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Old 31st Aug 2014, 13:45
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ATNotts
 
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The airline is messing about passengers who already have made travel plans and it is already showing on their Facebook page... Surely the airline should never have released their summer 2015 schedule, to then go and withdraw routes a few weeks down the line.

People are saying on the Facebook how they have noticed routes disappearing and other people saying how their friends have already booked a flight and they have gone to book and not showing. The airline does not respond to these posts, while other peoples posts are responded too.
Let's be fair to Monarch; they are doing what most other carriers do these days - add routes, cancel routes, reduce frequencies etc. all at a (commercial) whim with scant regard for their customers plans. This isn't new, IT operators have been doing it for years - more so back in the 1970 and 1980s when their flight details in brochures were little better than a best selling work of fiction. It's not nice, but the industry has always treated the "bucket and spade" passenger with contempt when it comes to changing arrangements.

I ask, it is really wise to fan the flames of "bad publicity", putting Monarch employee's jobs at risk? Personally I consider it bad form, and something that we shouldn't be indulging in in these forums.
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