Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
the third party airlines not only supply a/c but crews as well, pointless having a/c with nobody to fly them
The last part of the quote is too true and often the case at BHX but also the current third-party incumbent far from guarantees that all flights will operate after another terrible week.
One Sunwing aircraft would have done an average of 26 sectors in the last week and it managed 5 and is on the ground again.
It got to a point on Thursday that a flight-plan was filed Toronto - BHX with a replacement although that never happened.
Tonight it will be a hotel for the Naples pax but a fairly common occurrence at BHX these days.
The ironic aspect......BHX had a spare TUI aircraft but that went to Edinburgh to cover a EDI-CFU-ABZ for a late running Dalaman - Aberdeen aircraft operated by.... you guessed it.
The other issues this week have been with the 787 fleet seeing Montego Bay delayed a day outbound and nearly 2 days inbound, Air Tanker operating one Dalaman 788 flight then the next sector was completed by two 738's. To be fair they all got away reasonably although the one 738 returned to Manchester which had a positioning flight number but you can't get 250-300 pax on a 738 so I assume they were split between other airports.
Another week they will want to forget.
Pete