miltiades wrote:Are you telling me that EasyJet is an unsafe Airline ???
Does easy jet use ....junior pilots ???
Mate , I look for value for money , I work for my money, still at the age of 70, I fly 6 or seven times a year to Cyprus and I'm not going to give my hard earned money to some badly run airline that does not recognize the difference between a debit card and a credit card !!!
CY went out of business not because it was a well run airline but the opposite. Lets hope the new one is more efficient .
By the way years ago on a thread about CY I predicted the down fall calling CA " SKY HIGH ROBBERS ".
BTW Miltiades, I have spend over $35000 in airfares every year for a long time and have enough miles points to go around the world 3 times in business class. And I'm planning such a trip next year (whirlwind 5 continents tour all free of charge). That's a lot of travel.
there are no sky robbers. just airlines which have high standards and those with not so high standards and I've seen it all from behind the scenes. Anything from counterfeit parts to Airlines breaching minimum safe altitudes which if you ask is a real biggy. These things also occur in Britain and Europe believe it or not and under other highly regulated frameworks.
You would be well advised to not be so blaze about your travel, and to stop talking down carriers (like CA) which were as a matter of fact a very good airline.
To answer your question about EASY, it is probably fine as it operates under a very tight British regulatory framework (CAA). but not all LCC have that, which means the entire LCC industry is a bit like playing Russian Roulette. There are hundreds of airlines, which offer cheap fares that shouldn't even be flying.
EASY however, no matter how tight the regulatory framework is, is not as good as its non LCC competitors.
So I wouldn't if I were you be jumping on and off Russian registered LCC carriers, or eastern European LCC carriers or Belarus LCC carriers just like you wouldn't for Indonesian Registered LCC and there are many many more. You are risking your life. do yourself a favour and pay a little extra and jump on an Emirates, QATAR, Air France, Lufthansa, QANTAS, British Airways or something along those lines. Cheapest is NOT always a great idea. And don't put your loved ones on certain LCC airlines either.
fact of the matter is this. Low Cost means the airline is cutting overheads elsewhere. Some airlines do illegal stuff as well.
