SleazyJet - every year I say i won't use them then end up

[thegirlwiththemouseyhair]

spending ridiculous amounts of money on extras.

This year we flew out to France on BA.
Baggage weight limit is 23kilos. Fine for me as my case was 20 and also for DD whose case was 22.9! (but then she is a teenager...)

Flew back on EasyJet where weight limit is 20 and they then charge 12Euros per kilo it is over weight thus adding £30 to the price of the flight

The reason we'd booked on BA which the price seemed more but when you added up the extras you pay on the cheaper quoted price by EasyJet, it worked out pretty much the same.

What I really want to know (not being technically minded is AIBU to be pissed off as to why there should be a discrepancy in the weight limits - the planes are of a similar size?
If someone can explain the mechanics please do!

Less weight in the aircraft = less fuel required = cheaper flights.

It's not easyjets fault you were over the baggage allowance.

How did the price of your easyjet flight compare with your BA flight?

You could just pack less. I flew Ryanair to France this year with 3 children. We had baggage allowance of 15 kilos each for the 2 adults, and then hand luggage for us all. We managed perfectly well on that.

Like others have said they offer cheap flights cos they strip it to the bare minimum - less weight in plane = less fuel

But it's all so illogical and that's what's really annoying. The difference in weight in people is massive compared with the odd couple of kilos in luggage. It costs less to transport me (70 kg) and my 20-25 kg luggage than it does to transport a much heavier person with slightly less luggage, yet I'm the one who would be charged extra

The weight issue doesn't worry me because we try to travel light but not having allocated seating is hell. EasyJet at least let families on before the masses but f*ing Ryanair demand that you pay a fee. I've spoken to check in staff who say that allocating seats - or choosing them online when you self check-in - makes no difference in terms of time and stops loads of aggro once everyone is on board and jostling to be next to friends and family. We're travelling BA this summer because, as someone else said, once we added in all the extras, they were cheaper.

Tbh, I think the weight limits on easyjet are quite reasonable. Imagine if you'd flown with Ryanair!

The thing with the people vs luggage argument is that Easyjet can't control the size of their passengers but they can control (to a certain extent via charging you) the weight of the luggage and therefore the fuel.

Read the rules. Decide if you want to pay. If you don't, don't fly with them.

I can't believe that anyone savvy enough to book flights online really thinks that EasyJet/Ryanair will have the same allowances/rules as BA and wouldn't check.

I am going easyjet and only checking in 2 hold bags for 5 of us. then we each carry a piece of hand luggage. The hold bags we are told must not weigh more than 64kg between the 2 of them which i thought was very reasonable.

How come other people are only allowed 15 kg with easyjet? Is that because they are carrying more bags and therefore the weight is distributed between all travellers? Don't understand.

Last time I flew on Sleazyjet it was a bunfight getting a seat - even those who had paid for speedy boarding didn't seem to be at any particular advantage. Why would you pay for that - it's not as if you won't get a seat on the plane if you don't.

Bollock ask for in writing or email that the 64kgs is excluding hand luggage.

We had a todo as the email said we had paid for 25kg luggage ( booked flights only) but they insisted that was 20kg in hold and 5kg in hand, my rebuttle was that hand luggage was free, i had paid for hold luggage listed as 25kgs. We got on, no extra cost because when the supervisor read the email she really could not argue with it written down.

Rather Easyjet than Ryanair any day.

Yes they both whack silly charges on. But their attitude is a whole lot better IME.

Was with First Choice.

You know exactly where you are with Easyjet - a budget airline with no frills.

Can't stand Ryanair though - much more sneaky. Would only fly with them if I was VERY desperate to get to a particular place.

You know that Easyjet are now charging for any checked in baggage?

MixedNutPlate

This is an extract from my confirmation email. What do you think?

"2 Hold bag(s) per flight between all passengers combined

The 5 passenger(s) in this booking may check in a combined total of 2 hold bag(s) for each flight on this booking. The total hold weight must not exceed 64 kg."

So, I read this as 2 hold bags of 64kg together and on top we can each have a piece of hand luggage, is that right?

BB - yes, you'll be fine. There's no weight restrictions on hand luggage with easyjet, but there is a size restriction (usual hand luggage size, it'll be on the website).

BUT only ONE piece of hand luggage each i.e. don't try to get away with taking your handbag plus another bag.

Every time I've costed one of the lo-costs for family travel it's always ended up cheaper, door to door, to go with a full-service airline, and substantially more pleasant. They operate out of proper airports, to proper airports, and the price you pay is the price you pay.

Last year I bought train tickets to London City, a night in the Docklands Novotel and a return Air France flight to Nice for less than Easyjet out of Bristol (and that ignoring the cost of driving to Bristol). Not unsurprisingly, in August around the holiday period business flights are quiet while tourist flights are busy, so AF were dumping flights out of LCY at a fraction of the normal cost while Easy were charging top dollar. Nice breakfast in Novotels, too.

The year before I bought train tickets to Gatwick and a BA flight to Venice Marco Polo for less than whichever lo-cost it is operates out of East Midlands wanted to fly to the more distant Venice airport: just went straight from arrivals to a water taxi and were in our flat in thirty minutes. Since the change in the Cross-Country franchise the Birmingham-Gatwick direct trains don't exist anymore, sadly).

This year we're flying to Nice again on BA, this time from Heathrow, for less than BMIbaby out of Birmingham, even allowing for the cost of parking at T5 or the price of train tickets for four, with enough left over for a slap-up lunch in the T5 Waggamama. Again, Heathrow-Nice is an eight flights a day shuttle all year around, and adjacent to the holidays the business traffic isn't there, so you can get the seats dirt cheap mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Meanwhile, the one flight a day that the loco operates fills up at top dollar.

thanks squeaver. First time with Sleazy and like to know what they are like. Only chose them as last resort too.

YABVU, the rules are there, if you don't like them go with BA. The budget airlines use the fees, the £3 coffee on-board, etc., to subsidise cheaper tickets.

YABU to call them Sleazyjet, they are a perfectly good cheap airline, they don't try and screw their customers into the ground like Ryanair, and they are family-friendly, unlike Ryanair.

Agree, SomeGuy. I fly with Easyjet 5 or 6 times a year and I've never had any problems with them.

There's no need for them to be your last resort.

i used to say that about easyjet

until they bastard well cancelled my flight just before we boarded

say what you like about ryanair but they rarely cancel and are rarely late. I still hate them tho

in fact the WORSE EVER flight I had was a charter flight to Rhodes, made Ryanair loike virgin club class seriously

I got stranded in Edinburgh with 5 month old DS in January when there was all that snow and my flight to Gatwick was cancelled til the next day. (We'd gone for the day so had no luggage.) The Easyjet staff at Edinburgh couldn't have been nicer and went through to the airside Boots for me to get nappies etc, the hotel they put me up in had been warned to put the cot up with fresh bedding and to give us a room with a bath in case I wanted to bathe him. Afterwards I wanted to email Customer Service to say how impressed I was but there's no way of contacting them on their website (presumably to avoid hate mail?).

Complaining about their terms and conditions which you'd signed up to is unreasonable I'm afraid.