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Hidden card charges for travel tickets to be banned
Posted on: 7th July 2011
Travel companies have been ordered to end the use of hidden surcharges for passengers paying by card.
Airline, ferry and rail passengers typically have to click through four to six pages of an online booking before the charge is added to the price.
Now the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has ordered them to make all debit or credit card charges clear immediately.
It also wants the law changed to abolish altogether charges for using debit cards.
The OFT said travellers spent £300m on card surcharges in the airline industry alone in 2010.
It warned that if travel firms did not comply, it would take action against them, using consumer protection laws.
"We will take enforcement action against any businesses that do not respond to today's announcement and instead continue to use misleading surcharging practices," said Cavendish Elithorn, of the OFT.
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