we are flying with easyjet Newcastle to Prague in a few weeks. usually use BA or similar but price was so good. I know they are no frills, does this mean absolutely nothing but your flight - can you buy a drink, food if you want or is there noneon board - what are the prices like?

Been hearing a few horror stories about the low cost airlines - what is your opinions on the overall flights with Easyjet?

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The planes are fairly new and clean.

Make sure you are checked-in no later than 30 minutes before the scheduled departure. They do close the desk at exactly 30 minutes before and you loose if you are not holding a BP.

There is an on board crew who will be quite happy to sell you food and drink as well as pick up the garbage left over from the picnic you packed. I recall that a bottle of water costs one pound. Seating is much like on a bus. It's a good airline but do heed AAFrequentFlyer's advice of not being late or you won't be going anywhere. In Prague it is the same people who work the check-in as work at the gate...they can't be two places at the same time.

What horror stories?

There's one serious horror story about these people: if the flight's late or cancelled, you're on your own. That's it.

Otherwise, Easyjet have a 100.000% perfect safety record (more than you can say for any of the US majors) and a far better timekeeping record than any European conventional airline. Their food prices are roughly on a par with a motorway service station - so take your own.

And we are talking about a flight that takes about as long as a typical British journey to work.

Which is where most of us get our real horror stories from.

What about passengers stranded in Slovakia(?) for 4 or 5 days without any hotel expense help?

or the flight from hell that took 24 or maybe more hours when it should have been only 1 or 2 hours?

There are few more horror stories.

Maybe that's what the OP heard?

<i>And we are talking about a flight that takes about as long as a typical British journey to work.</i>

You commute 2 hrs each way? You should move house.

I flew easyJet last fall: flew from the states to London Gatwick, flew on to Prague the same day on easyJet. I flew back to London from Budapest.

The regular seats on my planes - one was a 737, one was an Airbus - looked cramped, but I was lucky (I'm tall) to get exit rows on both of my flights. easyJet is like Southwest in that they board in groups and do not have assigned seating. But unlike Southwest, they do not do connecting flights, so the plane will always be empty when you get on. On the other hand, they are not as strict as Southwest about adhereing to the boarding order. You might be early to the airport and get in the first group, but they might call &quot;all groups boarding now&quot; anyway.

At London, I found that they did adhere to the boarding order and did check group numbers on boarding passes. In Budapest, they called &quot;all groups&quot; and never looked at group numbers. But, at Budapest, we boarded buses from the gate to the plane anyway. Even though I was near the middle of the line to get on the bus, I got on the first one and stood near the door, and when the bus stopped at the plane, I was first off and got right on the plane, one of the first. If you are savy and attentive, you can do OK with easyJet. For many, it's simply not worth the hassle of worrying about unassigned seats - but I kind of thought of it like a game. The flights weren't that long anyway, a center seat wouldn't have killed me.

Andrew

Watch your luggage weight. They will charge you a lot if you go over the weight restrictions. They weigh everything.

I heard people used to buy two tickets for one person so they could carry more luggage. The airline stopped that practice.

Easyjet does carryon luggage by size, not weight, so in theory you could carry a bag full of lead onto the plane as long as it's dimensions meet carryon bag size.

As for horror stories, they tend to be few and far apart - perhaps I should tell you about the time BA cancelled thousands of flights and left passengers in the lurch - it was only 6 months ago

Flying from the UK to Barcelona in May, just checked my e-ticket:

EasyJet baggage allowance:

Hand luggage: One standard piece, dimensions 55x40x20cm (no weight mentioned)
checked in luggage, no more than 20 kilos.

hope this helps.

Flew easyjet from Stansted to Prague last April - no problems - efficient check in, flights on time, seating comfortable for a 2 hour flight, fod and drink available ot buy if you desire - I had already bought stuff to take on plane, plus had a nice breakfast at the airport so not necessary for me.

Therefore - as long as you chekc in well before the designated closing time - no problems. Good Airline.