Why Easyjet et al are evil

[fingertrouble]

This is why. And Ryanair are far far worse.

What made me laugh:

A spokesman for easyJet said: "We do not have any record of the passenger's request to carry medical materials on board the flight.

"However as a gesture of goodwill easyJet has refunded the passenger for the cost of his flight."

What about the £14k for a private jet? FFS. Incompetence, sheer incompetence. By the way I'm flying to Brussels on bmi and will only fly Easyjet or Ryanair as a total last resort. Especially Ryanair who show a total contempt for customers and any idea of social responsibility or climate change.

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[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

Easyjet and other airlines do (optionally, some not so) offset your carbon emissions....yeah it's probably a drop in the ocean...but the guy who runs Ryanair basically said rather rudely it's all a bunch of hogwash, and he didn't care about climate change.

Nice...he might be right; but planting extra trees didn't hurt anybody. :-/

Taking the train? Makes me laugh. Eurostar is only slightly cheaper if I leave at 4am and leave early on Sunday coming back - 8am? Otherwise it's actually more expensive than a regular (ie. not bmi/easyjet if they flew there/ryanair etc) scheduled flight (BA etc) the rest of the time. One way. I mean for the price of a single one way journey I can get a return on BA or bmi (with change to spare).

And it takes longer.

Believe me I'd prefer the train, but Eurostar's half to two-thirds empty trains and high prices don't really make me want to use them. Ironically for a green service the trains are mostly empty...

So I want to be green, and would be if the difference was 10-20 quid and I didn't have to take (dodgy, and freezing cold) nightbuses in the very early morning. But when the difference for a more reasonable time is over double (£250-300 quid vs £125-150), I start to waver.

[snousle.livejournal.com]

Mm, yes, I had not considered carbon offsets, but I too am extremely skeptical of their value.

I had no idea the eurostar was so expensive!