When Debon folded, the MD screamed to the media, "It was the big boys wot dun me in."
I wrote a letter that was published in The Independentas I was working in MUC at the time and I live 11 miles from LTN. I tried to use them but they were useless, so I went with LH, something like 14 return trips in a year that they might have had from me - but they could not run to time!
At MUC, you would sit with doors closed and wait for maybe one hour before starting. This was all blamed on ATC. I understand that they had no fixed slots and were at the whim of everybody. (Someone might like to comment?)
I said in the letter that, if after three years in service, an airline cannot run to time - it will fail!
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A window seat on the sunny side of the aircraft, please!
[This message has been edited by PAXboy (edited 08 June 2001).]