http://inflationbusting.com/2010/02/avoiding-ryanair-fees-which-is-the-best-card-to-use/ Reducing the costs of travel Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://inflationbusting.com/2010/02/avoiding-ryanair-fees-which-is-the-best-card-to-use/comment-page-1/#comment-188 How to play the budget airlines | Inflationbusting.com Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:14:10 +0000 http://inflationbusting.com/?p=431#comment-188 [...] TIP: Get yourself a Visa Electron card. This cuts out the booking fee of £4.00 and makes it free. Without it, you’ll be paying £8.00 per flight in booking fees, this is just not worth it. An electron card is free, and you can probably get one from your existing bank. I got one by opening up an account at the Halifax. You just need to fund this account with something like £10.00. As all the flights you will be booking will (hopefully) be cheap, this money will last for ages. UPDATE: Ryanair no longer accept the Electron card as a free payment method, but other airlines do. For Ryanair, you will need a pre-paid Mastercard. [...] [...] TIP: Get yourself a Visa Electron card. This cuts out the booking fee of £4.00 and makes it free. Without it, you’ll be paying £8.00 per flight in booking fees, this is just not worth it. An electron card is free, and you can probably get one from your existing bank. I got one by opening up an account at the Halifax. You just need to fund this account with something like £10.00. As all the flights you will be booking will (hopefully) be cheap, this money will last for ages. UPDATE: Ryanair no longer accept the Electron card as a free payment method, but other airlines do. For Ryanair, you will need a pre-paid Mastercard. [...]

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