Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
Unexpected consequences of the compensation regime i.e. cheaper to have a massive delay on one flight than knock on delays on three?
Operators that take such incompetent pax-unfriendly approaches should just have their AOC stripped. There's several subcharter operators around Europe who could have covered this on the day, they were just too cheap to call them in.
As I understand it, Thomson market this, probably with pictures of Thomson aircraft splashed all over the place. But in fact the Aberdeen series is covered by an ASL aircraft. This I presume is the Irish organisation, but the aircraft in question is French registered. Goodness knows which AOC it is under, which authority is responsible for checking their insurance, or even for doing any ramp checks on an aircraft which does not seem to go to either Ireland or France.