Originally Posted by
737James
Some strange things been going off this week at Birmingham with Tui. The based high capacity 788 G-TUID has been operating out of Amsterdam to Curaçao every day and then is doing AMS-AYT flights on Saturday.
Tui brought in AirTanker A330 to cover the 788 but that picked up some delays which ended up With Thursdays PFO being cancelled altogether as they had no crew and the aircraft is needed Friday and Saturday for Champions League flights . They have now moved another 788 to Birmingham but that is running with a constant 3hr Delay hopefully they can recover soon just seems strange that they have moved one of their own aircraft to fly out of AMS for a few days but then have to cancel UK flights as they have no aircraft
TUI Netherlands currently have 2 B788's out of service, one at Luton, one at Amsterdam, so presumably TUI head office in Germany decided to use a UK registered B788 as cover, as TUI UK do have a spare B789 all summer, mind you G-TUIE is currently at Prestwick having some work done on it, so a few B788s in TUI fleet are not currently in service! Not ideal!