It must have been a miscommunication, either that, or the airports hadn't updated their departures last night (they have now), as both the LS939 and LS163 didn't depart this morning.
Spot on, as the NBE airport arrivals’ board showed LS939 as cancelled and the LS163 as “scheduled” in italics, which must mean “we’ve given up on this one”. By the way TOM seem to have pulled out and their flights cancelled but there were a number of TCX flights arriving as well as MON flights at NBE this morning. Presumeably coming in empty to repatriate the last of their passengers but seemingly a bit late.
It is a shame to be losing Tunisia
Things are not looking too hopeful for Sharm el Sheikh with the Egyptian army facing strong resistance from terrorist groups in the Sinai Peninsula but JET2 doesn’t have to worry about that one.
The tour operators have to bring their resort staff back to the UK
The ratio of resort staff to passengers/holidaymakers calculated by tour operators used to be at approximately 200 passengers to 1 resort member of staff. The idea that JET2 had sent two B738s to pick up their resort staff in Tunisia with a combined capacity of 378 seats, would have meant that JET2 would have had 75,600 holiday makers approximately in Tunisia if you multiply the possible 378 repatriated resort staff by the average of 200 passengers/holidaymakers to be cared for by each resort staff member.
Anyway thanks for the possible explanation for the two flights that never were.....