Can Spirit Airlines Be Far Behind?

[omegaet]

Just gotta love Ryanair's creative thinking:

"Starting November, the only way to avoid a stiff fee for booking a ticket on Ryanair is to use Ryanair's own prepaid MasterCard debit card. Use any other kind of plastic and you'll pay a £6 fee (about $9.50) to book each leg of your trip. That's £12 for a round-trip on through flights, and more for connections.

Ryanair is, as many of you know, the undoubted world "hate this airline" champion, which has originated many of the fees that other lines subsequently adopted. Fortunately, not many North Americans will have to cope with this fee on Ryanair. But Ryanair's bad ideas all too often wind up on other airlines.

The British government's Office of Fair Trading is taking a hard look at card fees, in general, so Ryanair may yet back off—or be pushed off—this latest gouge. But overall, over the next few years, expect continuing erosion of the ability to buy with your credit card—at least without fees."

[kyshel]

yes--categorizing them as "most hated" is pretty accurate--but they haven't gone out of business, have they?

On a side note--Oxford Economics is doing a study about excessive long-haul international taxes via UK airports...it took them since 1994 (520% increases in some cases) to recognize they charge more than ANY country in the EU...which is one reason Ryanair thrives--fly cheaply to somewhere else and connect to long haul for LESS than UK ailrines can offer....

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So shameful - what fees will they think of next - no fee if you use their card - which they undoubtedly also collect some sort of fee on