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Last year, Ryanair (and also Jet2) seemed to do very well on overall reliability compared to easyJet, TUI, BA and especially Wizz.

Jet2's standout feature for me is actually their ground staff they employ directly who seem motivated and friendly. I was delayed an hour so from Glasgow to Birmingham on easyJet in the summer as there was no Swissport(?) agent to board our plane (and also no baggage handlers when we got to...

I've had the same experience going to typical holiday places in France, Spain and Greece but in the Nordic Countries they have wanted to know more about my visit post-Brexit. All perfectly polite interactions though and they seem very happy to welcome British people for a holiday there...

I passed through Helsinki Airport the other week where they had rows of kiosks before their egates, which I presume are set up waiting to be turned on for the new EU entry system. Not sure how you’d fit kiosks like that at St Pancras though! Of course, I was directed for my customary post-Brexit...

Well, even Premier Inn hotels in Dubai have swimming pools, gyms and mini-fridges with bottled water in every room, at least the one I stayed in had!

Although interestingly, Ryanair has (re)launched twice daily flights from Edinburgh to Stansted last month in direct competition with easyJet and indirectly with BA alongside LNER and Lumo of course.

Didn‘t the (old) Flybe have much the same issues with the Q400s? I thought generally ATRs were the more reliable mainstream turboprop, although I know Loganair have some rather aged ATR42s alongside newer ATR72s.

I believe they are phasing out those Saabs in favour of more ATRs in the coming years.

I entered Schengen this summer via Amsterdam and the agent plonked an entry stamp on a page that was already full, so I was expecting the exit control at Düsseldorf to be a bit upset at this but they didn’t bat an eyelid and put an exit stamp next to a Croatia exit one. I just get the feeling...

Certainly, although it does seem airlines are spreading their risk as well, even Ryanair has a partly Airbus fleet now with Lauda and they chose to lease more for that part of the group rather than deploy 737s. It’s also noted that IAG plans to introduce 737s MAX alongside A320s at BA/Aer...

I am BA Silver so I tend to get an excellent experience with lounge access, free seat selection etc on their flights and I agree with you that their older A320s are excellent. However, their reliability on short haul this year has been poor and two trips were cancelled outright at relatively...

Around 60 percent full with the majority of passengers travelling the full route.

Ryanair has been considerably more reliable in terms of actually running flights as scheduled this summer than Wizz (and actually easyJet and BA too) so they have gone up a notch for me. Wizz was a mess if you took any given day from Gatwick and they closed their Doncaster base at short notice...

Travelled on the relatively new Scottish internal service 091 Aberdeen - Glasgow today operated by McGill‘s. I can’t speak for any of the other Flix operations but in contrast I thought that McGill‘s did an excellent job. The Turismo was really high quality and competed well against anything I...

Aldi definitely have them at some of their City Centre stores, the one on High Street in Glasgow has about 12 of them vs only two manned checkouts. Both of the Lidl stores I go to have them as well. I assume they only install them where most people do basket shops.

I have only flown a couple of times from Leeds Bradford but it never struck me as particularly well connected compared to other Northern English airports like Manchester or even Liverpool. The access reminds me of Bristol with lots of people driving in via fairly minor roads. If you’re driving...

I saw on Facebook earlier that Wizzair will be launching a load of routes to Central/East European from Leeds Bradford, so there must still be a market to serve from the area.

She will definitely check in with KLM at Manchester as they are operating the first flight over to Amsterdam, and are a close partner of Delta. Unfortunately, online check in may be disabled as she's flying to the US and they may want to check visa/ESTA/covid manually. She could try contacting...

At the moment, I believe most German states are fine with medical masks or FFP2 but not cloth masks. I have just returned from a trip to Germany (albeit not Berlin rather NRW) and I’d say around 50% wore the blue disposable medical masks including myself. Interestingly enough, the staff on the...

Well, the BA A320NEOs and A321NEOs have a rather odd configuration where the first 10-15 rows or so have the more comfortable economy seating with headrest etc used on the older BA fleet and then the lightweight seats that easyJet use on their aircraft further back. This means that Club Europe...