easyjet

sunnysea83

Have flown with easy jet loads and never had any problems or delays because of easy jet (had to redivert on one flight due to a very drunk passenger)

I have even converted my parents in to easy jet flyers - its cheaper than thomas cook, thomson etc and with speeding boarding just as easy to sit together etc You pay to sit together anyway with TC and Thomson and for bags etc when you book flights only.

I would recommend Easyjet

bazzaboo

GemJar wrote: »

Bit worried about Schipol security though.. accidently smuggled a razorblade in my hand luggage!

Safety razorblades are allowed in hand luggage, even straight razor blades are allowed as long as the blade is under 6cm's.

GemJar_2

bazzaboo wrote: »

Safety razorblades are allowed in hand luggage, even straight razor blades are allowed as long as the blade is under 6cm's.

Thats okay then! haha still doesn't explain why people get tweezers taken off them though

caz2703

I never thought I'd praise an airline but EasyJet were wee gems just before Xmas. We'd booked to fly across to spend Xmas with my husbands family. I was just over 6 months gone and hardly showing and we were travelling with our son and my step-daughter. We were the last ones to get to the gate due to a poo bum holding us up. When we arrived the girl on the gate asked if I was pregnant. I had nothing to hide so answered her questions. Unfortunately it turns out I needed a medical note to fly given how far along I was.

To cut a long story short we were eventually allowed to fly after talking the girl through my medical notes (which I thankfully had remembered to bring) and my step-daughter putting on a good show of tears. I admit I was in the wrong and they were under no obligation to let me fly but I was under strict instructions to get medical consent to fly home (cue a hospital visit on Boxing Day!). I think the limit is 28 weeks and I'm fairly sure I flew at the same gestation with DS with no issues and even though I deliberately showed off what little bump I had on the way home, not one person questioned me.

I guess it was a case of an over-zealous member of ground staff but thankfully even though she raised the issue, it was her that persuaded her manager over the phone that I should be allowed to fly.

trinity_enigma

GemJar wrote: »

Thats okay then! haha still doesn't explain why people get tweezers taken off them though

When we went to Egypt a couple of months after 9/11 we expected security to be tight and somehow we ended up with some nail scissors in our hand luggage.

We were making an internal flight and as we passed through security they promptly took the scissors off us (quite rightly), we hadn't expected to have them passed back to us as we boarded the plane though- would have saved us the trouble of emptying our rather jam packed hand luggage bags in the middle of the airport to find them if we'd known:rotfl:

Have to say I've never had a problem with Easyjet though. Not a fan of Ryan Air- we discovered while reading the terms and conditions that although they allow as many people to book disabled places online as want places, but turns out they only have two spots available and they are allocated on a first come first serve basis. This means despite booking a disabled spot months in advance and being the third person to check in, if the two before you were disabled you're screwed :mad:. We thought it was ridiculous and vowed never to use them again.

Astuteboy

Better than Ryanair, I'll give you that!

Last 2 times I've flown with them (most recently at the end of Jan), there's been more than an hours delay on the return flight though.