Originally Posted by
GKOC41
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.
Absolutely and also worth pointing out although the World Cup hasn't started there are not many spares around - Titan alone at BHX have been busy with one-off charters, two yesterday and a 767 and 757 today so not much capacity spare there.
Good news at BHX, NVZ is fixed and en route on today's flight and yesterday's Heraklion also airborne although nearly 22 hours late.
VEC at Manchester appears to still be tech.
Also not limited to Thomas Cook, TUI down a 737 at EMA and the spare 757 has just left BHX to pick up the schedule.
It seems everyone trying their best, just a run of tech aircraft but great to see MT, TUI and Jet2 have back-ups.
Pete