When buying your flights, do you book your extras at the same time?
We always book our seats and luggage straight away, but I just realised it helps my cashflow to book and pay for the extras nearer to flight date.
What do you do, and why?
And I know that it's possible for some to travel without hold bags, but we can't.
Always book seats and baggage with the flights - it's so much quicker and easier. And, presumably, there's a bigger choice of seats.
As for cashflow, would you get an additional card fee if you booked the extras at a later date?
Quote from: isleswing on March 28, 2014, 16:15:24 PM
When buying your flights, do you book your extras at the same time?
We always book our seats and luggage straight away, but I just realised it helps my cashflow to book and pay for the extras nearer to flight date.
What do you do, and why?
And I know that it's possible for some to travel without hold bags, but we can't.
I booked the flight and baggage only at the time of booking. Then I relented and booked the seats later. Should just have done it all at the same time:-)
kenny
Easyjet, who we generally fly with, appear to charge the same for extras added late as those at the time of booking.
I'm sure there's others who may have split pricing. I just tried Monarch, but they make it difficult to compare without actually booking - what are they trying to hide? Ryanair seem to have only one price, though.
We booked for October with Easyjet when the flights were released just before Xmas, so that's a chunk of my money they're sitting on.
We have long-leg seats, so they need booking early, but next year, the cases will wait till nearer the flight time.
I always book the flight + seat reservation + extra baggage + in flight meals all at the same time (usually with TC to Tom) not sure if you can book things later....
WHAT LUGGAGE? You lot must be made of money, 3 T' s, 2 shorts, Knicks,Sox, toothbrush, razor. Buy consumables when you arrive.
SEAT RESERVATIONS. Already covered
IN-FLIGHT MEALS. YUK. Nice fresh boc from Dulce y Leche, 2 euros
Quote from: Spike On Q on April 07, 2014, 00:53:12 AM
WHAT LUGGAGE? You lot must be made of money, 3 T' s, 2 shorts, Knicks,Sox, toothbrush, razor. Buy consumables when you arrive.
SEAT RESERVATIONS. Already covered
IN-FLIGHT MEALS. YUK. Nice fresh boc from Dulce y Leche, 2 euros
A checked-in bag costs the passenger £38.
Say ten passengers decide not to pay for this, that means £380 lost income for Easyjet.
Oh Dear, poor Easyjet you say.
But they want that money.
180 seats on the plane. Say 15 empty seats = 165 paying passengers.
Everyone's ticket just went up by £2.30 to keep the figures right.
That's a gross over simplification, but every plane must average x revenue.
Those of us taking (admittedly) stupid amounts of luggage are subsidising the carry-on-only customers.
You should be thanking us.