Flew home from TFS on Thomsonfly last week into DSA. I know it's a holiday charter flight. I know I'm merely SLF. I know it's cattle class. I don't expect business class comfort levels or acres of leg room.
I do expect a seat that doesn't collapse when I sit in it and make my back and leg numb after 30 minutes of the 4 and and a half hour flight.
How/why can an airline allow an aircraft which it knows will be filled to capacity to operate without enough functioning seats for all the passengers?
It was bad enough they used a 737-300 (G-THOO) for a flight of that length - no films for the kids to watch, a bit of the ceiling hanging off over my head.
The broken seat just added insult to injury to be honest.
The cabin crew were great and very sympathetic but couldn't magic a new seat up obviously! The two I spoke to said they hated working on the -300 and it was too small - I agreed wholeheartedly!
TL,DR:
Came back from holiday on a busted seat, can't believe it's allowed.