Beat Budget Airline Charges Article Discussion

Hi

Can someone clear somethinup. The last time I flew with easyjet the hand baggage allowance was unlimited as long as you could lift and safely store in the overhead locker, according to the article it states easyjet only allows 10 KG. Has this changed? I live in Spain and travel regularly to teh UK either to Liverpool or Manchester. My nearest airport is Granada which Ryanair serves via Liverpool. It is always cheaper to fly from Malaga via easyjet or Ryanair for some bizarre reason, I would have thought landing fees at Malaga are more expensive. Also I have a debit card with Caja Rural de Granada which happens to also be an electron card and I never have to pay the card fees. Even if I booked from the UK(which i never do) it would be cheaper to take the currency hit and pay with this card.
Just as a point of interest I nearly always fly with easyjet, one they are much more polite and two in my opinion the airbus is a far better plane than the 737.
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algarinejo wrote: »

Hi

Can someone clear somethinup. The last time I flew with easyjet the hand baggage allowance was unlimited as long as you could lift and safely store in the overhead locker, according to the article it states easyjet only allows 10 KG. Has this changed? I live in Spain and travel regularly to teh UK either to Liverpool or Manchester. My nearest airport is Granada which Ryanair serves via Liverpool. It is always cheaper to fly from Malaga via easyjet or Ryanair for some bizarre reason, I would have thought landing fees at Malaga are more expensive. Also I have a debit card with Caja Rural de Granada which happens to also be an electron card and I never have to pay the card fees. Even if I booked from the UK(which i never do) it would be cheaper to take the currency hit and pay with this card.
Just as a point of interest I nearly always fly with easyjet, one they are much more polite and two in my opinion the airbus is a far better plane than the 737.
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I noticed that too - just looked it up on their website & it says:

Hand baggage – no weight limit

easyJet has no weight restriction on hand baggage, the only stipulation is that you must be able to lift your bag safely into the overhead lockers without assistance, so the weight must be within reason.

In order to comply with safety regulations of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, and to reflect the limited space in the overhead storage bins, there is a size limit, which means that your bag must not be bigger than 55x40x20 cm. Visit our carrier’s regulations for full details on our baggage policy.


That was here:

http://www.easyjet.com/B2B/EN/Onboard/handbaggage.html

(but I found it using a google search, not on their live website, but I will look again...)

Found it! Go to Help - Carrier's Regulations - Baggage

marcusatuni wrote: »

Question (from someone who's never checked-in online before): if you check in online and have only hand luggage, who is going to weigh your hand luggage? Am I right in thinking you go straight to security with your self-printed boarding card, so effectively have freedom with you hand luggage? I've never seen airline staff weighing bags at the gate!

No, it gets weighed before you go through security at Stansted and Treviso.

This is EXCELLENT news! So Glad Martin is doing a campaign on this, as I put this very issue down in Martin's thread of "points to put to MP's in less than 50 words" - and it has now been picked up on.

I wrote that because I was furious at having had easyjet basically nick £32 off me for suitcases that I hadn't wanted - they got added automatically, and as I was booking in a hurry before leaving for work one morning, I didn't spot the offending charge until it was too late. There is then NO WAY to remove these charges without it costing as much as the value of the whole flight!

Clearly there should be a way to change one's mind about these, as there are for other internet transactions - especially as they are so carefully hidden and easy to miss.

Another point I've not spotted here - unless I missed it? - but which is equally important - is the need to remove the added travel insurance which easyjet AUTOMATICALLY adds on - again, unless you spot this, there's no way to remove it later once you've put the transaction through.

They're even sneakier with this than with the suitcases, as when you click to remove the insurance, it actually puts in an extra layer of hassle to remove it - it comes up with a box asking you if you really do want to remove it, and aotomatically defaults the box to NOT removing it! So even if you think you've removed the insurance, unless you look very closely you may find that actually, you haven't and are still being charged for it!

This is clearly a disgraceful attempt to mislead consumers and trick them into paying for a product they don't want and that they could get much cheaper elsewhere. :mad:

How long before they decide on the ludicrus idea of charging to use the toilet as recently muted! They are lucky you cant open a window!!!!

I fly Ryanair a couple of times a year into Dublin, yes its is always a bit of a lottery on the total price but we normally have all in return for 2 at around £40, if costs that for one to take the train to London from Norwich on a standard fare so it puts things into a bit of perspective I guess.