Excel Airways > Reviews

Advantages: Friendly staff, nice flight
Disadvantages: loosing my bagge, slow response from airline

...Tenerife. We were flying EXCEL airways. We have never flown with these before but my mum had on a couple of occasions and couldn't fault them. On arrival at Gatwick with tons of time to spare we thought we'd go and see where to book in thinking it was early and we'd be at the front of the que of people...how wrong! Excel had about four flights checking in on as many desks so the que was pretty massive. It moved steadily and soon we were at the ... Read review

Advantages: they got us there and back
Disadvantages: none particularly, in my experience

We booked our flights with Excel Airways back in January, then I read some of the reviews on Ciao, and thought, Oops! BOOKING We booked through the website. It was very easy to use. We paid a deposit of £120 (£40 per person) and the balance was automatically debited from my credit card in June, exactly on the day they specified, eight weeks before we left. There is an optional charge of £12 per person to reserve your seats, but we didn't take ... Read review

Advantages: Quick check in at Gatwick, good food, reasonable price
Disadvantages: Cramped seats, worrying anouncements from the captain

...don't mind slightly cramped seats, Excel seem to offer a good service at a reasonable cost. However, check in at Larnaca could be improved. ... Read review

Advantages: Good crew, nice food and well organised throughout
Disadvantages: none especially

...seen here on Ciao about Excel airways I was very interested to see what my flight would be like. If you read my last op you will already know that our destination was the sunny Island of Corfu, and that our flight was at the ungodly time of about 6am. We flew from Manchester Airport, and we got there in plenty of time to check in. This was the first thing that was good about Excel, they had opined the check in desks early and we were first to be ... Read review

Advantages: Friendly hostesses, nice food, nice flight
Disadvantages: Fat man squashing me.

...Club 2000 site and saw Excel Airways. After a few initial problems with the club 2000 site, I eventually got to book my flight. The prices were coming up at £163, which were the best I had seen. We wanted to go at a reasonable time as my husband had just worked a nightshift and we needed to fit the flight in with his day. He came home at 7.50 on the Friday 15th of March and we set off at 3pm which he then had a few hours sleep. The flight ... Read review

Advantages: At least the plane didn't crash
Disadvantages: 33 hour delay

...May 2001 I flew with Excel Airways from London Gatwick to Heraklion, Crete. Sadly I was supposed to be flying to Santorini some sixty miles north of our arrival point so I imagine you can tell this isn't the start of a glowing recommendation. My girlfriend and I arrived at the airport at 4am for the 6am flight. Just after checking in we were told there was going to be a two and half hour departure delay and handed a letter of explanation along ... Read review

Advantages: Extra Legroom, Leather Seats, Good Food, Nice Staff
Disadvantages: None

...Malaga on 25th Jan on Excel airways 06:30am flight. I almost cancelled my holiday when the tickets arrived and i found out Excel were the airline, i was a bit apprehensive about the flight because i am a very nervous flyer and i had never heard of Excel before. I am so glad that i diddnt, this is a nice friendly airline. On boarding we were offered free Daily Mail newspapers which i thought was a nice idea. The leather seats really are comfy and ... Read review

Advantages: Great Staff, Nice Meal, Good Inflight Entertainment
Disadvantages: None

...anything. I have flew with excel airways only once and I think they deliver an excellent service. Excel airways have only been in existence for three month's since there first flight from Gatwick airport which was described as the most glamorous take-off ever seen. Inside the plane is very spacious, the legroom you get is much better than any plane I have travelled with before and they have a selection of magazines available under the seats ready ... Read review

Advantages: good price, excelent food
Disadvantages: usual space restrictions apply

...found we were travelling with Excel airways we were filled with trepidation. Is this an airline that is going to get us on holiday and if it does, will it get us home after? Our first impressions of exel where quite good, their web site is good with plenty of detail, www.excelair.com. Upon arrival at Manchester airport, early one Friday morning, the queue at the check-in desk was already long, but as the desk was already open, 20minutes ... Read review

Advantages: They fly from cardiff - thats it!
Disadvantages: where do i start

I flew with Excel airways for the very first time on holiday to Sharm el Sheikh in september 2006. Thought it was great that we could fly from Cardiff so easily . but being able to fly locally was the ONLY advanatage! We arrived at check in Cardiff at least 2 hours before as we usually do. We purposely had ensured that our suitcase was below the weight restrictions so that there would be no problem. If you rememeber at the time there were various ... Read review

Advantages: On-time arrivals, friendly staff, free in-flight meal, low prices
Disadvantages: Luggage was knocked around quite a bit

...was so low, we expected Excel to be a typical “low cost airline”. We were quite wrong! In addition to the flight, you received 20kg of hold luggage for each person, real paper tickets that are posted to you and an in-flight meal. Most other airlines will only give you 15kg in the hold – some even charge extra for luggage! We arrived at Gatwick airport very early in the morning, three hours before the flight (due to increased security). At this ... Read review

Advantages: Budget Airline, reasonable cost, ideal for short flights
Disadvantages: Book within 5 days of travel you don't get the option of a meal

Excel airlines - First time for us using them and we were off to malta for a week. Because it was a late booking of less than 5 days we were told on arrival at Gatwick airport to go to the Skybreak desk to get our tickets. Our flight was for 5am in the morning but what they forget to tell you is that the skybreak desk is closed from 10pm in till 4am, panic time. We arrived at 11pm due to family giving us a lift and not expecting them to come ... Read review