Chaos at EDI this morning
 

Can anyone shed any light on what happened at EDI this morning

Apparantly approx 140pax arrived at EDI for their charter to REK for Dunfermline UEFA Cup match but no aircraft tunred up...reports are on BBC website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3557886.stm

Yeah heard was a nightmare was @ the airport this morning and heard alot of unhappy punters!!!

Who arranged the charter? bet there will be heads hung..haha

who they coming back with?

You mean they want to come back as well?? :uhoh: Did anyone tell Icelandair this?

ES ;)

So has anyone found out who arrnaged the charter ?
Thought SCY or MON do alot of football flights did they have no avail

Looks like another case of the press not checking their facts; the BBC claim there were 120 Dunfermline fans. :)

Supposidly was due to operate on a YAK42 ! Quite why Dunfermline would want to operate on that God knows! Unless whoever the charterer was...didnt tell them!!

Correct, a YAK 42!!
Air Scotland stepped in to do the flight. Carried the team, officials and fans, EDI-KEF. Delay was due to them cancelling the YAK then calling Air Scotland and arranging payment. Shame that they waited 30 odd yrs to get back in europe, then have this happen!! Oh well hopefully if/when the get to the next round they will sort it out.
Eff Oh. :D

The charterer was Sportsfare

Same company is organising travel for Millwall team / fans etc. Good luck to them if they do the same to Millwall fans !!!!

Where are Millwall playing abroad?

Sportsfair
Do they have enough on there atol bond for Millwall ummm dont think unless they up it but after this nightmare will they still be business?


Its the poor fans I feel sorry for!!!

RMO757

Millwall will know who the play when the craw is done on 27 August.

After digging a little deeper...Sportsfare is run by David Dryer and anyone out there who is involved with footy flights will not be too suprised that this Dunfermline fiasco happened if he was involved !!

It amazes me that continually time after time 'official' flights are the ones that always seem to have problems and are often booked on non EU / third rate carriers.

Its about time someone clamped down on these 'cowboys'!

Nice to see that the 'unofficial flight ' operated both ways without any problems - maybe there's a message there???

Anyone know what turned up to operate the 'official' fans flight 8 hours late yesterday afternoon, and what is bringing them back tonight?