Originally Posted by flyclub
What I can't work out exactly is why they apply the credit card surcharge per person.
Surely if you are paying for all the tickets in one go, it doesn't cost more to charge, say £600 in one transaction than £200 (if there were 3 passengers)?!?!?
I can understand the premium needed for the transaction as the payment for each passenger appears as a separate amount for each ticket. However why have to make 3 separate transactions for each passenger?
Well techincally the way BA charge it is best at recovering the commission Amex, MC, Visa take from the transaction which is a certain percentage of the amount charged.
Debit cards I believe are a fixed cost no matter what the amount charged is, only a few pence, if not a fraction of a few pence.
Not that I think it is right though
