Never booked one online before. It was very annoying!!!

The real problem is that I feel totally ripped off - and yet if I had known the final price up front I would have been happy to pay it.

Base price £199
Go to checkout

Have a checked in bag - £26 (OK you can have 10kgs hand luggage for free)

Check in online - £8 (if you do it at the airport is it £16) this is not optional so how can this be an optional add on!

Pick a seat - £3.99 standard, £8.99 extra leg room, each way!!! Again this is not optional

Credit card - £13 (again all forms of payment had a payment add on)

Booking fee - £13 (this was the cheapest booking option doing it online)

There were some other costs on top - can't remember them now - but we declined the meal option and worked out how to say NO to travel insurance and finally ended up with £299 each!

Even more annoying is that last Friday the same flight was £100 cheaper!

 

Sorry to hear about that rip off. Sounds more to me like false pretences on their part!

Les

 

199 !

i assume thats to Sydney

 

It is normally £89 to £99 plus the 'extras' but I left it too late to book the cheap price.

If you book months in advance it is £9.99!

 

they are trying to survive, its dog eat dog in the airline industry, though if you weigh up what you are getting, safe, comfortable* transport over hundreds, maybe thousands of miles in probably one of the most technologically advanced and complex machines on the planet, it doesnt seem so bad. We have all got used to cheap fares, air travel used to be the preserve of the very wealthy.


*if you get the extra leg room, came back from Turkey in a standard Monarch 28 pitch seat, I am just over six foot, longish legs and it was bloody purgatory ! going to Calgary at the start of July, work have paid for "premium" on Thomas Cook, apparently can go business class if its over ten hours but chose direct from Manchester rather than pee about with flying down to London first to go on Air Cananda or BA, or not as the case may be, I prefer to not travel on airlines where the people who serve the drinks decide whether the plane flies or not.

 

My point was not to criticise the price of the flight.

At £300, at short notice it is still competitive and the only direct flight available. I would have happily paid it...

...my point is that the flight came up as £199 and once the gouging had finished it was £300.

So they have turned a potentially happy customer into a very pissed off customer.

 

Have you worked out what the APD is on your flight? Do it then you'll have something to moan about.

W@nkers!

 

That was around £25. That was the bit I forgot about as it was added after the price was given.

Nothing extra to moan about.