I have wondered how peanuts airlines make proffits, selling seats at bus prices. Everybody know their philosophy: Cost cuts and fully loaded planes. Its clear that the pioneer is the successful Southwest and here in Europe there are several examples which have tried to follow Southwest success. Ryan Air and Easyjet are doing a good job in terms of proffits, Debonair
(one of the finest low cost) went down when they missed the objectives of a low cost and tried to behave like a regular airline in terms of prices but at low cost service standards, Buzz (lovely colours) and the troublesome GO. I am affraid when they cut costs they cuts maintenance and level of safety.
I´ll be flying Easyjet MAD to LPL and I don´t feel really confident despite having paid only 30 pounds return. What do you think of low costs in terms of safety?. Do they use right spare parts of bogus?.
By: Bmused55 - 6th August 2004 at 19:52
Monarch scheuled are not low fares there fares are humongus compared to Ryanair and even snozzyjet I meen Easyjet.
Perhaps
But ZB won’t leave you stranded at an airport because the CEO doesn’t want to pay the due rates for landing fees. Ryanair frequently does.
ZB won’t charge you the earth to re book a flight or cancel. Ryanair frequently does.
And above all, ZB have class. Heck even easyJet have class in contrast to FR
By: SHAMROCK321 - 6th August 2004 at 18:55
Monarch scheuled are not low fares there fares are humongus compared to Ryanair and even snozzyjet I meen Easyjet.
By: carl727uk - 5th August 2004 at 15:56
Yes, I think Easyjet are not too bad, as they call 30 passengers at a time which does pretty much the same thing as allocated seats. I agree Ryanair is awful with boarding…………..and most things actually !
On the subject of boarding was at LHR on Sunday evening boarding a BMI flight to Manchester, they did call the flight by rows, however many people took no notice. As a result finding your seat became more difficult with people in the aisle, who should have waited for their rows to be called.
By: starjet - 5th August 2004 at 12:23
Virgin Blue apparently pre-assgins seats.
By: paul the wall - 4th August 2004 at 19:36
Yes i,d have to agree Virgin blue are very good.
By: MANAIRPORTMAD - 4th August 2004 at 19:26
I think Virgin blue would be the best.
By: robbelc - 4th August 2004 at 18:16
Easyjet are actually not too bad you just have to check in early then you get the choice of the seats. I think they call the first 25 or 30 pax that checked in first.
By: Bmused55 - 4th August 2004 at 09:43
Yeah I love the livery, but not particuarly happy about the Airbus order, would like to see them keep the 717s.
I see.
Ok, one bit of good news in the sea of bad karma
By: LBARULES - 4th August 2004 at 09:38
Yeah I love the livery, but not particuarly happy about the Airbus order, would like to see them keep the 717s.
By: Bmused55 - 4th August 2004 at 09:36
Nonsense, you were happy about their livery and their Airbus order 😉 lol
By: LBARULES - 4th August 2004 at 09:28
Jet2 also allocate seats!
I would definitly fly Virgin Blue, heard nothing good about JetStar so far.
By: dartie - 4th August 2004 at 01:43
I would recommend Virgin Blue at this present time, due JQ using B717 more at the moment, because the 737 being more spacious than the 717 and i think DJ has a better service than JQ, anyways good luck.
By: Duesseldwarf - 3rd August 2004 at 23:45
……..as do Monarch Scheduled – they can even be pre-booked with us!! 😉
By: Skymonster - 3rd August 2004 at 21:19
JetStar do not allocate seats. Not sure about Virgin Blue.
Here in Europe, a few low-fare airlines do allocate seats at check-in – BMIBaby for example.
Andy
By: SHAMROCK321 - 3rd August 2004 at 21:06
So far Ive hvae heard some good things about Jetstars service but certainly for a new airline they have had a lot of prob;ems with their aircraft.As for Virgin I think anything with that name has quality written all over it.
By: A330Crazy - 2nd March 2003 at 00:39
Well to get you started, you could of course, if you haven’t already done so that is, post on your Plane-Mad forum and the Airliners.net forum. By doing this, its reaching a few more people.
By: dan330 - 1st March 2003 at 23:50
Andrew, thanks a lot I hope a lot of other people share your view!
Just got to get it recognised now!
By: A330Crazy - 1st March 2003 at 23:04
GREAT! I’m sure many people will find this site extreamly useful. So well laid out.
Well done Dan. 🙂
By: dan330 - 1st March 2003 at 20:33
OK, Its finished!
I’m opening up officially tomorrow, but if you want to use it now go to http://www.plane-mad.com/flightguide/flightguide.php
Everything is done, except Aurigny is a bit of a mess, some of the frequencies may be wrong – Saab any ideas of the frequencies so I can check them up?
If you find any probs then let me know.
I’ve also registered http://www.lowcostflightguide.co.uk so you can reach it from that, let me know what you think!
By: dan330 - 22nd February 2003 at 22:39
RE: Low Cost Airlines
Flybe are a tricky one. They haven’t got a timetable on their website. You have to order one to get through the post (which I did last weekend but still nothing!).
The other tricky one is Ryanair, again no timetable on website (for summer). I’m leaving them till just before I open it and search different days on their book online section.
Sign In
August 31, 2000 at 1:42 pm