Is easyJet Plus worth the £215 membership fee?

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• Bagoly says:

  2 Jul2 July 11:30

  “Free speedy boarding – although this is less important if you have a seat selected”

  Is that copied forward from the very early days of Easyjet when they had unallocated seating, like South West still does?
  Everybody has seats selected.
  The great advantage of Speedy Boarding is that you will have not a problem getting your bag in the overhead locker.
  And at some airports you get to wait at the gate in a separate area, often with 10-20 seats for 10-30 people, rather than 30 seats for 150.

• Mark LLL says:

  2 Jul2 July 13:09

  Regular EZY travellers can make educated guess at which departure gate, and those able to see easyjet-liveried plane landing can likely see which gates to head for. If (like me) you naively expect to see advance gate info on departure board screens, well the jokes on you and you’ll only know your gate when the screen says boarding or perhaps it will change straight to closed. Rushing to the appropriate gate and openly mocked/ quitly despised by non-speedy boarders crowding the narrow access to the gate.
  Ahh. I can’t wait for my next trip (this afternoon as it happens)

• David says:

  2 Jul2 July 13:57

  The 10% discount on food doesn’t seem to work curranty, they stopped doing physical cards so you need the virtual card in your phone wallet/passbook.
  However the link to download this has been broken. Phone up every couple of months, still told its broken.

• Bernard says:

  2 Jul2 July 14:40

  Understanding EasyJet just gets more and more hard. So many nuances that it’s hard not to be caught out. At times it almost feels likes it deliberately done to catch people out and make huge profits at the gate.
  Jet2 are brilliant- straightforward and you know what you get. Never seem to cancel unlike the orange muppets, and jet2 have some hotel prices at the higher end too, and they answered the phone when I had a problem. If only they had Gatwick flights and a shame the useless nasty Wizz picked up the spare slots there.

• Dave says:

  2 Jul2 July 15:09

  If you use EJMC001 at the checkout, you get a 15% discount on the annual subscription.

• Stu says:

  2 Jul2 July 15:50

  With up front seats often weighing in at a penny under £50 now, I’d it’s say definitely worth the money. We are both members so £400 paid – as it was our first time on EJ+, I decided to keep a spreadsheet so that I could keep track of our savings. The front row seats on the bookings with made would have cost £1780! Subtract the £400 membership so that’s a saving of £1380 this year … defo worth the expense!

  • RG says:

    2 Jul2 July 16:44

    I also keep a track of this too, with a more conservative estimate on cost of seat booking fee, up top bag and fast track, and after just 4 run flights I’m up by quite a lot.

• Niall says:

  2 Jul2 July 17:50

  I fly EasyJet when they’re significantly cheaper than others but there is no way I’d buy something that would encourage me to use them any more than this.

  Their boarding/preboarding I’ve always found so slow. It is almost always a worse experience than BA, especially from the U.K.

  They stopped admitting flight club members without warning or still telling anybody.

  They do not pay 261 compensation when other airlines would. Blaming knock on effects of much earlier flights or their own wrongly recorded landing times etc.

  They’ve had so many catering issues.

  Etc

  You might get your money back from this in 3 return flights with seats and cabin bag depending on route… but that’s if you value those things at the prices they charge. Those seating and baggage prices seem too expensive to me right now, so it would take more like 6 return flights for me to feel I was getting value. 6 return flights in a year with EasyJet is too grim a prospect for me.

• Peter K says:

  2 Jul2 July 18:38

  My personal view is that easyjet used to be my favourite airline short haul, but they’ve made themselves much lower with the changes they’ve made and the general experience on board.

  For example, flew to Copenhagen a few years ago, out with SAS, back with easyjet. It was like night and day. After the SAS flight I arrived fresh and in good mood. The flight back was stressful and a bad experience despite the short flight, speedy boarding, up front seats etc. Nothing to do with the crew, just the overall experience with easyjet from luggage check-in onwards was very poor. The only saving factor for easyJet was it was half the price of SAS.

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