Yahoo News Some Easyjet, TUI, Jet2, Ryanair passengers will be forced to pay £100 more than others
The extra cost of booking flights with a travel agent has been revealed - as airline Easyjet, TUI, Jet2 and Ryanair holidaymakers have been warned you could pay £100 more for the same holiday through a third-party travel agent.
The Sun newspaper's research found that flights booked via travel agents were, in every case, higher than booking directly through the airline's website. A Rome to London flight on October 24 this year would have cost you £30 if you'd booked it directly, plus £29 for an XL seat and £20 for 10kg checked luggage.
But if you’d booked exactly the same flight via travel agent eDreams on the same date, you would have paid £43 for the flight, £45 for an XL seat, and £42 for 10kg of baggage - a total of £42 more. The research also found Lastminute was overcharging - by as much as 80 per cent for 10kg bags from Rome in the European Union to London, the UK's capital.
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Passengers faced paying £30 for seats with Wizz Air, but £35 with Lastminute. A spokesperson for Lastminute.com said: "Online travel agents provide a unique service beyond the possibilities offered by individual airlines. The main advantage lies in the possibility of combining flights from a wide variety of airlines. It is important to note that a high-value service like this has associated costs.
"All information on additional costs is clearly published, allowing consumers to be informed before making a purchase." Consumer expert Martyn James said: "Many low cost airlines don't have standard prices for hold or cabin baggage, or for booking seats."
"These charges change - allegedly through demand and also how close to departure you are when you book," he explained. "This means that there is no accurate booking data on what these charges actually are."
