For centuries, on a ship at sea, the person wearing the uniform with four stripes is looked at by crew and passengers as a person who should exemplify leadership, but also comes with responsibility. Captain is the face of the company that owns the ship and captain is expected to manage the ship for the company, not hide in a small room away from everyone else while giving the occasional order. If somethng goes wrong, captain has to deal with it - while being visible to all. That means more than knowing which buttons to press on the bridge, it also means managing crew and passengers and facing the music when things do not go to plan.
Captain on an A320/B737 is paid well and has plenty of legal authority. Is it really so much to ask that a captain on a plane manages to show the same responsibility and visibility as captain on a ship ? |
Let’s be fair though... as someone who has cruised a hell of a lot, the Captain of a cruise ship is rolled out very ceremoniously for passengers to gush over, have their photo taken and very little more.
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And that obviously comes across from a passengers point of view!
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When I flew regularly with Swiss I felt sorry for the poor sod of a First Officer who's job it was to stand outside the Flight Deck and wish the passengers well as they de-planed :)
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Recently flew with easyJet for the first time for a number of years, no problem just the schedule did not fit with my plans. Must say what a distinct improvement all round, flew Gib-Manchester and Gatwick-Gib. Both flights on time and the in-flight service much improved. The CC were very professional. I am the first in the queue to complain, but no complaints at all - that cannot be said for immigration at Manchester, an utter shambles. Overall not a bad flying experience.
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In a few of my airlines there have been occasions where I was in the cabin and using the PA to inform the pax about this or that. I thought it the obvious thing to do, even if their first language was not English; the message got across and we all became a team, patient and helpful to each other. The biggest complaint of pax, especially those delayed at an airport listening to useless PA's over the tannoy about further delays, is 'lack of information'. Information & being treated with respect as the fare paying customer goes many leagues to defusing a problem.
In every instance the F/O & cabin crew said they had never seen that before in the airline. I asked around about the content of command courses and never was PR and total leadership included in the upgrade syllabus. It was all about SOP's, CRM and OPs A, plus the requisite handling. Sadly, in these days of 4 years to command at 26 it is even more necessary to explain and teach the meaning of total command. Its importance is not appreciated by the training departments. It should be a requirement from the CEO. The captains are ambassadors of the company; thus making it a further shame that too many companies do not promote company culture, loyalty, respect, pride and honour a little more. Indeed they sometimes create the opposite. I hope the captain received a 'Well Done' and more from ez. |
December up 5.5%. LF + 1.5%.
2017 up 9.6% to 81 million. |
I just looked at booking a ticket on ez. It was astonishing that my 20kgs suitcase was being charged at €37.50 per sector. My return €110 ticket to the sun was then increased by €75 for a suitcase. imagine a family of 4 paying €300 for their luggage. This seems absurdly expensive. It's been a couple of years, but I seem to remember a very reasonable €15. The competitor airlines are €15-€20. This questions if the title LoCo is correct.
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EZY Web Site shows 18.19 € - 44.19 € up to 23Kg per sector, RYR are about 30.00 € up to 20Kg
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How long has EZY charged for hold baggage on a per route basis? I assume it's calculated in relation to the sector distance of each route.
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EasyJet along with other LCC have been charging for bags for years and are a set price and are not calculated in relation to the sector distance of each flight.
Have you not looked at the EasyJet website to see their baggage charges! This is why the likes of British Airways usually come out cheaper once that you consider baggage charge and allocated seat charges. I fly with British Airways and you get one 23kg checked in bag and free seat allocation within 24 hours of departure although being a British Airways Executive Club member my preferred seats are always allocated for me even though I have the option at no added cost to change them. Do a few like for like flight comparisons and the difference in price between BA and EZY flying from LGW and the price differential between them isn't that much most of the time plus you earn miles on your BA flight adding towards even more flights with the airline. |
EasyJet baggage charges are no longer a set price.
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Berlin TXL
The first Tegel schedules started today with a LGW based A320, more routes added quickly with the help of leased aircraft until all the ex Air Berlin aircraft come on-line over the coming months.
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Condor will operate domestic routes out of TXL:
A321 to DUS A320 to FRA B753 to MUC SmartLynx to serve mainly European destinations, also VIE/ZRH along WDL 6 A320 leased by SmartLynx until 31st March http://www.smartlynx.aero/corporate/...entre/news/628 |
Originally Posted by canberra97
(Post 10011406)
EasyJet along with other LCC have been charging for bags for years and are a set price and are not calculated in relation to the sector distance of each flight.
Have you not looked at the EasyJet website to see their baggage charges! So I'll repeat the question: "How long have EZY charged for baggage on a per route basis." |
Since 15.11.17.
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This is why the likes of British Airways usually come out cheaper once that you consider baggage charge and allocated seat charges. I fly with British Airways and you get one 23kg checked in bag and free seat allocation within 24 hours of departure although being a British Airways Executive Club member my preferred seats are always allocated for me even though I have the option at no added cost to change them. Seat reservation isn't exactly cheap. Yes it is free within 24 hours but by then the seat I would prefer could be gone. |
British Airways have a basic fare which was introduced about two years ago that is cabin bag only and no free seat allocation unlike the regular fare which the majority purchase includes your 23kg hold baggage plus free seating within 24 hours of departure.
I don't often travel with EasyJet but I'm often on their website checking fares and doing dummy bookings, the other day I was looking at several destinations and went as far as the payment page and I hadn't noticed that baggage was now priced per sector, when I checked the BA website for price comparisons they came out cheaper than EasyJet when I took in account of the checked hold baggage and reserved seats that I had added on the EasyJet booking. I will have to go to my history on the route EasyJet website to have a look at the different prices based on each flight to see how many they were. I'm not doubting you now that you have kindly responded to my previous post but to be honest I think the whole concept absolutely stinks and out of principle I won't be using EasyJet for such extortionate rip off extra ancillary costs for hold baggage which is purely down to greed on behalf of EasyJet not a necessary a good move in my opinion. |
Originally Posted by EcamSurprise
(Post 10011628)
So I just tried to book BA economy London to Berlin in March and the system wanted £20 per flight for a hold bag.
Seat reservation isn't exactly cheap. Yes it is free within 24 hours but by then the seat I would prefer could be gone. I have to admit that on only two occasions have the seats been unsuitable but they we're easily changed without any added cost, perfect if your traveling alone as I often have the same seat numbers on the outbound and inbound flights. |
It must be wonderful for regular travellers in the SE to have access to London Airways, as the rest of the UK calls BA.
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Cheer up, you've got Loganair, "Scotland's Airline" ;)
Btw, you also have access to BA's network. You just decided to live near a spoke and not a hub. |
Fortunately for most of the UK, not just Scotland, an increasing number of continent-based airlines find it worthwhile to provide the direct services that BA choose not to provide.
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But direct services from regional airports is not BA's business model. No-one would find it surprising that BA don't operate an extensive route network outside the capital. KLM, LH, AF etc treat UK regional airports exactly the same as BA - they're just feeder services to their long haul networks.
It's also not as if other national airlines aren't doing the same thing as BA - Iberia only operate from Madrid, Finnair from Helsinki, KLM from Amsterdam, LOT from Warsaw. Also, the reason why BA scaled back their operations from the likes of Manchester during the late '90s and early '00s is because of point-to-point competition from easyJet and other low cost carriers. Airlines that do operate extensive networks from multiple bases either face a lot less LCC competition such as Lufthansa, or are on the verge of bankruptcy such as Alitalia. |
I understand what you mean but you can't say 'to have access' when in fact you do have 'access' albeit via a domestic flight to either LGW or LHR it's still 'access' but non the less I understand your point.
The same can be said to a certain extent regarding Air France and being Paris-centric all except for a few regional departure points it's mostly Paris so Paris Airways, I'm afraid that's how it is we're not like Germany where Lufthansa can maintain hubs at two airports as in Frankfurt and Munich. |
You would have thought that it was more expensive/less efficient to operate from multiple bases, and yet it is the LCCs which can make that work while the full service airlines can't.
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Originally Posted by canberra97
(Post 10011729)
British Airways have a basic fare which was introduced about two years ago that is cabin bag only and no free seat allocation unlike the regular fare which the majority purchase includes your 23kg hold baggage plus free seating within 24 hours of departure.
I don't often travel with EasyJet but I'm often on their website checking fares and doing dummy bookings, the other day I was looking at several destinations and went as far as the payment page and I hadn't noticed that baggage was now priced per sector, when I checked the BA website for price comparisons they came out cheaper than EasyJet when I took in account of the checked hold baggage and reserved seats that I had added on the EasyJet booking. I will have to go to my history on the route EasyJet website to have a look at the different prices based on each flight to see how many they were. I'm not doubting you now that you have kindly responded to my previous post but to be honest I think the whole concept absolutely stinks and out of principle I won't be using EasyJet for such extortionate rip off extra ancillary costs for hold baggage which is purely down to greed on behalf of EasyJet not a necessary a good move in my opinion. Join the British Airways Executive Club and on your profile where it says seat preferences and tick the appropriate box as to your preferred seat, once you make a booking your preferred seat is allocated and if you wish to change it you can do so within 24 hours of departure |
British Airways have a basic fare which was introduced about two years ago that is cabin bag only and no free seat allocation unlike the regular fare which the majority purchase includes your 23kg hold baggage plus free seating within 24 hours of departure. I am an Exec Club Member but still had to fork out a lot of money, especially on the long haul flights for the seats of my choice even though I was travelling in Premium Economy as I didn't want to be stuck in the middle. |
I don't live in the South East yet I don't childishly refer to BA as London Airways. So there we go, you're wrong. Not everyone outside the South East calls our national carrier by such a childish name.
Do you refer to Delta as Atlanta Airways? What about Emirates? Dubai Airways? Icelandair becomes Air Keflavik? Should Czech Airlines be Prague Airways? Ridiculous. |
I was merely quoting what some other posters from the Manchester area have said.
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Originally Posted by inOban
(Post 10011815)
You would have thought that it was more expensive/less efficient to operate from multiple bases, and yet it is the LCCs which can make that work while the full service airlines can't.
The hub-and-spoke model means that BA need to have an extensive, high frequency route network in order to make a profit. Flights need to depart in waves to allow for simpler connections. On the other hand, easyJet can fly any route with any plane at any time, and it doesn't make a difference. Because easyJet operates point-to-point services, if they were to commence BFS-PRG and NCL-PRG, this would have absolutely no effect on existing services to PRG. On the other hand, if BA were to commence NCL-PRG, EDI-PRG and BHD-PRG, ultimately they'd lose passengers on LHR-PRG, LHR-NCL, LHR-EDI, LHR-BHD. This could ultimately mean scrapping one of their x4 daily flights from LHR, giving connecting passengers a lot less choice, and making the operation a lot more inefficient. The main point is that easyJet want to fill as many planes as possible. BA on the other hand want to fill as many long haul aircraft as possible, and operating an extensive short haul network is a means to achieving this. Operating from multiple bases dilutes the number of connecting passengers, meaning their long haul aircraft would be flying half empty, thus reducing profits. |
Thanks for that. However it seems to me that within Europe hub and spoke is already dead; any city of a reasonable size would have, or would aspire to have, direct flights to every other city. The question which must be asked is whether this point to point model will extend; when 321LR and similar a/c arrive in numbers will second tier airports expect to have direct flights to a wide range of cities in the US. It will be interesting to see.
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14 million people in London and 9000 in Oban might have something to do with it.............
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Not having my own international airport gives me a more impartial view of things, I hope. I know others disagree, but I can live with that.
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Originally Posted by A320.b744
(Post 10012391)
On the other hand, if BA were to commence NCL-PRG, EDI-PRG and BHD-PRG, ultimately they'd lose passengers on LHR-PRG, LHR-NCL, LHR-EDI, LHR-BHD. This could ultimately mean scrapping one of their x4 daily flights from LHR, giving connecting passengers a lot less choice, and making the operation a lot more inefficient.
The other risk, of course, would be that they started regions to PRG and started inadvertently feeding into Czech's network... |
Surely easyJet themselves have a Hub and Spoke type offering with Worldwide by easyJet?
Hub and spoke type operations offer far greater frequencies between city pairs, meaning they will be around in some shape or form for a long time yet in my opinion. |
" I'm surprised we haven't seen them make a meaningful effort to get people in the UK regions to use Dublin and Madrid as hubs"
An airline who have spent 60 years trying to avoid using Gatwick? They want to own every slot at LHR so they can extort the absolute maximum from the flying public - they have ZERO interest in any other hub |
That also surprises me, especially where it leads to easyJet getting an increased foothold in Gatwick instead of a franchise operating a network feeding into BA's longhaul.
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Thanks for that. However it seems to me that within Europe hub and spoke is already dead; any city of a reasonable size would have, or would aspire to have, direct flights to every other city. The question which must be asked is whether this point to point model will extend; when 321LR and similar a/c arrive in numbers will second tier airports expect to have direct flights to a wide range of cities in the US. It will be interesting to see. If hub and spoke is dead, why are KLM, sorry “Amsterdam Airways” in your parlance, able to offer such a comprehensive offering to the world via AMS to the UK market? By your rationale, hardly anyone would need to connect anymore? How come Lufthansa, Air France, Finnair, SAS and Swiss are still operating the hub and spoke model? So, if you’re right, there’s zero market between GLA-DUS? Not a single person flies GLA-ZRH? Of course that’s unreal, as p2p loco needs volume that many business markets can’t provide. It’s a balance. I love easyJet, flown four sectors with them last week, all on time, but they’re often not business friendly. See the IOM thread to see how they might not even be the best fit. That also surprises me, especially where it leads to easyJet getting an increased foothold in Gatwick instead of a franchise operating a network feeding into BA's longhaul |
BA used to have a sizeable regional short-haul base at Manchester. That was downsized/removed years ago, even before the rise of the LoCo's. However, what about having more long-haul routes from the power house of the north? If their idea is to try and feed pax into LHR from the region they are competing with AMS, FRA, MUC, CDG etc. A short flight to LHR or AMS/FRA is similar and prices can often be better via the continent. Plus their airports are often more convivial than LHR. If MAN offered attractive options would it not off-load LHR somewhat and provide a more attractive option for 100'000's in the north? I know there are various long-haul flights from mAN by the foreign competitors, why does not BA defend its turf?
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It’s worth noting BA is going ‘back’ to MAN, with 32 weekly one way flights via Cityflyer to about 12 European airports and 3 ‘based’ aircraft over the weekend. Then it uses Sun Air to tap into GOT and BLL with up to 21 weekly flights and finally the Shuttles to LHR.
Yes, small fry compared to a large base, but from acorns and all that. |
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