>>>It's Flybe anyway which by price alone can't be classed as a budget airline
Flybe is currently offering seats from Southampton to Nantes for £29.99 and from Manchester to Paris CDG for £37.49, which is fully in line with 'budget airline' prices. (Full fare airlines would charge a minimum of £200 each way on those routes, if they actually flew on them). Flybe is in exactly the same group of airlines, as defined by the travel press, as Ryanair, easyJet
et al.
Full information on Flybe's check in procedures can be found on their website:
http://www.flybe.com/...lightInfo/checkin.htm