British Airways vs easyJet vs Ryanair – who is really the cheapest?

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

• Susan says:

  1 Jul1 July 13:41

  For Easyjet I’d agree with you as the hand luggage allowance is reasonable but Ryanair allows no more than 10kg including handbag/laptop etc which is barely a week-end’s shoe allowance for some of us.

• Gordon says:

  1 Jul1 July 18:13

  Easyjet is about to get much worse when you look at the percentage deline in the size of the hand baggage they will allow. No change if you have easyjet plus.

• callum says:

  1 Jul1 July 18:51

  What many frequent fliers on here and similar websites is that most people don’t care about assigned seating. Most don’t care about 1″ less legroom. Most don’t care about a free drink and a biscuit etc etc.

  Its no mystery why the budget airlines do so well. And although someone above was complaining that the hand luggage allowance is barely enough just for shoes, I’ve regularly gone away for up to 3 weeks with hand luggage only. Its people like me who hugely benefit from the budget airlines, not generally people who want to take their whole wardrobe or are fussy about service (not that I’ve ever found Ryanair etc to have bad service if you follow the simple rules).

• Squire says:

  1 Jul1 July 22:13

  I have no idea what callum is on but I’d like some too. Ryanair’s simple rules? Must have missed those…

  As someone living in Northern Ireland I’m often forced to use budget/sh*t airlines at some point in a journey. I’ve used Ryanair quite a few times from Dublin, and thankfully have never been stung by extra fees. The reason for this, is that I view Ryanair flights as a kind of game. I must jump through several hoops and pass several obstacle courses and as a reward I get a cheap flight.

• Sideysid says:

  2 Jul2 July 06:39

  Also worth noting that Tesco run a clubcard promotion (no points required) that nets you a discount of £15pp (when spending over £100pp on European BA flights).

  With some of the cheaper destinations, checked luggage fares can nudge you over the £100pp threshold (discount counts for infants too under the threshold regardless) so it actually works out cheaper to fly BA.

• » Are Ryanair/Easyjet actually cheaper than the non-budget airlines? Maltapoints.com says:

  3 Jul3 July 06:02

  […] the Headforpoints blog (which helpfully alerted me to this research) concludes, “the low cost carriers have been […]

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.