I am a tolerant traveler. I never ‘get angry’ when planes are delayed in order to ‘score free tix’. I think that’s unethical. I can deal with a lot when it comes to being inconvenienced in order to fly somewhere on the cheap. but I hate EasyJet.
I have flown them twice now (one round trip): from Berlin to Naples and back. Both flights were by far the most frustrating flying situations I have ever been in. Let me explain why.
1. Crappy gates – I know it’s cost effective to use far away gates, but one gate for multiple flights at the same time? Telling us we’re boarding only to crowd an entire plane’s worth of people into a small room? Things get confusing
2. Bad check-in system – The ticket said to be there by 9 to check in for my flight at 12. That means you’re supposed to open the gates before 11. And this was in Germany, a generally really punctual country. I bet you refused to let the Germans open on time, and I bet it was tortuous for them. I bet they screamed in the ‘back offices’.
3. No assigned seating – This is a recipe for disaster. All sense of etiquette was lost as everybody crowded through the doors and raced to the bus and then raced and pushed and shoved out of the bus in order to get a better seat on the plane. I didn’t feel like a person anymore. I felt like livestock, I felt like rudeness was being encouraged. I lost faith in mankind. I was really sad.
For an approximation of the pushing strategy, plz refer to the diagram I made in my previous post subsection re: ‘Russian Peoplejams’ (secret self promo).
It seems I’m not the only one who h8s Ezjet. Here seems to be some sort of online rant forum/support group for those like me who have been emotionally scarred by their experiences with these budget airline companies.
This guy had his xmas ‘ruined’:
other airlines took well hand of the passengers easy jet didn’t give a s… No information no updates on their website. People was just told that their flight was canceled and that they could wait 7 days to get a new flight. No support no information just their normal 16 year old staff didn’t know what to say or do. I really hate easy jet and will NEVER fly them again. I really hope that they go bust, they are not worthy operating.
I wonder if I would be this angry if a budget airline canceled my flight and left me to hang out in the airport. at least he was kind enough not to use real curse words on the internetz
This woman was got freaked out by ‘weird makeup’:
Have you notice the make up of Easy Jet air stewardesses (and also some from Ryanair?). God, they look like clowns!! The other day one of them…things asked me to measure my bag in Liverpool. God I almos screamed of fear. She looked like Amy Winehouse in orange and white. And how rude these ones are? They look like they come from a council estate in Hull, with five kids from five fathers living of subsidies from the government. The rude bitch made me pay for my bag which because of an inch in the “highly scientific” bag measurr in every airport
seems like she was really against the style choices made by the workers at easyjet. Seems like they wear makeup to ‘match’ their uniforms, but they end up looking like druggies (amy winehouse ref). Probably look like creamsicles. I probably would have made a reference to them. I wish I got the cultural reference to Hull, wonder what sorta British thing that is.
miss you creamsicle, but I
