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quote: Originally posted by juanruiz:
United and US Air have followed American's lead and have begun charging to check a bag. Earlier nearly all (except Southwest) charged for a second bag. Some have also instituted charges for seats ($5 for a middle seat being the cheapest). Free snacks are a thing of the past, let alone meals. This all applies to coach. So, it seems the airfare gets you on their tin can and that's about it. Granted, the airline business is a mess, with high fuel prices and the like. Anyone's travel plans change due to this? Anyone contemplating a different form of travel?
No.There are airlines that don't charge for those things?   I fly by easyjet.com from London (Stansted or Luton) to Nice (Antibes), Geneva etc so I don't know any different. Easyjet don't charge for a seat because you can't book a reserved seat anyway  .You can pay extra for 'priority boarding' so you're allowed on the plane ahead of all other passengers, but even that doesn't reserve you a seat. Where people may change is on the London -Paris or Brussels runs. The train is better anyway for most business people.If the airlines are starting to get petty they'll lose even more of that custom. |
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| Posts: 11798 | Location: Newmarket, UK/ Antibes, S.France | Registered: 07-14-02 | |
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I usually fly Air Canada, ( no comments please, jr ) I don't know if they are going to be charging for checking bags. The way I see it, is, if they do, I'll just have to put up with the extra charges. Worst thing that happened to me was, flying back to Canada one time, I hadn't checked the weight of my bags. When I checked into Heathrow I had a $200 excess baggage weight charge, (books  ). I had to pay up, because I was traveling alone, and so couldn't get another person to share the weight of the extra baggage with me. Now I'm more careful about what I bring back. |
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quote: Originally posted by juanruiz:
I found that flying in Europe was a much more pleasurable experience. Be it KLM, Iberia, or whatever.
Well, yes. If you fly British Airways or Air France on Nice-London or vice versa there's one advantage. The plane can be nearly empty !Passengers may get the surprising experience of the Business Class section being nearly full but space enough for a chukka of polo in the rest of the plane. The easyJet flight will have 90 per cent occupancy.Maybe BA don't worry much. The Business and First make them a lot of money (and you get free peanuts in there ) |
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| Posts: 11798 | Location: Newmarket, UK/ Antibes, S.France | Registered: 07-14-02 | |
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Mon dieu, mon dieu - would that I could catch a flight with space to spare on board. EasyJet is invariably full each time I fly, and so too are BMI (and BMIBaby), Air France and British Airways, for too many of us travel these days. Avoid 'em all if possible, but no, we can't, can we. I flew back from Cyprus this weekend, direct with Cyprus Airways, for no one else does this. This is to be avoided too, unless yuu can afford business class, but avoid it anyway. Coach class anywhere in Europe is a catastrophe.
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