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Flight Review: Vueling – Manchester to Barcelona

April 20, 2016 By James Clark

Flight Review: Vueling – Manchester to Barcelona

Flight: Vueling VY 8749
From: Manchester (MAN) To: Barcelona (BCN)

I flew with Vueling from Manchester to Barcelona. In selecting who to fly with I compared flights via Skyscanner.com.

There were some flights around the same price range with easyJet and Ryanair, and in the end I went with Vueling because I had never flown them before and I wanted to try a new airline.

I also checked with flights from Liverpool as both cities are close to each other, and there is a train from Liverpool direct to Manchester Airport. I was in Liverpool but I elected to spend a day in Manchester before the flight. I compared flights anyway, just in case there was a better deal.

Vueling are a low cost airline from Spain. They are based in Barcelona and have bases around Europe, and they are now the second biggest airline in Spain.

Vueling Seats

Being a low cost airline I know it is a flying bus. I’m getting a cheap flight for less frills than the full service airlines. That also means that sometimes the airlines will add another row or two in the cabin to get as many bums in seats, so to speak. The space between seats was noticeably tighter. I don’t know what the space is but I usually judge if my knees are touching the seat in front of me, which they were on this flight.

Legroom

As a low cost airline there is no inflight entertainment – just the usual inflight magazine, which is presented in Spanish and English.

Ling - April 2016

Not related to the flight at all, but I was amused to see all these Google Adwords vouchers as an advertisement in the inflight magazine.

Google adwords vouchers

There is no free food service but food and drinks is available for purchase. Some sample prices, a sandwich/panini is 6.50 Euro ($7.30 USD) and Pepsi/water/coffee is 2.60 Euro ($2.90 USD).

Food

Those previous easyJet/Ryanair stats I mentioned were from when I was based in Europe for much of the year over ten years ago. Vueling was a smaller airline then. Looking at their route map now I was surprised with their coverage. This map doesn’t show from where they fly to and from though.

Vueling destinations

Our flight arrived in Barcelona where you can see the airport dominated by Vueling aircraft.

Vueling BCN base

I noticed Vueling planes at the terminal but for our flight we had to park on the tarmac and deplane and get a bus to the terminal. Perhaps Vueling have already outgrown the airport.

De-planing BCN

Overall everything went well, and an easy flight even if you are squished in.

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Filed Under: Flight Review Tagged With: barcelona, manchester, vueling

About James Clark

James Clark is the founder of Nomadic Notes. He has been a digital nomad since 2003, and Nomadic Notes features trip reports, train travel articles, and where to stay guides. He writes about transport and urban development at Future Southeast Asia. Subscribe to the weekly travel newsletter.

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