Easy jet and checking in and boarding

wife_to_be

Hi there

Please can somebody explain the following.

We normally fly with Thomson so when we go to check in we get our seat numbers allocated and then when we board we know where we are sitting.

We have this time booked with easyjet and from reading reviews i just dont understand how you check in and board. When you check in your luggage are you allocated your seat numbers or is it just a mad rush. Also what is speedy boarding.

Thanks for any help

malkie76

It's a mad rush. Speedyboarding allows you to board ahead of the mad rush, in a slightly smaller mad rush.

teallach

The earlier you check in, the earlier you get to board and therefore choose your seats but most people seem to be in the first bracket of boarders anyway. What's funny is watching the chancers who arrived at the last minute to check in, try to jump the queue to get on the plane first and then get told to go to the back of the queue.:D

Altarf

wife_to_be wrote: »

We have this time booked with easyjet and from reading reviews i just dont understand how you check in and board. When you check in your luggage are you allocated your seat numbers or is it just a mad rush. Also what is speedy boarding.

When you check in your boarding card is marked A, B, or C, depending on how early you were checking in.

When you get to the boarding gate, there are separate lanes, marked A, B, C, and 'Speedy Boarders'.

When they want to board the plane, the 'Speedy Boarders' go first, then families with young children (under 5), or people needing special assistance (who are brought to the front), and then A, then B, etc.

On the plane you just sit wherever you like.

However, if a bus to the plane is involved, all it really means is the order you get on the bus, and then it is a mass charge to the plane.

Also in the UK it is fairly well organised, but overseas less so, with usually just a seething mass of people crowding the gate.

I just chill out, let everyone else go "got to get to the front, got to get to the front", and know that there are seats on the plane for us, and the chance of not finding couple of seats together is zero.

ross_uk

we stay we friends in spain and always travel with easy jet, we only take hand luggage with is a small suit case big enough for a weeks worth of cloths so normally we check in online and u get put in group a which means you board after priority boarding now they have started to charge for checking in online, when you que to board the plane you just run like everyone else, we i flew in november a lady got knocked over by the mad rush to the plane is awful, i dont know why they just wont give you a seat number before.

Also in the UK it is fairly well organised, but overseas less so, with usually just a seething mass of people crowding the gate.

nope its not organised at all at bristol u all meant to stand in a line but everyone crowds round the gate even if there in group b or c and wont let people through there should be a lane for a,b,c its funny when they put up the gate its like a stampeed to get there first.

Inactive

Altarf wrote: »

When you check in your boarding card is marked A, B, or C, depending on how early you were checking in.

When you get to the boarding gate, there are separate lanes, marked A, B, C, and 'Speedy Boarders'.

When they want to board the plane, the 'Speedy Boarders' go first, then families with young children (under 5), or people needing special assistance (who are brought to the front), and then A, then B, etc.
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Not so last time that I flew with them, they had dispensed with the A and B setup.

nico26

I flew with them through the week and the just had Speedy Boarding , then families with kids and special assistance. Then everyone else was queue A

Smi1er

Does it matter where you sit? We fly quite often with Easyjet and it's funny watching some people obcessed with getting on first.

We then board with our children (youngest is 8) and announce to a member of cabin crew that our kids are nervous flyers and therefore we need to sit together. We then watch as they move others:rotfl:to sit us together. You just gotta know how to work the system;)

malkie76

Depending on the config there are 12 or 18 seats with extra legroom, that's what people push for. People want to sit at the front to get off the plane first and hence first in line for immigration, and there is reduced overhead storage at the front due to the oxygen tanks. You don't want the nightmare situation of sitting near the front but having your bags stored at the back if the plane (meaning to have to waitfir everyone to disembark before you can get your bag)

winnie81

Is it worth paying for Priority boarding then? We have booked through EasyJet and decided agains't this added cost but we are travelling with 4 small children to Palma (1st flight for them) who will be 8,7,3,2 will we be able to seat in the same section? Reading about the rush/scrum to get on the plane is scaring me a bit! My husband and I know we'll be with 2 children each (have been told its usually 3 seats per aisle?) or even the 2 older children sit on there own as long as they are sandwiched in the aisle with parents around them if that makes sense?

Well after that garbled post all I am wondering is if you Easyjet flyers think its important to have the Priority Boarding with small children?

Thank you kindly in advance

Claire x

jamesbrownontheroad

winnie81 wrote: »

Is it worth paying for Priority boarding then?

Nope, because with your two youngest children you will be allowed to board after the Speedy Boarders and before the mad rush for no extra charge. :beer: