They can tell by the boarding card if you have pre purchased an overhead locker bag or not. They are also pretty strict at enforcing the new policy.

👍👍Cheers........

100 cancellations tomorrow due to Covid absences…
I still don’t get why flying public think things are back to normal

Because we’re being told it’s all over. Flew to Netherlands three weeks back and lost 25% of pax. Yes a lot were foreign football fans self connecting but at least some were British completely oblivious they needed a test because “it’s in the news we don’t need one”.

It’s far beyond aviation it’s everywhere. It’s back to the December position in town of shops/restaurants with signs in the window opening late, closing early, closed today…staff absences/unforeseen circumstances etc. In-person meetings cancelled. At the local Parkrun attendance was way down yesterday.

Relatives of mine have had their flights cancelled for three weeks time....from reading social media et al it doesn't seem like an isolated incident on just that route.

Three weeks from now seems too far away just to be down to covid. Does anyone know the reason? Are they trimming back on routes?

Staffing issues? I know BACF have recently had big problems crewing certain routes

Tactical cancellation due to staff shortage

The ‘Covid’ excuse is being used a lot by various aviation related parties. In order to hit the ground running for the Summer schedule, you need to be recruiting no later than Nov-early Dec and use the relatively quiet winter period for training. This never happens in aviation as the companies do not want excess staff on their books with little income from the fare box. This is not a new phenomenon as it happens every year.

Trying to book hold luggage for a flight which I only require for the outbound and not the return flight…EasyJet website states it has to be done at the airport on departure, but I can’t find out any further info like how much it’ll cost.
It’s £29.49 to add a 15kg bag per flight which is fine but, I only want it for one way and not the return leg…

Phone them

Yes have done, I was on the phone in a queue whilst asking on this forum…it seems I have to go to the airport and check it in there and pay whatever they charge.

As far as I am aware, you can only book a bag online for the flights you have booked (i.e. it has to be a return if you book a return). If you try to do it either at the airport, or via the call centre - the last time I tried, they charged double! So basically the same of what a return would be!!

Just book the flights as one-ways with each leg in a separate booking, and include the bag on the one you want. Don't whatever you do go to the airport and try to sort it there - it'll cost you a fortune.

Reading from a normally reliable blog, that the 156 seat A319s will be changed to 150 seats, so that 1 fewer cabin crew is needed. I can see the logic, but not sure of the veracity of whether it's going to happen. Is there any truth in this ?

I have seen this, believe it’s a temporary measure because of the shortage of cabin crew right now.

That last row space would make great space to pile all those far too many /too big cabin bags…

How long will take to actually remove all those rows from each aircraft?

A missed opportunity for extra revenue. Monarch did the same thing on their 320s and 321s and created 5/6 rows of extra legroom seats and charged accordingly.

About 30 min per aircraft. Its 2 sets of seats per aircraft. Remove seats. Update weight and balance schedule and related documents. Done.

But that requires the whole aircraft to be reconfigured. Every seat re-pitched, oxygen masks moved. Significant down time for the aircraft. And given for easyJet this is a specific, short term issue, it will be quick to undo later.
Sadly for Monarch, it didn't save the airline.

1/ Depends where you remove the seats from.
2/ This was done a long, long time before the airline started making catastrophic decisions to kill itself.

The very back row (Row 26) is coming out of the 319s, and for the exact reasons that Downwind_Left says, the rest of the seats are being left exactly as-is.

I'm guessing / hoping the poster is joking about this being a perfect place to pile cabin bags. With no way of securing the bags such as a pannier or net (which would be a mod to install) then the space from which the seats are removed can't be used.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61460378

Just had an email from easyJet

Flights up too and including the 8th May 2023 on sale now !!

Easy have cancelled a lot of their LGW-TLS flights yesterday/today/tomorrow. Any idea why?

Had a sick A321N which has upset schedules

21 cancellations yesterday and 16 today out of LGW caused by one “sick” A321?

Lack of crew is the real answer.

Thanks guys. Covid making a return or just general shortages?

looks like it’s going to be a tough summer.

Probably both, illness can’t be covered easily because there’s not enough to step in. Whisper it quietly but it’s still not over, even if people want it to be. The signs are there again. Notices up as you walk around, ‘Sorry kitchen closed due to unforeseen circumstances’, ‘Sorry opening at X/closing at X due to unforeseen circumstances’. Multiple people at work have gone down with Covid, multiple people I know have. And some of these already had it recently, within last couple of months

Easyjet to cut number of based aircraft at Berlin from 18 to 11

I`ve been wondering why easyJet doesnt fly to Cardiff (CWL) Surely flying from BFS-GLA-EDI to CWL would be a good move... I would certainly use it

I know Bristol Airport is not that far away but Heathrow isnt far from Gatwick either so ?!

It’s probably a case of why would they need to when passengers will travel to BRS to fly with them? The extra costs of either having a route to CWL isn’t needed when passengers travel across the bridge already.

It is not enough to reason that a route 'might work'. To be worthwhile for the airline, deploying scarce aircraft resources on that route must be more lucrative than any alternative use that aircraft could be put to within a similar timeframe. Yield is key.

Eurowings will offer to take over the surplus easyjet crews, and wants to increase its BER base by roughly the same amount of aircraft. Easyjet is directly handing a competitor a considerable marketshare in its only german base.

Seems to be a bit of a meltdown going on - substantial number of flights cancelled this afternoon.

Apparently, due to a major IT failure in Ops/Crewing.

Yeah, it was pretty bad at Gate 54 today. Santorini, Aberdeen, Geneva, Toulouse and many more cancelled.

All the flights that were cancelled were given the same gate number which caused a massive crowd to gather. No PA and the shouted announcements just weren’t getting through.
No one could get through the crowd to other gates either.

Felt sorry for people off to their first holiday in years and the couple going to Geneva for a wedding. And the ground staff too, not their fault.

Any indication as to why this is? Berlin seemed to be the key element of their Germany strategy, but maybe margins were really weak