well done UK! Airlines and car rental companies are crazily misleading with their sneaky fees.
I hope the EU outlaws this too (which I thought it did at some point, but Ryanair and Wizzair keep doing it anyway so I may have been mistaken).
I hope the EU outlaws this too (which I thought it did at some point, but Ryanair and Wizzair keep doing it anyway so I may have been mistaken).
The real offenders are ticketing companies that charge mandatory service fees or convenience fees without providing a way to purchase the item at the advertised cost.
The mandatory booking fee, the mandatory service fee, mandatory transaction fee, mandatory technology fee etc just so you can checkout. Optional upsells are something else.
flight ticket: $10
extra for sitting: $100
extra for oxygen provided by Ryanair: $100
Edit: Nope, real idea pitched by CEO in 2012.
They do offer free reserved seating options though for certain group bookings, so I'm not complaining much. I could even arrange things through customer service chat with them.
Car rental companies, not this one to be fair, are well known for finding hidden and unrecorded damage when you return too
But the company isn't called "Mafia" so I guess my comparison doesn't hold any water right?
Of course, it is their job to try to upsell you insurance.
In the US though, the insurance is completely reasonable if you want to have no risk. Drop the car off with no risk of a ding or scratch for a few bucks.
Framing it like the mafia loan sharking is completely absurd.