Originally Posted by
737James
Max Drift- I did think at first that it was wrong that in the current climate that they are booking pax onto ACMI carriers but on the other hand thought maybe that the commercial contracts were signed before CV19 and they are unable to get out of them where as employees can be on Furlough.
It looks like BHX is planned to have 3 A320s at present hopefully this changes and my holiday can go ahead and on TUI own aircraft
I think you have hit the nail on the head and before the Unions get their arse in their hands over it I think TUI need to be transparent about it quite early on if they haven’t already been. There is also a handful of leased B737s that were signed off pre Covid which may not now be required but at least one is sitting in TUI colours possibly in Ireland (G-TUKA)
Something I do like is that TUI will always place their own Cabin Crew on to these ACMIs as representation, even if as I experienced the ACMI crew are friendlier and nicer than the TUI crew! Albastar last year, their crew were a delight whereas the TUI representative was somewhat frosty. I don’t know if it is a requirement to do so but at least it helps to distribute some of the cabin crew jobs albeit a very small number.