We are visiting Australia in December and have a couple of internal flights. Our Flight from Brisbane to Cairns i have booked thru Virgin Blue and i need to book a flight from cairns to Syd. my dilemma is that the Jetstar flight is a MUCH better time than the Virgin Blue flight BUT i have read some horror stories about Jetstar. Are they really that bad and is it worth sacrificing arriving in Sydney earlier to take the later virgin blue flight?(although we will have already had 4 nights in Syd at the begining of the holiday)
Appreciate your help
Smeagol
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We have flown with Jetstar many times and have had absolutely no problems - the latest was Cairns/Sydney a few months ago.
I have also flown with Jetstar with no problems.
Play by their rules.They are quite similar to south west in the usa.
DH and two visiting o/seas colleagues flew Jetstar (domestic) two weeks ago, with no problems at all. The main difference is no pre-seating allocation and purchasing of all refreshments on board.
We're booked on Jetstar for a long haul o/seas flight in September; DH actually choses Jetstar over others because he reckons their aircraft are nearly all new
Hope you have a great trip in December,
Jackie
We've flown Jetstar several times between Melbourne and Tasmania and have had no problems. I think it's a great airline, although our flights have been short ones. New planes, friendly employees, efficient check-in, etc.
I wouldn't hesitate to fly them again.
Thanks all for your responses, i need to convince the BH now. we were reading a review web the other night and evry single review slated jestar and virtually everone praised virgin Blue.
I actually don't expect much from budget airlines, as long as they leave when they say and get me to where i am going at the time i bought the ticket for i am not overly fussed...
It's only a 3 hour flight anyway. Tis not like they'll have you seated on the wing.
I've never flown jet star but I have flown ryan air in Ireland and Virgin blue in Australia. Ryan air also doesn't have allocated seating and IMO it is considerably better to fly virgin blue who do... but not so much better that i'd inconvenience myself just to fly virgin.
Problem i have is my BF HATES fying and gets very nervous, so one sniff of poor reports and he is very jittery.
Thanks for your response though it all goes to help persuade him!!!