BMI Baby baggage charges
Roland Perry
Six months ago, �24, and today �29.95 with apparently "�24.04 saved".
Are they planning an increase to �53.99 ?
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David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)
Is that one way, or factoring a return trip?
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Roland Perry
Tue, 4 Aug 2009, "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)"
<d4g...@yahoo.co.uk> remarked:
>> (which also includes airport check-in) ... seem to be going up and up.
>>
>> Six months ago, �24, and today �29.95 with apparently "�24.04 saved".
>> Are they planning an increase to �53.99 ?
>
>Is that one way, or factoring a return trip?
That's for a return booking. Incidentally, you can't specify bags (or
airport check-in) one way, and not the other; if you have asymmetrical
plans you have to book two single tickets.
Now that I look more closely, they recently (30th July) charged me
�12.98 for a bag one-way; and earlier �25.96 for bags both ways. So the
extra �4 is extremely recent - 1st Aug maybe.
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Roland Perry
the_niner_nation
"Roland Perry" <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote in message
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id never ever fly on these nasty cheap shitty carriers, i'd pay a decent
carrier the full rates just for the sake of being treated like im a human
being.
Roland Perry
Sep 2009, the_niner_nation <the_nine...@sf49ers.com> remarked:
>id never ever fly on these nasty cheap shitty carriers, i'd pay a
>decent carrier the full rates just for the sake of being treated like
>im a human being.
Apart from the "confusion pricing" issue, the quality of the flights
themselves are no worse than alternative carriers - at least that's the
case for BMIBaby and Easyjet both of which I use a lot. I've only flown
Ryanair once recently, so that's too small a sample (the flight was
fine).
None of the classic carriers (except BMI) serve my local airport; so
using different carriers has other issues. If I use BMI to Brussels
it'll cost me around �200 each way. They don't fly to Amsterdam or
Geneva, the other two places I go the most, for which the low-costs
rarely charge me more than �100 return.
Oh, and Ryanair has made �500m from "selling addons" according to the
papers yesterday. That's �500m they have, and neither you or I have. Who
is laughing now?
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Roland Perry
Neil Williams
<the_nine...@sf49ers.com> wrote:
>id never ever fly on these nasty cheap shitty carriers, i'd pay a decent
>carrier the full rates just for the sake of being treated like im a human
>being.
Never tried easyJet, then? They do do these charges, but I prefer
their staff to BA's in how they deal with passengers.
Neil
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tim.....
"Neil Williams" <wensl...@pacersplace.org.uk> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:17:42 +0100, "the_niner_nation"
> <the_nine...@sf49ers.com> wrote:
>
>>id never ever fly on these nasty cheap shitty carriers, i'd pay a decent
>>carrier the full rates just for the sake of being treated like im a human
>>being.
>
> Never tried easyJet, then? They do do these charges, but I prefer
> their staff to BA's in how they deal with passengers.
Agreed.
If you travel cattle class BA ground staff are a bunch of arrogant
so-and-sos, "oh you're not travelling business, no we can't do that for you
sir" (however trivial the request). The in flight staff are better.
tim
Jeff Hacker
"the_niner_nation" <the_nine...@sf49ers.com> wrote in message
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The bottom line is that most of the fixed costs - the airplane, fuel,
landing fees (at major airports - 2nd rate places like Frankfurt Hahn
doesn't count) is the same no matter whether it is RyanAir or British
Airways. The only "net" thing the LCC's have done is unbundled the package,
letting you pay indivually for whatever you want. That also has the effect
of masking any fare increases (in the form of less pitch in economy, buy on
board meals, etc.) and effectively cutting service levels to the bone. Yes
you can buy a cheap fare, but do you really think RyanAir, for example,
expects to make any money charging 5 quid for a ticket across Europe? Or
that BMIbaby is really that different from BMI? If you want to see where
this is going, look to the U.S. where the "legacy" carriers offer lousy
service without amenities and not for any particularly cheap tickets.
KGB
<tims_n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>If you travel cattle class BA ground staff are a bunch of arrogant
>so-and-sos, "oh you're not travelling business, no we can't do that for you
>sir" (however trivial the request). The in flight staff are better.
Hi
Not just BA cattle class actually.
When I had problems with BA flying business class (see "Heathrow
transfer times??" thread), I found the ground staff to be a bunch of
unhelpful, arrogant, so-and-sos............."Oh no, we can't do that
for you sir".
Regards
KGB