Avoid Ryanair booking fees with a Caxton FX currency card
2 December 2009 By MoneyHighStreet Staff 1 Comment
Ryanair will soon start charging customers a booking fee. The only way fliers will be able to avoid this cost is by using a MasterCard prepaid card such as Caxton FX.
Ryanair will start charging all debit and credit card passengers a £5 per person booking fee from 1st January 2010. Customers will be able to avoid these administration costs by paying for their flights with a MasterCard prepaid card such as Caxton FX.
The airline has previously been waiving booking fees for its passengers if they pay with a Visa Electron card, however this deal is coming to an end on December 31.
In order to substantiate its claims for providing “free flights”, Ryanair will instead be offering free booking fees to users of the more widely used Mastercard prepay cards.
The Caxton FX card is one of the cheapest prepaid cards available and can be obtained from high street banks such as Lloyds as well as other financial companies such as Virgin.
You can also obtain the Caxton FX card online - it takes only a few minutes to apply.
James Hickman, Managing Director at Caxton FX, says “Caxton FX Currency Cards continue to be the best way to pay for travel expenses. We work hard to remove unnecessary fees and costs, and we are delighted, that once again, our prepaid Currency Cards will deliver cost savings to our customers.”
All Caxton FX Currency Cards are Chip and PIN MasterCard® giving you a safe way to spend overseas. Available in euros, dollars or Global Traveller cards, they are accepted worldwide, wherever you see the MasterCard® sign.
We have published more information about the Caxton FX card here.
Rainair did not… “waive booking fees for its passengers if they pay with a Visa Electron card”
That seems overgenerous towards grasping Ryanair. They weren’t ‘waiving’ anything. They just had to find a legal way of advertising a cheap ticket price, but then charging more. The Electron card was a suitably obscure method. Ryanair has now found a more obscure card in prepayed debit cards like Caxton.
Seems Caxton’s Global Traveller card charges £1.50 for every UK transaction (like buying Ryanair tickets in pounds) . But as Ryanair have the cheek to fine a family of five on a weekend away, £50 to process the 1 debit card transaction, it’s a £48.50 saving.
I only got one as a protest against Ryanair’s price cheating tactics, but it seems quite a good card to travel with as there’s no charge for using it abroad, no charge for putting cash into it & no charge for getting cash abroad & Caxton claim it’s exchange rates will never be beaten
We meanwhile continue to wait for our government legislate to force open competition & allow the free market back again. We shouldn’t need to faf around with obscure cards. The advertised price for anything must be the price most people should expect to pay.