New Vueling routes, bookable with Avios, from Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh

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• Tim Millea says:

  27 Oct27 October 06:41

  Iberia Express also needs adding into the picture – another IAG low-cost carrier offering flights from UK regional airports. From Manchester, it is Vueling to Barcelona but Iberia Express to Madrid the latter with possible connecting flights with Air Nostrum.

  • Erico1875 says:

    27 Oct27 October 08:00

    Iberia Express fly from Edinburgh too.

    We recently took a €14. 30 minute Ryanair fliight from PMI to BCN to then take a €40 Vueling flight to EDI.
    The alternativd was €190 direct from PMI to EDI

• Mikeact says:

  27 Oct27 October 08:42

  Did I read recently that you can experience problems with them if going to Florence….full load on the return could mean no luggage loaded ?

• James says:

  27 Oct27 October 09:34

  It’s worth pointing out that if you book via IB you can’t reserve a seat / book emergency exits (one Vueling flight had the worst legroom I’ve ever experienced). There is a fix though – you go through Royal Jordanian with your IB ref to find out your Vueling booking ref, at which point you can then log in to Vueling and add seats.

  That said I booked Barcelona – LGW on IB and it was over – €100 cheaper on Iberia than Vueling (taking bags into account). The flight did not exsist on BA. I’d always get all three sites as you could well get three very different prices!

  • The_Real_A says:

    27 Oct27 October 12:06

    Thanks very useful

• Tony W says:

  27 Oct27 October 09:59

  Took Vueling to Barcelona and back last week and I think it was probably the most cramped and uncomfortable seat I’ve been in for years (Including Ryanair and Easyjet).

  It was however cheaper than the BA flights on offer so for 90 minutes so probably worth the discomfort. I certainly wouldn’t want to take a longer flight with them though.

  • Daftboy says:

    27 Oct27 October 11:15

    Agreed – my one flight on Vueling a few years back was memorable for the ridiculously cramped legroom (and I have done plenty of Ryanair and Easyjet in my time). I’d be wary for that reason.

• Lumma says:

  27 Oct27 October 10:29

  I’m not sure if all their planes as the same but the one vueling flight I took had the worst legroom I’ve ever experienced. Was very cheap tho.

• Worzel says:

  27 Oct27 October 13:21

  Booked up BCN-TFS (Vueling) for March 2016-a couple of months ago. Paid extra for seats with extra legroom.
  Looked at prices for the same flight just now and they were £36pp OW- which is less than we paid.
  £36 for a OW 1390 mile/3hr flight with hold luggage can’t be bad!

  • Worzel says:

    27 Oct27 October 13:33

    To add:
    At the time of booking(on the Iberia website) only BCN-MAD-TFS using avios showed; and what with a distorted journey it made sense to do BCN-TFS paying cash.

• AH says:

  27 Oct27 October 13:30

  re: booking Vueling seats. I live in Barcelona, so this is very much Vueling central, so I unfortunately end up taking a lot of Vueling flights. I do sometimes book via IB or BA, and I then send a PM via Twitter to BA or IB in order to get the Vueling booking code – it’s the fastest way to get it! It does eventually show up in the IB/BA booking, but Twitter has always worked best for me.

  And the leg room… yes, they have skinny Recaro seats with a hard plastic back on them, so your knees do suffer – I’m 6’2” and it is not nice. I sometimes splurge on the seats up front, €16 gets you a seat in aisle 2 or 3 with more leg room and priority boarding.

  In terms of filling in space at regional airports around Europe: Iberia Express will usually fly into Madrid, whereas Vueling will fly into Barcelona, which is their main hub.

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