British Airways or Easyjet?

Majic

Haven't booked a flight for 10 years so if anyone can help would be grateful.


In the Summer we are flying from Gatwick to Nice (return)


Family of 4 with 2 suitcases.


On Skyscanner to fly with British Airways £600 and Easyjet is £394 but I have to pay extra for the suitcases (is this right?)


I assume the British Airways fee covers everything? I think the Easyjet suitcase charge is £29x2 but is this for one way so it is actually double?


So if I am right Easyjet is about £450 in total. A saving of £150,given your experiences would you pay the difference and go with BA or go with Easyjet?

CM66

Majic wrote: »

Haven't booked a flight for 10 years so if anyone can help would be grateful.


In the Summer we are flying from Gatwick to Nice (return)


Family of 4 with 2 suitcases.


On Skyscanner to fly with British Airways £600 and Easyjet is £394 but I have to pay extra for the suitcases (is this right?)


I assume the British Airways fee covers everything? I think the Easyjet suitcase charge is £29x2 but is this for one way so it is actually double?


So if I am right Easyjet is about £450 in total. A saving of £150,given your experiences would you pay the difference and go with BA or go with Easyjet?

You dont say how long you are travelling for? Easyjet doesnt have a weight limit on its hand luggage so as long as your bag is within the allowed measurements you wont need to pay for additional checked baggage.

I fly Easyjet and BA regulary and both are fine so i would go with the cheapest option!

Hope that helps

CM

Doshwaster

If all other factors are equal then I'd be prepared to pay a small premium for BA, but not much. Maybe £10-20 per flight. EasyJet are perfectly adequate for short haul flights though I'd rather swim than fly Ryanair.

One thing to compare are the flight times and how that affects your transfers to/from the airport at each end. BA does tend to have departure slots at more civilised times than the budget carriers which fly at cheaper times of the day.

zagfles

Don't assume anything - it's not like the old days on BA when everything was included (drinks, food, luggage, seat selection etc), check the terms of the booking because they've started charging on some flights.

jpsartre

Make a dummybooking on each airline's website would be my advice. Then you'll know exactly how much you'd be paying. Don't trust what Skyscanner tells you. BA now offers handluggage only fares so checked luggage is not automatically included.

Majic

CM66 wrote: »

You dont say how long you are travelling for? Easyjet doesnt have a weight limit on its hand luggage so as long as your bag is within the allowed measurements you wont need to pay for additional checked baggage.

I fly Easyjet and BA regulary and both are fine so i would go with the cheapest option!

Hope that helps

CM

Thanks for your help. Just to clarify Going for 10 days taking 2 suitcases and one handbag on plane. Do we have to pay the £29?

phatbear

Majic wrote: »

Thanks for your help. Just to clarify Going for 10 days taking 2 suitcases and one handbag on plane. Do we have to pay the £29?

jpsartre wrote: »

Make a dummybooking on each airline's website would be my advice.

what they said, you will only really know by doing a dummy booking

Doshwaster

zagfles wrote: »

Don't assume anything - it's not like the old days on BA when everything was included (drinks, food, luggage, seat selection etc), check the terms of the booking because they've started charging on some flights.

You have to be especially careful on the Spanish routes where a lot of the services are operated by Iberia where you get nothing for free on board. Just because it has a BA flight number it doesn't mean that it is a BA plane.

Obviously_the_best

I'd choose EJ every time. Yes you don't get any luggage included, but generally the still work out cheaper, I prefer the fact you can actually buy something you might want on board, rather than having a packet of prezels and no other options, and I generally find easyJet's crews friendlier.

PeacefulWaters

I like BA. But for that saving I would be more than happy with Easyjet.

Have you checked Norweigan or Monarch prices?

marsman802

For me I tend to prefer BA as I like the North Terminal as opposed to the South Terminal which Easyjet operate out of.
That said I still don't like Gatwick that much anyway.

I can't speak for Easyjet as I haven't flown with them recently but I know the baggage agents for BA at Gatwick seem to be terribly slow to get them to the belt.
Whether its airport-wide is perhaps a point that others could answer?

Bearing in mind this is a short haul product I'm pretty sure I couldn't choose any startling reason to fly for one other than price as the service is pretty much the same.

My main choice tends to be what airport to fly from and on that question I only ever settle on Heathrow Terminal 5 as the whole experience has been nothing short of brilliant every time.
However it does come at a price premium.