Here is a roundup of airline credit card charges researched by the Airline News website 11 March 2009:

It is hard to make direct comparisons because some airlines charge the credit card fee per booking while others charge per passenger or the most harsh per passenger, per sector. Ryanair has more than doubled it’s credit card charge in less than two years.

Air France (UK) – £4 per passenger per booking.

Air New Zealand – No credit card charge.

Air Southwest – £6.00/€8 per booking on credit card, £1.00/€1.30 on debit card.

bmi – £4 per person on credit card, no charge with debit cards.

British Airways- £4 per ticket on credit card, no debit card charge.

Brussels Airlines – No extra charge.

easyJet – 2.5%, minimum £3.50 on credit cards, £1.95 debit cards except Electron.

flythomascook – £2.50 per passenger, per sector for all except solo and Electron and Mastercard debit.

KLM (UK) -£4 credit card fee (all), zero debit card fee (all).

Jet2 – Solo and Electron free, credit cards 4.75% charge, min £4.99, debit cards 3% minimum £2.49.

Qantas – No extra charges.

Ryanair – £4.75 per passenger, per sector all cards except Electron.

Swiss International – No extra charges.

Virgin Atlantic – 1.3% credit card charge. No extra charge for debit card.

In all cases the charges stated above were taken from the UK version of the mentioned airline websites. Either for a test flight booking for travel in March or from the FAQ section of the website.

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