According to the survey, one example is Irish low cost airline Ryanair, which currently charges 614 percent more for direct debit transactions than it did 18 months ago, when a direct debit booking was priced at GBP 0.70. Currently, the same operation is charged with GBP 5. Hungarian low-cost operator Wizz Air has also upped debit card booking fees from GBP 0.70 per person to GBP 4 per person, a 471 percent increase.
The same study also indicates that companies such as British Airways don’t levy any charges for debit card payments, while Virgin Atlantic has replaced the initial GBP 3 charge for direct debit bookings with a charge amounting to 1.3 percent of the total booking for credit card payments.
The study was carried out by UK-based product-testing company Which?
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