Only 'cos she can normally reach 20,000 feet without the aid of an aeroplane.

TJ doesn't know much - he's a manager, not a spotter.

CelebAir ITV2
 

Any chance of inviting Naomi Campbell to experience life from the crew's point of view??? Now that would be worth watching.

Monarch LUT-LEI
 

Hi ive seen that Spotty have dropped the LEI route for the winter,does anyone on here know if it will be back for Summer 2009.

Havent been on G-MONX for a while out of LUT is the old lady still based there?

I think NX is down in LGW - I saw it there twice last week.

S88:ok:

I think the big stumbling block may well be the fact that these morons will have to actually pass the cabin crew training course to allow them to operate as crew ,now that possibly could be a very big problem (i trust there will be no short term dumbing down of standards to accomodate them)

Does anyone know who the Celebs are yet?

I have heard -

Chicco
Michelle Marsh
Lisa Scott Lee
Dane Bowers
Gareth Gates

Any one In the Know?

So they're aren't actually proper celebrities...

Berksflyer

Dunno about you, but I wouldn't mind seeing Michelle Marsh fitting into a FA's dress :E

Heard Tamara Beckwith was another, although pregnant so presumably ground duties!

757 hydraulic leaks
 

A Monarch 757 had to return to EDI on 23 June for an emergency landing with a hydraulic leak. Another Monarch 757 suffered a hydraulic leak at EDI on 5th August, this time on stand and with pax loaded ready for departure. Are these just random incidents or is there a wider problem?

Looks just random to me. Anything mechanical likely to brake down usually when it's most inconvient. I've had several hydraulic leaks on different aircraft flown over the years usually when you put a demand on the system.

Had the brakes go on a car once, a couple of days after it had been serviced, on steep hill which made life exciting for a moment or too.

No major problem with the Monarch B757s, or EDI...

The based B757 (rotated regularly between MONB and MONE), is very efficient and has suffered more due to the EDI runway closures SUN-THU nights, than to technical issues. Diverts to GLA have caused major issues as crew rapidly run out of hours - in one instance last week, out of hours after the first sector (EDI-TFS). A crew positioned MAN-TFS to operate the flight back to EDI...

Think about it. The Monarch B757s are of the HIGHEST time B757s in commercial operation, anywhere in the world! G-MONB can claim the title of 'The Highest Time - Hours wise - B757 In The World'.

Boeing allegedly want to buy this aircraft from Monarch once its retired from the fleet and do a 'tear-down' inspection on it, to see how life has been treating it over the years and to see what stresses and strains have been inflicted.

Got to hand it to the guys n gals at Monarch. They have looked after it well, as is the rest of the fleet. Consider that this aircraft hardly spends any time on the deck in EDI. It gets mandatory turnaround checks by MON engineers, and thats it. Occassional maintenance between sectors, which is rare.

Compare this to other airlines, with less rigerous schedules... and compare the punctuality!

WELL DONE MONARCH :ok:

My god!! an aircraft suffered a hydraulic leak ,how awful, whatever could have caused that? most unusual, and those aircraft cannot be more than a quarter of a century old, something very fishy going on at monarch methinks, perhaps a special safety check by the CAA is due, we dont want dear old monarch going the way of that dodgy aussie outfit do we?

Silverstreak - I heard that NB and NE were heading off to a cargo airline after the summer season, so no rest for these machines quite yet!

It was very encouraging to see Monarch take steps to get their EDI programme back on track asap. They flew another 757 up form LGW on 23rd June to replace the a/c that went tech. They then had the tech a/c repaired and back in service in time to fly the afternoon sectors with just a slight delay. :D

btw. I understand that the 23 June incident involved G-MONE and the 5th Aug incident was G-MONB.

New BHX routes
 

Monarch scheduled have announced Larnaca twice weekly from March 2009.

Monarch are starting Amritsar from BHX from 28th October 2008.

Have Monarch Gone Mad
 

Just looked at the MAN-FAO-MAN flights for June 09, £745.47 per person .... but it does include tax........ and there is no fuel supplement.

Certainly looks like they have lost the plot.

AGP-MAN-AGP for June 09 is a staggering €1112 p/p