What I want to know is — what’s easy about it? EasyJet, I mean. I’ve just used it to go to the south of France and I’m struggling to accept that ‘easy’ best describes it.
I haven’t been on a budget airline for a while but I well remember the era of package trips when going on holiday meant queuing for hours to check on to some battered old charter plane called SunTours or GoldenFly, so I’m not a total novice when it comes to no-frills flying. It’s just that for years now I’ve been enjoying this golden age of cheap air travel which means you can usually get a perfectly reasonable British Airways flight to most places. But this summer I couldn’t get from Gatwick to Nice on BA so I decided to try easyJet.
The first clue that something other than easiness might be going on came as I booked the ticket on their website.
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