Not so easy, EasyJet, but it was okay.
I flew on EasyJet on a recent trip from Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) to Rome Leonardo Da Vinci Fumicino (FCO) in October 2014. Booking my flight on the website was easy and got my confirmation email. Fast forward to the boarding gate area in Amsterdam, where the gate agent told me to consolidate my already filled to the brink a backpack and a small drawstring bag (also filled to the max). I was like seriously?!!! I can't put the second bag under my seat? I felt frustrated, irritated, angry, and just lost confidence with EasyJet after that moment. Fortunately, everything did fit into the backpack, but it definitely grew from normal to mega abnormal. After getting on the plane, I saw some people putting their stuff under the seat in front of them and that just really pissed me off. Ugh.
EasyJet is a British based carrier, which flies to many points in Europe. Unlike bigger carriers like British Airways and Air France, EasyJet, I think is a regional low cost airline, exactly like Southwest and JetBlue. Especially when boarding where you have massive boarding lines and you need to find your seat as fast as you can. I boarded out of gate H8 in Amsterdam Schiphol airport. It's pretty interesting how there were two lines for boarding, one main one and the back door. Airlines in the United States don't do that! I guess different places do different procedures. I would say that EasyJet had comparable fares than those of its competition in the European Union. It was cheap enough to fly one way and not having it being overpriced - at least that's what I was thinking. Still, I wouldn't recommend flying this airline, unless you are looking for rock bottom prices to get you from point a to point b fast.
I've only flown with EasyJet just this one time, but I was glad that it was an on time departure. The plane was a Boeing 757, so that was pretty good for starters, but they instituted the one bag policy for everyone, which sucked. Unless they did some political profiling on me, I think it's for everyone. The flight experience was typically okay. As long as it was on time departure and arrival, I was okay with it. Still, it could have been better. The seats were a little narrow, probably because of the large people sitting next to me and I had the honor of the middle seat. Grr. The flight was adequate for what I needed and that was important.
Still kind of cool to hear crew instructions in Italian and Dutch.
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