The cheap flights airline Ryanair introduced a £5 payment fee per one way flight some time ago but they allowed a loophole for users of the Electron card which was enabled a booking to be made for free. The company always claimed it was for a limited time and that time has come to an end. Booking using an Electron card will mean a charge of £5 being applied per passenger, per one way flight as from January 1st 2010.

There is a replacement free booking card and that will be the Mastercard Prepaid which will from today, December 1st 2009, be their free form of payment. No doubt many people took out an Electron card with the sole purpose of avoiding these additional booking charges and they, and anyone else who would prefer not to give money for nothing to Ryanair, should consider getting a Mastercard Prepaid card ready for their next booking.

It is thought by many that the only reason for allowing one solitary form of free booking is to avoid having to declare the additional costs in advertising since any charge that applied to every passenger would have to be included in advertised pricing. It seems like a sneaky trick and must surely leave many passengers feeling ripped off when they have to pay a £5.00 for each passenger, for every flight, when booking with a debit card is thought to cost the airline pennies rather than pounds.

Whatever the logic or reasoning, from a customer point of view the message is clear. Get yourself a Mastercard Prepaid Card and use that for booking if you plan to fly with Ryanair.

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