Fly.be airline

Has anybody flown with them? Do they actually charge extra for putting your suitcase in the hold - even when it's within your luggage allowance?

They are a low cost airline. Charging for every little thing wouldn't surprise me one bit..
I'm surprised they even give you an free allowance...

might be an idea to look on the website I guess...

took me about 30 seconds on their website to find out that they do seem to charge

Thank you so very much boomtown rat and Darkknight. Yes, I did look at their website but having never done a trip with a low cost airline I was in disbelief that they wouldn't include at least one suitcase with the cost of the ticket... (Guess, I should travel more). Thank you for your prompt responses...

have a nice flight

are you sure you read the website correctly, BR? The bit I read stated that 20kg of checked luggage was included for economy class passengers and that you only pay £7 per kilo if you go above this.




http://www.flybe.com/economy/default.htm

I've flown with them. Yes, you do pay for checked luggage.

The one flight I had booked with them from Hamburg to Birmingham was cancelled due to technical problems with the aircraft. Given that I've had the same problem with Easyjet out of Munich, I suspect this is a problem with less-popular flights on budget airlines - they only have one aircraft in Hamburg, and if it has problems, the flight has to be cancelled.

Fly-be is at least partnered with BA, so they were able to get us all on a later BA flight to Heathrow and bus us to Birmingham. Not much fun for the kids.

Thank you Matt T, I was hoping someone who had actually flown with Flybe would reply. Thanks for the confirmation that they charge for checked baggage. I thought as much but it certainly appears to be not as clear as it could be on their website. I've read there are often cancelled flights, and unhappy passengers so I am hoping that I will actually get to the UK next week and of course back again...

blowwavedave, can you post a link to your quote because as you can see if you follow the link I posted their website clearly says 20kg for economy, nothing about it being pre-purchased, so I am totally confused.

FlyBe is 15% owned by British Airways after BA sold their regional operations (BA Connect) to FlyBE.

Bored at work...so let me post a link to Flybe.com - Baggage

# A Bag weighing up to 20kgs being placed in the aircraft hold will be charged at a rate of £10.00 per bag per one way flight. A discounted rate of GBP5.99 per bag per one way flight will be charged if bags are booked up to two hours prior to departure through Flybe.com. No refund will be given on this discounted rate.
# Bags can be paid for at the airport at a rate of £10.00 per bag per sector for bags weighing up to 20kgs. Payment must be made in full by either cash or credit/debit card. Split forms of payment are not permitted.

However:

Flybe Economy Plus passengers may carry bags up to the allowance of 30kgs free of charge.