Paphos People

I know this is UK news but at some point will concern you folk.

Todays news Easy Jet are from February will charge its passengers to put their belongings in the overhead lockers The robbers will get away with this, they want to get as much money back into their greedy hands as possible.

Read the link

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55156512

My following comment is general and not directed at the OP or anyone in particular.

You can still bring a carry on bag on board for free, subject to the size limits and it fitting under your seat. To bring a large bag for the overhead locker you may be charged depending on the seat you booked. The premium seats up front allow you to bring two bags on board and the cost of the up front seats still looks to be about the same.

Rather than everyone get upset about it, why not look at it as an opportunity to buy even cheaper flight tickets if you aren't fussed where you sit and don't need to bring luggage?

If sitting together and bringing two bags on board is important to you, buy a seat at the front of the plane and you will get what you need.

If you object to them changing their pricing structure, fly with a different airline. There are plenty to choose from. Even BA flights are pretty cheap at the moment.

I agree that this is a good idea, there was nothing more frustrating when when you were sticking to the rules and someone then brings on a mini suitcase and plonks it in the lockers.

Having said that, if the airport security had been more strict then perhaps this would not have been needed.

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Daz

You're not wrong there. I have seen occasions where someone has brought on a case so big that it takes up the space for all 3 seats in a row and nobody else has any space. What happened to the old days when they used to weigh and measure your hand luggage before boarding?

I see it as just another way of screwing passengers. We returned to Cyprus for a visit in 1998 having left in 1967. Hold luggage was free but weight controlled, transfers from airport to accommodation was also free now they add £90 to the advertised holiday for a couple. Not too long ago Ryan Air were talking of charging £2 to use the inflight toilets. All stealth taxes.

Ryanair announce things like this every so often as they get masses of publicity from it. I don't believe that they were actually going to do it.

The whole thing is basically menu pricing, so that you only pay for the services that you want. If you just want to have any old seat on a plane with no luggage, you get a cheap ticket. If you want to pre-book a premium seat and bring suitcases, then you pay more for it.

I rarely fly with the budget airlines as I always travel with luggage and find scheduled flights to be cheaper and a generally more pleasant experience.

I have checked the internet and it seems that this was suggested by Ryanair back in 2010 but it was to be a charge of £1 not 2, but it never happened.
Like most businesses the airlines are losing a lot of money during this pandemic and if they need to recoup some of their losses by raising prices etc then so be it.
Prices for everything will undoubtedly go higher around the world as result of the pandemic and a double whammy for the UK will be the added extra for coming out of the EU.
Tough times ahead.

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Dave

Wasn't there also some stupid thing about 'standing room'

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Dave
Moira And Dave

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

Again, I think that was largely about the publicity. So called standing seats do exist as a design concept, but I doubt that passengers would permit that idea to go ahead and would vote with their feet and abandon any airline that actually tried to do it.

If they did,nt "rob you" as you put it,they would probably not be in business next February.Dont you understand what a hard time airlines have been through for no fault of their own

VINE, I find that the way you have responded to my post is inflammatory, to suggest that I do not understand is insulting, I respectfully suggest you either rephrase your comments or withdraw it.

Thank you

But your whole thread is inflammatory. You refer to Easyjet as robbers!

It looks to me as if Vine is just explaining the opposite viewpoint, which doesn't seem inflammatory to me at all.

Firstly my post is not inflammatory, before I posted the thread I fact checked it, I stand by my comments as I will explain.

Extracted from their company public information site.

Easyjet PLC - Results for the year ending 30 September 2020

This announcement contains information, with a leaner cost base, most trusted brand and strong liquidity, raised more than £3.1 billion to date,
Though our profit margins are down upon the previous year trading EasyJet is strongly positioned to be a leader in the recovery of the European airline industry.
Commenting on the results, Johan Lundgren, easyJet Chief Executive said:

“I am immensely proud of the performance of the easyJet team in facing the challenges of 2020. We responded
robustly and decisively, minimising losses, reducing cash burn and launching the largest Cost Out and restructuring
programme in our history – all while our liquidity to date is more than £3.1 billion.
“easyJet has not only withstood the impact of the pandemic, but now has an unparalleled foundation upon which to
emerge strongly from the crisis. Our unmatched short haul network and trusted brand will see customers choose
easyJet when returning to the skies

Now you tell me that I am wrong, so why try and fleece the general public, it is all about greed and the share holders.

NOTE They RAISED 3.1 BILLION That is a very large amount - These airlines want it all and all this tosh about caring for their passengers yeah right.

HOW much is enough, when do you say we have made enough, again pure GREED

I could expand further but I do not intend to.

So Vine I do understand and Effsie it is not inflammatory but fact

Whatever you think/say - to accuse them of "robbery" is inflammatory and untrue in *my* opinion.

You may think that they are greedy or whatever, but they are offering a service to you/me, which we are at liberty to accept of take our business elsewhere.

From https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/t ... t-offences
"A person is guilty of robbery if he steals, and immediately before or at the time of doing so, and in order to do so, he uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force."

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J B

Cabin baggage size/weight was supposed to be checked at the check in. You were told in your travel documents the size and weight of cabin baggage.

You are not charged for separately for seat location on any package holidays we have taken for over 30 years, initially hold luggage was free although weight controlled as with cabin baggage and transfers were also free as it should be because you have paid for a holiday in a hotel that they have provided therefor it should be their duty to get you to that hotel. Adding £90 for transfers for a couple is disgusting.

Well said Bassman.

Why on earth would you be congratulating yourself? Do you have more than 1 ID and used the wrong one?

He,s attention seeking again, just ignore him

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Dave

Nothing to do with attention seeking just pointing out how the holiday industry is sneakily adding stealth charges. We used to visit using half board until they even started charging £1 for a glass of water with your evening meal at the Queens Bay Hotel. we now choose self catering. Transfers £90 for a couple so we pick up and drop off a hire car at the airport, £146 pw.