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Perhaps I'm being naive, but surely the best time to make a NEw York flight work out of a smallish airport is in the run up to Christmas, when thousands go Christmas shopping?
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Albert hall- can you tell us what percentage of flights are long haul in comparison to their short haul operation- so we can assess whether this was a major part of their operations or not. The vast majority of their flights and their passengers carried are short haul, and so I cant see GSM being particularly worried about your concerns noted above. How many flights with GSM did you fly and what impact did their long haul problems impact on you....I suspect we know the answers to all the above queries.
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What are you saying ?
Dont think the MODS will like that comment
nor will the good people of Liverpool.
Dont think the MODS will like that comment
nor will the good people of Liverpool.
ok ha ha! Hogg
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Got to admit that I agree with Eejit. Flew EDI/YHM no great problems at all. Did have a bit of a minor delay in leaving EDI, but nothing major and certainly less than I've had on scheduled majors this year. Even the engine fire / flameout or whatever it was that hit in early june was worked out by the end of the week when I was flying back.
My only bad experience was with the Canadian Immigration service this year who decided to have three goes at me in the non air conditioned cattle shed that was masquerading as the YHM international arrivals hall. The second one to quiz me was a very nice blonde, but she passed me onto another guy whose sole purpose seemed to be to repeatedly ask me the same six questions in different orders for half an hour whilst unpacking my suitcases and dumping everything inside in an untidy pile for me to repack before he decided that I wasn't a threat to their security & let me go on my way.
My only bad experience was with the Canadian Immigration service this year who decided to have three goes at me in the non air conditioned cattle shed that was masquerading as the YHM international arrivals hall. The second one to quiz me was a very nice blonde, but she passed me onto another guy whose sole purpose seemed to be to repeatedly ask me the same six questions in different orders for half an hour whilst unpacking my suitcases and dumping everything inside in an untidy pile for me to repack before he decided that I wasn't a threat to their security & let me go on my way.
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Looks like GSM are going to make a loss this year . Mr Dalrymple gave a full briefing to the Sunday Times (Scotland) yesterday . Had to laugh at his threats to sue Icelandair over the tech 757 and blaming all his problems on them .
He forgot to mention the fact that the only reason he needed those a/c are that he is wet leasing his own (presumably for more money) to Air India.
If he gave a S**t about his customers or staff then he would have kept the aircraft in the UK and got it right , of course then he would have no-one else to blame or ........... if the rumours are true the only thing that kept the whole airline afloat this year was the Air India payments.
Mr D's legal people will certainly be busy this winter with a class action from Canadians , suing the Icelandics , defending Mr Q's rant on this board .
That should wipe out any remaining hope of a profit !
He forgot to mention the fact that the only reason he needed those a/c are that he is wet leasing his own (presumably for more money) to Air India.
If he gave a S**t about his customers or staff then he would have kept the aircraft in the UK and got it right , of course then he would have no-one else to blame or ........... if the rumours are true the only thing that kept the whole airline afloat this year was the Air India payments.
Mr D's legal people will certainly be busy this winter with a class action from Canadians , suing the Icelandics , defending Mr Q's rant on this board .
That should wipe out any remaining hope of a profit !
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"Perhaps I'm being naive, but surely the best time to make a NEw York flight work out of a smallish airport is in the run up to Christmas, when thousands go Christmas shopping?"
That's what charters are for.
That's what charters are for.
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I notice that the Winter 07 YHM flights have quietly disappeared from the timetable, the last GLA/MAN flight scheduled for November 19. They show a resumption for GLA and MAN in April 08, but show no further Summer 08 flights from YHM. Is the long-haul across the pond being downsized, abandoned, or revived? One would think that the Summer 08 schedules would be set by now.
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"Harrogate,
What airlines operate charters from Liverpool to JFK.....?"
None. Obviously.
I merely answered this point:
"Perhaps I'm being naive, but surely the best time to make a NEw York flight work out of a smallish airport is in the run up to Christmas, when thousands go Christmas shopping?"
That's a charter, by definition.
What airlines operate charters from Liverpool to JFK.....?"
None. Obviously.
I merely answered this point:
"Perhaps I'm being naive, but surely the best time to make a NEw York flight work out of a smallish airport is in the run up to Christmas, when thousands go Christmas shopping?"
That's a charter, by definition.
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Thats a charter by definition ?
Depends obviously on your definition of "charter". Only relevent here if they all go on the same aircraft organised by the same tour operator on the same day.
With this topic I dont see the connection myself......
Depends obviously on your definition of "charter". Only relevent here if they all go on the same aircraft organised by the same tour operator on the same day.
With this topic I dont see the connection myself......
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The flight was delayed because there was no crew rostered in YHM to do the flight so they had to bodge a crew together who then needed 11 hours rest. It didn't help when this was only realised an hour or so before departure. Another classic moment in a summer full of them !