What an unpleasant place PPRuNe is sometimes. All the best on getting things sorted for your wedding, Alasdair.

Third Thursday in the month is usually the date... but you can never be certain.

Alasdair1 Not sure where you are located, but Turkish Airlines fly frequent daily and more flights to Istanbul from London, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh all year round, maybe it would be safer to book with them from your nearest of the airports they fly from. Just a thought.

I would never book a "time critical" flight using a loco. If they cancel for whatever reason you are left to rebook maybe days later or your money back. At least with a legacy carrier like TK, BA, LH, KL they will get you there one way or another.

Does anyone know what kind of "crew welfare" issue would result in a MAN-GIB flight diverting to Malaga?

EZY1963 this morning was severely delayed due to tech, replacement plane from Gatwick ferried up to Manchester and fresh crew onboard.

The diversion was announced hours before the plane left Manchester.

It might be that GIB is a 2 captain airport, and there may not have been 2 captains to to operate the flight. Not 100% sure but that would be my guess at the situation.

I think easyJet requires some additional training for operating into GIB. My guess is that the stand-by crew didn't have the correct paperwork for GIB.

I believe this to be the case

Does anyone know what kind of "crew welfare" My guess is that the stand-by crew didn't have the correct paperwork for GIB.

That would be 'pax welfare' then.

August + 9.4%. LF 96.3%

For the Sunday 10th, #2227 LTN-ALC that was canx due 'tech problem' and the return #2228 late Sunday evening: If anyone can assist with information about the nature of the problem, that would be appreciated. PM if you have info, many thanks.