Official – Easyjet Expansion

I paid a fiver for a hot breakfast on a GB Airways flight last year – and another fiver to have a hot “meal” on the flight back.

I’m guessing that was one of the regional routes which were operated as ‘BA Connect by GB Airways’ when Connect was still around, or perhaps one of GB’s own charter flights rather than a BA franchise flight.

1L.

Yeah i would think so:D

Will they paint A320’s and A321’s in EZY colours.

The timings from MAN-

HER
tu/fri:1525-21:35/22:35-0050

PFO
m/w/t/s/s:15:25-22:10/23:10-0205
w(until 30th April):0710-13:45/1445-1740
w(until 1st April):1855-0130/0230-0520
w/s(until 28th sept):1455-2140/2240-0130

INN
s:0715-1030/1130-1245

AGP
dail:0710-1110/1200-1355

MLA
dail:0640-1110/1155-1425
s(until27 april):1600-2030/1220-1450

TFS
Mo,Tu,Th-Sa:1455-1920/2020-0035

I agree with Bmi-star, easyJet are by far one of, if not, the best LCC in Europe. Infact i feel they are better than some normal airlines. Of all the flights ive flown(not many i know), i was plesently suprised when i flew easy. People make out its hell flying them. But if you acctually give them a chance they are rather good. They dont bombard you with things to buy like ryanair. They just inform you that they are coming around with the snack or duty free trolly. And the leg room isnt at all too bad. I consider myself rather tall, and i found sitting in there seats rather comforatble. And most of all, people say there service is crap, i found there whole crew from Check in to arrival to be really friendly.

I think the only thing that has given easyJet this negative image is the TV show airline, that was based around them. It allways seems to show bad bits with angry customers, raging at there poor desk employees. The reason there raging, “There was a crash on the M25.”, well thats not easyJet’s problem. That is your own, it is your own resposibility to get to the airport in time. It really does tick me off that people insist on arriving at the airport too late for there flight, then they get caught in traffic. Then when they get to the airport they take it out on the employees. But anyway i seem to be veering away from the thread here. I feel that all those easyJet haters are really, really rather stupid. You have a choice. Pay roughly £60 for a return flight to Madrid, inc one hold and one cabin bag, with easyJet, then you buy a sandwich at smiths or something for £3. or pay roughly £100 for the same flight, inc hold bags of Xkg and one cabin bag, plus a complimentary sandwich and drink. Now im not sure about you, but for around 10 kg more luggage, a sandwich and a drink; £40 does seem to be a large amount for that.

Josh

Sorry Josh, I am not comparing easyJet to other low cost carriers, as I have little experience of others except Flybe (I use them to fly LGW-GCI return on a regular basis). I am primarily comparing squeezyjet to the BA “Eurotraveller” standard.

I agree that if you can fight your way into one of the extra legroom seats then some of ej’s aircraft and crews are quite pleasent, esp the Swiss registered planes used on the Gatwick-Geneva legs , however, I also remeber having had to shoehorn my 6′ 3″ self into a standard easyjet window seat for the (mercifully short) hop Gatwick to Amsterdam, and would prefer not to repeat the experience, esp on a 2hour flight to Spain. I value my health over saving a few quid, so I’ll avoid squeezyjet wherever possible, as I don’t fancy a dose of DVT.

Maybe if they actually honoured their supposed “boarding by numbered group” system more fully then they’d get my flights – If I continue to check in as soon as it is possible and get allocated into boarding group 1, but then find it’s a free for all once “special cases” have boarded, they’ll rarely get my cash.

When you get a little older, and a little wiser you’ll understand that low cost (in anything) is not the be all and end all in life 😉 .

However, I respect your views. For many people the advent of LCC has brought them the chance to fly more frequently (or even for the first time), and that can’t be all bad.

Paul F

Yeah i agree easyjet is like a charter airline but takeing over these routes are a shame because it would be nice to see British airways (or gb airways) in most place, with easyjet it gives as sense of cheapyness because they havent exactly got the biggest planes have they

One can’t stand sitting in the common classes on these common little planes. British Airways planes, even if the same ones, are much bigger because they can afford to give us privileged few a better service. Rar Rar Rar.

I agree with Bmi-star, easyJet are by far one of, if not, the best LCC in Europe. Infact i feel they are better than some normal airlines. Of all the flights ive flown(not many i know), i was plesently suprised when i flew easy. People make out its hell flying them. But if you acctually give them a chance they are rather good. They dont bombard you with things to buy like ryanair. They just inform you that they are coming around with the snack or duty free trolly. And the leg room isnt at all too bad. I consider myself rather tall, and i found sitting in there seats rather comforatble. And most of all, people say there service is crap, i found there whole crew from Check in to arrival to be really friendly.

I think the only thing that has given easyJet this negative image is the TV show airline, that was based around them. It allways seems to show bad bits with angry customers, raging at there poor desk employees. The reason there raging, “There was a crash on the M25.”, well thats not easyJet’s problem. That is your own, it is your own resposibility to get to the airport in time. It really does tick me off that people insist on arriving at the airport too late for there flight, then they get caught in traffic. Then when they get to the airport they take it out on the employees. But anyway i seem to be veering away from the thread here. I feel that all those easyJet haters are really, really rather stupid. You have a choice. Pay roughly £60 for a return flight to Madrid, inc one hold and one cabin bag, with easyJet, then you buy a sandwich at smiths or something for £3. or pay roughly £100 for the same flight, inc hold bags of Xkg and one cabin bag, plus a complimentary sandwich and drink. Now im not sure about you, but for around 10 kg more luggage, a sandwich and a drink; £40 does seem to be a large amount for that.

Josh

I paid a fiver for a hot breakfast on a GB Airways flight last year – and another fiver to have a hot “meal” on the flight back. It was good for an airline meal but woz I robbed?

Interesting – does their policy vary from route to route? Or maybe things changed since we last used them (Summer 06).

Paul F

I paid a fiver for a hot breakfast on a GB Airways flight last year – and another fiver to have a hot “meal” on the flight back. It was good for an airline meal but woz I robbed?

Robbed?

Had a hot meal on a long-distance train lately? 😎

“classy” loco’s.
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That’s a paradoxical statement!!

with easyjet it gives as sense of cheapyness because they havent exactly got the biggest planes have they

Sorry???

Easyjet will use the same aircraft that GB Airways use as bought in the deal. That means do you think that the A320 and A321 are small?
And just because its Orange, and there is no blue, red and white on the tail, doesn’t mean its cheap.

I regard easyjet as one of Europe’s most “classy” loco’s.

And you won’t see BA in other than London, as they have no interest in the rest of the UK. Period.

I paid a fiver for a hot breakfast on a GB Airways flight last year – and another fiver to have a hot “meal” on the flight back. It was good for an airline meal but woz I robbed?

easyJet/GB Airways takeover – Is it good for the customer?

Not sure the acquisition of GB Airways has actually been fully approved yet has it?

Interesting to note that it may well now cost a family of four more to fly Gatwick to Alicante or Murcia on the low cost airlines than it does/did on GB Airways.

Although low-cost carrier headline fares look better, by the time you’ve paid for any hold baggage (all inclusive on GB Airways/BA standard fares), meals (included in GB Airways ticket price) and any pre-booked extra legroom seats (to get back up to GB Airways standard leg room), and the various booking surcharges, then GB Airways total prices often appeared to work out lower than those offerred by the lowcost operators.

As Mr Caine used to say….Not a lot of people know that…

Paul F

Yeah i agree easyjet is like a charter airline but takeing over these routes are a shame because it would be nice to see British airways (or gb airways) in most place, with easyjet it gives as sense of cheapyness because they havent exactly got the biggest planes have they

When does EZY take over GB Airways Aircraft? I hear next Year BOH will be an EZY base:cool:

Happy New Year.

James

These are basically the routes which would have been operated by GB Airways before easyjet bought them.

Although, it’ll make a change seeing easyjet in places like Corfu/Mykonos/Paphos.

These routes make easyjet look like a charter airline rather than a low cost airline.