Basel - Venice - Basel with EasyJet

EasyJet is my airline of choice. They are great value for money and have no hand luggage weight limit, unlike most of their competitors.

I try to aim for the first rotation of the day to avoid the risk of any delays. I accept that travelling later in the day with any airline carries an increased risk of delay.

It’s not EasyJet’s fault if the airport doesn’t update the board. I use EasyJet numerous times a year and I have never been delayed by 2 hours, so you were unlucky.

Yes it sounds like bad luck given all the times I have flown them.

I've never had delays like that with Easyjet, sometimes as much as 15 or 20 minutes, but usually arrive early or right time.

The screens are maintained by the airport, not the airline.

Sorry you don't like them.

Easyjet is usually good, better than many other cut-price airlines.

As far as delays are concerned, they are more likely in the afternoon and evening than in the morning.
The reason is because one of the methods the cut-price airlines save is having fast turn-arounds. Instead of 1 to 1½ hours, Easyjet and the others schedule 20 minutes from arriving at the terminal to departure. As soon as the plane comes to a stop, they line-up the passengers ready to board. The time saving means they can get one extra return flight (out-back) from each plane per day. This means there is no spare time. If one flight is delayed 10 minutes, the can never recover and all flights by that aircraft are late for the rest of the day (no overnight flights). So any delays are cumulative, the later in the day the higher the risk one of the earlier trips had a delay.

Living in Asia for so many years I just wonder how people cab accept
such lousy service.

Because the tickets are cheap. One of the reasons they are cheap is that Easyjet cuts down on costs such as staff that can inform passengers when there are delays. You are flying a low cost airline, what do you expect?