Beating the airport Rip-off Merchants

Just when you thought the Great Recession 2008-10 had brought the end of Rip-Off Britain with High Street prices reduced by up to 50% and most service companies bending over backwards to oblige the new god-like, tight-fisted consumer…

Just when you deduced the Governing McBroons had benefitted from serious brain surgery and reduced taxes for the first time in a decade…

When we can snap-up Ryanair flights to Madrid for a zero cost and laugh out loud as we hand over £17 for “airport charges” - the airport operators introduce more of their pesky on-costs.

£10 a head towards “development costs”, a fiver to “fast-track” us through the delays caused by their own security inefficiencies, £1 to be dropped off at the terminal and, coming soon, £1 for a pee and another fiver to exit the building near your waiting plane?

The Rip-off is back, the lunatics are running the asylum and Joe Public is left picking up the costs as usual. Easyjet and Ryanair have already pulled out of airports who have introduced these new charges, taking thousands of passengers out the door with them.

Spain is the major destination for most Brits and they’ll switch to airports showing a little more respect to their customers as they fly to the beach or for property purchase viewing. Voting with their wings may restore sanity because Brits know things costs 30% less in Spain and their property aspirations can be satisfied with 1,000’s of Costa bargains.

Buying a property in Spain for holidays or fulltime living can reduce the impact of Rip-off Britain. And if you have to go back to Blighty there are flights from Alicante for a tenner including the minimum charges of the airport operator.

And if that’s too much, one leading Spanish property website is providing buyers with a Cashback Voucher worth EUR 500 that will buy a few glasses of cool cava to celebrate the defeat of the Rip-off merchants.

Easter marks the start of the property buying season in Spain and it's never been cheaper, easier or more legal to snap perfectly good homes from EUR 60,000.