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WunderFull

Book by: Midnight Thursday 26 October
Travel: 7 November - 31 December

if you're flying long-haul, free access to the Aer Lingus Gold Circle Lounge and 25% off all Sky Shopping products.

Beelzebub

It's a Fricking Windup Right?

red_fox

Beelzebub wrote:

It's a Fricking Windup Right?

Well it's €1 excluding taxes & charges, but it's a good deal all the same.:)

Murt10

I complained about this offer to the office of the Director of Consumer Affairs today. They are advertising flights to the USA for E100 but slap on a (E40)fuel surcharge when you go to book.

I can (barely) accept that they can advertise prices without taxes and insurance but a fuel surcharge is imposed by Aer Lingus not by anyone else so IMO they should advertise their flights at E140 not E100.

Imagne going to the bar and being told that a pint was E4.00 but that because the cost of barley had gone up they were increasing the price to E5after they had attracted you into the place with a false lower price

Anyway, I got nowhere.

podgeandrodge

Murt10 wrote:

Imagne going to the bar and being told that a pint was E4.00 but that because the cost of barley had gone up they were increasing the price to E5after they had attracted you into the place with a false lower price

Has the cost of barley gone up that much? :eek:

zeusnero

Murt10 wrote:

I complained about this offer to the office of the Director of Consumer Affairs today. They are advertising flights to the USA for E100 but slap on a (E40)fuel surcharge when you go to book.

talk about whinging! How can you go wrong at €100 for a flight for the States - Big deal if they add on €40 for fuel...

chump

send a letter to the paper or ring Joe

(am serious!)

Vokes

Fair play to you, Murt10. Shame you got nowhere with it.

Dundalk Daily

is this the usual one way only crap and when you go looking for a return flight it cost €400 or something like that. :rolleyes:

okidoki987

It's like all cheap flights when you add on all the taxes, charges etc
they end up not being as cheap as they first made them out to be.

ergo

yeah, this pisses me off big time. the govt. are actually bringing in regulations to prevent this, just before I think some EU regulation will come in preventing it anyway

for example. the €100 each way to New York for next feb/Mar works out at a total of €346 :mad:

hopefully this false advertising will be gone soon

Santa Claus

All the airlines charge a fuel surcharge on trasatlantic flights....In fact I know someone who booked 3 months before flying with BA and the week before they were due to go they were hit with a 2nd fuel surcharge as fuel prices had gone up between booking and flight.

A surcharge by definition is an extra charge so why would they add it into the advertised price ?

Kramer

Santa Claus wrote:

A surcharge by definition is an extra charge so why would they add it into the advertised price ?

An extra charge? Why the need for an extra charge then?

Fuel is rather important to an aircraft IIRC. If the fuel costs go up, then so should the fares. Simple.

The actual cost of these fares (JFK) is €140 + taxes etc., NOT €100 as they advertise.

False advertising plain & simple in my book.

It's not just Aer Lingus either, they all do it :mad: .

[End rant - they're not bad fares as it goes TBH]

Our man in Havana

Santa Claus wrote:

All the airlines charge a fuel surcharge on trasatlantic flights....In fact I know someone who booked 3 months before flying with BA and the week before they were due to go they were hit with a 2nd fuel surcharge as fuel prices had gone up between booking and flight.

Some load of bollocks from BA, they paid the first surcharge and formed a legally binding contract with BA for the flights at price x incls all tax and charges. How can they come back later and ask for more? Doubt it is legal at all.

ChuckProphet

get with the program lads...this is the way it's always been. compare these prices with 10 years ago and u'll realise what bargains yer getting!

oneweb

Murt10 wrote:

I complained about this offer to the office of the Director of Consumer Affairs today. They are advertising flights to the USA for E100 but slap on a (E40)fuel surcharge when you go to book.

I can (barely) accept that they can advertise prices without taxes and insurance but a fuel surcharge is imposed by Aer Lingus not by anyone else so IMO they should advertise their flights at E140 not E100.

Imagne going to the bar and being told that a pint was E4.00 but that because the cost of barley had gone up they were increasing the price to E5after they had attracted you into the place with a false lower price

Anyway, I got nowhere.

It was in one of the free morning papers in the last few days that the advertising authorities or some other consumer lobbying group want to ban the use on the use of non-charges prices in promotions. Still, there are some great prices in there!

chump

ChuckProphet wrote:

get with the program lads...this is the way it's always been. compare these prices with 10 years ago and u'll realise what bargains yer getting!

The price isn't the issue per se.
It's the fact that you waste your time considering booking because you've been misled by an advertisement.

So it's a waste of your time and patience, and all because they advertised a FALSE price.

ateam

On a related issue, why is the cost of taxes and charges higher on Aerlingus flights compared to Ryanair?
For a flight to Birmingham in November on a Saturday to a Sunday, the total cost of charges on Ryanair was around €25 and on Aerlingus it came to about €50..Same airport, virtually the same times...can anyone explain this?

Dades

ateam wrote:

the total cost of charges on Ryanair was around €25 and on Aerlingus it came to about €50..Same airport, virtually the same times...can anyone explain this?

Maybe there was a surcharge on the tax...

Fair play to Murt10 for doing more than just bitch about this.

To those who think it's a "fair" practice - I'd like to see your reaction if you got a taxi into town and then the driver tried to charged for the increased cost of petrol for the trip.

daveg

WunderFull wrote:

Book by: Midnight Thursday 26 October
Travel: 7 November - 31 December

if you're flying long-haul, free access to the Aer Lingus Gold Circle Lounge and 25% off all Sky Shopping products.

That should be until 31st Jan 2007.

Santa Claus

Bond-007 wrote:

Some load of bollocks from BA, they paid the first surcharge and formed a legally binding contract with BA for the flights at price x incls all tax and charges. How can they come back later and ask for more? Doubt it is legal at all.

Terms & Conditions....all they have to do is put something saying that they reserve to right to levy additional charges should fuel prices increase!

Our man in Havana

I wonder how many airlines have such a clause?

HelterSkelter

ateam wrote:

On a related issue, why is the cost of taxes and charges higher on Aerlingus flights compared to Ryanair?
For a flight to Birmingham in November on a Saturday to a Sunday, the total cost of charges on Ryanair was around €25 and on Aerlingus it came to about €50..Same airport, virtually the same times...can anyone explain this?

I was on to consumer affairs before about this. I noticed Aer Lingus taxes were much higher than BMI for flying into Heathrow. I thought it was a sneaky little scam to advertise their pre-tax fares at a lower rate then make up by adding extra taxes on. The girl I was speaking to said they investigated this before. She said it was down to the fact that BMI had negociated a better deal with Heathrow than Aer Lingus had. Each airline seperately negotiates what taxes they pay to the airport.

jjbrien

One thing i did notice they dont offer the €1 flights at the weekend. Heres what I cem up with Dub to MAN with Aer Lingus €117 Ryanair flights at the same times plus or minus 10 to 20 mins on times out on Nov 11 back nov 13th Ryanir is only €32 with bag chage and cc fees. Aer Lingus charge to much of a fuel levy and other charges.

dahamsta

HelterSkelter wrote:

Each airline seperately negotiates what taxes they pay to the airport.

Airport charges, presumably? There ain't a whole lot of negotiable taxes in my experience!

HelterSkelter

dahamsta wrote:

Airport charges, presumably? There ain't a whole lot of negotiable taxes in my experience!

Yeah, charges I mean!