Is easyJet Plus worth the £249 (up 16%) membership fee?

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• Matarredonda says:

  30 Jul30 July 09:37

  The big advantage with speedy boarding and priority boarding is getting on quick so that you can put your cabin bag above your seat and mot half way down the aircraft@

• executiveclubber says:

  30 Jul30 July 13:31

  You can make use of the cooling off window to have unlimited memberships as and when you need them. But don’t tell anyone…

• R says:

  30 Jul30 July 14:28

  Ezy+ is brilliant if you live at an outstation airport like in Scotland. Yeah the speedy boarding queue is always longer than the normal queue, but in 2 return flights this year just the additional cabin bag has made me break even based on what they wanted to charge me before I put my Plus number in. From hereon-in, I’m getting all the benefits for free.

• executiveclubber says:

  30 Jul30 July 14:51

  The cooling off period is worth a look if you fancy these benefits at no cost…

• Londonsteve says:

  30 Jul30 July 15:32

  £249 strikes me as a hell of a lot of money to pay upfront for a limited array of benefits, not all of which might be useful on every flight. Having paid it, you may also feel compelled to book Easyjet in order to benefit from it, which is probably part of the motivation on the part of the airline to offer it.

  Personally, since I’m flying to and from London, I’d rather put that £249 towards acquiring status with BA, granted, if you’re not London-based you’re far more likely to fly direct to your destination with an LCC. £249 is the cost of CE round trip to an 80TP destination booked in a sale, add on a hotel and rental car for double TPs. Do this twice and you’ve got Silver for up to 2 years, the equivalent cost at Easyjet is £500 with no lounge access.

  • The real Swiss Tony says:

    30 Jul30 July 16:05

    Spectacularly blinkered & London-centric. If you don’t live within 45 mins of Heathrow your argument is utterly irrelevant. It’s an arbitrage opportunity to cover the cost of (A) a full size carry on bag (which you shouldn’t have to pay for but do) and (B) fast track security (which you shouldn’t have to pay for as it all ought to be properly staffed) plus other bits and bobs.

    A silver card is no use if you need to get from Birmingham to Glasgow, but if you’re doing that route once a quarter and value your time, the Plus card more than pays for itself.

    • Londonsteve says:

      30 Jul30 July 16:24

      That’s why I mentioned that if you’re not London-based, you’re far more likely to be flying with an LCC direct from your local airport 🙂

      I recognise my comment is of primary relevance to those in London area, but even if you’re elsewhere, you need to be pretty sure you’re going to be flying Easyjet sufficiently often to merit the cost. If your preferred routes are also served by any of Ryanair, Wizz Air, Jet2, et al, you might prefer to keep your powder dry and pay for extras on an ad hoc basis.

      Do you really need only 8 domestic segments a year to justify the cost? I’m surprised and it speaks to the hideous cost of these extras, even on short hops!

      • The real Swiss Tony says:

        30 Jul30 July 18:30

        Yes £27 for a carry on bag BHX-GLA and £5 fast track security. Slightly more for fast track on the way back. but you’re £65 on the round trip. Do that 4 times and you’re winning. Then if you look at a more extreme example – Cairo.
        £32.99 for the bag, £40.99 for the front row, £4 for fast track at Luton. You’re at £80 on a one way flight. Three of those and you’re square.

        It costs 50% more for me to fly my 14 yr old son’s roll on bag to Scotland than it does for his seat (on a cheap ticket).

        And as for the 45 mins, I did think that through but I live (with good traffic) that distance from LHR and BHX. It may be a generalisation but once you head an hour into London from LHR you’ll be within an hour of another airport.

        However bottom line is that those ancillary charges are now horrific.

    • Londonsteve says:

      30 Jul30 July 16:32

      Btw, I think your 45 minutes cut-off is a bit excessive. I need to leave 1.5 hours to get to Heathrow by road, more like 2 hours in the rush hour. Luton is generally an hour, as is Stansted. Yet Heathrow is still my preferred airport. Gatwick is 2.5 hours by road (which I’d never do) but only 1.5 hours by an affordable train using contactless payment. Even though it takes me longer to get to Gatwick than any other London airport, it’s still my second choice after Heathrow simply because it’s relatively cheap and easy to get to with a direct train, albeit not quick. Road journey times are mainly of relevance if you’re forced to drive or take a taxi, even then the cost of parking might play a bigger role, as does having to factor in whether you need to use the M25 or not. My least favourite airport is virtually the nearest to me, Stansted, because I’d need to take an unreliable coach, parking is hideously expensive and the drop off fee is £7.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        30 Jul30 July 17:04

        45 mins would rule out most of central/south/east London by road

        And most of south / east by rail.

        • Londonsteve says:

          30 Jul30 July 17:09

          Quite. You could drive Swindon to Heathrow in an hour with no traffic, but it would take you longer in an Uber from Shoreditch.

  • babyg_wc says:

    30 Jul30 July 17:11

    they are not mutually exclusive @Londonsteve… I have both BA status and Easyjet+ I fly out of London with BA, and into london with EASYJET… . the thing with Easyjet is you can easily and cheapy book row 1 and get off the plane quickly etc.. also its its pretty tricky to get BA silver status for under £1k in all reality…

    • Londonsteve says:

      30 Jul30 July 18:54

      True, but it’s for 2 years if you time it right. And, the way I look at it, if I’m going on holiday somewhere I want to go anyway (albeit perhaps spending more than I’d like to in the process), it’s not wasted money. £1k to Silver is very hard, that would suggest doing 4 trips to an 80 TP destination and reliably paying no more than £250 each time, which has become difficult. Once you add hotels or car hire, even a 2x BAH to the same array of destinations comes in at over £1k.

      I agree they’re not mutually exclusive. Someone might be a regular on BA and Easyjet as you clearly are. May I ask why you fly outbound with BA but come back with Easyjet?

• chris w says:

  30 Jul30 July 17:44

  Such an odd restriction than the seat assignment only applies to the member and nobody else on the booking. That would surely be a deal breaker for business travellers looking to also take their family on holidays. Even if this perk was limited to two round-trips per year it would make the membership a lot more valuable.

• tw33ty says:

  30 Jul30 July 21:50

  There’s no chance that flight club is accepting new folk, I’ve flown over 20 flights just this year, 35-40 last year with them, and my spend must average over£200 each flight as I book flexi and I’ve heard nothing from them.

  So it’s either not accepting new folk, or 8k-10k a year with them still isn’t enough.

• AlanMac says:

  30 Jul30 July 22:11

  The easyJet plus works very well for me and the Mrs. Well worth the money, disappointed it’s jumped up so much but still well worth it for me. 30+ flights with EasyJet all in row 1 etc. The front rows now have the first luggage bays reserved for them. Probably only takes about 6 flights to get your money back ( front row, large luggage) The speedy boarding and fast track are great perks, but the price promise and the ability to jump on an earlier flight are even better.
  My renewal is up at the end of August and will definitely be renewing. I notice in the artical you can put the code EJMC001 and get 15% off. Can you do that code with a renewal?

  • Rob says:

    30 Jul30 July 22:12

    No idea.

  • McKing says:

    31 Jul31 July 16:32

    I need renewing my EasyJet Plus membership and there isn’t an option to put the promotion code EJMC001, so I guess you will have to find other ways to renew it?

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