Originally Posted by
harrryw
How long to organise the loan of a towbar from a nearby field and truck it over, surely cheaper and less disruptive.
One of my rare bad SLF experiences of Ryanair was quite a few years ago now, when they swapped the planned 737-200 for a 737-400 (?) just before boarding at STN, boarded us SLF, and then discovered that the destination airport at that time had only one fire truck and thus apparently could not legally accommodate the newer aircraft. LONG delay while they scouted around trying to borrow another fire truck from somewhere, before giving up and eventually squeezing us all into a BAC 1-11 from some other carrier (AirUK?). By that time the weather had worsened, so that was my first experience of a missed approach/TOGA too. After the pilot had told us they thought they had reached the end of their working day prior to our flight leaving.