The top five airline rip-offs - Video script
Rachel Robson highlights five of the worst airline rip-offs to watch out for...
Rachel Robson highlights five of the worst airline rip-offs to watch out for...
If you’re planning to jet off on holiday any time soon, I’m going to highlight five top airline rip-offs you need to watch out for.
Check-in charges
Some budget airlines, such as Ryanair, have the audacity to charge you a fee just for checking in! Ryanair charges ten pounds per return flight to check-in online. So make sure you factor this in when you’re shopping around for flights.
Baggage fees
As well as being charged to check yourself in, you may be charged to check-in your luggage. Easyjet, for example, charges eighteen pounds per bag per return flight.
Ryanair is even worse, charging thirty pounds per return flight for baggage, although this will rise to forty pounds return in the summer holidays!
Card charges
You should also be careful how you pay for your flights. With Ryanair, unless you have a Mastercard prepaid debit card, you will be charged a fee of five pounds per person when you go to pay.
And easyJet charges a three pounds fifty booking fee unless you have a Visa electron card. Bookings made by Visa Credit Card, MasterCard or American Express will incur an additional fee of 2.5 percent of the total transaction value.
Airline food
Another big rip-off is airline food. Budget airlines often charge ridiculous sums of money for their food and drink. So if you’re going to need food on your flight, make sure you stock up at the supermarket beforehand. That said, remember you won’t be able to bring any liquids through security.
Toilet fees
Finally, Ryanair is now taking its charges to ridiculous levels with plans to ask customers to pay for the toilet. If the plans go ahead, all onboard toilets will become coin-operated, so you’ll have to fork out one pound every time you want to go!
So whatever you do, make sure you do your research so you can try to avoid these massive rip-offs as much as possible!
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What is it with the bozos at Ryan Air and their plainly misleading advertising. Sure some passengers travel with hand baggage only but is is so hard for them to raise all their fares by £15.00 to factor in their plainly dubious check in cahrge and credit card fee. We all know the real cost of each of these 'services' is nowhere near the sums charged. If they are going to be dishonest about the true cost of flying what else are they not doing? Less Blarney and more honesty please!
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Totally agree with hardtruth, at least Dick Turpin wore a mask for highway robbery O'Leary doesn't even bother to try and hide the fact. I fly many time a year to several destinatons, I have used Ryanair once in 5 years and it was like flying in a skip. It was an uncleaned plane with staff with faces like smacked arses. I suppose you have to pay extra if you expect a smile and a welcome from them!. Before you book with them check out the prices of the competition on a like for like basis including the card charges, the baggage charges etc etc. Dick Turpin was a non starter where this lot are concerned.
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Cost of Ryan Air toilets can be minimized by dilligent use of empty water bottles - ultimate re-cycling. The problem with Mr O'Leary is not Ryan Air's right to charge for their services but there is a level where most people feel charging for a service is reasonable and where it is not. If you were on the ground you have a choice, at 35,000 feet, you do not
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03 May 2010