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
It has been an incredible couple of days. Most days there has been a spare 737 variant either all day or part of the day despite Getjet operating and flights delayed and cancelled.
The 788 Paphos flight has operated albeit around a delay of around 24 hours and on a 738 which must have been snug to say the least.
One of the recovery 787's was from Gatwick but alas it was reactionary from a Gatwick-Sal flight.
Not heard what the problem was with the Air Tanker but assume crew hours were compromised and it just night-stopped and went to Manchester this morning.
Added to this were problems at EMA with consecutive night-stops away from base leaving them short and the Getjet was sent across from BHX on Thursday and this ended up delaying BHX-AGA yesterday evening but that aircraft has since recovered although I know some unhappy pax delayed on this Friday morning as they had paid for extra legroom to be told this week, sorry change of aircraft and to boot their twilight check-in was brought forward 24 hours which is novel leaving your bags at the airport 2 nights in advance
Best laid plans eh
Pete