Voted for by travel industry professionals, Jet2.com won this impressive accolade for the third year in a row, beating British Airways, easyJet and Lufthansa in the process. 'Best Airline' at the Group Leisure Awards.
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It's official: Jet2 is your favourite short-haul airline. Almost 30,000 readers voted in the 2023 Telegraph Travel Awards, with the Yorkshire-based airline trouncing the likes of British Airways (which finished 12th), EasyJet (10th) and Ryanair (22nd).
Worst of all for legroom are ultra-low-fare carriers Spirit and Frontier Airlines. In at least this case, you get what you pay for: Passengers get as little as 28 inches of legroom when flying with these airlines, which are known for cheap airfare that comes with a bare minimum of amenities and loads of fees.
The most unreliable airlines in the United KingdomeasyJet received 10,494 complaints over a 12-month period and only managed to resolve 54% of them. The second most unreliable airline was another one with its headquarters at Luton Airport: TUI, the UK subsidiary of the German TUI Group.
Jet2 has a fairly reasonable baggage allowance for passengers compared with other competition airlines, such as the strict Ryanair baggage rules. However, Jet2 passengers still need to follow weight and size restrictions and can be caught out by fees if they exceed their designated cabin and hold luggage allowance.
As a family friendly airline we will always endeavour to seat children & infants under the age of 12 next to their accompanying adults. If this is not possible for any reason, we will ensure children are seated as close as possible, and no more than one row away.
Seat and AmenitiesBeing a low-cost carrier, the seats don't recline or have headrests and the actual leg room is about an inch less than their full-service competitor, British airways (BA).
The plane landed in Bilbao in order to let passengers off to use the bathroom approximately two hours after taking off. The aircraft, which has four lavatories, reportedly needed its toilet tank emptied.
According to data from ch-aviation.com, Jet2's present fleet consists of 95 jet aircraft. The dominant force at the airline is the Boeing 737 family, which accounts for 84 of these planes.
Here are the ten worst airlines, according to travelers in the United States: American Airlines: 2,183 flight problems and 6,491 reported complaints. United Airlines: 1,583 flight problems and 5,135 reported complaints. Spirit Airlines: 1,102 flight problems and 3,206 reported complaints.
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic are the only two UK airlines featured in the top 20 world's safest airlines. Qantas topped the list of the world's safest airlines with Air New Zealand coming in second and Etihad Airways was placed in third.
Similar to the easyJet seats, the best ones to go for at the seats near to the exit which can be seats 12 and 14 depending on the type of plane. Seatguru has a list of seats that certain Jet2 passengers will want to avoid on certain planes if they are looking to fly very soon.
The following airlines have some seats with widths below 17 inches, making them among the smallest in the industry: Qatar Airways. China Southern. Caribbean Airlines.