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Flying with Easyjet (13th Jan 12 at 4:47pm UTC)
Anyone booking flights with Easyjet, be aware that they have scrapped the £8 fee for using a debit card and introduced a £9 flat admin fee! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16546582 Also in the same article, news that the firm has been fined by the French for discrimination for refusing 3 wheelchair passengers on board flights from Charles de Gaulle. Slowly, slowly catchee monkey ..... the world is catching up with the fact that we should not be discriminated against on grounds of disability.
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (13th Jan 12 at 5:00pm UTC)
It was for "security reasons" not discrimination. Yeah right
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (13th Jan 12 at 5:48pm UTC)
Scrapped the eight pound card fee and replaced it with an across the board nine pound charge Progress if one step forwards and one back
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (13th Jan 12 at 9:33pm UTC)
They are all supposed to be scrapping the credit card charge - allegedly. How the hell can a wheel chair be classed as a security measure!!!!!!!!!!! It'd not the flight attendants that deal with them its ground crewon the air lift machines - silly b*****s Talk about how to win friends and influence people!!!
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (15th Jan 12 at 1:45am UTC)
Perhaps if the wheelchairs occupants were all members of Al Quieda screaming death to all infidels!!! and had ak 47s plus explosives and a nuclear weapon built into them But i doubt the people using wheelchairs looked like or spoke like that
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (15th Jan 12 at 10:52am UTC)
Only need to look inconvenient for staff trying to pack people into a cabin and be ready for the take off slot allotted to them, for some health and safety or security problem but being cynical affects such thinking.
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (16th Jan 12 at 9:39pm UTC)
Cynical? Who's being cynical?
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (19th Jan 12 at 3:29am UTC)
Dunno But i suspect it will be a tory mp if anyone You gotta love sorry,should read You gotta despise those parasites
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (19th Jan 12 at 10:19am UTC)
Must be highly trained staff to spot them from the customers that pay their wages though
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (2nd Feb 12 at 1:22pm UTC)
RNIB sue Bmibaby for having inaccessible website , http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2012/02/tv_and_radio_on_bbc_iplayer_-.html where does that leave companies that will not let you fly with oxygen, surely a case for litigation
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (7th Feb 12 at 12:31pm UTC)
EasyJet profits, while disabled passengers lose, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/01/easyjet-profits-disabled-passengers-lose
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (8th Feb 12 at 10:57pm UTC)
You can pay extra to get on board first, but: you might get through the gate first but then you get "lost" on the bus out to the aircraft - where's the priority in that? Cheeky s**'s. If enough people stopped using them for whatever reason then perhpas they might play fair but I somehow doubt they ever will, not when profits are more important
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (14th Feb 12 at 4:15pm UTC)
EasyJet turns away Belfast schoolgirl who lost boarding card, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17012468
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (14th Feb 12 at 8:45pm UTC)
Hmm, perhaps they thought she may have been a terrorist
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Re: Flying with Easyjet (14th Feb 12 at 11:17pm UTC)
Got home with Flybe which seems a good idea, if an airline see you as a security risk after you have passed all the checks it would be best to fly with another carrier.
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