Low Cost Airlines?????

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The “Low Cost Carriers” are not always that, however its is often possible to get good fares with them and it had made BA etc offer some more reasonable fares. The Saturday night restrictions imposed by the main-stream carriers have penalized people for far too long as have high one-way fares. It is also useful that the likes of Easyjet will let you change the ticket or name with a nominal fee £10.00. If you have an Apex or something with BA or the likes, you would have no chance.

The low-cost carriers have also opened routes which were not available before ie LPL-NCE,LPL-PMI and LPL-AGP from Easyjet. STN-NQY from Ryanair and so on.

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Its good to see the majors up there once more…its just a shame the prices havn’t come down…the low cost carriers have risen to meet the majors.

Regards

Ben

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If you go to places like expedia.co.uk you’ll find that the big carriers have always been competitive, even back years.

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They can be cheaper some of the time, they were a lot cheaper a few months ago before BA, BMI had to reduce prices. easyjet for example to AMS was only £60 return, BMI were looking for about £200 at the time. BMI fares to Scotland were rediculous before Go started up (about £300 return!)

Although I have to agree, now you can get as good if not better deals on the big carriers. The thing that annoys me most about easyjet (and probably others) is that they don’t reserve seats, so its one massive brawl to get on the plane. Personally if I could get a flight with a good carrier within £20-£30 then I’d choose them.

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The ‘low costers’ display the odd low fare here and there so that they can be classed as a ‘low fares airline’….most of the time they’re just charging as much as anybody else. How the hell would they make money? Its one big con! How can any airline be classed as ‘low cost’…they’re simply and airline with a few special offers!

Regards

Ben

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My opinion is that when you’re going to save a couple of quid on a supposed lo-cost flight, you may as well pay the extra and fly with a more reputable airline and have a meal included.

I’ve just been looking at Ryanair online. Their special offer is Stansted to Genoa from £15 one way* (*subject to availability). There’s always some sort of catch!

I searched for a flight from STN to GOA departing on 28 April and returning two days later on the 30th. It come up with £49.99. Okay, so it’s a little more than what would work out to £30 as mentioned in the special offer – but hold on a tick, that’s only a single ticket. The return is an extra £69.99! That’s £119.98 when it should cost as little as £30!!

British Airways can do the same flight for £114 return. So, would you rather pay £120 and not get fed or £114 and get top notch food on board Ba and still have £6 change to spend on a magazine at WHSmith at Stansted Airport?!

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In my experience that have never been especially cheap. Gimmicks like 99p returns are just that – limited availability gimmicks. And they have far more stingy delay/cancellation policies than the majors.

Also, though I don’t object to paying for food, it is a pain in the backside to scramble in your pockets for change in a tight seat.