I just an email confirming my continuing participation in the full roll-out. The benefits haven’t changed. In the Press release they missed a very useful benefit; price matching against a competitor. The way it works is if there is a competitor flight that departs within an hour either side of the easyJet flight and the competitor flight is cheaper, the they will refund the difference and give you an extra 10%. This works very well for me as on my EDI-STN-EDI weekly commute FR have flights that fall in to this category. Almost every U2 flight I book is more expensive than the nearest FR flight so I always get a useful voucher for each block of flights I book.

The other big benefit is the fee-free changes. This has saved me a sizeable chunk of cash over the last 18 months of so. In a lot of cases the cost of the change fee plus the fare difference is more than buying a new ticket, so in the past I’ve just ‘thrown away’ the flight and bought a new ticket.

Those who criticise the scheme as not being a ‘true’ FFP are missing the point entirely. U2 are not going to run an expensive ‘Avios’ type programme. I’m very much okay with that as the other benefits, in my opinion, are worth way more than a ‘free’ flight. The money I’ve saved in change fees and received in vouchers for price matching, have been worth much more than a flight.