Originally Posted by
sds1493
That logic helps with regard to their checked luggage fee, where it does cost them extra for you to check it, and other things, like their CC fee.
However, in this case, it does not apply, as FR could let you do OLCI. Hence it is just a way to get money, which I think is just wrong.
There are plenty of other cases where Ryanair charge fees with little relation to their actual costs. The "card processing fee", which gets tacked on if you pay with anything other than an Electron card, is charged per-flight, rather than per-transaction, even though the actual card processing cost to them is the same regardless of how many flights a transaction covers. It works the other way too, with many flights having "no taxes" even though Ryanair in fact still has to pay some tax on them. I think it is best to just ignore whatever excuse Ryanair gives for charging what they do, and decide whether or not to fly with them based on the total door-to-door cost.