Monarch or Jet2 ?

[Triple3]

I have to fly to Almeria, Spain in the new year and having recently done it from manchester to London to madrid to Almeria I then flew home direct with Norwegian Air as I couldnt be arsed with all connections.
Norwegian do not fly the day I am going back and work dont usually use budget airlines but I noticed Jet2 and Monarch have direct flights to Almeria or Malaga. 1 hour drive or 3 hour drive to destination respectively once landed. Does anyone have experience of either and which is better

 

[ianrauk]

For a flight as short distance as that. It doesn't really matter surely. You pay your money and you sit on a plane what ever the flavour.

 

[Beebo]

Take the one with the 1 hour drive, the flights will be almost identically bad.

 

[Triple3]

For a flight as short distance as that. It doesn't really matter surely. You pay your money and you sit on a plane what ever the flavour.

Very true and I thought much the same after norwegian airlines flight, 3 hours asleep and pretty much same as every other flight I take just no food. Monarch it is

 

[pawl]

I have to fly to Almeria, Spain in the new year and having recently done it from manchester to London to madrid to Almeria I then flew home direct with Norwegian Air as I couldnt be arsed with all connections.
Norwegian do not fly the day I am going back and work dont usually use budget airlines but I noticed Jet2 and Monarch have direct flights to Almeria or Malaga. 1 hour drive or 3 hour drive to destination respectively once landed. Does anyone have experience of either and which is better

Have used both.Jet2 fly from East Mids Monarch from Birmingham.
Use East Mids as only 30 minutes away.Not much to chose between them.

 

[screenman]

Years since we used Monarch but Jet2 we have used a lot, not had a problem yet.

 

[DCLane]

1 hour drive. Jet2 seem to have a bigger baggage allowance though.

 

[Jimidh]

I would chose the one with the one hour drive.

We have used Jet 2 loads of times and for a 2-3 hour flight they are perfectly acceptable.

 

[ColinJ]

It was many years ago and things might have changed now, but I flew Monarch to Corfu and the spacing between the rows of seats then was ludicrous. I am not super tall, but I could barely fit in. (And before some wit says it - the problem was my medium length legs not my waist size!)

 

[NorthernDave]

Jet2 are about as good as it gets as a budget airline, although I'd take the one with the shorter drive once you land.

 

[Triple3]

[QUOTE 4610583, member: 43827"]Why would anyone choose a flight that gave them three hours driving time to destination compared to one hour? You'd spend longer driving than you would flying.[/QUOTE]

For a few reasons really...
Firstly the 1 hour drive flight means leaving my house at 2:30am new years day as opposed to much later for a malaga landing.
The drive from Malaga is a straight drive and since I have a 13 hour day shift the following day I prefer not to be up at stupid o clock for flights and will take a drive over the early start
Lastly monarch do not take my company card so I wont be using my cash to pay thus its a Jet2 flight

 

[gbb]

We flew Jet2 this summer, generous luggage allowance and no problems encountered.
Flown Monarch a few times, not memorable either way, bad or good...just ok, similar to most I suspect.

The only airline I used to enjoy flying was Cyprus Airways...thoroughly good service although they were always scheduled flights not chartered.