Originally Posted by
OltonPete
Not much better at Manchester and BHX today.
I am sure on paper the numbers stack up when using third parties before the season starts but in reality how does a day like today (and yesterday and potentially tomorrow) eat into those figures?
BHX will run into the third day of disruption with Girona today operating out and into East Midlands (15 hors late) today but I suppose it is better than a complete lost day of your holiday which happened on BHX -AYT (Thursday) which went this afternoon and BHX - HER due out today but now 10am tomorrow (instead of lunchtime today).
LY-VEC is the Manchester aircraft tech and LY-NVZ at BHX.
Pete
These guys know their contracts rely on on time performance and TC also plan to have spare capacity to mitigate AOG's. They will also bring in any aircraft that are around for charter e.g. Titan.
The problem with a flight to the Greek Islands and back is the crew will unlikely have the hours to fly into BHX then to Greece and back so you need notice to organise aircraft and crew.
As you head into the weekend the chances of this happening become less and less.
The only consolation is that a charter airline will eventually get you there. If it was a loco the flight would be cancelled and the punters left to their own accords.