Mate, if you are worried about the airline answering, or not answering, your questions and are depending on an anonymous website to do it for them...... tell the airline to fark off, take your money back, and walk away.

You aren't going to get a refund from anything said here. So yeah, I hold to my comment, ask THEM.

Can anyone tell me why the TCX flight I took to Calgary from Manchester went via Gatwick... to collect 28 people??

Is this about keeping slots open or something, because it doesn't seem to make financial sense. With nearly 300 on board at MAN, why not bus the Gatwick passengers up north? Obviously more to it than I realise...

There is still one a330 left to be converted had the joys of it going to cayo coco and then back to manchester two weeks latter must say its in pretty in need of the overhall as i was in premium gold and was really not woth the money the seat i was in on the way out the head phone jacks didnt work then on the way back the seat behind us the arm of the seat keepted falling off

Any ideas on what caused todays TCX 473K from Mamchester to Sanford to have such a massive delay. Was due to depart at 09:30 did not leave till 17:55.

Also looking at Sanford airports website, TCX are going to send the Glasgow aircraft on the manchester run back to UK, and delay the departure of the GLA until 11pm.

Sorry don't know what caused the delay but i know that Thomas cook along with other UK charter airlines swap their aircraft at Sanford for there return flights back to the UK for utilisation reasons etc... so unfortunately looks like the GLA passengers have took the brunt of the inbound delay.

pretty much all the tcx out of man today seem to be suffering from a delay tcx154k to faro is another big delay due toleave at 07:20 now due out 3:10.

Seems TCX got hold of a Orbest A332 (Iberworld) to operate the Faro flight. It routed Lisbon - Faro - Manchester - Faro though - I've also noticed alot of bad delays/cancellations over the past few days. Is it just the one aircraft that has caused all the problems?

Probably Because Of The Inexperienced Ops Team Running A Afleet Of 42 A/c.

Planes go tech and no amount of experience in op's can stop that. The last time I saw a weekend like this, it was trying to make an operation work with the whole fleet of Yellow Dog Tristars fecked, all at once.

planes do go tech and its the experience in the ops room that can effect an efficient speedy recovery............

Departures
Sat
TCX154K 07:20 Faro Departed 03:57
TCX056K 16:50 Fuerterventura 09:45

Sun
TCX135K 06:00 Monastir Delayed 20:55


Arrivals
Sat
TCX154L 14:40 Faro, Arrived 01:44

Sun
TCX056L 02:35 Fuerterventura, Cancelled
TCX135L 14:05 Monastir, Expected 04:50

Whats caused these delays, they seem to be on the same aircraft as well...

"Whats caused these delays, they seem to be on the same aircraft as well..."
Havent you just answered your own question...?:)

At no point did you make it clear from your original post that you were actually flying on that particular flight. The mention of "invoice" in a subsequent post was the only give away.
I have never had any problem getting through to Thomas Cook by telephone- you just need to pick the right time.

Technically CabinCrewe I havent answered my own question because I asked "What has caused these delays" they are operated by the same aircraft I known, but I didn't no what was going on there.

But never mind.

And traditionally May is usually a 'bad' month for Aircraft going sick:ugh:

I think some of the machines know how busy they will be for 6 months, Or a 'spot' of De Ja vu:zzz::eek:

TCX dont really decide the timetable for flights, this is done by Thomas Cook holidays. You can find out what is due to operate from EMA in the back of a TC hols brochure for 2009.

It'll be 2 A320s for EMA again next summer, if TCX get any more A321s it'll be to replace the B752s that are ending their lease this year and aren't being renewed, though not sure where they'd be coming from, maybe FCA.

How many 752 is that?
is glasgow still 4 x 752 and 1x A330 for summer 09?