Flying with Easy Jet within France

Yes I took Easy Jet from Nice to Bordeaux and have taken them drama free many times in Europe; there is no convenient train connection when you want to go from one coast to the other in France. Easy Jet has 3 flights a day and the flight is 1 hour 25 minutes. Volotea is the only other airline that serves that route.

We flew easyJet earlier this week from Nice to Mulhouse. There was an extremely long line to check in at the easyJet desk, with maybe three separate easyJet flights all scheduled very close together, but just the one check-in line and just three agents checking people in. We eventually made it through bag drop-off, then a frustrating Security experience (that’s the doings of the recently remodeled Nice airport, not easyJet), and then to the general departure area, Terminal 2, Section A. It took seemingly forever to have our actual gate announced (Gate 00 … who besides Nice has a Gate double zero ?!?), and then a wait there to actually start boarding.

The boarding process was disorganized, and priority boarding (“Speedy Boarding” in easyJet’s parlance) was ignored. People just rushed the gate and were allowed through, but then there was a long bottleneck in the sweltering loading rampway, and we stood in there for maybe 10 minutes. Sitting inside the terminal would’ve been better than standing up in a virtual sauna, dangling carry-on bags. We then arrived at our destination about an hour late. Not sure if that’s completely easyJet’s fault, but they didn’t make it any easier. It was a very affordable flight, though, although as they say, “You get what you pay for.”

Easyjet is one of the main European low-cost airlines (with Volotea and Ryanair).

Of course the tickets are cheap, from Paris you can go to Rome or Lisbon for €40 round trip provided you have no luggage.

I fly with them from time to time, but as Cyn says: "You get what you pay for"

Air France is a cheap option within France. Check them as an option.

Air France does not fly directly from Nice to Bordeaux.

I tend to prefer EasyJet, Jet Blue, and Ryanair over trains or driving if it's more than 400 miles or 4+ hours, and there's a reasonable price. I don't understand American tourists who can't seem to understand that flights within the EU (including England) are much less expensive than like moves would be in the USA. I'll be flying to Toulouse, Porto, and Budapest in the next few months and all of these cost less than $150 round trip.

Cyn’s experience is pretty standard for EasyJet. It’s like getting a bus. There’s no luxury or impressive customer service aspect to it. It’s purely functional but it is cheap. All their planes fly a packed schedule so later flights are more likely to be delayed as small issues add up during the day.

I never reserve a seat. I don’t care where I sit and unlike Ryanair they always seat children with at least one parent. All seats are assigned at checkin so I think Aloha is mistaken in what happened during boarding as everyone has a seat by the time they are at the gate. I have also never had any kind of complimentary snack. You can buy from quite a decent range.