Easyjet or RyanAir?
This is probably more for the brits here...
So what is the best of the two?
Easyjet has provided me the opportunity to go to Berlin about ten times per year so I might be totally biased. But I simply don´t understand Ryanairs business plan when Easyjet can make a business out of providing their customers with a better service at the same cost.
A few details about their difference:
Easyjet use central or at least semi central airport while Ryanair uses the absolut cheapest ones. Easyjet uses our real airport on the Copenhagen-London route while Ryan uses an airport in another country (Malmö, Sweden).
Easyjet have normal blinds for the windows while Ryan have scrapped them to save a few bucks.
And the most telling: WIth Ryan you can only have hand baggage (since the handling of checked-in baggage cost too much). Easyjet offers checked-in baggage, but have no limit on the weight of your hand baggage, so more people don´t need to check in any! Better to work with the customer instead of making them feel like second grade passsagers.
So what is the best of the two?
Easyjet has provided me the opportunity to go to Berlin about ten times per year so I might be totally biased. But I simply don´t understand Ryanairs business plan when Easyjet can make a business out of providing their customers with a better service at the same cost.
A few details about their difference:
Easyjet use central or at least semi central airport while Ryanair uses the absolut cheapest ones. Easyjet uses our real airport on the Copenhagen-London route while Ryan uses an airport in another country (Malmö, Sweden).
Easyjet have normal blinds for the windows while Ryan have scrapped them to save a few bucks.
And the most telling: WIth Ryan you can only have hand baggage (since the handling of checked-in baggage cost too much). Easyjet offers checked-in baggage, but have no limit on the weight of your hand baggage, so more people don´t need to check in any! Better to work with the customer instead of making them feel like second grade passsagers.
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There are still some very cheap deals to be had from the major airlines and personally I still prefer to pay the little extra for a better service/seat/plane etc. "Budget" airlines are just that.
Ya pays ya money and ya takes ya chances
Ryan Air is evil.
Anecdote to follow.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
EasyJet.
Ryan Air is evil.
Anecdote to follow.
Cat got your tongue?
Or a 50 pence hooker?
Edit: All in good fun, I assure you.
Originally posted by hardeeharhar
Cat got your tongue?
Or a 50 pence hooker?
Edit: All in good fun, I assure you.
No. going to bed.
RyanAir is evil for:
-preventing me and a colleague from getting on a plane to Bologna last month because we had a badminton racket. We were last in the queue to board, and the fuckers on the gate lost their temper with us and then locked it while the plane was still on the concourse. We missed the flight and had to buy new tickets. When we tried make a complaint they said they had asked other passengers what happened and I was "all up in the man's face." Incredibly rude, incredibly unprofessional arseholes with the desire and need to misuse their nominal power in order to piss good people off.
-And they made a bunch of blind people get off a plane and buy new tickets.
-And they make wheelchair users pay a supplement.
See? Evil.
EasyJet at least seem to be quite cheerfully crap.
(but, since I never flew with EasyJet, I cannot really compare)
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
No. going to bed.
Bah! Sleep.
If such things happened in the US, no one would hear about them because after all the company must have had a reason to prevent those blind passengers from flying....
What, there wasn't any reason?
Oh well, fuck them.
Just a little bit. Their mercenary attitude appalls me. If you check in one minute later than 45 minutes, they'll give you a courtesy miss on your flight. They've also charged me 5x the flight ticket price for excess luggage, despite cancelling one flight due to 1 minute late arrival for check-in (the queues were too long).
The poor woman with an elderly relative in a wheelchair beside me had her own grief from Ryanair.
I don't mind the rude mercenary attitude the staff have - it's the heartlessness in their pursuit and guise of 'low fares' with hidden costs. I paid over £300 for a return flight to the continent as a result of their travel policies. Strangely enough, a colleague similarly fell for the same trap. The callous indifference to travellers' dilemmas as a result of their hard-hearted attitude appalls me. I don't know any other airline that conveys as much contempt for their passengers.
Easyjet are far more easy-going. I enjoy the staff's sense of humour, although sometimes I wonder if they actually remember to shut the aircraft doors during the journey - the staff sometimes appear too relaxed and at ease. Although I prefer Lufthansa and Air Canada to British Airways for regular travel, given a choice between Easy Jet and Ryan Air, I'd be more inclined to support Easy Jet for their human friendly approach.
My 2 Euros
I am travelling to the UK this winter. I'll be studying in Leeds for the winter term and am planning to do a lot of travelling.
I had seen RyanAir and EasyJet before and had planned to use both services.
I will be leaning towards EasyJet now.
Thanks again!
Anyway.. I knew there was no free stuff aboard... but wow.. the seats were pure plastic junk that dont even recline...
I didnt even take the return flight.
I will avoid RyanAir if ever possible...
On the other hand, I never took EasyJet... but I can hardly think anything is worse than RyanAir...
Originally posted by ZO
... but I can hardly think anything is worse than RyanAir...
Because you've not tried Easyjet. Truly bad.
I'm impressed by their commitment to their passengers, especially the elderly.