That would likely work with actual prepaid cards too. So long as they don’t see the card I suspect that anything goes.
It’s the card issuer that would prevent offline payments being made, ie prepaid cards, afaik.
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Not 100% sure about prepaid cards anymore as some (many?) are now contactless and therefore aren’t always processed online.
I know they’re different. What I’m saying is that if a card is contactless then it implies that it can work offline at least sometimes.
TfL and similar transport systems are a bit different. They save the transactions up until the end of the day/week and charge you the best rate e.g. day ticket or weekly ticket rate, depending on what the transport company have guaranteed.
Because contactless terminals don’t connect to your bank for every transaction therefore if a card is contactless then it has to work offline for at least some transactions.
It certainly can see that, but the wording of some of the prepaid cards implies that they do indeed work offline now. Caxton state that their card will work in automated petrol stations for example when I know that previo8tgey wouldn’t.
I must check if the card scanner can check their status.
Yes, teensy bit off topic.
I’ve scanned my Caxton card and it’s coming up ‘no restrictions’ just like debit/credit cards do so it looks like it would work offline. I don’t know if all prepaid cards would, but it appears this one might do.
I’ve never heard of Caxton. But I’ve been following this thread.
Tonight my social media feeds just showed me adverts for Caxton Payments.
I’m blaming Arnie7 for this one 
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Monzo works fine on Ryan Air 
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I’ve just come back on a TUI flight and they think Monzo is still a pre-paid card hence why they say they don’t accept them.
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Still works though.
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Hi TaintedArcher, we can only apologise. Unfortunately we have been advised that monzo is no longer accepted, this is a decision made by our head office and we cannot override this decision I’m afraid. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause ^
Parents just got back from a flight with TUI so I messaged TUI after my parents were unable to buy anything on a 4 hour flight because of this nonsense…
Can MONZO get in touch and find out why the heck they’re still refusing cards?
I’m sure they (monzo) do, but this isn’t actually a monzo problem. It’s a TUI training issue. I know it won’t help in this instance but in the future if they just ignore it and tap to pay, it’ll work.
You probably need to thank the thieves that had 99p on their prepaid monzo cards and ordered 20 quids worth of booze , then some duty free , then some more booze, then got off the plane thinking how great it is to get something for nothing, as the aircrew didnt present their purchases using POS machines until they landed …oooops
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So on a Tui flight today, they made an announcement that Amex and Monzo cards were not accepted for in flight payments.
When I tried to pay with my metal Monzo card it was declined and I was told it was a prepaid card.
I informed them that it was a Mastercard debit card but that made no difference?
Why are Monzo cards still discriminated against?
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It’s strange. Must be something in the card number preventing its use.
Out of date BIN maybe?
Never had a problem on BA, TUI, Jet2, Aer Lingus, Lufthansa, Virgin, Air France with my ‘metal’ Premium 
card (which is actually 
) - because I JTP: Just. Tap. Pay.
Don’t show or give the card to the airline staff. Just use your Apple/Google pay on your phone to tap. The airline staff are then oblivious to the payment method used and can’t introduce a false barrier. If the POS terminal flags an error, then you’ve got a genuine problem, rather than an uneducated/incorrectly-educated interpretation of what isn’t allowed.
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