbing cunts eh. Laughing

Whats happened to you, you've become retarded.

Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Visa Electron is a student type card, usually given to under 18s or people who don't really have any real income. Not sure why they make this deal exclusive to people using them, the card is usually totaly useless everywhere a bit like Solo.

Not sure it makes them filthy, vermin scum though, that's Hetzer's line anyway.

Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

On the down side it will cost you £6 for a pint of Guiness when you get to Dublin because of the exchange rate to the Euro. My mate was over their last month and got stung for £10 for a panini and chips.
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Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Indeed, a return ferry from Stranraer to Belfast in low season (nov/dec) cost me £140 albeit with a car, was nearly £100 for bike and that was using a 15% discount code i googled, so £30 for a flight is pretty good.

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When I tried it was trying to charge £58 tax for 2 people Confused

I thought you said the £5 included tax?

carvell · Scuttler Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Karma :

Only certain flights are that cheap, you have to fly when they want.
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MinhDinh · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Karma :

i was given a visa electron when i was a student. it's a shit card and you can't actually use it everywhere where the visa logo is.

hein gericke on line rejected it.
train stations reject it.
basically quite a few reject it.

it's a stupid card unless you want to use ryanair.

i now have a visa card which works everywhere but i'm skint :o so that's useless too
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Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Well unless things have changed in the past 7 or 8 years I had the same problem, Lloyds gave me an Electron card to start with and the thing was a total joke. You could use it in some shops, most supermarkets but a lot refused it and you only realised when you got the checkout and it said, "we do not accept Visa Electron or Solo". Petrol stations would never take it, there wasn't a single online purchase you could make using it, the thing was useless.

I kept having to go to cashpoints and withdraw cash to carry around completely negating the point of having a card, and even some cashpoints refused it. Eventually got fed up with it and got a Visa instead which obviously worked everywhere.

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Drew · Banned Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Karma :

Solo is not accepted at post office to withdraw money in the chip and pin machine thing.