Summer 2006 Charters
There are various threads running presently generating undue excitement over the IT operator's plans for 2006, citing apparently real flights, real airlines, real schedules and the like.
The reality ( and I'm sorry to bring the "R" word up) is that the Tour Operator's brochures and programs are up with Mills and Boon in the fiction stakes 12 months ahead of the first flights.
Summer 2005 has just about been finalised, Winter 2005/6 is at this stage still enormously fluid, and as for Summer 2006 - well, your guess is as good as mine!
It's also worth noting that charter airlines do not run the flights. The "organ grinder" is the tour operator who charters the flights, the airlines are the "monkeys" who fly the routes they are contracted to fly.