Just back with TUI from NCL > IBZ > NCL. The announcement was "we are a cashless airline accepting Visa and Mastercard with a £200 limit per person. We don’t accept Monzo and Revolut or other prepaid cards.
I used my monzo plus card, just holding it upside down so they didn’t see the branding and it worked fine.
I had exactly the same on TUI flight last week. same announcement and same outcome - I used my lime green Monzo card with my thumb over the Monzo logo, no problems… but I had no doubt they would have refused a coral card on sight !
We flew to Turkiye last year and the Tui attendant said they wouldn’t accept Monzo so I used Google Pay which went through (which defaulted to Monzo), this year flying to Croatia they said no Monzo so I said I’d use Google pay but they said they’d need to see what it was using, they wouldn’t accept Monzo via Google Pay so I had to change to Wise.
At the start of this month I flew Ryanair to Ibiza and made two purchases with my Monzo via Apple Pay.
When Ryanair have tried to take the payments, over 10 times monzo is declining then despite their being money in my account. I spoke to support and they said it’s for fraud reasons and they told me to get in touch with Ryanair, update my payment details to not use Apple Pay.
I have just had a similar problem with the Apple App Store. When I contacted Monzo they said they decided it as it was a high risk transaction and that I should contact Apple
I had to see a private Chiropodist recently who said “we don’t take Monzo” when he saw the card in my wallet. I asked if they did contactless, which of course they did, and just used my Flex via Apple Pay. It went through fine, of course