Easyjet vs. Ryanair?
 

The have about the same rates for the routes i'm taking in europe... which one is the best airline?

1) Easyjet
2) Easyjet
3) Easyjet

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To Ryanair you are simply a mobile carrier for your debit/credit card. Easyjet ain't perfect by a long way but do acknowledge your status as human.

It's a no-brainer. Easyjet everytime.

Unless you are getting a REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY good price on Ryanair - and that is the final price you pay rather than the headline price - and you've read and REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY understood the rules that Ryanair run by then Easyjet is the best option

EasyJet. If the fares are about the same, save yourself the hassle RyanAir can give you.

EasyJet is better

Another vote for EZY here. They really are rather good these days, indeed I would choose them over BA etc any day.

Ryanair are fine IF you get a penny special AND are very careful to ensure you know the rules and don't get ripped off. But if the fare is the same or even on a vaguely similar magnitude, I'd go "orange" any day.

Neil

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Easyjet. They at least apologized to me once (via Twitter) for one of their errors and pledged to look into it. I wasn't too thrilled with Ryanair's set up on one of the flights I took with them.

Sound great guys, thanks to all!

Are they as good as airlines like United, US Airways, American Airlines, SAS, BMI and so?

Think southwestern like. Except slightly better imo.

Easyjet has no assigned seating. You can purchase "Fast Boarding" for a fee which allows you to be in the first group to board. If you are bussed to your plane, it is not worth it.

I consider EasyJet a LCC and Ryanair an Ultra LCC. Usually, Ryanair is cheaper than Easyjet on similar routes, so if you are comparing them on a route that has the same price in both carriers, I would go for Easyjet first.

It is simple, Easyjet first if fare is the same.
Ryanair always when cheaper than Easyjet and Easyjet first if cheaper than Ryanair. So all in all, Ryanair is usually the cheapest option on a city pair covered by other airlines and LCC s, but sometimes fares work in different ways, and for those times, grab the other airline.

I usually fly Ryanair, as I buy my tickets with them with lots of time before departure and pay close to nothing or few Euros, but when having to fly on short notice, I usually go for the other airlines, as price difference is sometimes similar or marginal vs Ryanair.

It can be, depending on the airport. Things like the dedicated checkin desk can be useful as well, where this is provided.

At Geneva, it is worth getting on the bus first. The way they do it is to board from the rear of the bus, then leave it via the front, allowing Speedy Boarding holders to get off first. Though they don't seem to use buses at Geneva too often.

Also worth knowing at Geneva is that you can use the Business Class line at security if you have speedy boarding! (It's noted on a bit of paper at the EZY checkin desks).

Neil

EZY + 1000

Well, the only problem is that EasyJet hardly goes anywhere---mostly to/from UK. Too bad there's no real competition with RyanAir. I'm looking forward (joke) to using the pay toilets this summer if this is really happening. I don't think such a policy would fly in US (just like Spirit Airlines may not get to implement the carry-on bag fee).

Huh? Quite the contrary. I just spent the last few days trying to book EasyJet---not possible on many/most intra Europe flights. EasyJet is quite limited, and I'm sure about it.

They appear to have blocked new bookings for the next couple of weeks on routes affected by the volcanic ash issue. This is presumably so those with existing bookings can rebook, and so they aren't selling a service they may not be able to deliver.

Push the dates out to May and there should be better availability.

To call them limited is a bit silly. They are the largest UK owned airline, and operate routes all over Europe.

Though it does seem Ryanair are doing rather better in the information stakes at the moment. The following link gives you all the info you would need to know about the current disruptions and is being kept up to date. Easyjet and BA aren't doing quite as well with theirs.

http://www.ryanair.com/en/notices/go...ICELAND_ASH-GB

Neil

You missed the news then about most of Western European airspace being closed to all aircraft

In any case if you look at their routemap it is clear that many of their flights don't touch UK soil

Granted, EasyJet (43 million passengers/year) is substantial. I'm just frustrated (pissed) because EasyJet doesn't have as many routes/frequencies as RyanAir (58 million passengers/year) with flights within Italy itself and to/from Italy from southern France. So now, I will get to experience first hand RyanAir's legendary (joke) customer treatment. Already, just from the tone of the RyanAir email confirmations, I can see how this airline seeems to view customers as, say, an elementary teacher views misbehaving students.

Sounds like you should think about hiring a private jet. I hate it when planes don't go exactly where I want at the time I want them to go. :D

Private jet? No, I'll take the Ryan Air flight---at least it goes there. I can make adjustments for the schedule. :)

For your peace of mind do check your actual airport location ... some folk have found themselves a heck of a long way away from where they thought they were going to land et Bologna = Forli, Milan = Bergamo, Frankfurt-Hahn = in the middle of (very pretty) nowhere. And as for Stockholm Skavasta ...... I'm still trying to find it on a map. Advice welcomed!

Oh, that old chestnut. Of course, if they booked without reading, checking and confirming the details, that could be true. On the other hand, most folk have found that FR took them precisely where they thought they were going.

FR fly to more 'normal' airports than legacy airlines. Just take a look at http://www.ryanair.com/en/cheap-flight-destinations

And for the record, Bologna = Bologna (BLQ). ;)

Old chestnuts are sometimes more in evidence than you might think ... and if MOL has managed to sweet-talk BLQ into hosting him, well good on him! I think you STILL need to check that the airport is where you think it is, after all, from many inflight tracking screens I've seen on aircraft, Stansted is actually somewhere in Kent!;)

And I believe that there is an airport - without much commercial traffic - called LONDON Oxford! ^

[Sorry, duplicate.]

It is, but it's not STN. It's the other one. Have you ever been to Newport? ;)Make that a :td:. And neither EZ nor FR uses it, so I'm not sure why it's mentioned in this thread.

WHICH Newport Roger !!!!! I simply included London Oxford because I know where IT is and further proof that locations can be misleading!

OK enough banter! Now let's get back to serious business!

Exactly. There's more than one, just like Stansted.Please do, which in this thread means discussing easyJet and Ryanair.

Not even a debate- Easyjet!

We just used Easyjet a couple of weeks ago for Paris-Orly to Venice then Venice to Rome-FCO during our spring break trip to Europe. Easyjet offered very cheap fares compared to the majors on these routes, even when adding in the baggage fees and credit card fee to the Easyjet base fare.

Check-in starts two hours before departure. Not a moment before. And there's no advantage to checking in early other than to avoid the long lines that can form.

You get one carry-on bag with size restrictions but it isn't subject to weight restrictions. If you can lift it up into the overhead you can travel with it. The one carry-on rule was strictly enforced during Paris and Venice boarding.

While it is open seating on Easyjet, just like Southwest Airlines, that's where the comparison ends. Easyjet boarding is a free-for-all (unless you purchase the priority boarding option which, as others have mentioned, only really works at stations where you board through jetways - Paris Orly, yes. Venice, you take a bus. Rome FCO, you take a bus.) However at both VCE and FCO we did board and deplane through the front and rear doors of the aircraft. And on the VCE-FCO route we ended up boarding last on a full flight and all three of us still got either an aisle or window seat (albeit widely seperated but so what).

Oh yeah, the seats. Seat pitch is about 12 inches (just kidding, but it is likely the smallest I've ever sat in on an Airbus). And the seats do not recline.

On-board staff was friendly enough. Everything is buy-on-board; absolutely nothing is comped, not even water. Again, that's OK as I knew that going in.

No charge to use the head.

I'd use Easyjet again if I needed a low fare within Europe and the flight wasn't more than 90 minutes or so. They got us safely where we needed to go at a reasonable rate with no surprise fees (everything is spelled out on the website).

EasyJet every time - we avoid Ryanair if at all possible!:eek:

Easyjet. I end up getting suckered into a 40 euro round trip SVQ-HHN every year with RyanAir and hate myself when I get off the flight.

I wish everybody would stop slamming Ryan Air. I have two RyanAir flights booked for this summer and it's not helping to read everybody trashing this airline. What about the folks who have flights with RyanAir in the future? Isn't this being mean? How about some NICE RyanAir commentary? There's gotta be SOMETHING nice about RyanAir customer service. The way people make it sound, it's almost like I should expect to be horrified when I fly RyanAir this summer. Say something nice about RyanAir for a change. Surely, SOMEBODY has something positive to say about RyanAir customer treatment....

For the fleet the number of takeoffs = number of landings. Sleep well :)

No there isn't. If O'Leary could find some way to charge for it you'd get customer service. As even he hasn't managed that (yet) it's a case of "never mind the quality, feel the width"

All my Ryanair flights have been totally non-eventful. No excitement with passengers, crew, pilots, landing, luggage, or anything.

Thanks Silver Fox & WillTravel---you two have shown compassion for my upcoming experience with RyanAir. I don't want to, on that day, board the RyanAir flight with my head down in a depressed state of mind, expecting to fly on a nightmare. I would do the same for you. Incidentally, would anyone say that RyanAir is a notch up from Spirit Airlines?