easyJet drops free large cabin bag on certain fares

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• JimBurgessHill says:

  3 Jul3 July 07:00

  When does the EZY change start? I’ve just done a dummy booking for LGW-AMS in August and the large cabin bag remains included?

  • Rob says:

    3 Jul3 July 07:49

    Last week. It is not included – not sure what you are looking at but it is not there. I did some dummy bookings yesterday and many others raised it on Sat.

    • Ant says:

      3 Jul3 July 08:02

      The Standard Plus option still comes up which includes preferred seating and large cabin bag. Isn’t this just allowing Standard customers the option to pay for a large cabin bag now?

      • Rob says:

        3 Jul3 July 08:50

        Yes, but the bag used to be included in all options.

    • JimBurgessHill says:

      3 Jul3 July 11:25

      LGW-AMS, 06:00, 10/08/23. I’m doing what I always do and selecting “standard plus” as I want upfront seats with large cabin bag. For an extra £27.98 I’m getting Speedy Boarding, Row 2 seat, and large cabin bag. I click through and I’m on a screen stating “bags included for all passengers on this flight” and below it has my name and a green tick against “one small cabin bag included” and a second green tick against “one large cabin bag included”.
      This is how it’s always been for some time unless I’ve lost the plot!

      • Rob says:

        3 Jul3 July 12:52

        Standard Plus is you paying for a bundle of add-ons. As you say, its £28.

        However, last week, you could have refused Standard Plus, just paid £15 or so for Up Front and got the cabin bag and speedy boarding included.

        Now you can’t, so the Standard Plus add-on is cheaper than buying Up Front and a large cabin bag separately.

• John says:

  3 Jul3 July 07:27

  I used the HSBC global money card and it’s just as good as Revoult / Halifax clarity, if not better in my opinion.

  • P4D says:

    3 Jul3 July 07:50

    The exchange rates are good?

  • Dean says:

    3 Jul3 July 08:28

    I agree Global Money rates are very good. Pretty much as good as Starling (EURO) which is my other go to for Euro FX.

    I have had this product for a while and you can hold multi currency so you can convert (like revolut) when rates are attractive and then spend will be taken from that “pot”. I recommend people take a look.

  • TimM says:

    3 Jul3 July 08:44

    I thought Clarity used the daily Mastercard rate which is set a little below the interbank rate to cover rate movements during the day while Revolut uses the actual spot interbank rate at the moment of the transaction.

    • Bagoly says:

      3 Jul3 July 10:16

      With Revolut, there is what they do today, and what they will do tomorrow.
      They continually cut back the amounts available, until I switched to Wise, who might be a little more expensive in some situations, but aren’t going to sting me.

• Simon says:

  3 Jul3 July 07:48

  Having banked with FD for 25+ years, I am switching to Nationwide this week – FD service has got gradually worse in recent years, to the point where every phone call became an annoyance.

  • John says:

    3 Jul3 July 07:53

    Long time Nationwide customer and recent recipient of their £100 bung. Very happy with them.

  • Gareth J says:

    3 Jul3 July 09:13

    Also a long term FD customer who is now happily at home with Starling. They where so ahead of the curve when I joined them, but they’ve rested on their laurels and gotten progressively more difficult to deal with. Continuing to post out paper forms for things in this day and age is just not acceptable.

  • Al_Wiltshire says:

    3 Jul3 July 15:32

    I’ve been with them 15 years and, whilst I’m not planning to move away, I have found myself getting sucked into other financial services. The FD savings rate was woeful for a long time, and I now use Zopa. Starling’s app is far superior for a day to day account, with card controls, virtual cards, pots etc. However, when I came to renew my mortgage FD was by far the best rate and, as a customer, the whole process from start to finish took about 25 minutes.
    I do wish they’d keep up though. Their rate of new features and innovation is definitely disappointing.

• Philip says:

  3 Jul3 July 07:53

  Re 19th June cutoff for easyjet, I tried booking seats for flights booked last winter and the seat map no longer says that a large cabin bag is included. So I am not sure if “for tickets booked from 19th June” is correct.

  • Rob says:

    3 Jul3 July 08:50

    The email sent by easyJet was cut and pasted into the comments on the article yesterday.

  • Lady London says:

    3 Jul3 July 09:19

    Easyjet is not unknown for applying new restrictions or worse conditions before they’ve put them in their t’s and c’s

• The Original David says:

  3 Jul3 July 07:59

  Why is 1C your preferred CE seat? It sticks out into the aisle beyond the bulkhead (compared with 1D), so you’re more likely to get bashed with bags on boarding have have the toilet queue stepping on your feet. Worst seat in the row I’d say.

  • jj says:

    3 Jul3 July 08:05

    The same question jumped out at me. My wife and I have always preferred 1D and 1F for that very reason.

    • TimM says:

      3 Jul3 July 08:46

      Exactly, on easyJet I always book 1D and 1F and hope no one occupies the middle seat for the ‘CE experience’. If the flight is full and someone is allocated 1E, then one of us has to move up and kindly offers the aisle seat to the stranger.

    • Rob says:

      3 Jul3 July 08:49

      I’m 6’2’ that’s why!

      I only ever fly easyJet on my own for fear of reprisals 🙂

      My 12 year old was flying easyJet back from his school trip on Friday and they cancelled the flight, leaving 29 kids and 3 teachers stranded in Geneva overnight.

      • TimM says:

        3 Jul3 July 09:03

        I am 6’4″ and always book and extra legroom seat. On easyJet is it 1F for me every time. 1C is right in the toilet queue, in direct sight of the galley and earshot of all the cabin crew gossip. 1F has the legroom, a window and is tucked away from all that chaos.

      • Save East Coast Rewards says:

        3 Jul3 July 09:06

        I’m ever so slightly taller than that (almost but not quite 6ft 3in – 190cm) but I find the bulkhead at 1D preferable to people hitting me with their bags throughout the boarding process. Row 1 and exit rows are the only rows where I’ll happily book a window seat, in other rows I feel too enclosed and will book the aisle instead. On BA shorthaul the aisle armrests can be raised if you feel underneath them for a button. Makes it easier to sit at an angle if the seat in front is too close.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        3 Jul3 July 09:27

        Flown in 1DEF and it’s perfectly fine for someone that height deffo preferable to getting knocked every few seconds.

      • NFH says:

        3 Jul3 July 09:58

        Assuming that the cancellation was EasyJet’s fault, that’s EU compensation of 32 x €250 = €8000. And that’s on top of overnight accommodation costs regardless of whose fault it was. I hope that this compensation goes to the children, as it’s the passenger, as opposed to the purchaser of the ticket, who is entitled to EU261 compensation.

        • Rob says:

          3 Jul3 July 10:43

          There was strike action at Geneva so I expect nothing back. Replacement tickets on SWISS cost €15,000.

          One parent did offer to send his private jet over but it would have required two trips to get everyone back so they declined.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          3 Jul3 July 11:05

          All the kids went on a skiing trip without insurance?

        • Rob says:

          3 Jul3 July 12:56

          Yes, there’s insurance, but there is a risk that spending €15k on new flights without authorisation and without waiting for easyJet to make an offer (albeit easyJet’s offer is likely to have been 2-3 days later) means it won’t pay.

        • camille55 says:

          3 Jul3 July 11:35

          Love the offer of the private jet! I envious and amused at the same time.:)

        • NFH says:

          3 Jul3 July 12:24

          Insurance is for when the liable party can’t be made to pay. In the first instance, one should request reimbursement or rerouting by the liable party, in this case EasyJet. Insurance should always be the last resort, otherwise it pushes up everyone’s premiums unnecessarily.

          I likewise love the offer of the private jet. Assuming the cost would have been cheaper per passenger than commercial air fares of €15k, I wonder whether it would have been reimbursable under EU261 in order to recompense the generous parent who offered it.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          3 Jul3 July 13:43

          @NFH yup agree but at the end of the day its where you’ll head after/if EasyJet say no! before you start writing off £500-600 per person

        • NFH says:

          3 Jul3 July 14:02

          @TGLoyalty. I pursue EasyJet in the following order of remedies:

          1. Direct request to EasyJet for reimbursement
          2. Aviation ADR
          3. Credit card issuer pursuant to Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974
          4. Financial Ombudsman Service in respect of credit card issuer
          5. County Court claim against EasyJet

          I wouldn’t use insurance unless EasyJet ceased trading.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          3 Jul3 July 23:18

          You have far more patience than me … your insurance could always take up the claim with easyjet with their in-house legal team if it was worth their trouble

• points_worrier says:

  3 Jul3 July 08:02

  The underlying rate for global money is actually pretty good: for USD, it is about 0.25%-0.4% off the Google rate.

  • points_worrier says:

    3 Jul3 July 08:06

    (Unless done at a weekend, when around 1.5%). Curve no longer uses ‘spot’ rate, so is usually similar amounts off. The only thing that’ll beat it is Revolut.
    It gets worse >£1000, but you can break up into smaller chunks to avoid this.

• Julia says:

  3 Jul3 July 08:30

  So now if the whole flight books a bigger bag the speedy boarding queue will be the entire aircraft !!!!!!
  Not to mention there was never the space before for more luggage
  Another classic from easyJet

  • Peter says:

    3 Jul3 July 09:41

    Im surprised that Ryanair/wizz/easyJet don’t have speedy boarding plus or priority extra – for an extra £20 you can board before priority boarding

    • Lady London says:

      3 Jul3 July 12:13

      They will, they will.

  • Travel Strong says:

    3 Jul3 July 09:43

    Not the case, as the large cabin bag does not make you eligible for speedy boarding, nor does selection of an Up Front or XL seat any more. This could reduce the speedy boarding queue, as it will no longer be a queue for all those with a large cabin bag.

    Now you may have more people in the standard queue with paid-for large cabin bags or Up Front / XL Seats.

    Those who have booked Standard Plus, Flexi, or Flight Club will have speedy boarding.

    • TimM says:

      3 Jul3 July 11:31

      I think I prefer the old days of easyJet when there were no allocated seats and you just had to run as fast as you could to claim the emergency exit seats.

• Occasional Ranter says:

  3 Jul3 July 08:52

  I agree with others that you can’t really count this as pure loss of a “free” large cabin bag. The cost of those upfront/XL seats has gone down, and anyway the market for LCCs is so competitive with other players like Ryanair, Jet2 plus all the other less UK focused LCCs, that the overall cost will just settle back wherever the market forces pull it.

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