Cheap airlines
They offer as much safety as ordinary airlines. Competitive prices are mostly due to lowering comfort while travelling and reducing office management costs and the number of personnel.
In general, cheap carriers:
- Do not offer passengers additional services, such as: a free meal, access to press during the flight;
- They do not make it possible to book particular seats on a plane (for instance a window seat or an aisle seat) unless you pay extra; there is a rule “first come, first served”. The planes used by cheap carriers usually have the following seats layout: one aisle in the middle, 2 rows with 3 seats in each of them.
- Do not return money in case a passenger resigns from his flight;
- Do not allow to make preliminary booking and do not give any guarantee that the ticket price will remain unchanged and in case the current ticket price, taxes or administrative charges or other fees for the flight are lower, the passenger will not receive a refund;
- do not allow to transport animals except for a guide dog, however travelling with it requires fulfilling specific conditions defined by the airline (documents, security measures);
- usually use smaller airports which are often quite far away from the city center (even to 100 km);
- do not issue paper tickets – check-in usually is based upon the booking number, which you receive via e-mail.
