Silly airline questions
 

We are travelling from Granada to Barcelona on 11/08, two choices: Click or Vueling, both 30euro with one evening flight, is one better than the other in terms of equipment, reliability?

They also fly Sevilla-Barcelona with more flights daily, wonder if we are smart to switch our itinerary around to fly out of Sevilla for an earlier flight in case of cancellation?

Which city's airport has easier access from town (Sevilla/Granada), do they fly into different airports in Barcelona.

Thankyou so much.

Sam.

Didn`t Click go under?

Click Air still has a web page and they are selling tix for €30 from Granada to Barcelona on 11/08. But if there's been talk of bankruptcy, I would go with Vueling.

For short trips I prefer train travel. Trains are generally a lot less hassle than airport security and the station is usually in the middle of town.

I have trouble with the Renfe site, Spanish seems to come up from nowhere. Barcelona is a long way from Granada, may be night train?

I had a singular experience with Click Air last year. It was singular because I will never again get on one of their planes.

Hi Samuell

Clickair and Vueling are supposed to merge in the coming months, so there's a chance that the flights will be combined anyway.

In any event, Clickair has excellent financial backing, with Iberia and several other large Spanish companies as its shareholders. If the transaction goes through as planned, Iberia will be the largest shareholder in the combined entity, which will retain the Vueling name.

Re: airports, there is only 1 in Barcelona, which both carriers use -only Ryanair uses different "Barcelona" airports, that are actually in Girona and Reus. Am not sure about your question re: destination - if you're headed to Granada, fly there, if to Seville, fly to Seville ;-) Have no personal experience flying into either airport, but since these are not particularly large cities, I would not worry about long rides from the airport to the center.

Hope this helps,
Andre

thankyou jeff801, care to expand on your poor experience with Click?

Andre, thanks for your help. In this case, we will fly Sevilla - Barcelona since there are more flight choices, will go from Madrid to Granada, then Sevilla.

Sam.

Samuell,

We were scheduled to fly Valencia-LHR on Iberia in business class. Iberia took the flight off schedule and ticketed us on Click.

It took 45 minutes to check in at the Click desks in Valencia because they could not deal with the business class designation on the ticket. We were sent back and forth between two agents, about 20 meters across the lobby from one another, as they argued about how to handle the tickets. Finally, my wife and I each went to one of the agents and refused to step aside from the front of the respective lines until one of them issued our boarding passes.

The departure "lounge" was extremely spare, but at least there was a coffee shop where we could get something to drink and eat at 7:15 a.m. Boarding was chaotic and the seats had the shortest pitch I have ever encountered (much tighter than on any other budget airline. To accommodate the narrow pitch, the seats themselves had limited padding, recline and tray tables. Nonetheless, when the person in front of me reclined the seat, I was without room to even hold up a book.

I would have gladly paid for another cup of coffee or water, but none was ever offered. After the obligatory safety briefing, the only time one saw a flight attendant was during the heavy handed pitches for duty free goods.

The plane, an A320 had only one lavatory in the rear of the plane. Fortunately, the flight lasted only some 90 minutes.

When we got to LHR, British Security was at the end of the jet way checking passports. In response to an inquiry from another passenger, we overheard an officer explaining that Click, "as usual" had neglected to check passports when issuing boarding passes.

I can't think of what the flight would have been like had we been on a longer trip or had one of us wanted to us the lavatory. Perhaps I am just getting less tolerant as I get older.

Jeff

Jeff,

was that wonderful!!!
thanks for sharing your story!!

Sam.