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My friends have just arrived at Birmingham in the bus from Manchester for a 4:15 flight to Cape Verde. Third time lucky, fingers crossed.
Just found out my cousin is in Torremolinos, should have been home yesterday but had an 8 hour delay at the airport and was then sent home and has been told they'll be flown home on Friday.
Just found out my cousin is in Torremolinos, should have been home yesterday but had an 8 hour delay at the airport and was then sent home and has been told they'll be flown home on Friday.
I can think of many airlines that have had multi-day delays over the years. At least they are not taking the easy option of mass cancellations.
TUI is a more complex beast than the other airlines you mentioned. Long haul operations and more small base (single a/c in some cases) operations. Are they having a tough time - yes. Is it more than bad luck, who knows but lets keep a sense of perspective. The vast majority of TUI pax are getting away on time.
TUI is a more complex beast than the other airlines you mentioned. Long haul operations and more small base (single a/c in some cases) operations. Are they having a tough time - yes. Is it more than bad luck, who knows but lets keep a sense of perspective. The vast majority of TUI pax are getting away on time.
I have just taken a butchers at LGW on FR24 and can see what you mean regarding EasyJet, but again, correct me if I'm wrong, but many, if not most of the EZY cancellation were announced some weeks ago rather than "on the day" cancellations. Certainly that's the impression I got from the interview that the EasyJet CEO gave on TV a few days ago.
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My friends have just arrived at Birmingham in the bus from Manchester for a 4:15 flight to Cape Verde. Third time lucky, fingers crossed.
Just found out my cousin is in Torremolinos, should have been home yesterday but had an 8 hour delay at the airport and was then sent home and has been told they'll be flown home on Friday.
Just found out my cousin is in Torremolinos, should have been home yesterday but had an 8 hour delay at the airport and was then sent home and has been told they'll be flown home on Friday.
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Thanks. They've messaged that there is quite a visible police presence at Birmingham. I think tempers are getting a little short, hopefully the flight gets away OK and everybody on board, although after three check-ins in 5 days and now 27 hours since leaving home I think my friends are resigned to their holiday not happening.
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I have just taken a butchers at LGW on FR24 and can see what you mean regarding EasyJet, but again, correct me if I'm wrong, but many, if not most of the EZY cancellation were announced some weeks ago rather than "on the day" cancellations. Certainly that's the impression I got from the interview that the EasyJet CEO gave on TV a few days ago.
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The problem with making mass cancellations is that for the overwhelming majority of their customers it isn't just the flight they would be canning, but the holiday revenue as well which would surely be a far greater detriment to the business than a couple of hundred delay compensation settlements and some compensation for losing a couple of days from the customers' holidays.
I have just taken a butchers at LGW on FR24 and can see what you mean regarding EasyJet, but again, correct me if I'm wrong, but many, if not most of the EZY cancellation were announced some weeks ago rather than "on the day" cancellations. Certainly that's the impression I got from the interview that the EasyJet CEO gave on TV a few days ago.
I have just taken a butchers at LGW on FR24 and can see what you mean regarding EasyJet, but again, correct me if I'm wrong, but many, if not most of the EZY cancellation were announced some weeks ago rather than "on the day" cancellations. Certainly that's the impression I got from the interview that the EasyJet CEO gave on TV a few days ago.
But if my flight was going to be disrupted, I think I’d rather be put into a hotel, compensated, possibly even bussed to another airport and end up on a Subchartered aircraft the next day than have my flight cancelled, put on the next available flight three days later, lose my non-refundable booking.com hotel and my car hire and be made to sort my own accommodation in the mean time, with any chance of reimbursement beyond a refund and EU261 in the hands of an insurance company.
The start of the season hasn’t been ideal for TUI but they’re far from the worst and are at least making an effort to get customers away.
As for EZY, anything that shows as cancelled on the display screens or website is an on the day cancellation. Anything cancelled long in advance won’t appear, although they may still appear on FR24 if that’s your source.
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Thanks. They've messaged that there is quite a visible police presence at Birmingham. I think tempers are getting a little short, hopefully the flight gets away OK and everybody on board, although after three check-ins in 5 days and now 27 hours since leaving home I think my friends are resigned to their holiday not happening.
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World2Fly A333 Birmingham TUI ops
Makes me wonder why TUI flew this AC in from Madrid this afternoon when there is a Wamos A330 sat on the ground that operated for TUI yesterday?
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The Wamos A330 is heading for Manchester later this evening(21:15), to catch the delayed Malaga flights. Scheduled to leave Manchester at 23:50.
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The goods news for TUI, is that B738 G-TAWD re-entered service today at Gatwick, the bad news, G-TAWO seems to have gone tech in Dubrovnik, operating a flight back to East Midlands, so passengers stuck in Dubrovnik, and the evening East Midlands-Heraklion flight now seriously delayed. Problems just dont stop for TUI at present.