Airline card charge is a one-way business

RYANAIR may like to call its credit/debit card charge of €10 per passenger per return flight optional (Letters, October 30), but it knows full well that the Visa Electron card, which it trumpets as giving an exemption from the fee, is not issued in Ireland.

Therefore, for an Irish passenger the fee is no more avoidable than the €10 government travel tax.

It should be noted that the €10 fee is out of all proportion to the amount that Ryanair pays for processing the payment (which, on an average flight booking of €60, is in the order of €2). Nonetheless, perhaps the Government should consider not only abolishing the travel tax but also commencing section 48 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007 which would consign all credit card charges to history, where they rightly belong.