easyJet...you could not make this up...

Cancelling 200 flights over the holiday period..i.e. the next 10 days...
The reason they give is...
"the cancellations were necessary "to provide reliable services over this busy period".

Cancelling flights obviously provides a reliable service in Easyjet's mindset

 

My mate has about six or seven holidays a year, all flying with Tui. He keeps a close eye on their flights on a daily basis and says they are regularly being delayed by up to and more than 12 hours.
I don't know if it's covid causing staff shortages but I assume Easyjet are in the same boat and are trying to consolidate flights so that the ones they do have actually leave on time.
Either way its a mess.

 

Instead of moaning about a company, if your not happy book elsewhere, but yer, maybe they weren’t all that **** when they offered you the cheapest price, suck it up and stop whingeing

 

I might be looking at this far too logically, but I presume they're canceling 200 flights to ensure that the other couple of thousand or whatever flights can go ahead as planned.

Covid hit the travel industry harder than most, causing thousands of redundancy. Some companies have picked up the pieces much better than others.

I suppose one criticism you could level at easy jet is, why schedule those flights in the first place, knowing they'd struggle to fulfil them. Jet2 cancelled one of my flights last year (albeit 4 months before I was due to fly), to ensure they could allocate staff more efficiently. So it's not isolated to easyjet.

 

Maybe it's about filling 3-4 planes and not flying a dozen a quarter full.

 

Got an extra day in Paris and £660 compensation when they cancelled our return flight. Could have been worae!

 

Isn’t weird that a bunch of cabin staff previously fired don’t all desperately want to come back and start on new contracts with the same company that gave them the boot.

I’m fairly sure that my BA flight in July will be cancelled due to shortages/strike action.

 

Are you EasyJet’s dad or something?

 

Daughter flew with tui 3 weeks ago from Manchester, took 2 hours to get through security so they arrived at the gate 10 minutes after it was due to close but was still open, got on the plane, turned out there were another 25 people in the airport stuck getting through the sht show. Plane waited another hour for them, they were lucky it was package holiday and therefore tui flight waited, Ryanair they’d all have missed the flight.
Daughter was talking to those around her, some were in the same point of the queue for flights 3 hours after my daughters flight, and therein now lies the problem, no one has confidence the airports won’t be a mess so there’s an arms race of turning up earlier and earlier, meaning people aren’t being prioritised properly through bag drop and security. Someone’s going to have to bite the bullet and only allow bag drops in the order of your flight.

I am sure that airlines would rather cancel flights to guarantee they don’t delay their other flights and get hit by compensation claims- I think Ryanair cancel flight with minutes to go for this reason, that was even before covid.

 

As someone who flew out yesterday on jet2 and is due back on easyJet in a couple of weeks, I am somewhat upset to hear this news.

Unless I find my flight has not been cancelled

I quite like it here

 

Nope, just get fed up of constant moaners that are driven by price when the book flights but find it easy to complain about things that are often out of the control of a company. Flights are cancelled due to multi factors and I certainly wouldn’t complain if I paid what they charge for flights.
COVID still impacts every sector and people should consider that before blaming companies that are in difficult situations and often reply on multi factors to deliver a service. Things aren’t always simple, but hey I guess I take a mature approach in a cynical world

 

I understand the reasons it may happen and agree that it may be the right choice by the company but that doesn’t mean people lose the right to feel aggrieved and unhappy at the situation. If they have lost money on a nonrefundable holiday or will miss an important event abroad then obviously they’re going to ‘whinge’. The original cost of the flight doesn’t change that; cheap means that you expect no frills, not no flight.

 

That’s what insurance is for. Nothing is ever guaranteed, so sometimes expect to change your plans

 

Is your mate Bossman?

 

Mate got stranded in Egypt recently when EasyJet cancelled flights, he and approx 600 others were told at airport of cancellations after hours waiting and told had to find own accommodation and way home.

 

When we got married in Jamaica, BA went on strike, we had to stay in our all inclusive resort for 3 extra days and when got back they refunded cost of a taxi from Gatwick to Heathrow and loss of earnings too.

 

Lol, I don't think so. Bossman's funnier.

 

Just arrived back 3 hours late from Dubrovnik. In the words of our captain “this morning wasn’t the best of times for Manchester Airport”.

 

Behave thi sen.

 

Due to fly from Birmingham to Dubrovnik in 3 weeks and to be honest, I am dreading the airport experience. I am expecting a sh11t show. We are planning to be in the airport 3.5 hours before the flight with bags already dropped the day before, and I am still not confident of getting through in time.

I'll be glad when the plane takes off, that's for sure, as long as I am on it.