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From: Maurice Batey on 9 Aug 2010 11:06
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:51:48 +0100, I wrote:

> Am about to book flights with EasyJet (Gatwick-Faro, October).

Done the booking.

One odd thing I noticed (w.r.t. online checkin & boarding passes) was
the statement:

"If you decide to carry Checked Baggage you must check in as
normal and you will receive a new boarding card."

- which suggests that - if checking any baggage in - there is no
point in printing boarding passes out during online checkin.

In that case, is there any point in doing online checkin at all?

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From: Maurice Batey on 9 Aug 2010 11:22
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:05:25 +0000, pete wrote:

> If you
> have booked a car, it's worth getting off the plane and through
> passport control quickly.

I seem to remember that in Portugal the car rental companies have a
high CDW excess, e.g. €2,000 (e.g. Avis, Europcar).

Anyone know roughly what the current rate charged at Faro is to cover
the excess?

I vaguely remember paying over €30 for a week a few years ago, whereas
I've just found some UK-company 'CDW- Excess' cover for around £15,
which might be a better deal.

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From: Roland Perry on 9 Aug 2010 11:49
In message <pan.2010.08.09.15.06.57.811494(a)nomail.afraid.org>, at
16:06:58 on Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Maurice Batey <maurice(a)nomail.afraid.org>
remarked:
>> Am about to book flights with EasyJet (Gatwick-Faro, October).
>
>Done the booking.
>
>One odd thing I noticed (w.r.t. online checkin & boarding passes) was
>the statement:
>
> "If you decide to carry Checked Baggage you must check in as
> normal and you will receive a new boarding card."
>
>- which suggests that - if checking any baggage in - there is no
>point in printing boarding passes out during online checkin.
>
>In that case, is there any point in doing online checkin at all?

If you are flying hand-baggage-only.
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Roland Perry
From: zaax on 10 Aug 2010 17:40
Roland Perry wrote:

> In message <slrni5tasl.gsq.no_one_you_know(a)corv.local>, at 13:05:25 on Sun, 8 Aug 2010, pete <no_one_you_know(a)notthisaddress.com> remarked:
>
> > Since it's only a short-ish flight,
>
> fsvo
>
> > I wouldn't bother with the over- priced in-flight food. I've never had any trouble taking a bananna or two through the check-points and onto the plane
>
> If it's from the North terminal there are also several food outlets near the gates. (Can't remember what's at the south terminal).
>
> > Although this doesn't apply since yo have bags to pick up, If you
> > have booked a car, it's worth getting off the plane and through
> > passport control quickly. It can take forever (5 minutes)
> > for the car hire desk to process each booking. The fewer there
> > are in front of you the less waiting around and the sooner you're
> > starting your visit.
>
> Agreed - the only useful way to depart Faro seems to be by rental car. Not an Easyjet issue, but watch the rental T&C; the car I hired said no use "off road" and any damage caused offroad is not included in CDW - except the villa I'd hired was down a mile of dirt track. Was that off-road - who can tell?

At Faro it is easier to get on the toll roads than the non toll so be careful

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zaax
Frustration casues accidents: allow faster traffic to overtake.
From: Theo Markettos on 11 Aug 2010 14:27
Roland Perry <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote:
> Main thing is to check which terminal (I think they fly from both). The
> gates at North terminal are a *very* long way from checkin.
>
> Worth buying the speedyboarding (first in queue) if you have any seating
> preferences at all, there's also a dedicated (but not necessarily
> faster!) check-in line.

I haven't flown EZY for a while (and not from Gatwick), but in general you
can be canny and get yourself to the front of the non-priority queue for
nothing (or indeed front of the priority queue if you pay).

If you can, have a look at your flight on the live departure boards for the
airport on days prior to departure and see which gates it typicaly goes
from. This is more difficult at a big airport like Gatwick rather than,
say, Luton.

When you've checked in, go straight through security and head for the area
of gates you're expecting. Keep your eyes peeled out the window for any
likely-looking orange aircraft (less than an hour from departure). When
you've found some, hover around a monitor and when they announce the gate if
your research was right you'll be first in the queue. If you got it wrong,
you might have a long walk though, especially at larger airports.

Don't go overweight on the checked bags - extra kilos will cost a lot. If
necessary find a spare checkin counter at the airport and test the weight.
It helps if you have small heavy items (eg books) accessible in your case so
you can transfer them to your handluggage if necessary. Wear coats, and put
any heavy things in the pockets.

Theo
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