Short haul airlines ..........some bad reading here..


Wow sounds a rough flight that couldn't be chewed with it. I've seen loads of reports of them just outright not paying some of the refunds over Covid. Sounds like they have really bad cash flow problems.

Not a surprise though easy money selling more drinks we had similar problems with Thomas Cook a few years back swore to never fly on flights like them again and been alright so far touch wood.
We flew with them because that's who OnTheBeach used last year. Is never heard of them before that... They must be sick of them too 'cos they're using BA this year 🤣
 
Ryanair are class imo. Must have done 70+ flights with them and only had a couple of delays. Been to places I'd never even heard of.

Jet 2 flown on 5 returns. Four late out of 10.

TUI off with them next month,, been a while.

Easyjet - not for a while but remember them being ok.

Wizz, just the one flight and won't be bothering again.

BA four flights in December, one delayed but flights themselves were good.

Funnily enough best I've flown with was Norwegian.
 
Twice. Once for EasyJet (Jersey) and the other for Jet2 (Spain). Between the two Jet2 offered good levels of service from its people working in the plane during its flight. They were friendly at all times. I found the food very good. The flight itself was very nice.

I’m yet to try another company. I’m just need to do long haul and to go on a larger plane. I have done short haul internal flight and short haul to Europe. But I’m about to embark on a nigh flight as the plane leaves Newcastle around 3 pm and I get to Fumincino around 7 pm.

Think you’re probably best off sticking to following coaches to Wembley.
 
Euro wings on the other hand were effin abysmal.

Used Eurowings last year and booked Edinburgh to Cologne outbound and Budapest to Newcastle inbound.

The Budapest leg was cancelled shortly after booking it, so we came back with KLM instead.

The outbound flight was fine when I checked in online on the Friday night before I went to bed. We were getting an early train to Edinburgh, catching the flight and should have arrived at the hotel around 4pm. Got up on Saturday morning and discovered it was cancelled. Managed to get a Ryanair flight from Edinburgh to Weeze, thinking we could get a bus to Dusseldorf and a train to Cologne. Landed and found the trains were off for engineering and the buses were delayed due to some music festival next to the airfield. We eventually got a bus someplace else (I can't remember where), another bus to another town and finally a train to Cologne. Left home at 6.30am. Got to the hotel just after 9pm 😳

Eurowings can get stuffed!
 
Used Eurowings last year and booked Edinburgh to Cologne outbound and Budapest to Newcastle inbound.

The Budapest leg was cancelled shortly after booking it, so we came back with KLM instead.

The outbound flight was fine when I checked in online on the Friday night before I went to bed. We were getting an early train to Edinburgh, catching the flight and should have arrived at the hotel around 4pm. Got up on Saturday morning and discovered it was cancelled. Managed to get a Ryanair flight from Edinburgh to Weeze, thinking we could get a bus to Dusseldorf and a train to Cologne. Landed and found the trains were off for engineering and the buses were delayed due to some music festival next to the airfield. We eventually got a bus someplace else (I can't remember where), another bus to another town and finally a train to Cologne. Left home at 6.30am. Got to the hotel just after 9pm 😳

Eurowings can get stuffed!
That's very potty mouthed for you 😂
 
Twice. Once for EasyJet (Jersey) and the other for Jet2 (Spain). Between the two Jet2 offered good levels of service from its people working in the plane during its flight. They were friendly at all times. I found the food very good. The flight itself was very nice.

I’m yet to try another company. I’m just need to do long haul and to go on a larger plane. I have done short haul internal flight and short haul to Europe. But I’m about to embark on a nigh flight as the plane leaves Newcastle around 3 pm and I get to Fumincino around 7 pm.

I'd hardly call a 3-7pm flight a "night flight"
 
The 3rd flight we saw land on time... Everyone got off and it was promptly set to be 2 hours late. Then 3. Then it changed to the next day at the same time. Apparently as it was coming in a cookie of passengers had a fight and punched a stewardess and maybe the captain...
We all filed for compensation but were refused as they stated 'exceptional circumstances' which is every airlines get out clause. Turns out the two passengers were drunk when they got on and weren't stopped from drinking, vaping and even smoking on board! Couldn't make it up!
Ffs
Used Eurowings last year and booked Edinburgh to Cologne outbound and Budapest to Newcastle inbound.

The Budapest leg was cancelled shortly after booking it, so we came back with KLM instead.

The outbound flight was fine when I checked in online on the Friday night before I went to bed. We were getting an early train to Edinburgh, catching the flight and should have arrived at the hotel around 4pm. Got up on Saturday morning and discovered it was cancelled. Managed to get a Ryanair flight from Edinburgh to Weeze, thinking we could get a bus to Dusseldorf and a train to Cologne. Landed and found the trains were off for engineering and the buses were delayed due to some music festival next to the airfield. We eventually got a bus someplace else (I can't remember where), another bus to another town and finally a train to Cologne. Left home at 6.30am. Got to the hotel just after 9pm 😳

Eurowings can get stuffed!
Weeze ? Surely Sunderland council needs to get twinned with that place
 
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If I’m honest, BA have been the worst I flown with over the last 12 months. For our flagship carrier they have been utter shite

Flew short haul with them last year on an early morning flight which included light refreshments that were a bottle of water and a Nutri Grain bar. The bairn had nodded off and the stewardess missed her out, so I asked if I could have her water and bar for when she woke up. She was really reluctant to give them to me. Never expected a stewardess to play you snooze you lose with a Nutri Grain bar 🤷‍♀️
 
I got stuck in Copenhagen last week when storm Otto hit and my connecting flight back to UK was cancelled. Pretty much all planes grounded and complete chaos with thousands of people trying to rebook and find somewhere to stay overnight.

Whether they were BA, EJ, RA, SAS or anyone else, it was pretty messy and everyone was in the same queue no matter what airline you were with. In reality, most people just gave up and rebooked themself online and found a hotel overnight, but you needed a spare £300-400 to be able to do it.

Connecting flights is one thing that really hurts the non budgets in feedback as this is where most things go wrong - missed connections, lost luggage etc.
 

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