Experiences flying with Sleazey jet...

[DBSV8]

Du1point8 said:

good rant

now heres the twist you should have spiked their drink with a few drops of Phenolphthalein dye into their drink .........opens the bowels instantly ...would have been fun to watch the entire group take a slug...

oh dear i need the toliet
oh dear i just shat my pants .............

[Du1point8]

macar said:

I fly Easy Jet twice a year, only problems I have had is late departures. Service otherwise is fine. I think you have to look at the destination and what type of person it appeals to. When I use them I've yet to spot a chav or a football shirt.

Unfortunately if you are flying to Sharm to get a transfer to Dahab you have one of 2 ways:

1) EasyJet/Thomas cook charter to Sharm and the very odd occasional BA flight.

2) Fly to Cairo and then take an internal flight to Sharm.

First option is 5 hours and £200-300.

Second option is 9+ hours, £500+ and often late at night meaning you miss a days holiday

Not what I need when I fly out Thursday for a long weekend and back on Monday.

If there is another option please point it out.

[macar]

Du1point8 said:

macar said:

I fly Easy Jet twice a year, only problems I have had is late departures. Service otherwise is fine. I think you have to look at the destination and what type of person it appeals to. When I use them I've yet to spot a chav or a football shirt.

Unfortunately if you are flying to Sharm to get a transfer to Dahab you have one of 2 ways:

1) EasyJet/Thomas cook charter to Sharm and the very odd occasional BA flight.

2) Fly to Cairo and then take an internal flight to Sharm.

First option is 5 hours and £200-300.

Second option is 9+ hours, £500+ and often late at night meaning you miss a days holiday

Not what I need when I fly out Thursday for a long weekend and back on Monday.

If there is another option please point it out.

1. Go somewhere else
2. Get a set of good headphones, consume several large whiskies and get some sleep
3. Become more tolerant of your fellow man

[MuffDaddy]

mosstrooper said:

MuffDaddy said:

Mostly pointless stuff.

Do EasyJet fly to/from Dublin ??

No, no they don't. Nothing to see here......

[Mikeyboy]

I had a similar experience on a Monarch flight to Goa. The group drank all the way, 7 hours of it and got louder. Must have had their own booze too as the crew stopped serving them pretty quickly when they could see how drunk they were getting and yet they managed to somehow get even drunker.

[Mr E]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

I can’t remember the airline but I do remember walking down the plane steps after landing at Manchester Airport several years ago and the woman in front of me proceeding to light up a cigarette whilst walking right next to one of the plane’s engines. I think she nearly soiled herself when one of the ground crew ran, who was standing by his tanker waiting to refuel the plane, ran over screaming “Aviation fuel, put that f**king cigarette out!”. She told him to f**k off and threw her cigarette on the ground. As she wandered into the terminal building I heard her muttering to her friend about it being ridiculous that she couldn’t smoke in an outside location and how she was going to complain. Words failed me.

I wasn't aware that jet fuel was that volatile?

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Mr E said:

RedWhiteMonkey said:

I can’t remember the airline but I do remember walking down the plane steps after landing at Manchester Airport several years ago and the woman in front of me proceeding to light up a cigarette whilst walking right next to one of the plane’s engines. I think she nearly soiled herself when one of the ground crew ran, who was standing by his tanker waiting to refuel the plane, ran over screaming “Aviation fuel, put that f**king cigarette out!”. She told him to f**k off and threw her cigarette on the ground. As she wandered into the terminal building I heard her muttering to her friend about it being ridiculous that she couldn’t smoke in an outside location and how she was going to complain. Words failed me.

I wasn't aware that jet fuel was that volatile?

I don't know how volatile it is either, but it does seem sensible enough to have rules to prohibit smoking next to planes and fuel tankers. I was more commenting on the stupidity and ignorance of people.

[Jackleman]

Why is it that all the people going to Sharm are like that, I guess you can tell as you fly over Sharm. It is shame the Dahab visitors have to sit with the pikeys on these flights, it ruins what would be a half decent flight.

[anonymous-user]

Muzzer said:

How is any of that Easyjet's fault?

You can have rowdy passengers on any airline.

Blame the pikey family, not the airline.

If the story is accurate.

The crew knew they were pissed and kept giving them more alcohol. That's illegal for a start.

The crew could have quite easily nipped it in the bud and stopped them drinking by taking away their vodka and not selling them any more alcohol.

If they were simply being a bit rough (as it appears in this post) then all you can do is ask them to calm down. If they are behaving 'very badly' the crew could have threatened them with having the police meet the aircraft. Also threaten them with refusing them carriage home again.

[Du1point8]

Jackleman said:

Why is it that all the people going to Sharm are like that, I guess you can tell as you fly over Sharm. It is shame the Dahab visitors have to sit with the pikeys on these flights, it ruins what would be a half decent flight.

Thats the issue... If I want a flight to go diving in the Red sea as its within easy reach of London (5 hours) for a weekend trip I have to go there before going Dahab and there isnt a lot of other sites that are within easy reach for diving.

Sharm I avoid as its like Ibiza now and hence why myself and many others take the trip to Dahab... plus it has the blue hole to go and look at.

[brickwall]

As has been said in posts above: it depends.

I've had problems with late/cancelled flights, but never problems with the clientele. This is possibly because the main easyjet flights I take are on a friday night to geneva.

[DBSV8]

Du1point8 said:

Jackleman said:

Why is it that all the people going to Sharm are like that, I guess you can tell as you fly over Sharm. It is shame the Dahab visitors have to sit with the pikeys on these flights, it ruins what would be a half decent flight.

Thats the issue... If I want a flight to go diving in the Red sea as its within easy reach of London (5 hours) for a weekend trip I have to go there before going Dahab and there isnt a lot of other sites that are within easy reach for diving.

Sharm I avoid as its like Ibiza now and hence why myself and many others take the trip to Dahab... plus it has the blue hole to go and look at.

you could try Thomas Cooke direct flights to Hurghada then dive there or in El gouna guaranteed to be away from the local chav tat

[Mr Dave]

The only time Ive ever had a problem with sleazy jet was one very cold and icy morning when the plane had a master caution light come on while it was hurtling along the runway. That had my bumhole going 50p, 5p, 50p, 5p...

Of the many many other times Ive never had a problem. Same as Ryanair, never once out of a few hundred flights have I ever had a problem.


Flight attendants on both have been polite and more than capable if I ever asked or needed anything. Never a problem with booking or luggage going missing or being seriously late (10 minutes here and there but that was very very rare)

Now if only the same could be said about BA...

[audidoody]

You can only hope they got lippy with some of the Muchabarat

[MATTP77]

They need to stop advertising in The Sun.

[Ranger 6]

Mr Dave said:

.....Flight attendants on both have been polite and more than capable if I ever asked or needed anything. Never a problem with booking or luggage going missing or being seriously late (10 minutes here and there but that was very very rare)

Now if only the same could be said about BA...