"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
10/21/2018 at 11:56 • Filed to: None
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"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
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Living in Europe for a couple of years gave me a little perspective on its low cost airlines market. We may have Southwest, Jet Blue, Frontier and a few others, but in Europe there are many, many LCC’s. Every country, big and small, seems to have at least one. But only a few are truly pan continental.
Ryanair is obviously the biggest, followed by Easyjet. Those two are huge and take the lion’s share.
Norwegian is a medium to larege European airline, with transatlantic and global ambitions.
Vueling and Eurowings are medium size LCC’s that belong to legacy carriers, Iberia and Lufthansa.
Finally we move to Eastern Europe. There you’ll find Wizz Air, a very frugal Hungarian airline that’s part of the Indigo Partners group. And Blue Air, a rather ambitious Romanian airline, who has an increasing presence on Spanish airports and seems to be trying to emulate Ryanair.
The Dummy Gummy
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
10/21/2018 at 12:41 |
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Honestly, saving money is great but I don’t think I’ll ever do a budget carrier again. The delays you get with these carriers are ridiculous. My time is much more valuable then an extra $100-150 in cost.
SEA had Jetstar and another one that escapes me. I took the early flight on Jetstar twice to avoid delays. The first one got cancelled until the next day, the second one got delayed until 11PM that night.
In the US I’ve done Spirit and Frontier... all I can say is hot garbage.
Never again.
facw
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
10/21/2018 at 12:53 |
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Southwest, Jet Blue, Frontier and a few others
I always find it a little weird when people lump Southwest and/or Jet Blue in with these lists. They may be “ low cost” in the sense that they don’t have all the same labor costs as legacy airlines (though these differences are basically gone at this point), but they certainly low-cost in the sense of having cheaper tickets (indeed my experience is that Southwest tends to be pretty expensive). They are just normal airlines at this point (besides Southwest’s stupid non-assigned seating).
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facw
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
10/21/2018 at 13:00 |
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The only one of these have had the displeasure of flying is easyJ et (it was ages ago, so I suppose it could have gotten better, though I suspect the opposite).
I did look at vueling for something this summer, but ended up taking B russels Airlines (itself a weird mix of flag carrier/discount Lufthansa/value airline) as it had a better schedule and was really cheap. Some friends I was travelling with took wizz and didn’t die, so that was good I guess.
Svend
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
10/21/2018 at 16:30 |
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As if Ryanair wasn't bad enough a racist guy on a flight from Barcelona to Stansted, launched into a tirade against the 81 year old lady calling her a 'b**** b******', 'f****** cow', 'f****** c***', etc... Ryanair did little to nothing on the flight to do anything about it, only doing something after the fact two days after the video went viral. They've submitted the video to U.K. police and British and Spanish police are investigating where the plane was and jurisdiction.
Forrest
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10/21/2018 at 16:56 |
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I was going to say the same thing. Southwest and JetBlue are fine. Frontier and Spirit are horrible.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
10/21/2018 at 20:28 |
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The other thing that pisses me off looking at some of these is the price of addng a bag. It’s not by mistake those aren’t by default selected. quickly makes the super value not so super.