Problems at Air Scotland??

[PIK1967]

Just been told of Maersk 737 been flown in to GLA today to replace Air Holland.
Anyone any gen?

[Joe Curry]

This was posted to alt.airports.uk.edinburgh by David Kerr

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But is this the end of the Air Holland involvement? A Thomas Cook 757 has emerged from the Monarch hangar at Manchester in Air Scotland colours and bearing a Greek registration.and with "operated by Greek Airlines" stickers.

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Anyone else.?

[ajamieson]

Hmm. Saw a Maersk 737 at EDI yesterday and wondered what it doing there.

[Speedmaster]

The Maersk 737 was indeed operating for Air Scotland out of EDI as well.

[rampman]

Joe Curry


a thomas cook 757-200 came out of the hangar today or maybe last night re-sprayed as air scotland it has a greek reg i think it flys out of manchester either this weekend or early next week

[GroupCaptain]

Not very Scottish is it? Electra (Greek), Air Holland and now Greek Airlines. Owner's apparently an Iraqi.

[Joe Curry]

>>Hmm. Saw a Maersk 737 at EDI yesterday and wondered what it doing there.<<

There was a Jet2 737-300 seemingly subbing for Channex also.

Perhaps the Maersk was also subbing.?

[Speedmaster]

Maersk were subbing and are again tomorrow for the Air Scotland flights out of EDI

[galley-wench22]

Joe.... the Jet2 was Channex. Not a sub..... it was just a case of that was the aircraft that channex had available.

[Doug the Head]

I heard that Air Hollandīs 757 (that normally flies for Air Scotland) is currently in maintanance.

Things should be returning back to normal within a week or so.

[Joe Curry]

>>Joe.... the Jet2 was Channex. Not a sub..... it was just a case of that was the aircraft that channex had available.<<

Thanks for that Galley-wench!

[codpiece face]

It was always planned for this Thomas Cook 757 to be leased to Air Scotland for a period of about six months, as far as i know Greece Airways is a new start up although one does wonder if Electra have anything to do with it behind the scenes. What I do know is that if the airline wishes to get its act in order it will have to stop chopping and changing.

The aircraft was supposed to start operating the EDI and GLA sectors from Dec 1st although I believe this has been put back until Dec 12th.