Monarch Airlines > Reviews

Advantages: good staff, good service, very helpful
Disadvantages: low budget and it shows

...a flight to Spain with Monarch airlines (aha - we finally get to the Monarch bit I hear you say!). I searched for ages on the net to find a flight on the days I needed, I was flying out on a Monday and back on the following Thursday. Monarch were the cheapest flying direct from Manchester, and had a good selection of flights and times to choose from, which was good because I needed to get into Spain and then get a train to where my boyfriends band ... Read review

Advantages: excellent service, staff, food
Disadvantages: hard to get out of seats when everybody's food trays are down

...labelled as check-in for 'All Monarch Flights'. I'd imagine that as the day goes on, this could get extremely inconvenient, especially for anybody who suffers from traffic delays, and arrives at the airport having to queue behind people not scheduled to set off for another two hours!! But, as I say, this wasn't any problem for me, because we got there so early and there were only two other people in front of us. Monarch make sure that boarding ... Read review

Advantages: Reasonable fares, very helpful staff.
Disadvantages: Needs a little more leg room!!!

...I decided to fly with Monarch purely for the fact that they offered the cheapest flight. On the dates I WANTED to travel, Easy jet were offering a return flight for £350 at the cheapest. I got mine for £137. Quite a difference I thought. Then again its probably my own fault for leaving only three weeks before booking. Now as a few of you may know my health is not the best. My main concern was having to carry my baggage as with my back I'm unable ... Read review

Advantages: Fly Direct to Malaga from Manchester Airport
Disadvantages: All round poor service

...to Malaga from Manchester was Monarch airlines. Let’s book some tickets…. Naturally it is possible to book your tickets on-line via the Monarch web site - www.flycrown.com. I booked the tickets in two batches, because my parents were coming to Spain with us for the first week of the fortnight holiday. This is when the first complication arose. Like many e-commerce systems the first time you use it you have to provide all your address and credit ... Read review

Advantages: Good entertainment, food, big so able to solve problems.
Disadvantages: Not a mind of information but reasonably helpful

Monarch Airlines (MON) I recently travelled with Monarch for the second time from Gatwick to Bodrum (MON3481) on an Airbus A300600 (or something like that). It wasn’t through choice as it was a package but I was fairly pleased. Check in was fairly good and fast although I was not impressed by the way there were about 6 desks all saying ‘all monarch flights’, I checked the code on the baggage labels and fortunately they did ... Read review

Advantages: Modern fleet, excellent crew, passenger orientated
Disadvantages: unhappy passengers

...your salary or I flew monarch in 1986 to Ibiza and the seat pitch was awful! I know all of this! After 6 years of flying with Monarch, I know every gripe there is with the airline industry. I just wanted to write a review form the other side of the fence, as an ex-employee of a charter airline. It was always my dream, from when I flew Monarch as a little girl, that I would be a stewardess for Monarch Airlines. Well, many years later my dream came ... Read review

Advantages: First class , eccelent food and service.
Disadvantages: maybe a little more leg room would be good

...came across an advert for Monarch Airlines, They have a very informative website and easy to understand booking facilities online so we decided to give them a try and got tickets for £150 each return, and so glad we where too! The service we found from the booking in, to departing the plane in Alicante Spain was all first class. The staff can not do enough to make to make you feel at ease and satisfied. After booking in we headed down to the departure ... Read review

Advantages: Good Food
Disadvantages: No Legroom

...came to be flying by Monarch Airlines after booking a holiday to Egypt with Cosmos (both these reviews to come later). As you can imagine it was quite a long journey departing from Manchester at 10.00 am and arriving in Egypt at about 5.30 p.m. our time. To do my review I’ve broken it down into the following sections the plane including legroom, the staff, in-flight meals etc, and entertainment. PLANE INCLUDING LEGROOM Outbound Flight ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Cramped, poor service and food

...to Florida we flew with Monarch Airlines. The holiday package we had booked was with Airtours and naturally we expected an Airtours plane but we were reassured by our travel agent that Monarch was just the same. We were travelling in February and boarded the plane at our local airport for the 9 hours flight. Inside the plane was so cramped and a queue to board was soon formed from the steps of the plane because passengers were trying to squash ... Read review

Advantages: not many
Disadvantages: quite a few

...first time I had used Monarch airlines and the kids and I were looking forward to our trip to Italy flying out of Gatwick airport. Earlier in the year we had used Ryan air to fly to Rome and had enjoyed a cheap and cheerful flight. Having booked through a package travel company I had not had any choice in the airline and my experiences of charter airlines have been limited but usually good. Because we booked though a travel company I'm unable to ... Read review

Advantages: Absolutely none.
Disadvantages: Cramped seating, incompetent staff, poor catering

...to fly to Egypt with Monarch earlier this year. The trip started badly with some problems in the check-in procedure. Soon there were several long queues of people at the Monarch check-in desks, some worrying because the check-in time limit was quickly approaching. No attempt was made to inform us about the situation, or to reassure us that we would not miss our flights. The aeroplane was extremely cramped. I am of below-average height, but I found ... Read review

Advantages: Customer care
Disadvantages: Small food portions

I have flown with Monarch several times on the 5 hour flight to Cyprus, initially because they were the cheapest at around £250 for a return flight. Having flown with them I now choose them not just for their excellent value, but also the quality of service etc. They have always been excellent time-keepers (I know that this is due to luck at least in part) and the staff are always very courteous, friendly and cheerful. The planes they ... Read review