TUIfly

CPH-KBV/HKT-CPH on TUIflynordic in Premium class B767. Access to Novia lounge before boarding. Newspaper and water on seat when boarding - after all pax were seated we were offered sparkling wine OJ or water accompanied by a large selection of delicious luxury chocolates. Service onboardcommenced with a drink service and a snack followed by a delicious 3 course meal. All drinks are complimentary. Staff was great. Width of seat could be better but legroom of 94 cm was sufficient. My impression was somewhere between a premium economy and business class experience. Definitely worth the extra money!

Salzburg - Köln Economy class a couple of weeks ago. Had booked this ticket about a month ago for 60 Euros. Check-in was easy friendly and efficient. The one-hour flight was uneventful. Snacks and drinks sold on board at a fair price. The aircraft was clean and the flight attendants cordial though disengaged with passengers. On time departure and arrival. Baggage collection at Köln was fairly quick. Great value for money. Would fly them again.

Cologne-Funchal return economy Class. Holiday flight with hot breakfast (2 choices) and one extra drink round. Flight was on time and baggage was in at right time. Seats are narrow for a 4hr trip but ok. No AVOD but film was shown on overhead screens they charge for earphones. Plane a B737-800 in old colour. Return flight full and we had seats 2C/D. Also 2 hot meal choices and one extra drink turn. Baggage took ages in CGN but since flight was ahead of time no problem. Seats again narrow and do not recline much. Plane had new colour 737-800 again. On both flights crew were nice and did their best.

CGN-FMM (Memmingen/Allgaeu). Very quick and uneventful German domestic flight. Check-in in Cologne was quick and efficient crew friendly. Food/drinks only for purchase. Aircraft was rather old seats and interior tired-looking. Upon arrival nice view over the Alps baggage claim 5 min. after arrival. Memmingen is a very small provincial airport in Bavaria approx. 100 km from Munich.

Paid EUR 320 for a oneway CGN-CTA. Uncomfortable seating not even providing a flexible pocket in the back of the seat in front of you. If you can avoid to travel on TUIFly I strongly recommend to do so. Especially their flights to the Canarias Egypt or Israel- worst seating I ever experienced. At least we got a meal on board (a bagel) with one free non-alcoholic beverage. If your flight time is less than two hours you have to pay for any food or drink. TUI profiles itself a high standard high quality travel agency - it's aircraft can't fulfil this demand in any possible way.

Salzburg to Berlin Tegel return. Both Flights left and arrived on time or ahead schedule. Well maintained aircraft (B737-700 and B737-800). Prices for food are ok and acceptable. Pilots kept us well informed but the IFE with the flight-track was shut down during the flight without any reason. All in all a very pleasant experience and TUIfly is worth the money.

BSL-LPA and return as part of a vacation package. Check-in in Basle easy and smooth although counters open only 2 hours prior to departure instead of 3 hours as issued in their brochures. Flight on time service ok meals mediocre two rounds of drinks. Plane 20 min early on arrival. Return check-in a little chaotic as many planes left the same time. Flight again on time breakfast not to mention two rounds of drinks and a 20 min early arrival into BSL. All in all a fair but uneventful package.

CGN-HAM-CGN B737 all Y-Class normal flight. CGN airbridge to plane and in HAM as well. Since this is a LCC it was ok of course no food and drinks unless you want to pay (coffee 250 EUR or 550 EUR for Coffee and Roll/Cake). Free newspaper/magazin in gally while boarding took place. Tkt was 14000 EUR so it was a good deal. Legroom ok since I had seat 2c/return 1d (Charge for seat 900EUR if booked by internet). Duration only 40 mins so this was just ok would not try to fly long haul with this.

MAN-STR-MAN. Another more or less perfect set of flights from one of the best low cost carriers around. Able to do online check in and get seats at the front for the outward journey. Middle seat was empty. Flight left early and landed 10 mins early at Stuttgart. On the way back flight landed 30 mins early. Tuifly also offer the option to pre-book a snack which I did (includes soft drink/hot drink) and this is something other LCC's should offer. In fact for a LCC Tuifly offers a great level of service no charge for checking in luggage allocated seating newspapers and low fares plus friendly attentive Flight attendants. £30 was all I paid for this weekend trip so compared to Ryanair/Easyjet etc Tuifly wins hands down!

Berlin TXL to Cairo and back. For the low price service was good seat pitch acceptable. The meals came in a cheap paper box but were quite tasty plenty of rounds with free non alcoholic drinks newspapers pillows and blankets and comfy leather seats. Toilets were a little bit old and smelly but not dirty. The flight attendants were efficient but not so very patient with some of the non German passengers. I had the impression that they were not used to communicate with a multi national mix of passengers and got easily annoyed to explain things twice. However these were excellent flights at a very reasonable price.