alig99
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Reged: 22/06/2008
Posts: 190
Loc: Spain, France, London
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Someone just put added a post to the Easyjet link which reminded me to let you all know how Monarch are behaving. My OH flew from Malaga to London Gatwick yesterday by Monarch. This was not the first time he's travelled by Monarch but this was the first time that...all his hand luggage was weighed, this included his jacket!!  it being a winter jacket it was a heavy one to combat the cooler weather in UK (its still lovely and hot in Spain  ) he was 1kg over the 10kg limit, luckily he was let off the charge, however, he observed that ladies hand luggage including handbag, coat and the other bags were all weighed together! some I understand did not get let off! (I see shades of Ryanair here  ) but last but not least on Monarch you have to pay for the extra leg room seats by the emergency exit £15, well okay but my OH said when he got on the plane no one was sitting in any of these seats so he asked the flight attendant if it was ok to sit in one, the attendant smiled and said yes if you pay me £15!!!!  OH declined but again observed there were 12 empty emergency exit seats for the whole flight interesting; does this mean Monarch are losing out on 12 passengers most flights 'cos people aren't prepared to pay the extra?  Hope someone finds this info helpful. ali
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Biker_Babe
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Reged: 13/10/2008
Posts: 1507
Loc: Scotland
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That is amazing, we flew Monarch in May and they couldnt have been nicer, never had any of that. Just shows doesnt it, they are all finding it hard to make a profit at the moment and are trying every trick in the book.
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tweezers
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Reged: 26/03/2008
Posts: 5
Loc: Suffolk. GB
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WE flew monarch to Mombassa. A nine hour flight cramped into seats. Couldnt sleep as not comfortable. Hubby kept awake as head was lolling into aisle as he dozed and the hostesses kept bumping into him!!!
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JulieJ
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Reged: 29/12/2008
Posts: 549
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I flew Monarch a year ago and although they are fine as an airline, no complaints (that draconian hand luggage weigh in hadn't started then!) I know what you mean about the buying extra leg room. Like you, those seats were unoccupied when the flight took off, and then came an announcement saying taht they could be purchased - can't remember how much now, but no one bought them! I guess they feel that they would rather fly with empty seats than 'give in' and let people have them for free.
Not sure if it was Monarch, but I know some arilines now charge you to 'sit together'. Amazing the wheezes their marketing people come up with.
But the very WORST 'squeeze-wheeze' I've ever heard of is the idea of making passengers STAND the whole flight! Absolute nightmare.
Personally, on long haul flights, I wouldn't mind being 'fed' into a sleeping pod, stacked three high in the fuselage, and given a knockout drink to keep me under until ten hours or whatever had passed and we were coming down to land. And if the plane crashed and burned, at least we'd be killed in our sleep!!!!
Julie
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