Sorry, you are both right! I checked again and yes, Easyjet has choosen principal airports. And I was wrong regarding Easyjet flying to (Frankfurt) Hahn.
Website for checking low fares:
http://www.aerfares.net/v3/index.php

No, but they still got you there, right? The refund would be no use if you actually wanted to get where you were going, since the walk-up fares for a new ticket on any carrier would be astronomical.

I have also been delayed by BA, BD, UA etc, but the difference is that they will willingly examine changes to travel plans, possible reroutings etc. EZY has no means to do this. I understand and accept your point about fare comparisons, but I cannot see how EZY's refund policy would be of any use to me if I were stuck in the wrong place. I don't want to have to keep claiming on my travel insurance.

Thanks everybody for all your comments about Easyjet. Just one more question. My family and I are flying to Amsterdam on February 14th getting in on February 15th at 9:00 am. Leaving Amsterdam on February 18th at 11:00 am.

We really wanted to go to Switzerland. Somebody gave me the suggestion to fly Easyjet because they have the cheapest fares. If anybody has any other suggestions on the cheapest way to get to anywhere in Switzerland from Amsterdam I would appreciate it. Thanks again for the feedback.

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Cheapest AMS-GVA or AMS-ZUR fares I can see are for those dates are coming in at around 250 Eur on either KLM or Swiss - not bad, but a lot more than EasyJet which is currently quoting around 150 Eur.

I know very little about European train travel. Might be worth asking in the rail forum?

ajamieson: perhaps I did not make the point clearly enough.

EZ give you your money back if you are delayed 4 hours or more AND get you there. That last bit is very important, and people may not have appreciated that.

Family experience: our niece arrived 4 1/2 hours late at LTN, having been diverted to BHX and transferred by bus because of snow at LTN (in April!). Her father was well pleased to get the money back on his credit card without prompting.

US delayed me by 24 hours, rerouted me via US and America West. OK, they paid my hotel bill, but I lost a day's business. (Guess what, I haven't travelled US Airways since.)

I know which made the better impression on me.

I consider London Luton a suburban airport. There is a special train to get there out of Victoria Station I believe. Their website has some information about it.

IMHO, they offer fantastically lower rates for Southwest-type service and the risk of slightly less reliability/timing.

The connection from Victoria is a BUS, not a train! Round trip fare is �8 for easyJet passengers. Just say you're an easyJet passenger when you buy your bus ticket. No need to show your air ticket as you haven't got one!

�8 round trip is much cheaper than transit to Gatwick or Stansted or bus or train to Heathrow, and only marginally more than Underground to Heathrow.

The rail connection is from any station on the Thameslink line including Blackfriars, City Thameslink, Farringdon, Kings Cross Thameslink and London Bridge. Not bad for what the previous poster calls 'suburban'.

Your experience is interesting, thank you. My experience of a 5 tech delay AMS-EDI with EZY was that a refund was offered but the ticket would be cancelled. Hence my understanding of this 'generous' offer is a little different to yours.

LemonThrower the train link is not to Victoria, as Roger pointed out. Also, of the five London airports only two - LHR and LCY - are actually within the boundaries of the London boroughs, yet the others are often quicker to reach for many people. EZY also flies to LGW. Do you call that suburban too?

Easyjet is the cheapest way to travel between Amsterdam and Geneva, trust me on this one (as a GVA-based KLM flyer). A train ride would take all day, going through Paris and Brussels on the Thalys high speed train.

My understanding is that you would fly AMS-GVA on 2/15, and GVA-AMS on 2/18. The corresponding Easyjet flights list right now for �85 roundtrip, tax included.

KL's more frequent flights can sometimes be had for about �150 on this route due to competition, while Swiss seems to have pretty much given up competing on it.


One tip when flying Easyjet: budget plenty of time for retrieving your luggage and checking in again, if connecting to another flight. To my knowledge, they do not interline.



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Absolutely right. Both easyJet and Ryanair say they are point to point airlines and do not advise interlining.

The EasyJet punctuality figures (taken from their website for Nov 2002) are arrivals 80% within 15 minutes of advertised, and 93% within 1 hour. Seeing as that was for a month when we have had some bad fog days over here, that's as good as I would expect the figures to be able to get to.

Poor Rosebud9802 who started this post off must be really confused with all the "facts" offered above which we Brits are having to continually correct! Let's strive for more accuracy.

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Thanks again everybody. To WHBM thanks for taking my confusion in consideration. Booked Amsterdam to Geneva on EasyJet. We decided to fly out on Sun. Feb. 16th on the morning flight and come back on Tues. Feb. 18th. We are taking a flight that leaves at 6:20 am and arrives in Amsterdam at 7:55 am.

Monahos quote: (One tip when flying Easyjet: budget plenty of time for retrieving your luggage and checking in again, if connecting to another flight. To my knowledge, they do not interline.)

Our United flight from Amsterdam to Chicago leaves at 11:00 am. I hope that 3-hours will be enough time. Do you think that will be efficient enough timing to check-in? What does interline mean?
Thanks Again!!

You should be ok. That specific Easyjet flight has the advantage of spending the night in Geneva, and cannot be delayed by a late arrival. After arriving in AMS, collect your luggage and proceed to the UA check-in counter; airlines recommend checking in 2 hours before departure time for US-bound flights, which seems especially applicable if flying Y on an american plane.

By interline I meant processing transfer of checked luggage to, and issuing boarding passes for another airline.

Ah - that they refunded and got you there I did not realise - my understanding was closer to ajamieson's experience. I also take your point about "scheduled" carriers often being less helpful on deep discount fares (although FFP status seems to circumvent this problem).