Seems legit, see: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?s=4ece3edcd15d87cc3f03fb9fe7fffc54&p=58592921&postcount=6

Nice tip will make sure I do that before booking. i heard there are new EU laws on cookies so perhaps that will help.

That is some cheeky cheeky shenanigans – I also doubt it’ll be restricted to a RyanAir practice.

Pretty sure that thetrainline.com do the same as I had endless trouble trying to book a train to London as the prices kept changing up and down.

I’m fairly sure Amazon got caught doing something similar to this in the US a few years back.

It’s happened to me on several sites over the last year or two, everything from hotels, to flights, to dvd’s!

@ Dominic – they are not stealing money by charging you for using a debit card. You agree to paying it by flying with them and using a debit card to book. If they don’t charge you for that, they will charge you for something else.

So be smart, avoid the charges that you can easily avoid and let others subsidise your flights for you.

If you want to avoid the charge, get a prepaid mastercard from FairFX …

They are free when you top them up (with your debit card). Get one now (they can take 10 days to arrive), and be ready next time you book. Everyone should have one, just to avoid the charges imposed by Ryanair for booking using other ways. Even if you fly only once with Ryanair, it is worth getting one, just to stick your fingers up to the Air Marshall when you book. You can always use the card like a regular mastercard after that to clear the balance if you do nto need it to book flights.

I’ve seen this with several over the years – Amazon, Lastminute, Expedia, Eurostar. It’s not just Ryanair, even though I hate them the most for it.

@Charlie – fuck off and post your referral link somewhere else. If anyone wants that card, just go to Fairfx via their portal and avoid topping up his referral rates.

@Charlie, Thanks I signed up for one pause not.

If you want to avoid the massive charges added when paying by credit card (or just about any other card), why do you book direct with ryanair? If you book through Travel Republic (or some other similar agent), you can avoid the extra card charges. For example, I “booked” a ryanair flight from Prestwick to Alicante from April 3rd to April 11th and didn’t include any extras such as bagge, insurance, extra. The cost came to about £248.36. When you choose to pay by any card other than Mastercard prepaid, it adds £24 making the total £272.36. Booking the exact same via Travel Republic amounts to £248.36 plus either £6.21 if you pay by American express / Visa /Mastercard or £3.10 with mastercard Debit / Maestro / Switch / Visa Delta. Paying by Connect, Solo or Visa electron is completely free. Potentially a saving of £24 based on this example.

Frankly I’d rather be pushed to my continental destination in a wheelbarrow than fly with this bunch of cunts, irrespective of price.

I know BA don’t do this (even though they say they can) … Another reason to never go anywhere near ryanair

I’m personally glad they seem to put so many people off flying with them. Because people are either so lazy they won’t check terms and conditions etc. or are making some kind of point (which no-one else notices so is pretty futile really), and I can follow the simple terms and conditions they impose, I get to fly a lot cheaper than I would otherwise.

Had a similar experience last night whilst trying to book 12 flights, card got declined at very last click due to over cautious fraud protection at my Bank! Ryan Air sent me back to their homepage without keeping all the details I had entered for the 12 passengers and funnily enough it leaves no evidence of the initial price! I then had to start all over again and the prices had gone up by 15 euros per flight! Unbelivable. Felt I had no option but to book it at higher price, as I needed these flights for a group booking and Ryan Air Customer Service wasn’t open late. Then this morning I check the flights out of interest and they’re back down to what they were the first time I tried to book….disgusting. So they knew I needed to book these flights and it does make me wonder if there’s some sort of cookie scam going on. I understand flight prices do fluctuate etc, BUT the fact they were a higher price purely for my second attempt at booking last night and then back to the lower price this morning, says something!

I have written a letter of complaint to Ryan Air Customer Services as I think the situation is unacceptable and I am 180 euros out of pocket for no valid reason. We’ll see what happens, but they shouldn’t be allowed to operate so unfairly and take extra money from innnocent people who are spending money with their company. I’m not a happy Ryan Air Customer and I doubt I will receive any response from them, although I will keep trying.

This happened to me a few weeks ago. Booked a flight to Thailand with Qatar airways after checking their website for weeks to see if the price was coming down for the date that i wanted. I checked their website a week later and the flight was £50 cheaper. All the details and connecting flights were all the same so i was’nt pleased to say the least. Contacted Qatar about this and all the could say was prices go up and down. This should be illegal to view cookies to rip off people.

Yes I have witnessed this price bumping on Ryan Air, I tried deleting cookies on all browsers but no luck, I even tried sites like hidemyass to hide my I.P address by using different proxy servers but Ryan Air seems to detect them as I can’t seem to get to the flight prices after submitting times and dates etc., very odd.