Just thought I'd tell about 737 Dublin-Amsterdam.
It was Sept 02 returning 21st, to get a connecting flight to Miami.
I had with me my girlfriend, a wheelchair user, who needs lifted on and off the plane.
A pile of eejits called 'GreenCaps' do it at Dublin (the lifting) and because they were late the bloody plane missed departure time. The pilot called it 'unable to take off immediately due to ATC restriction', a new one on me. Anyway, a nice flight, and the fresh FO did a lovely landing at Schiphol. Seats SO much nicer than the connecting Northwest DC-10!
Way back - Late going, some problem or other. Not nice after an 8-hour flight (this time on KLM codesharing DC-10, and v.uncomfortable - bloody food gave me the runs too!
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Again, good inflight service, comfortable and all.
Bloody Greencaps took 40, yes 40 minutes to get the girl off the plane - it was due for Malaga next and had well missed depature slot. Anyhow, stewardesses stayed on with us and chatted, and then the AEL Chief pilot (I'm sorry mate, I've forgotten your name!) kept us company - very hospitable, and ameliorated the whole thing for me. I've flown Dublin - O'Hare (Chigago) with AEL before and it was so-so, but if the whole company's as nice as that they'll do well. Cheers.