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I know about jetstreams but its 3 hours not 2 as I thought?, Virgin timetable it at 55 minutes.
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know about jetstreams but its 3 hours not 2 as I thought?, Virgin timetable it at 55 minutes.
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This airline is a great concept, but a nightmare in execution. All mouth and no trousers as my dear departed old Mum used to say.
On Nov 5th my wife was due to fly to IAD. The usual delay, delay for about two hours then they finally decided the plane couldn't be fixed so it was cancelled. As she was only going on a two day business trip and couldn't condense it into one she had to cancel.
She rebooked the trip flying out on Tues 05 dec. Two hour or so delay in departing (not a bad result for Maxjet, at least it got airborne). Returning on Fri 08 Dec delay, delay, plane allegedly coming from JFK finally cancelled. Great, no next flight for two days. I suggested she adopt the old maxim of get out ASAP and there was a United flight back on Saturday afternoon - resigned to cattle class.
Of course that was into LHR so I had to go out on Saturday evening to pick her up, and drive to STN to collect her car on the way home. We got home at midnight, her after a total 13 hour delay.
Business users won't put up with this happening when they have connections/meetings etc. If they don't get their reliability issues sorted they will join the long list of ex airlines.
TBH I wouldn't feel safe flying with an airline whose planes seem to break with much greater frequency than anyone else's anyway. What's the great secret about N251MY then? Anyone care to enlighten us?
On Nov 5th my wife was due to fly to IAD. The usual delay, delay for about two hours then they finally decided the plane couldn't be fixed so it was cancelled. As she was only going on a two day business trip and couldn't condense it into one she had to cancel.
She rebooked the trip flying out on Tues 05 dec. Two hour or so delay in departing (not a bad result for Maxjet, at least it got airborne). Returning on Fri 08 Dec delay, delay, plane allegedly coming from JFK finally cancelled. Great, no next flight for two days. I suggested she adopt the old maxim of get out ASAP and there was a United flight back on Saturday afternoon - resigned to cattle class.
Of course that was into LHR so I had to go out on Saturday evening to pick her up, and drive to STN to collect her car on the way home. We got home at midnight, her after a total 13 hour delay.
Business users won't put up with this happening when they have connections/meetings etc. If they don't get their reliability issues sorted they will join the long list of ex airlines.
TBH I wouldn't feel safe flying with an airline whose planes seem to break with much greater frequency than anyone else's anyway. What's the great secret about N251MY then? Anyone care to enlighten us?
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todays flight to LAS, which I was originally booked on, never left STN as far as I can see. I'm very pleased I re-booked my outbound onto VS which was only a couple of hours late due to the fog. Still have the return on MY to deal with, but I wouldn't book with them again having seen the last few weeks chaos.
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Hmmm it rather does...however if we're bumped onto VS Upper as an alternative I'm not going to winge too much, other than the car still being at STN!!
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I hear that N251MY was rescued from being mothballed in the desert - Mojave?
Is this true?
Will this post get deleted like my last one??!
Is this true?
Will this post get deleted like my last one??!
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Crikey, this is getting a bit mucky.....allegedly laid up in Florida at one time, and don't believe everything you read on the internet, but all sorts of stories of N251MY coming up about the CIA, the alleged real operations of Phoenix Aviation etc......
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there & back!
Well with my lowered expectations I'm pleased to report we arrived in LAS about 90 mins early. Yesterday not so great....left on time but arrived STN about an hour late.
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Flight from STN to JFK on time yesterday 
. Looked on the homepage like the prior incoming flight from JFK to STN had been cancelled, but there was a plane waiting and we boarded early.
. Looked on the homepage like the prior incoming flight from JFK to STN had been cancelled, but there was a plane waiting and we boarded early.