EasyJet bag drop

Bicycleman22

Anybody used EasyJet bag drop recently ? I will be flying from the dreaded Manchester Airport with oversized luggage soon and intend to be at the bag drop as soon as possible. EasyJet now recommends checkin 3 hours before the flight, the website says bag drop opens 2 hours before the flight but if possible I want to be there earlier than that. Anybody had recent exprerience with a EasyJet bag drop 3 to 4 hours before departure ? .......Obviously I have already checked in online.

Westin

I think the EZY website has always indicated bag drop opens 2.5hrs before your flight, not 2hrs.  At LGW last week they were telling queuing passengers that the earliest you could drop your bags was 3hrs prior to the scheduled time of departure. Not sure if the same at MAN.

I personally don’t think arriving more than 3hrs prior is useful. In fact it might only add to the congestion and queues.

Bicycleman22

Thank you....I definitely get your point about arriving too early  although for me my oversized baggage means a difficult time in the bag drop queue, then a trip across the terminal to the oversized bag drop and then finally the security queue which at Manchester is a complete lottery.

basill

It might possible to do bag drop the night before if your flight goes before 1200.

glynnpanzee

Bicycleman22 said:

Thank you....I definitely get your point about arriving too early  although for me my oversized baggage means a difficult time in the bag drop queue, then a trip across the terminal to the oversized bag drop and then finally the security queue which at Manchester is a complete lottery.

Could you clarify what Easyjet mean by bag drop at Manchester Airport - I'm struggling to get my head round it. If you check in online, is it not just a bag drop for all? Does this mean no need to queue up even if you have hold luggage? Does this apply to package holidays too? Thanks

CKhalvashi

glynnpanzee said:

Bicycleman22 said:

Thank you....I definitely get your point about arriving too early  although for me my oversized baggage means a difficult time in the bag drop queue, then a trip across the terminal to the oversized bag drop and then finally the security queue which at Manchester is a complete lottery.

Could you clarify what Easyjet mean by bag drop at Manchester Airport - I'm struggling to get my head round it. If you check in online, is it not just a bag drop for all? Does this mean no need to queue up even if you have hold luggage? Does this apply to package holidays too? Thanks

A bag drop is where you pre-tag and drop your bag.

I've never used an Easyjet one, but do tend to frequent Luton Airport quite a lot and there definitely is a machine to do this there. How it's processed from there I have no idea, but it's supposed to be faster than check-in, although from experience getting paper boarding cards for 'official' connections at Heathrow, it's almost always faster to go to someone anyway and have them do it.

soolin

CKhalvashi said:

glynnpanzee said:

Bicycleman22 said:

Thank you....I definitely get your point about arriving too early  although for me my oversized baggage means a difficult time in the bag drop queue, then a trip across the terminal to the oversized bag drop and then finally the security queue which at Manchester is a complete lottery.

Could you clarify what Easyjet mean by bag drop at Manchester Airport - I'm struggling to get my head round it. If you check in online, is it not just a bag drop for all? Does this mean no need to queue up even if you have hold luggage? Does this apply to package holidays too? Thanks

A bag drop is where you pre-tag and drop your bag.

I've never used an Easyjet one, but do tend to frequent Luton Airport quite a lot and there definitely is a machine to do this there. How it's processed from there I have no idea, but it's supposed to be faster than check-in, although from experience getting paper boarding cards for 'official' connections at Heathrow, it's almost always faster to go to someone anyway and have them do it.

I’ve used Luton and most other London Easyjet bag drops, it’s basically check in but automated and in the past few years have waited anywhere between 10 minutes and 70 minutes in a queue (tend to be longer overseas, waited nearly 1  1/2 hours at Palma Majorca last September)  It’s just like check in, you join a queue , but not for a particular flight, when you reach the top of the queue they check your passport and any Covid passes etc and also your boarding cards. They then direct you to a machine, when the person in front has finished you just scan your boarding card and it asks if you have a bag for the hold, assuming you do (and you wouldn’t be queuing if you didn’t) you out it on the conveyor the weight is recorded and a label issued which you attach to your case. It then asks if you want a bag receipt.

Bag goes off on the conveyor belt and the next person takes your place. 

Westin

glynnpanzee said:

Bicycleman22 said:

Thank you....I definitely get your point about arriving too early  although for me my oversized baggage means a difficult time in the bag drop queue, then a trip across the terminal to the oversized bag drop and then finally the security queue which at Manchester is a complete lottery.

Could you clarify what Easyjet mean by bag drop at Manchester Airport - I'm struggling to get my head round it. If you check in online, is it not just a bag drop for all? Does this mean no need to queue up even if you have hold luggage? Does this apply to package holidays too? Thanks

Honestly, it is just a name change from the old term ‘check-in’ but with no or limited interaction with staff. You use a machine. You queue with hundred of others to use the machines.

Think of going to Tesco and using their self service tills.  Add however someone at the head of that queue to the tills having to inspect your purse or wallet to see that you have the necessary payment method to use the self service tills.  They ask some questions as well about your spending habits. Add to this a few queuing ahead who will have questions to ask about their shopping experience. See the queue building. 

Once you finished queuing in that first queue and the initial (and possibly only staff interaction) you queue again to use a till, or at least position yourself behind a small queue group at the machine you have selected to use as it looked to have the fewest number of people by it.  It can be slow because the people ahead are not use to using the till/machine.  They might shop in Tesco once a week and have just about mastered using a self service till, but fly EasyJet once a year, if that.  

Unlike Tesco, this till/machine asks questions. You have to answer these in order. You also have to scan your passport, and then place a long sticky label around the handle of your bag to check in.  All these tasks make for interesting viewing when watching those in front of you. Speed for ‘bag-drop’ is compromised by the user.

Hope that gives you an idea of ‘bag-drop’. The name does make it sound so quick and easy.