{"id":2176,"date":"2010-01-05T17:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2010-01-05T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:13:43","slug":"ryanair-faces-a-showdown-with-the-oft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/ryanair-faces-a-showdown-with-the-oft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair faces a showdown with the OFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A showdown between two Irish heavyweights is brewing, as the Office of Fair Trading&#8217;s Irish-born chief John Fingleton warned he may clamp down on Ryanair&#8217;s bewildering ticket payment system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/michael-o-leary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2177\" title=\"Ryanair faces a showdown with the OFT\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/michael-o-leary-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Ryanair faces a showdown with the OFT\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Fingleton attacked the no-frills carrier, led by his motormouth compatriot Michael O&#8217;Leary for charging customers when they used a specific type of bank card.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair last month started levying a \u00a35 fee for a one-way ticket on transactions paid for with the Visa Electron card, which had previously been the only card to escape the additional cost.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can now only avoid the charge by using a Prepaid Master-Card.<\/p>\n<p>Fingleton called the practice &#8216;puerile&#8217; and &#8216;childish&#8217; and warned the OFT &#8216;might or might not go running after something like that&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time that the watchdog has taken a swipe at Ryanair.<\/p>\n<p>The OFT last year forced the carrier to improve the transparency of its website and other advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair rejected the watchdog&#8217;s criticisms, saying that its services were for &#8216;the everyday Joe Bloggs&#8217;, not &#8216;the overpaid John Fingletons&#8217;.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A showdown between two Irish heavyweights is brewing, as the Office of Fair Trading&#8217;s Irish-born chief John Fingleton warned he may clamp down on Ryanair&#8217;s bewildering ticket payment system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}