Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Karennina on January 11, 2011, 20:21:10 PM
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Has anyone ever flown on a long haul flight economy plus? My son is gong to Australia in March and someone has told him you can fly economy plus for around an extra £150, apparantly it is better then flying economy you have better seats and service better food and tv channels etc. I have never heard of this and dont have a clue how o go about booking this when the flight booking is done, any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
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What airline Karen?
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BA? well worth it for that price to OZ
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Qantas I think, someone told him they paid an extra £150 for the economy plus and it was really worth it, we found a flight on Skyscanner but there was no option to book economy plus!
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Looks fine at that price well worth the extra, but have never flown Quantas.http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/international-premium-economy-class/global/en go for it.
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I'd say the same, go for it - work it out as an hourly rate and you get the extra legroom, better seats etc for £6 more per hour. Or if the £150 is for both ways, £3 per hour. We can all manage a four hour flight to Dalaman with pretty poor legroom etc., but it's amazing how much harder it becomes on longer flights. I used to travel business class to Dubai (which is around 7 hours) but one time the only way was economy with BA (the shame of it I know, I know!) and I was shocked by how cramped it was down the back! Also how difficult and long it made the 7 hour flight. I can't imagine how people doing long haul to Australia could survive economy for 23 hours or whatever it is. Your son won't be flying to Australia too many times I imagine so I'd say the £150 is well spent.
I wasn't paying for the flights by the way, it's amazing how much easier I deal with cramped flights when I have to pay for them myself :D
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I always used to fly economy plus before I could afford business class. It is well worth it for a better seat. Food is the same though.
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I have flow to Australia and on the way out had a seat next to the escape hatches that wasn't to bad but coming back had just a normal seat and unless your son is a contortionist and can sleep with his legs behind his neck I would say go for it the leg room on a jumbo is no better than a short haul Thomas cook flight.
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Thanks everyone he has not actually found anything yet just been told to expect to pay an extra £150 one way hope that is the case and not too much more then that to pay!Keith that is a really good way to look at it by the hour, he is very tall over six foot and also gets bored easily!Thanks again.:D :)
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I think Netflights give the option to put in traveller plus when searching
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We've just booked premier seats to Cuba. It's 199 each return. You need to speak to BA or your travel agent. He must have booked using one or go onto the website and you'll find a contact number to ring. It's certainly worth it. You can check in before everyone else, get your luggage first on landing, food and drink on the plane etc.
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Seem to be having a problem in general finding a flight company that sell economy plus flights for a good price and in general, we tried Netflights and they dont seem to have any flights for March or April how can I find their timetable or are they just agents for all Australian airlines? I really appreciate anyone's help as I have plenty of experience in researching Turkish flights but not to Aussie!He is going or a year and does not want to eat into his spending money too much if he can help it.
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Some airlines (like KLM) don't sell them as standard tickets - but you can buy them as upgrades from 90 days before the flight.
Check the airline web site to see how they handle it.
Ian