plus also i do work for a living and never claimed benefits in any way? If people are on benefits so be it, as long as folk fly and keep people in work that is good.
So why is it then that so many pax are boarded by ambulift, complain of all ailments under the sun...and then 'leg it' off the aircraft as soon as the doors are opened at their sunny destination....
Or routinely abuse the cabin crew,trash the cabin,attempt to thieve or consume their own alcohol given half the chance?
No doubt these things happen in the West Midlands too....so don't shoot the messenger!
Well for your information i flew from BHX myself in September this year and i was sat next to a group of lads, and they were drinking there own Vodka and actually offered me some, and just to let you know they were from Solihull, so all these chaves and so called drinkers are from the West Mids !!!!#
Just fiond this so insulting and disgusting, i hope the moderator will remove this freak from here..
What comments by SSFLYER? I can't find them, have they been removed?
Chavs are everywhere (whatever a chav is defined as, we all seem to have different ideas), no matter what airport you fly from, get over it. I have seen lads puke up in the departure lounge at BHX and girls on a hen do shouting and screaming their way through check in at EMA, neither as far as i'm concerned is particularly attractive behaviour
Back onto BHX matters, any news on the proposed Uzbek flights starting 1st Dec? Its all gone quiet......
Also good luck to all those involved in the interview process going on for the new combined Ops centre, hope it all works out for everyone, used to work in TC myself, brilliant people and many happy memories
GF- my mild comments,now zapped(?)comparing the PAX I have shared FR flights with from BHX and EMA seems to have upset some posters especially Mike.
I suppose it is like comparing West Midlands/East Midlands football teams/beer/birds - someone takes it personally to defend their Region.
All airlines servicing the sea/sun destinations suffer from a minority of ill dressed or badly behaved PAX and my sympathy goes out to the FA's and ground staff who have to handle them
I am certainly no snob and maybe the "benefits" quote could have been worded differently (but see below) but there does seem to be a far higher proportion of large family groups in term time taking their children off school on the EMA/GRO flight than BHX.
Mike-please do not shoot the messenger but this is a posting I found on TripAdvisor. I am sure the same scene could possibly be seen at other airports but it is EMA and FR that are quoted:-
“On a Ryanair flight to East Midlands we were appalled at antics of large family groups on the plane, most of them with kids that should be at school. Overweight, dressed in a vest, shorts and giant trainers, covered in tattoos and piercings and that was the just the mother! She was surrounded by a tribe of sink estate brats in similar attire- it was like a horror movie and many on the plane were similar, no wonder the British are hated abroad. I wonder whether it our taxes paying for their holidays? To top it all off the baby, dressed just in a nappy, was put on the luggage carousel, for a ‘laugh’. If this is typical of East Midlands and Ryanair we will fly with another airline and another airport”
The same comments were also posted on the Ryanair forum here but not zapped. As I said-don't shoot the messenger
I was waiting at the arrivals point of EMA to pick someone up from a Pisa flight a few years ago. As I pondered exactly when they may appear from behind the doors I noticed lots of people coming through dressed in athletic vests, gaudy shorts and pristine white trainers - clearly piling off the Costa Del Somewhere-or-ever flight. A little while later people started appearing with linen suits, hats, nice shoes etc so I guessed (correctly) that the Pisa flight was now piling out. Right on cue, the person I was waiting for appeared in amongst the beautiful people. I'm sure the same could have been spotted at any airport where the flights are not too frequent that you can't spot distinct groups of people appearing through arrivals.
That being said, there were a few tramps on a flight from Singapore I was on last month. And before someone says it, there is a difference between travelling in comfortable clothes for a long haul flight and looking like a street person.
Cheers for the link, this could be good news for BHX especially if FUE happens as well.
However whether this is the downside of FR/ZB new services but Thomson won't be using their own planes on BHX-LPA in December until Christmas and again they stop in the new year until mid feb.
Pax go on to the Thomas Cook.
Same happens on the FUE & ACE (Sunday) but that was always planned. All routes back to normal by Feb half-term.
I think those EMA supporters on here should thicken up their skins. Either that or just stick to the EMA threads. The last time I was unfortunate to have to sit in the terminal at EMA it was terrible. I think it's more to do with the clientèle of the airlines operating out of there than to do with those living in the region in general. If I spent a day at BHX without giving Brummies some stick then it would be a failed day. Luckily, with all their faults, the one thing they don't lack is a sense of humour....God bless em....
oh by the way i DO have a sense of humour and also work for a living as some WEST mids people seem to thjink us flyers from EMA are benefit scroungers !
it was just a vile rude commment that was made and the moderators agreed thjat it was offensive and intrusive too.
I was born in an age when travel still had mystery and magic, whether it be being hauled by a steam engine into majestic Snow Hill Station or, and I had to wait until I was 26, my first flight in an 'airliner', a typical experince for someone born at the end of the Second World War I sould suggest.
Indeed my first flight to Faro from Elmdon in a Comet was a truly memorable experience - and I dare say for the rest of those on board all in their neat 'Sunday best'.
Sadly, travel has been dumbed down, largely I think by the emergence of the lo-cos which can get us to Palma cheaper than we can get to Skegness. We live in an age where children as young as 10 may have already flown abroad five or six times.
There is neither mystery nor magic in travel now, for perhaps the majority it is just like catching the 'No 45' - and they dress and act accordingly whether it be at EMA or BHX.
It is a sad fact of life I am afraid - and it will not change!
I totally agree with your comments, but the person who put the comment labelled all from EMA as benefit scroungers and of a dirty nature, and that BHX was more special, to be labelled in this way is very offensive, like you all airports and all airlines have a certain mix of pax.
EMA may have a lot of Lo co airlines and tro be fair i fly mainly EZY where the crew and pax are fine, same for BMI baby too, i have flown FR only once to Dublin and i have to say even though i do not like that airline the majority of pax on my flight there and return were mainly business clients.
I understand that certain routes do tend to carry a certain clientel like younger folk etc, but in this day and age we are not ina position to label anyone who is a customer, we should be grateful of there support in these hard times we are experiencing at this time.
The East midlands economy too is doing very well too in these harsh times and is actually slighty up on an national average when it comes to house prices, employment and retail growth.
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