Friend of mine works for monarch, she was saying monarch were requsted to help but just didnt have the aircraft available due to a very busy programme, this must be great though for people like jet 2 whos aircraft just seem to be parked up doing nothing all over manchester airport at the moment

The BA link above states Monarch ARE operating flights, as are Ryanair!

No spotty im refering to the BA list which clearly lists monarch as doing some of their flying, and yes cherylock it must be good news for jet 2 i hear they are having awful problems with flat spots on tyres at present

Pretty sure Czech Airlines, Monarch and Ryanair have been added since that link was 1st put up.

thing is its not just jet2 aircraft that have been parked up at man for long periods of time, monarch, thomson,tommy crook,and viking have all had aircraft parked up for days and weeks at a time, sad sign of the times lets hope it picks up this summer for all our airlines.

Quite common for aircraft to be parked up for serveral days at a time in winter as main programmes are flown Fri-Mon for ski holidays/wintersun therefore Tue-Thur
not a lot going on

Ian B

Actuall ph i dont think its all doom and gloom i know monarchs flying programme is up 15 per cent on last year and thompson fly are so busy there actually having to use people like monarch to provide extra capacity, i know jet 2 are going through a bad patch but im sure things will pick up for them soon

Which is what exactly?
L Met

Jet2
 

Jet2 are not going through a bad patch! they have just chosen too keep the winter program light this winter to save money! they dont pay leesing costs on their aircraft so having the aircraft on the ground is cheaper than flying half full on winter routes! Very sensible id say! this has also given them the chance to refit the cabins and get all the aircraft ready for the summer season maintenance wise! and the summer season is set to be very busy! The BA charters are just extra cash in the pocket for the winter! :-)

The flight operating on "NS" this Sunday l was referring is listed on our in house system with a BA flight number. This is listed incorrect as it is operating MAN-CDG-LXR-MBA, it is operating in place of the usual A330 flight from MAN to MBA via CDG.
As of this morning when l last looked l did not see any flights listed for BA on our system, not saying that their are not going to be any but l did not spot any. We did not have many gaps, we were operating the normal ZB/MON and a few for the MOD.:ok:

cherrylock not sure where you get your stats from but thats good news if monarch are 15% up on last year, but lets face it last year was pretty dire for everyone,thomson laid off a large number of pilots and i think reduced the size of the fleet,
still like i said there is a large number of aircraft from different fleets waiting for the summer up turn, this strike will come as a bit of a bonus to all involved except of course ba.

Does anyone know what reg operated the ZB648 on Monday 15th march MAN-LCA? I forgot to get it when I flew. Thanks.

Me thinks cherrylock is SimonChowder's alter ego!

Jet2 is NOT going through a hard time, in fact we have just had a better than expected winter, load factors are up etc, now let stop this anti jet2 or jet2 vers monarch simon....er sorry cherry.

Sunshine79, G-OZBT :ok:

Interesting that a 'cherrylock' is a type of rivet. Is there any way the MODS can check the IP address of the posts from cherrylock and simonchowder?

Thanks for that, I didn't see which a/c came in and it was too dark at LCA to see the reg.

How dare you suggest im something to do with simon chowder!!! i dont know what your rabbiting on about rivets for, cherrylock is derived from my maiden name which is cherry and my married name which is lock, satisfied?

Hello,

I've got a fantastic deal to Cancun with Thomas Cook and I was about to book. I looked online and the flight that day is with Monarch. I cant chage the time to go so im stuck with booking it or not booking it.

I get really bored and on the last long haul flight i was on (China Airlines) with drop down tvs (also with a ridiculous seat pitch) and I thought they were pretty much non existant now. Has anyone been on either of the planes (a330 or 767) lately and do you have any comments?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Had the hitman on our flight back from TFS on Monday night, very quiet, but signed a few autographs if asked I noticed.
Jubilee

Who's the hitman??? bret the hitman heart??? ha ha from WWF??