Easy Jet Luggage Question

balletshoes

spurs24 wrote: »

Hi

We are also using Easy Jet for the first time in just under 3 weeks, we are going from Stanstead, do they have shuttle buses, or is it first come first served for the best seats. We wasnt sure wether to get speedy boading, but no oint if stanstead use shuttle buses.

Also we have baggage that we have to check in, but we have also printed our boading passes, so i take it we have to go to an easy jet check in to get rid of our luggage.

Easyjet have baggage drop desks (these are usually beside the normal check-in desks), so you go to the check-in area as usual, and drop your hold luggage off at the baggage drop desk (get a receipt etc just as normal).

Sorry if these are really simple questions.

thanks

sorry I don't know if Stanstead uses shuttle buses.

Piggles12345

We are flying from Manchester to Malta- we've flown from Manchester twice before and haven't had to use shuttle buses so I assume this time will be no different.
Right, I will aim to get near the front of the queue. Not that it particularly matters- I don't mind being separated from my partner for three hours on a flight, particularly since he's paranoid about DVT!

Yes, it is a boarding pass that we have been sent- it was attached to our e-mail confirmation. To be honest, when I go away, I tend to just print out everything that they've sent me so even if it wasn't the right thing, I'd have the right thing with me somewhere.

essential

I really don't mean to labour the point Piggles but please make double double sure that it is a boarding pass.

You only usually get your boarding passes (one for each traveller) when you have checked in online. You don't get a boarding pass with your initial booking confirmation.

Please check again because you don't want to get to the boarding gate and be turned away to find that the check in has closed for your flight.

balletshoes

yes, I was thinking that too - you do have to actually check in online to get a boarding pass (you have to print them off) - you don't get your actual boarding pass with your confirmation email. My printer at home doesn't work, so I take my passports into work and do the online check-in so I can print off my boarding passes as I'm doing that.

ellay864

When we flew with Easyjet we could have paid extra to get priority boarding so you're right at the front of the queue but we didn't bother. On our way out we checked in at the desk and on our boarding card it told us we were group B. At the gate when boarding priority (paid extra) people and disabled got called through first, then group A, then group B...so even if we'd physically been at the front it wouldn't have helped.
On our way home we checked at their online facility in the airport and got group A. But what we found was that when we called our group, we really had to push to get through as the group B people were very territorial. At first we thought they were also in our group and boarding but we cottoned on just in time!
Even when we were group B we still got seats together OK but you have to be quick. We boarded at the rear of the plane and just dived in the first pair of seats. Another couple wanted to be further up the plane and kept going, couldn't find any seats and by the time they turned back most seats had gone so they ended up sat separately about 10 rows apart

crowlands

Now I am wondering if Piggles has booked their airline tickets thru a 3rd party, like Travel Republic - and in this case would they have e-mailed the boarding passes with the booking confirmation. Booking direct with EasyJet means you do have to book in on-line and print your own boarding passes off as others have stated. Just a though.....................

glitter123

I've flown from Stansted many, many times - its my local airport and i've never been on a shuttle bus. Don't think Stansted has any, but I could be wrong. Its the usual free for all for seats.

Easyjet tends to have a separate line for bag drop.

Balletshoes is right about the one bag rule. In my experience they enforce it very strictly. I had a small handbag (just big enough to carry our passports and my purse) and they insisted it went inside my other larger bag.

cherydee

This is the first time I have used Easyjet as well...and before I printed off the boarding passes for 8 of us I thought I would check the passenger information I had given previously...as so nervous giving 8 passports numbers and details incase I got anything wrong.....and for some strange reason we were all down as males, and there are 3 females in our party. Cannot think how this has happened...but quicky changed them.
We are flying from Newcastle and I am hoping priority boarders are bussed to the plane first.......I can live in hope, as we will have a 9 mth baby and a 4 yr old within our group.

Piggles12345

essential wrote: »

I really don't mean to labour the point Piggles but please make double double sure that it is a boarding pass.

You only usually get your boarding passes (one for each traveller) when you have checked in online. You don't get a boarding pass with your initial booking confirmation.

Please check again because you don't want to get to the boarding gate and be turned away to find that the check in has closed for your flight.

I have triple checked and it is a boarding pass that we have been e-mailed. From reading the replies to this thread, it seems that we checked in online at the time that we booked in that we provided our passport numbers etc. at the time of booking.

Also, we booked directly with Easyjet and not with a third party.

The main reason I ask about sitting together is because I get a bit travel sick when I'm flying and it'd be nicer for everyone concerned if we were sitting together. :rotfl: