I started by reading the article.
And immediately I had a bad feeling: this was an excercise aimed to find the result been "proved", not at random.
a typical British family. What is that? ( I assume that member "Comet" is best placed to give here some comment )
a car seat? Euh, hold on a second. You don't take car seats with you. You get them from the car rental company, sometimes for free. ( Avis asks 39 €
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but at LEK (?) I get it for free )
Return on Monday: yeah, well done Mr. Idealo Blogger. I would like to see the travel times of that LH flight. Great for that typical British family with a child and baby. Arriving in Berlin with the latest flight. By the way: which typical British family travels to
Berlin with 2 small children? "Look here, Grandad dropped some bombs here, great isn't?"
The article mentions London. I do not know if Flanker or the Idealo journalist have ever been to Luton or Stansted. I have. And when I speak with my business relations in Luton or Milton Keynes, nobody says he/she's from London. Good heavens...
Any departure from those airports should not have been included in this survey. I consider under London airports only the ones inside the Orbital, being Heathrow and London City. Gatwick excluded as well. And don't argue about this: because in the same ideology of that journalist who regards Gatwick, Luton or Stansted as London as Heathrow, a family from Stansted could depart from Gatwick, a distance of about 120 km. So no Ryanair and Easyjet...and so no automatic Ryanair bashing.
The stress factor :
Yep, I have mentioned it already myself as a major deterrent of flying LCC. But let us look at this "typical British family" departing from Heathrow and queuing for...3 hours. Great with a nagging child and a smelly baby. See article here under ( I know, it is from the Daily Mail. But a similar article was posted also on more
stiff lipped websites )
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rvice.html
The worst of this entire article is that the test was NOT performed ! The journalist just found some figures on his screen but didn't fly at all. So he should never have mentioned the stress factor.
Imagine that Jeremy Clarkson compares 3 cars without driving them. That would have cost him his job at the BBC.
And as a final personnal note: being a family father myself with maybe a bit more travelling experience than the average Belgian daddy, I don't even bother to look for seperate tickets to touristic places. I just pop in at the local Neckermann shop and get the best deal to Djerba, Hurghada or Tenerife , tickets, transfer, hotel. Departing from the real Brussels airport or Ostend-Bruges (that name
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)
And as second final note:
Look Flanker: I do like SNBA more than Ryanair. But I eventually fly Easyjet more than SNBA. And I like Nokair more than Airasia. But I do prefer Thai Airways. And I take Kulula, but like South African more but prefer 1Time.
Confusing? Read it again. Keeps you busy.
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