Ryanair, that's a bit rich
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Is what true my luv, would I ever lie.
My experiences have been good & I can only talk about them but I'm a cautious traveller who's checks in in plenty of time before flights & leaves oddles of time between connections cause if you miss any of these FR will make you fork out for the privilege of taking a later flights even if the're to blame for the delay.
Even better for less than you'd pay for your Sunday bus fare believe it or not I used to have the privilege of sitting upfront & having the best seat in the house with their georgeous hunky, hunky georgeous pilots, now if that's not value for money I don't know what is.
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My experiences have been good & I can only talk about them but I'm a cautious traveller who's checks in in plenty of time before flights & leaves oddles of time between connections cause if you miss any of these FR will make you fork out for the privilege of taking a later flights even if the're to blame for the delay.
Even better for less than you'd pay for your Sunday bus fare believe it or not I used to have the privilege of sitting upfront & having the best seat in the house with their georgeous hunky, hunky georgeous pilots, now if that's not value for money I don't know what is.
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Let's get this back on track.
The orrigional story was written by someone who is used to a LoCo (Virgin Blue) offering a 1/2 hourly service from Sydney to Melbourne with a 1/2 hour check in, numbered seats, no forced advertising, etc.
The only noticeable difference between Virgin and Qantas is having to print your own ticket and no meal - not that that is a big deal. Oh yes, the leg room is less (a lot less), although seat pitch is about the same - another plea for info to be real leg room and not pitch.
All this, and seats regularly available for under $70 (£28) including taxes and fly from the main airports. And there are other airports close to some of the big cities.
They are also nowhere near as fussy on baggage, so to travel with what they thought (wrongly) to be a European version of Virgin Blue was a nasty shock to the system.
I guess that with Jet* starting up here, more people will get to see what it's like with a Euro style LoCo. What is already causing trouble is that Qantas have dropped a lot of flights from Tasmania to Melbourne and will fly instead to Avalon - Great for Geelong, not so good for Melbourne. This reduces dramatically the choice for International flights to/from Tassie.
I have also booked flights for later in the year, and compared the 3 choices now available to me. Qantas and Virgin were within $1, Jet* was $20 more - I'll fly Qantas as I earn points !!
BTW, the Aussies don't whinge - that's reserved for us Poms. But they do W(h)ine regularly.
The orrigional story was written by someone who is used to a LoCo (Virgin Blue) offering a 1/2 hourly service from Sydney to Melbourne with a 1/2 hour check in, numbered seats, no forced advertising, etc.
The only noticeable difference between Virgin and Qantas is having to print your own ticket and no meal - not that that is a big deal. Oh yes, the leg room is less (a lot less), although seat pitch is about the same - another plea for info to be real leg room and not pitch.
All this, and seats regularly available for under $70 (£28) including taxes and fly from the main airports. And there are other airports close to some of the big cities.
They are also nowhere near as fussy on baggage, so to travel with what they thought (wrongly) to be a European version of Virgin Blue was a nasty shock to the system.
I guess that with Jet* starting up here, more people will get to see what it's like with a Euro style LoCo. What is already causing trouble is that Qantas have dropped a lot of flights from Tasmania to Melbourne and will fly instead to Avalon - Great for Geelong, not so good for Melbourne. This reduces dramatically the choice for International flights to/from Tassie.
I have also booked flights for later in the year, and compared the 3 choices now available to me. Qantas and Virgin were within $1, Jet* was $20 more - I'll fly Qantas as I earn points !!
BTW, the Aussies don't whinge - that's reserved for us Poms. But they do W(h)ine regularly.
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While Ryan Air, Easy and its ilk may be a national obsession in Britain (and I guess most of Europe), it isn't the case in all parts of the world. Low Cost Carriers are still in its infancy,where I come from- although I dare say the "push/shove/elbow" approach has great potential here in this part of the world, when people do the same for even getting into half empty busses!
To come to the point, "nothing may be new" from the article to people in some parts of the world, but this was written for an aussie audience and I should say it serves the purpose for them as well as for people in other areas of the world who are still not used to low cost air travel.
To come to the point, "nothing may be new" from the article to people in some parts of the world, but this was written for an aussie audience and I should say it serves the purpose for them as well as for people in other areas of the world who are still not used to low cost air travel.
