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Scrap Budget Airlines' hidden charges

Submitted on Wednesday 2nd May 2012

Published on Thursday 3rd May 2012

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 3rd May 2013

Signatures: 7

Tagged with

Economy ~ Money ~ Tax ~ UK ~ UK economy

Petition Action

Scrap Budget Airlines' hidden charges

Additional Information

Budget airlines use all sorts of tricks to make money: Automatically opting you into unnecessary travel insurance, selling you luggage, car hire, hotels etc. Web savvy users know that they need to pay attention to de-select all these annoyances.

But why are UK economy airline companies still allowed to charge exorbitant "administration" fees on credit/debit cards? Who hasn't been hit with one of these when using a budget airline? For example does Visa really charge RyanAir £15 to £20 on each transaction? Have you ever encountered an "administration" fee at any other online store?

These charges can often more than double the price of a flight. If these charges are real (highly doubtful) and part of the cost of the flight, then force the airlines to show the real price. Otherwise this is blatant profiteering at the expense of an already stretched tax burdened travelling public and should be made illegal.

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