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Posted 19 May 2022
PSA: Easyjet have released Spring 2023 flights today (up to 8 May 2023) e.g. London - Malaga £20.99 multiple dates @ easyJet
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About this deal
This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
Released today, so be quick to get the cheapest flights! Typically, the best prices on the best routes sell out within hours.
London Luton->Malaga £20.99 (multiple dates)
Tel Aviv->Nice £21.78 (multiple dates)
Antalya->London Gatwick £25.78 (multiple dates)
London Luton->Malaga £20.99 (multiple dates)
Tel Aviv->Nice £21.78 (multiple dates)
Antalya->London Gatwick £25.78 (multiple dates)
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24 Comments
sorted byBa? terrible airline living off an old brand name that used to be synonymous with quality and now is the opposite. Ba are a terrible flagship carrier and their constant race to the bottom tactics of not including luggage, food, drinks, seating etc is contributing to their demise. Dreadful airline would rather give my money to Michael o Leary and that's saying something!
Better to be miserable by a nice beach somewhere than miserable at home in the cold
BA giving complimentary snacks fyi.
Priority boarding for families.
Hand luggage + small bag included
Reclining seats in economy
You dont get this with easyjet.
I sort-of agree with you. As an AMEX Platinum holder, I get lounge access. If I pay the extra with Easyjet, I can get priority boarding and a full size cabin bag (which is usually all I need within Europe). Additionally, it sometimes leaves from more convenient airports, and more convenient terminals (for example, Nice - if renting a car, BA is the wrong terminal). If booked early enough, this will be cheaper than BA, and I do slightly prefer the Easyjet seats over BA for short haul. It's especially useful for travel around Europe. Also, BA often serves nothing much more than a breakfast bar on most European flights.
That said, I've really gone off Easyjet since they reduced their standard cabin bag allowance. The new allowance is barely big enough for an overnight business trip! Also, I invested in the maximum size for BA and old Easyjet. So, in general, I'm also done with Easyjet nowadays, unless there's a very compelling reason to fly with them. One route where there's hundreds to be saved is LON-TLV - when booked in advance, it's possible to save hundreds. (edited)
Snacks are pretty rudimentary - £2 in Tesco gets you much, much more (and better).
Priority boarding for families is still a thing with Easyjet - Boarding Group 2.
For the luggage, you need to compare the paid-for upgrade to the basic BA product for a like-for-like comparison - since Easyjet is generally cheaper, it can work out to more or less.
The reclining seats are a joke in Europe - Easyjet just gives slightly more room to begin with (less useless bulk and padding on the seat).
For me, the real issue is that I get points & status with BA - important, since I get a yearly 2-4-1 companion voucher with BA (with ridiculous redemption availability and "taxes & charges").
I'll avoid wherever possible until the next airline upsets me
Did EasyJet used to allow full sized cabin bags for everyone without charge?
It’s controversial but I quite like EasyJet’s system now. The small cabin bag / personal item is 45x36x20cm. It’s a slightly weird size but as far as airline ‘personal items’ are concerned its a generous size. Aer Lingus is 25x33x20cm. Air Europa is 20x35x30cm. Ryanair is 40x20x25cm. EasyJet’s small cabin bag size is at least fine with real world backpack sizes and if you try you can maximise with it (eg I use a Patagonia black hole mini mlc bag which I could honestly get a week’s worth of holiday clothes into!) the others list sizes which I personally don’t have even small backpacks or laptop bags which fit one of the dimensions. Really a soft bag which doesn’t fit dimensions which you can stuff into the sizer is the only option.
EasyJet’s full cabin bag size is the larger of the sizes used by airlines too. It is 56x45x25cm whereas eg Ryanair is 55x40x20cm (which I think was what we used to say was the smaller/American cabin bag size?)
So with EasyJet I can bring a normal backpack with laptop on short business trips without worry, use my Patagonia bag for short breaks (even up to a week) OR pay for a full size cabin bag and then I’d have enough stuff for really any length of trip.
Which is, of course, good for everyone else. About the worst possible thing to exacerbate a recession is for people to stop all spending, except on bare essentials. However, unrestrained spending causes its own economic issues... It's a fine line to tread.
Yes. Was a key selling point.
An airline's bag sizes are all about the dimensions of their overhead storage (for larger ones), and under the seats in front (smaller ones). Which differs, depending on the fleet (and its internal configuration).
A huge bonus was when they'd let you bring the bigger one, put it under for £5, then bring a smaller one on. Then everyone started bringing the large cabin bags on, and there was never enough room. So they'd then start putting bags under (larger ones, towards the end of boarding) - the deal was that they'd guarantee that you could bring the smaller size of bag on, but the bigger would sometimes need to go under. Then they scrapped the larger size, unless you buy an upgrade (which usually comes with speedy boarding, more legroom and/or upfront seating). So to compare with BA, you need to add the larger bag option. Which sometimes works out better, sometimes worse.
Essentially, nobody likes bringing much hand luggage, but when suitcases are an expensive add-on, everyone starts to maximise it. BA balances it by so many people bringing suitcases (included in all but the cheapest tickets), that overhead locker space is rarely an issue. (edited)
Thanks for the history!
The thing about bag sizes being based on under the seat though - this is what I think was once true but isn’t anymore. My Patagonia bag I mentioned fits under a seat on BA or EasyJet or Ryanair or Aer Lingus on any planes and internal configurations I’ve flown on! BA have a more varied fleet with the smaller planes for LCY and allow a reasonable sized personal item. I think the airlines have definitely been sneaky with the personal item sizing and reduced it to well below what comfortably fits under the seat in order to encourage more people pay for larger bags.
BA definitely the best for hand luggage, but EasyJet works for me too. If you do pay for the larger cabin bag in EasyJet, it is the one that lets you bring the most overall onboard.
Ryanair and Aer Lingus unusable personal item size is more of an annoyance to me than EasyJet charging people differently depending on what they can have on board. Aer Lingus even had a picture of a backpack for a personal item, but 25x33x20 is a weirdly sized and weirdly teeny backpack. Even a laptop bag you’ll struggle on the 33cm dimension unless it’s a tiny laptop and matching bag.
oh and I love bringing too much hand luggage! Hate lining up to drop off bag then waiting for it on the other side. (edited)
Ryanair are now my preferred budget no frills holiday carrier.
On time and comfortable
The same cannot be said about BA unfortunately
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