Air Atlanta/Excel difficulties at the weekend
I believe it was a rough weekend for Air Atlanta.
A crew who had been 3 days in Lourdes were late to the airport for their return flight!!
Then they had problems starting one of the engines causing a significant delay.
On arrival back in UK the A/c was used to cover for Air Excel tech probs on Spanish holiday destinations.
A/c arrived back at LGW and they didn't have a crew to operate down to LDE to collect the disabled and fly them back to Prestwick. I believe it was a 15hrs delay?
When the aircraft was sent down to LDE it didn't have any catering on board plus it didn't have any tins for the bags!!! Ooooppps
So to mop up the bags that couldn't be carried by a German carrier ex LDE, Air Atlanta diverted a 747-300 ex ALC into LDE to collect the 200 odd remaining bags and took them to MAN. Then by road to Prestwick.
Not a good weekend then folks?