Monarch Problems
Flew Monarch Dalaman to Gatwick today. 2.5 hour delay. There was a Monarch A321 on the tarmac all the time and when we were departing the Captain advised us the reason for the delay was due to having to reshuffle flights. the A321 had suffered a bird strike, starboard engine, after leaving Cyprus and had to land at Dalaman. And one of the A300s was giving problems with "slow retraction of the landing gear". Clearly the end of the holiday season in Turkey as aircraft was full for us but only 4 passengers on board out of LGW...