TUI airways-2

[ATNotts]

Originally Posted by SWBKCB

or using Simple Flying for aviation information. Why is what purports to be a specialist aviation website 'cutting and pasting' a local newspaper report with no additional insight? Click bait maybe?

Absolutely! The Simple Flying journalist needs to check from where he copy and pasted that story. Makes him look a total prat.

Surely something happened and the flight was delayed but it is probably more nuanced.

[SKOJB]

Have a job to believe a 320 Turkey bound cannot lift off from a 6800ft runway. Sounds more of a technical issue instead of weight restriction!

[SealinkBF]

My pal has a flight booked with TUI from BOH to HER on 11th June.

But that date isn't bookable online or it is listed on their Timetable page (first flight showing as 18th June)

Any ideas why? If the flight is full the date should still be an option to choose. The timetable listing is worrying!

[ROC10]

Originally Posted by SealinkBF

My pal has a flight booked with TUI from BOH to HER on 11th June.

But that date isn't bookable online or it is listed on their Timetable page (first flight showing as 18th June)

Any ideas why? If the flight is full the date should still be an option to choose. The timetable listing is worrying!

Not sure I follow why the date should still be an option to choose if the flight is full?

My guess is that the flight is full, thus no seats available to sell, hence not shown on the timetable.

[Matt995]

Originally Posted by SealinkBF

My pal has a flight booked with TUI from BOH to HER on 11th June.

But that date isn't bookable online or it is listed on their Timetable page (first flight showing as 18th June)

Any ideas why? If the flight is full the date should still be an option to choose. The timetable listing is worrying!

flight has operated every sunday since the 7th May, so no issues, as mentioned, outbound flight must be fully booked.

[ICEHOUSES]

Does anybody know the final withdrawal date of TUI B767 later this year, thanks

[EPRman]

The UK based 767’s are due to stop passenger flights by the end of the summer season i.e. 31st of October. They’re hanging around over winter presumably for end of lease stuff, with the last going in January.

[ICEHOUSES]

Originally Posted by EPRman

The UK based 767’s are due to stop passenger flights by the end of the summer season i.e. 31st of October. They’re hanging around over winter presumably for end of lease stuff, with the last going in January.

Thanks a lot

[SealinkBF]

Originally Posted by ROC10

Not sure I follow why the date should still be an option to choose if the flight is full?

My guess is that the flight is full, thus no seats available to sell, hence not shown on the timetable.

Most other airlines will still show the flight in their timetable listing or on an availability search show it as fully booked.

[mart901]

Originally Posted by SealinkBF

Most other airlines will still show the flight in their timetable listing or on an availability search show it as fully booked.

If you look on the flight tracker on the website it shows there. My flights BFS-TFS been showing that way for months.

[SWBKCB]

Originally Posted by SealinkBF

Most other airlines will still show the flight in their timetable listing or on an availability search show it as fully booked.

Why try and sell something that's not for sale?

[SealinkBF]

Originally Posted by SWBKCB

Why try and sell something that's not for sale?

So that the passenger knows it's fully booked... rather then the flight appearing to be non existent

[JonnyH]

Originally Posted by SealinkBF

So that the passenger knows it's fully booked... rather then the flight appearing to be non existent

They aren’t the only company that do it. BA do it. Jef2 do it on their calendar when you input their dates, it will show as no flights to select on that date, and it’s only when you look at other dates when the search has come up that you will then see the flight is full.

Nevertheless, it begs the question why a passenger would be searching their flight dates, as a new customer, instead of checking their booking to see if their flight is still operating which again is strange unless they’ve got reason to think it’s been cancelled or a relative is booking (none of which are the scenario in this case).

Your argument is probably going to go on and on but I think it’s unlikely an airline is going to have this high on their priority list to get resolved.

[USC]

Tui/Avion

We flew with Avion on a TUI flight last week - it was a bit of a shambles and left us wishing we had booked different flights with Easy instead. We were delayed at the gate by two hours as (according to the Captain) they could not get luggage handlers to load the aircraft. This was despite the luggage sitting outside of the aircraft with two handlers going through the bags looking for specific luggage. On boarding two seats were u/s (one completely missing it’s back and the one behind understandably not able to be occupied) and taped off with gaffer tape. I wonder if the delay was also down to having to offload two pax who didn’t have seats anymore?

[Vokes55]

Originally Posted by USC

We flew with Avion on a TUI flight last week - it was a bit of a shambles and left us wishing we had booked different flights with Easy instead

If you’d booked with Easy, your flight would probably have been cancelled and you’d be put on the next available flight three days later.

[alstaff]

Tui/Privilege

We flew with Privilege Style on a Tui flight recently and would say we had a good ontime flight on a decent aircraft (Boeing 757) maybe we were fortunate but would say not all leased airlines are indifferent.

[737James]

Some strange things been going off this week at Birmingham with Tui. The based high capacity 788 G-TUID has been operating out of Amsterdam to Curaçao every day and then is doing AMS-AYT flights on Saturday.

Tui brought in AirTanker A330 to cover the 788 but that picked up some delays which ended up With Thursdays PFO being cancelled altogether as they had no crew and the aircraft is needed Friday and Saturday for Champions League flights . They have now moved another 788 to Birmingham but that is running with a constant 3hr Delay hopefully they can recover soon just seems strange that they have moved one of their own aircraft to fly out of AMS for a few days but then have to cancel UK flights as they have no aircraft

[Matt995]

Originally Posted by 737James

Some strange things been going off this week at Birmingham with Tui. The based high capacity 788 G-TUID has been operating out of Amsterdam to Curaçao every day and then is doing AMS-AYT flights on Saturday.

Tui brought in AirTanker A330 to cover the 788 but that picked up some delays which ended up With Thursdays PFO being cancelled altogether as they had no crew and the aircraft is needed Friday and Saturday for Champions League flights . They have now moved another 788 to Birmingham but that is running with a constant 3hr Delay hopefully they can recover soon just seems strange that they have moved one of their own aircraft to fly out of AMS for a few days but then have to cancel UK flights as they have no aircraft

TUI Netherlands currently have 2 B788's out of service, one at Luton, one at Amsterdam, so presumably TUI head office in Germany decided to use a UK registered B788 as cover, as TUI UK do have a spare B789 all summer, mind you G-TUIE is currently at Prestwick having some work done on it, so a few B788s in TUI fleet are not currently in service! Not ideal!

[OltonPete]

BHX & EMA

Originally Posted by 737James

Some strange things been going off this week at Birmingham with Tui. The based high capacity 788 G-TUID has been operating out of Amsterdam to Curaçao every day and then is doing AMS-AYT flights on Saturday.

Tui brought in AirTanker A330 to cover the 788 but that picked up some delays which ended up With Thursdays PFO being cancelled altogether as they had no crew and the aircraft is needed Friday and Saturday for Champions League flights . They have now moved another 788 to Birmingham but that is running with a constant 3hr Delay hopefully they can recover soon just seems strange that they have moved one of their own aircraft to fly out of AMS for a few days but then have to cancel UK flights as they have no aircraft

It has been an incredible couple of days. Most days there has been a spare 737 variant either all day or part of the day despite Getjet operating and flights delayed and cancelled.

The 788 Paphos flight has operated albeit around a delay of around 24 hours and on a 738 which must have been snug to say the least.

One of the recovery 787's was from Gatwick but alas it was reactionary from a Gatwick-Sal flight.

Not heard what the problem was with the Air Tanker but assume crew hours were compromised and it just night-stopped and went to Manchester this morning.

Added to this were problems at EMA with consecutive night-stops away from base leaving them short and the Getjet was sent across from BHX on Thursday and this ended up delaying BHX-AGA yesterday evening but that aircraft has since recovered although I know some unhappy pax delayed on this Friday morning as they had paid for extra legroom to be told this week, sorry change of aircraft and to boot their twilight check-in was brought forward 24 hours which is novel leaving your bags at the airport 2 nights in advance

Best laid plans eh

Pete

[ImPlaneCrazy]

Seems as though G-TUIE went tech in PUJ on 11/6 and is still stuck out there - any idea what happened?