Economy Class & Beyond

Airlines band together to fight Air Passenger Duty rises

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What do British Airways (IAG), EasyJet, RyanAir and Virgin Atlantic all have in common? It seems  they all have a genuine hatred of Air Passenger Duty (APD), and have called for the UK Government and want it scrapped. APD was originally a "Green" Tax, that strangely by the government of the day - not ring-fenced. Since then, further administrations have tried to greenwash … [Read more...]

Credit Cards in the UK – Airlines

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There is a lot of writing about Credit Cards in the USA with megapoints. However, over on this side of the pond, things are... a little more muted. This is Kevin's guide to Airline Credit Cards for the UK Market I'll attempt to keep this up-to-date, but the market is shifting as one of the major issuer of Credit Cards is up for sale at the moment. This is also the first … [Read more...]

O’Leary want to remove toilets from the plane – world yawns

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That shy and retiring CEO of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary today has been grabbing the headlines as it proposes to reduce the amount of toilets on-board their 737-800's from three to one. The says by doing this, he would be able to reduce fares by a grand total of 5% on a flight by adding an whole extra row of seating in a 737-800, estimating a fare would fall £2 from £40 to … [Read more...]

FR: Which? attacks over the Ryanair’s new PrePaid MasterCard…

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As covered last week at GhettoIFE.com, the Ryanair PrePaid MasterCard rates were announced. Well this week, Which? (the consumer group) has branded the card as "An Insult" to it's Ryanair's customers. Or to quote Which? fully they belive the card is "insult to UK consumers who have little opportunity to avoid such fees". Ouch. Ryanair argue the card will be more … [Read more...]

FR: Guess which PrePaid Mastercard is going to be VERY expensive to use?

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... Correct. Once again, Ryanair strikes again. According to an article posted at MSN Money UK We all know of the new method of payment - use a Ryanair Prepaid card to pay avoid the purchasing fee. However what are the fees on this card? Well it comes as no surprise that it's TravelEx who are issuing the card. Lets get down to the nitty gritty of the fees: Want to … [Read more...]

EI: Irish Goverment – Psst: Wanna by 25% of an airline?

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It seems that the Irish government has declared Aer Lingus not to be in it's fiscal future according to RTE. Whilst no decision had been made, and there were some issues about the current value of the holding. The Irish State currently holds 25% of the airline, with the the government holding the 'strategic' no longer applies Now you'd expect Ryanair to be over this like … [Read more...]

BAA: Competition Commission says “Flog Stansted … and either Glasgow or Edinburgh “

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It seems that the Competition Commission has has enough of BAA, and has ruled it must sell Stansted and either Glasgow or Edinburgh airports. This is a follow on from the case in 2009 where BAA was instructed to sell Gatwick as well (which it did unwillingly), and challenged the sale of the other airports. BAA is "dismayed" and is preparing to launch a judicial review - buying … [Read more...]