In my world of budget travel, where as much as I'd like to refuse to fly Easyjet on principle for losing my bag, the reality is that I will keep going back for more substandard service and distant airports*, the goodwill seems to have become a thing of the past. My much beloved sight, www.skyscanner.net, which has served me well over the last 10 months and will forever be on my favourites for as long as I am in this part of the world, has recently been dangling pineapple lumps in front of my face and yanking them away!! In between Claire purchasing her flight to Venice, and lappy (laptop) going from her hands to mine, the flights went up in price!!! Yesterday, my £17 return birthday flight to Stockholm was no longer when I went online to buy them. That's two in a row!! To be fair, paying NZ$60 for a four hour flight is not too bad considering it costs NZ$99 to fly from Auckland to Wellington, a one hour flight that leaves you still in the same country. It's Pandora's box, once you catch your first 1p flight, there is no going back!! I don't know the meaning of personal screens, free meals, and three hour check-ins any longer!!
*On a positive note, I was talking to a British Airways Steward who said that despite the fact that Ryanair's planes have tin-can persona's, they are perfectly safe and even though he gets flights at discounted rates on BA he still occasionally flies Ryanair because the reality is, you can't go wrong with a 1p flight!!
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