How to save muulah with budget airlines
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If you fly with budget airlines you may have noticed that they figured out a clever way to screw you with a surchage for using credit card or debit cards. For example:
Ryanair 5 pounds per person per flight
Wizz Air 4 pounds per flight
Easy Jet 5 pounds per order for use of a credit card
Airlines hike card booking fees by up to 600 per cent in just 18 months
If you have an Easyjet credit card they still charge you the fee! I must have wasted a lot of money on these fees but recently had an epiphany. Aparrently they all do not charge a fee if one uses a Visa Electron card. So I reseached how one can go about finding this thing. Turns out it's just a debit card that certain banks issue. It's similar to other debit cards but is often not accepted by stores and foreign ATMs. My bank - Barclays could issue me this card but only if I cancelled my existing Solo, something I didn't want to do.
Then I found that you can open a very basic (free) account with Halifax and receive this card from them. The account is called Easycash and has absolutely no frills - no interest, no overdraft and no counter service. But since I only need it for one purpose - having a few hundred pounds in it and using it to purchase airline tickets - it's perfect. You can only apply online and it takes them a few months to process. I think I applied in July, they asked for copies of bills/passport in August and in September I received my card. So whole process took maybe 10 minutes.
Will I save a lot of money - probably not. But I hate being screwed and prefer to game the system.
Halifax Easycash Account
