EasyJet - more Questions

On 09 Mar 2004 06:03:47 GMT, (Stromer2) wrote:

Thanks for the replys regarding EasyJet reliability. Now a few more questions
for people who have flown them.

The carry on luggage allowance is rather small - much smaller than the Airlines
in the USA have. They allow 1 piece sized at 18" x 14" x 8" and 11 lbs plus a
hand bag. Do they really check this and charge the extra fee for weight over 11
lbs? Are the overheads so small that they will not carry the typical American
carryone luggage (22" x 15" x 8"). I will not have any checked luggage.


Hand baggage allowance is 5kgs, dimensions 45x35x20cm. They have
always weighed my hand luggage at checkin, they have never measured
it. From what I've seen they always refuse overweight hand baggage,
they won't charge for it, they will make you check it as part of your
20kg checked baggage allowance.


Are the planes usually at capacity - do they overbook?


Usually fairly full, they don't overbook.



Thanks, Rick

--==++AJC++==--

"Traveller" wrote in message ...

The carry on luggage allowance is rather small - much smaller than the
Airlines
in the USA have. They allow 1 piece sized at 18" x 14" x 8" and 11 lbs
plus a
hand bag. Do they really check this and charge the extra fee for weight
over 11
lbs? Are the overheads so small that they will not carry the typical
American
carryone luggage (22" x 15" x 8"). I will not have any checked luggage.

I've flown EasyJet about 6 times. The only times that my hand bags
have been weighed were when flying out of Luton and I was allowed to
take the newspaper and bottle of water out and put it in my pocket.
At Stansted and Lisbon, no checks of the hand bags. But, that is just
my experience.
tom

Hilary wrote:
Just out of interest, has anyone heard of 23kg falling on someones head

from

an overhead locker ?

There have been quite a few instances of aircraft hit by abnormal
turbulence having some overhead bins burst open in the ensuing mayhem.

You would have to be looping the loop to realistically shift 23 kg!


When people get up while the plane is still taxiing to a gate,

Why are they getting up if the plane is still taxiing?

"mtravelkay" wrote in message
. com...


Hilary wrote:
Just out of interest, has anyone heard of 23kg falling on someones
head

from

an overhead locker ?

There have been quite a few instances of aircraft hit by abnormal
turbulence having some overhead bins burst open in the ensuing mayhem.

You would have to be looping the loop to realistically shift 23 kg!


When people get up while the plane is still taxiing to a gate,

Why are they getting up if the plane is still taxiing?


Because they are brainless idiots!.

Cisco troll/netkook Michael Voight mtravelkay trolled:

When people get up while the plane is still taxiing to a gate,

Why are they getting up if the plane is still taxiing?

*What* *the* ****** *do* *you* *care* ? ? ?

You're supposed to be ****ing ***working***!

IP address: 171.71.79.114
Host name: mvoight-w2k02.cisco.com

About Rogue Cisco Employee Michael "mrtravelkay" Voight,
a.k.a. the "mrtravel" Netkook Troll/Usenet Flooder

***WARNING: THIS IDIOT HAS BEEN CAUGHT FORGING PEOPLE'S IDENTITIES ON USENET
AND CANCELLING THEIR POSTS.***

"mrtavelkay" is the latest usenet handle of a brainless troll whose real name is
Michael Voight, email .

He is better known by his previous stupid handle, "mrtravel".

The idiot works for Cisco in San Jose and apparently they don't
keep him busy enough so he has to troll usenet when he isn't
looking for foreign brides to marry in exchange for money
in alt.visa.us.marriage-based and alt.personals.big-folks, or trying
to pick up minors in alt.personals.teens or any of the number of creepy
newsgroups he frequents. Some of his other trolling aliases are Network
Guy, , sleepydoc , jlhunt
, and Lost 5 of 8 , mrt ,
news.sf.sbcglobal.net , not-nomen
, David Tanner
, Jeff Davies , BobTheBuilder
.

All intelligent members of the usenet community have killfiled him, so he takes
great pains to get past their killfiles by rubbing his only two cerebral neurons
together and coming up with gems like: mrtrav , mrtrav3
, mrraveltay , and mrtravelkay
, and mtravelkay and ""a.a\"@a,a,a.
The lastest product of his brain diarrhea is Bill Clarkj
.

He seems to like to hang out in alt.sex.preteen. Hmmm....

His phone numbers are 831-295-3628 and 831-252-2606.

He's got a daughter in Orange County that one of his ex-wives had the
intelligence to take away from him. Lord only knows what could have
happened to her if she had continued to live with the kook. The other kids
he has belong to his previous Russian sleazy brides, and since they come
and go so do the kids. It wouldn't hurt to let Cisco know what kind of
deviant sexual pervert maniac they have working for them, so....

For starters, forward his idiotic posts to .

He works in technical support, so forward them to .

He often posts through sbcglobal and prodigy, so forward them to
and as well.

You can also call them at 1 800 553 2447 and ask to speak with a supervisor
and explain that you are EXTREMELY unhappy that this idiot spends his whole
day at work playing on the internet on company time. THEY WILL NOT LIKE
THAT.

Then write to corporate headquarters explaining what this idiot is doing
and telling them HOW BAD IT IS FOR THEIR COMPANY IMAGE. They will LOVE
that you brought this to their attention:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134
USA

Then also call them. You should always follow up email or letters with
phone calls. Always ask for supervisors or managers. Try to get as far up
as possible.

(408)526-4000
(800)553-NETS or
(800)553-6387

Contact Investor Relations and tell them you are interested in investing in
their company but won't do so until they get rid of this asshole who is
wasting company resources:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Investor Relations Department
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706
Phone: (408) 526-8890
Fax: (408) 526-4545
Email:

Might as well contact customer service too, they LOVE to hear about this
type of stuff:

USA 1 800 553 6387




Then finally, send letters with copies of his nasty posts addressed
personally to each one of the OFFICERS of the company using the
headquarters address. Believe me, they READ your complaints and are VERY
INTERESTED in them, especially if it's about one of their employees. They
will take a PERSONAL interest in rooting this ASSHOLE out of their company:

John Morgridge, Chairman
John Chambers, President, CEO
Donald Valentine, Vice Chairman
Larry Carter, CFO, Sr. VP-Fin. and Admin., Sec., Director
Richard Justice, Sr. VP, Worldwide Field Operations

Have fun!

On 09 Mar 2004 06:03:47 GMT, (Stromer2) wrote:

Thanks for the replys regarding EasyJet reliability. Now a few more questions
for people who have flown them.

The carry on luggage allowance is rather small - much smaller than the Airlines
in the USA have. They allow 1 piece sized at 18" x 14" x 8" and 11 lbs plus a
hand bag. Do they really check this and charge the extra fee for weight over 11
lbs? Are the overheads so small that they will not carry the typical American
carryone luggage (22" x 15" x 8").

I don't think their problem is the size or weight, as such (and I agree
that they almost always check the weight and insist you check overweight
items) but their aircraft have very tight turn-round times and they
simply don't want all the delay caused by people stowing and retrieving
hand baggage. Hold baggage isn't a problem - the plane can leave on its
return flight even if the checked bags haven't yet appeared on the
carousel!!
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry writes:

I don't think their problem is the size or weight, as such (and I
agree that they almost always check the weight and insist you check
overweight items) but their aircraft have very tight turn-round times
and they simply don't want all the delay caused by people stowing and
retrieving hand baggage.

In which case maybe the hand luggage allowance should be proportional
to the strength of the passenger. This could be fun to check -
Easyjet passengers would be required to briefly arm-wrestle the
check-in staff, or a bright orange "test your strength" fairground
machine could be stationed at the desks.

--
-- Chris.

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:37:39 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

On 09 Mar 2004 06:03:47 GMT, (Stromer2) wrote:

Thanks for the replys regarding EasyJet reliability. Now a few more questions
for people who have flown them.

The carry on luggage allowance is rather small - much smaller than the Airlines
in the USA have. They allow 1 piece sized at 18" x 14" x 8" and 11 lbs plus a
hand bag. Do they really check this and charge the extra fee for weight over 11
lbs? Are the overheads so small that they will not carry the typical American
carryone luggage (22" x 15" x 8").

I don't think their problem is the size or weight, as such (and I agree
that they almost always check the weight and insist you check overweight
items) but their aircraft have very tight turn-round times and they
simply don't want all the delay caused by people stowing and retrieving
hand baggage. Hold baggage isn't a problem - the plane can leave on its
return flight even if the checked bags haven't yet appeared on the
carousel!!

I agree. I have never seen full overhead bins on EZY, so no messing
about trying to find space for your bag, so faster boarding.
--==++AJC++==--

"Hilary" wrote in message
...
There have been quite a few instances of aircraft hit by abnormal
turbulence having some overhead bins burst open in the ensuing
mayhem.

You would have to be looping the loop to realistically shift 23 kg!


When people get up while the plane is still taxiing to a gate,

Why are they getting up if the plane is still taxiing?

Because they're stupid? I mean, the plane's probably still moving at
40mph and they suddenly decide they *must* open the lockers, block the
aisle and generally make a nuisance of themselves.

Hilary


Often people will get up when the plane stops, even if it is waiting for the
gate area to be cleared. (seems to be more often a problem in the US than
Europe). they probably weren't taking notice of the announcements.