Originally Posted by
Knobbgb
Hmm not really - I fell fowl of that one! What they were doing was charging 20 Euro EXTRA if you DIDN'T pay with Mastercard. If you looked carefully you'd see that the headline price suddenly increased by 20 Euro at that screen in the hope that you'd be distracted by the discount and wouldn't notice. They added the extra 20 euro in as unspecified 'airline and airport taxes' and then deducted it again for some people. Totally illegal and a desperate attempt to increase revenue before they rightly went bust. I have screenshots to back this up, if you're interested, but there's probably no point worrying about it now, they're history...
My experience was different. I usually prefer direct bookings (I just use OTAs to find the best flights for me) but when I saw this deal, around last October I think, it seemed too good to ignore. I compared prices on airtickets website with prices on the official airlines' websites and they were indeed 20 euro cheaper. So I booked two flights (actually one trip with self-transfer), HER-ATH (GQ) and ATH-CPH (A3). As [MENTION=234278]Xandrios[/MENTION] wrote, some small fee was added at the payment stage but in total I saved something like 35+ euro. Fortunately enough my flights were early in November, long before the default of airtickets...