Ryanair has been taken to court by the german consumer council, and the judge has banned ryanair from charging extra on creditcards, since they do not offer cash payments facility. Apparently, the jude based this on the new EU legislation regarding internet transparency in nov 08. Ryanair was allowed revision, and it will take another year or so to finish this courtorder. This a very important story for any money grabbing society. You can read more here on the german consumer website:

VZBV, including PUBLIC courtorder :

 http://www.vzbv.de/start/index.php?page=themen&bereichs_id=7&themen_id=59&klag_id=604&subthemen_id=&task=klagen


Other articles:

 http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,630705,00.html

 http://www.kostenlose-urteile.de/newsview8011NFC.htm

best article: http://www.welt.de/reise/article3935510/Ticketkauf-per-Kreditkarte-darf-nicht-extra-kosten.html explains, that european legislation dated nov 2009, endprice must contain all charges.

 http://de.news.yahoo.com/1/20090616/twl-keine-extrakosten-fr-online-buchung-028dfd1.html.

The OFT havs recently been in the news, that they introduced ryanair to the new EU legislation to internet transparency, but have not mentioned anything regarding stopping ryanair from extra credit card charging.