EU plans to curb costs of paying with plastic

Airlines will no longer be able to charge consumers extra for booking flights online while the price of goods in shops should fall as the EU moved to curb the costs of paying with plastic.

The changes are part of a raft of rules unveiled by the European Commission designed to make it easier to pay online and across borders using credit and debit cards.

However, the bad news is that the individual cost banks charge every time a card is used will not change.