Just to let you know if you don't already. My OH flew from Malaga to London Gatwick yesterday by Monarch. This was not the first time he's travelled by Monarch but this was the first time that...all his hand luggage was weighed, this included his jacket!!
it being a winter jacket it was a heavy one to combat the cooler weather in UK (as its still lovely and hot in Spain
he was 1kg over the 10kg limit, luckily he was let off the charge, however, he observed that ladies hand luggage including handbag, coat and the other bags were all weighed together! some I understand did not get let off! (I see shades of Ryanair here
) but last but not least on Monarch you have to pay for the extra leg room seats by the emergency exit £15, well okay but my OH said when he got on the plane no one was sitting in any of these seats so he asked the flight attendant if it was ok to sit in one, the attendant smiled and said yes if you pay me £15!!!!
OH declined but again observed there were 12 empty emergency exit seats for the whole flight interesting; does this mean Monarch are losing out on 12 passengers most flights 'cos people aren't prepared to pay the extra?
Hope someone finds this info helpful. ali
; also if they have 12 seats not used/paid for isn't that a loss of revenue, an interesting business decision, would it be better to fly with 12 people's airfares than none at all?
