Flight comparison sites / extra legroom, first class etc.

[koster]

Is there a flight comparison website that lets you search for extra legroom, or even business class etc.?

We're going to Creet for a wedding, easyJet is fine for me, but I want to find something more comfortable for my parents.

Thanks!

[bednobs]

http://www.seatguru.c...ing_airline_seats.php
you could look at this site. However, you will be restricted to those airlines that fly to crete

[Buenchico]

For general airline reviews (which might well make reference to legroom, etc), Skytrax can't be beaten:
http://www.airlinequality.com/

However neither my link nor that provided by Bednobs will be much use unless you know which airlines have direct flights from the UK to Heraklion International Airport. Here's a complete list of all services:

easyJet (ex Bristol, Gatwick & Manchester)

Jet2: (ex East Midlands & Leeds/Bradford, with seasonal flights ex Manchester)

Monarch: (ex Birmingham & Gatwick, with seasonal flights ex Manchester)

Thomas Cook: (ex Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Gatwick & Manchester, with seasonal flights ex Newcastle)

Thomson: (Seasonal flights only, ex Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle)

There are theoretically also charter flights, operated by a number of different tour operators, using the aircraft of Viking Airlines from Belfast, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gatwick & Manchester. However Viking is currently in administration, so there are doubts as to the future of those flights.

To the best of my knowledge, all of the above operators are 'one class only'. That's unsurprising, as there will be very few business customers travelling between the UK and Crete. For business class travel (or any service with 'perks', such as additional legroom) it would probably be necessary to travel via Athens.

Chris

[mike11111]

Where's Creet?

[mike11111]

Found it, it's near Grease.

[koster]

Thanks everyone, and sorry for my typo.

I've found out that on Monarch and Thomas Cook you can pay extra for extra legroom, so this seems like the best option.

My only worry is that with both of these it seems like you first book the flight, and then you go and pay for the extra legroom. So isn't there a chance that you pay for the ticket and then it turns out that there are no extra legroom seats on that flight?

Thomas Cook extra legroom seats are by the emergency exits. Monarch says that "on certain routes" there are only extra legroom seats by the emergency exits. They both say that they may move passengers next to the emergency exits if they think there is a mobility issue.

Now, while my parents are both fully capable of walking, my dad is in his 70s and occasionally uses a walking stick, and my mum will have had a hip operation. So ideally I'm looking for an extra legroom seat which is not by an emergency exit, just in case the flight crew decide they are unsuitable.

[boxtops]

It depends when the trip is, koster - we flew to Crete out of season and had to change in Athens, so you may be looking at two legs to the flight.

[jno]

just make sure you do get extra legroom if it's Monarch - I paid for an 'upgrade' on them once and all it was was a free newspaper and drinks. Legroom was identical.