Budget airlines survey

Interesting results from a recent survey, not specific to ski flights, but of low cost airlines. The figures are in terms of how many people found the airline stressful to travel with:

Ryanair 69%
Easyjet 14%
Thomas Cook 3%
Flybe 2%
Monarch 2%
BMI 2%
Jet 2 2%
Wizzair 2%
Thomson 2%

flying stress for me is only about non-allocated seating and paying for baggage... so not surprising Ryanair & Easyjet are up there (actually EasyJet's result is not as bad as you've thought.)

I flew for the 1st time in 16 years (!) in 2010...and it was with Easyjet. Not my choice but I went along with the crowd. This was the 1st time I'd experienced a budget airline having flown with BA, KLM, Continental, Virgin etc in the 80's and early 90's.

In the end it was a doddle. The flights were bang on time there and back. Enough space in the seat for the 2 hour flight although I wouldn't have fancied much longer. Only had hand luggage which probably helped. Check in was fine.

Therefore, despite my reservations, everything was good and I think I'd go with Easyjet again

We're flying KLM from Humberside - Amsterdam - Oslo in 2 weeks time. Will be interesting to see how that goes.

You wouldn't get me on a Ryanair plane if you paid me...

Someone bought a wizzair ticket to Budapest with my credit card just before Christmas......

Interesting stuff albeit not surprising,
by the way the boycott of the Irish lot is still in force and the word is spreading there are a lot of unsatisfied Irish lot users out there :thumbup:

Low Cost??? I am flying to London in May and because my dates fall on bank holiday the cheapest "budget" EasyJet could offer was about 360 Swiss francs return - before any extras. No thanks, I will fly for 200 with Swiss and will check my bag free and land in City instead of end of the world and will get better service and won't have to be up at silly hours to make the flight. I haven't tried any other and have no intention to. Travel is stressful as is to add more stress. Regular airline for me any time. It was the same last year when we had a group trip to Amsterdam for a DJ - paid almost twice as less for KLM than we found tickets for the same dates with Sleezy Jet. I think the popularity of EasyJet is due to the fact that they pose themselves as "budget" which attracts many people who don't even search any further. Apart from couple trips to Madrid every time I travelled I found better rates with regular airlines. And I know from friends in aviation industry in case of strikes or any other issues it's regular airlines that get served first. In Madrid we got stuck for 4 hours because of the strike and they didn't even let us leave the plane. So we were just sitting there watching how Swiss took off with almost no delay. I would be more than happy to pay the difference to be on that flight.

Have to say I have booked BA instead of Ryanair of easyjet several times. Rather pay £50 more than the advertised budget rate knowing they will add extras on and BA price is all in. T5 to fly out of, good service, better seats, allocated seating, seat selection when you check in online.....


think you might be right, people think its cheap and book without checking elsewhere.

We have had no problem with Easyjet but the last few time have used BA - so slick, large baggage allowance and not much difference in price.I agree with Tony,have managed to check in online and choose seats with extra legroom for no addtional cost the last couple of times. Would never touch Ryanair.

Tony_H wrote:Have to say I have booked BA instead of Ryanair of easyjet several times. Rather pay £50 more than the advertised budget rate knowing they will add extras on and BA price is all in. T5 to fly out of, good service, better seats, allocated seating, seat selection when you check in online.....


think you might be right, people think its cheap and book without checking elsewhere.

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