Edinburgh to Wellington. NZ is one of my favourite places, so…

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Right now, with winter looming and the dark nights drawing in, it would be a first class only airline taking me direct to a private island in the Maldives to a beach hut with a cold beer waiting for me ………..

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Interesting in the light of our good friend Michael O’Leary recently saying he fancied a pop at going transatlantic with Ryanair if he could pick up the planes cheap enough in the current economic downturn. Good luck to Jet.2 I hope they are successful… very very tough market.

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PS: What’s bad about their site Darren? It seems well optimised? Do you mean the booking engine?

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That’s great news – especially if you’re looking to take in some of the Sopranos sites, since the flight arrives into Newark airport.

I agree about their booking engine being particularly difficult. I clicked on their “Special Offers” promo, select a date and continue getting error messages. I bet they could receive a significant revenue increase by doing basic landing page testing and optimizing their booking process.

Oh – Corsica, please.

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Hi Darren! Haven’t stopped by in a while so I thought I’d check you out. I hear your blog is going great guns – congrats! Maybe Jet2 will be the way I finally get over to the UK; at least our dollar goes a bit further there these days.

Take care and keep up the great work! Barbara

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Hmmm, why do I get a feeling of deja vu, here? The low cost model works on short haul flights, from somewhere to somewhere or at least somewhere to nowhere (or vica versa). In, on , up, down, around and back – repeat ad nauseam. People have been trying this model across the pond – without success – since Sir Freddie Lakers Skytrain. If they are not brought down (because the margins are so tight) by costs, they attract the attention of the big players who will squeeze them out (because across the pond is where their margins are). Jet2 are successful at what they do, which is the standard low cost model but their undoing could be trying to go one route too far. As Jane said on another post, 5 minutes after a company fails, all is forgotton and we are back to cheap, cheap. By all means fly with them and I wish them luck, just make sure you book on a credit card and er….. read the posts re: XL, eh!

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Hello,
A yank here, I’m concerned that when I tried to book a flight from NY (really New Jersey) on Jet2 to Leeds, it says it was only going once in December. Bollix.

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@Jeremy – O’Leary floated the idea of low-cost transatlantic flights long before the downturn really got going. He was talking to the press about it in summer 2007, so he’ll have been thinking about it long before that.

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@Nathan – I thought O’Leary also dismissed the idea of transatlantic, basically because of the length of journey. I may be wrong, but I understood they worked on the 2 hour principle (or maybe less….)?

@Darren
Who mentioned third runways???? I am against the 3rd runway for two reasons. 1. No-one on this planet, save for the terminally (sic) moronic BAA, a few airline exec’s who are terrified by what high speed rail can achieve and those in Government they have got at (brown paper envelope, anyone??) and 2. One extra short one is not enough. You would really need two more full length jobs, which would not fit; so a new airport a la Boris Johnson in the Thames Estuary is not such a daft idea. You could fit this into Gatwick, but too much money lives there……

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On a Lighter Note, do you think the Americans are ready for the likes of Yorkshire Airways,
Mushy Peas on your lap, Stewards doing tricks with a Ferrett, and Flying Allan Bennett Class!!

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I’ve just been on the trip this month and as far as I am aware there are only 4 shopping trips to NY, I don’t think they are trying to make it a regular model, more of a boost for their current services. Very good!

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