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We finally booked a week in Spain in the summer hol after a few years without. How long have the airlines been grabbing you by the bollocks around luggage charges? I'm sure last time there was a charge of about 25 quid per case, but now to take a 20kg suitcase each, Easyjet are charging us over 60 quid per person each way, so for the 4 of us that added up to nearly 500 quid.

There's no flexibility at all. Realistically, 2 cases would do us, with a couple of small bags, but we can't only apply that to two of us. It's a full party charge, so we have to pay through the anus.

A couple of days later, I realised that I probably should have made 2 seperate bookings to dodge a couple of us paying it. Robbing ****s.
 
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Christophalophados said:
There's no flexibility at all. Realistically, 2 cases would do us, with a couple of small bags, but we can't only apply that to two of us. It's a full party charge, so we have to pay through the anus.

A couple of days later, I realised that I probably should have made 2 seperate bookings to dodge a couple of us paying it. Robbing ****s.
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It's probably too late to help if you've already booked, but for next time you just book all 4 of you in without any luggage, then as you go through the booking stage they'll ask you again if you want to add hold luggage - at that stage just add 2 cases.

Agree it's daylight robbery and it's designed to make you add luggage for everyone.

Could be worth ringing customer services to see if they'll let you change your booking
 
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Hornsea_HCAFC said:
It's probably too late to help if you've already booked, but for next time you just book all 4 of you in without any luggage, then as you go through the booking stage they'll ask you again if you want to add hold luggage - at that stage just add 2 cases.

Agree it's daylight robbery and it's designed to make you add luggage for everyone.

Could be worth ringing customer services to see if they'll let you change your booking
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"We're unable to refund luggage you've already bought"

Guess I should have googled it beforehand. I'm normally quite savvy with **** like that, but the website is deliberately awkward. You select your flights, and you get a pop-up about your luggage and you can't progress without selecting an option. Only one of them mentions a large case, so I picked that, and then it's locked in with no option to edit without restarting from scratch. Then when you get to the hold luggage section, your only option is to add extra bags, or increase the weight of the bags you've already chosen.

So overall I've been shaken down for about £200. That's left a proper sour taste.
I wonder how many times they manage to scam that per flight.
 
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Christophalophados said:
"We're unable to refund luggage you've already bought"

Guess I should have googled it beforehand. I'm normally quite savvy with **** like that, but the website is deliberately awkward. You select your flights, and you get a pop-up about your luggage and you can't progress without selecting an option. Only one of them mentions a large case, so I picked that, and then it's locked in with no option to edit without restarting from scratch. Then when you get to the hold luggage section, your only option is to add extra bags, or increase the weight of the bags you've already chosen.

So overall I've been shaken down for about £200. That's left a proper sour taste.
I wonder how many times they manage to scam that per flight.
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Ryanair?
Set of ****s
 
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TwoWrights said:
'My flights are full of people who said they'd never travel with us again'.
Michael O'Leary, Ryanair CEO. :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
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Ha ha.... my wife says that every year.......... "Jet2 are so much nicer"

I'm off to Cyprus next month for a week ex Manchester choices are:
Ryanair £58
Easyjet £119
Jet2 £142

Thank you Michael, I think we'll go with you again
 
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Hornsea_HCAFC said:
Ha ha.... my wife says that every year.......... "Jet2 are so much nicer"

I'm off to Cyprus next month for a week ex Manchester choices are:
Ryanair £58
Easyjet £119
Jet2 £142

Thank you Michael, I think we'll go with you again
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They’re all fine as long as you accept they’re just a bus service really
Get on one when it arrives, get off the other end closer to your destination than you were before you got on.
Thats it.
 
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dennisboothstash said:
They’re all fine as long as you accept they’re just a bus service really
Get on one when it arrives, get off the other end closer to your destination than you were before you got on.
Thats it.
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I book holidays now through tui or jet2 and it’s nice to be treat properly
Instead of navigating that ****s website while they try and rip you off and include things you don’t want
The paddy **** is hating it now as lots of people aren’t paying for a bag at all
He thought he would do that to make them all pay more
No one hardly is now
His poor staff are having to go up and down the cabin checking if anyone’s stuck a bag in the overhead locker who shouldn’t !! Or even a coat !!
 
Hornsea_HCAFC said:
Ha ha.... my wife says that every year.......... "Jet2 are so much nicer"

I'm off to Cyprus next month for a week ex Manchester choices are:
Ryanair £58
Easyjet £119
Jet2 £142

Thank you Michael, I think we'll go with you again
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Unless you're not taking any luggage, you need to look at the total cost, rather than just the headline flight cost.
 
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Just de used to do the Cleveland Way , done a fair bit of the coast in parts but want to do the whole . Sometime in May I think
 
Cityzen said:
Same here. Stayed in Warkworth a few times. Lovely little place and handy for Amble and Alnwick.,Great bus service until late so can go for a few beers instead of driving and having soft drinks.
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Yeah, stayed there a few times! Schh, don't tell everyone. Also love Beadnell and that area (incl Seahouses / Bamburgh). #happyplace
 
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originallambrettaman said:
Unless you're not taking any luggage, you need to look at the total cost, rather than just the headline flight cost.
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Yep, fair point - but Ryanair still win - revised costs including a large suitcase:
Ryanair £149
Jet2 £218
Easyjet £236

It's Easyjet that are the worst for baggage costs.
 
Hornsea_HCAFC said:
Yep, fair point - but Ryanair still win - revised costs including a large suitcase:
Ryanair £149
Jet2 £218
Easyjet £236

It's Easyjet that are the worst for baggage costs.
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Tend to go Jet2, both flight onlies and done a few of their holidays. I've booked a city break later in the year with Easyjet as Jet2Leeds don't do Munich. First Easyjet booking for a while and noticed the change on luggage charges, additional charge for cabin and hold luggage. Gone are the days of cheap flights however there still seems to be a big difference in the day you go outbound and inbound so still booked lowest fare.
 
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