That's a bummer at best of times, especially for those on a one week holiday.
Did the Pax have to stay at DSA all that time??

Pax will have been provided with hotels/transport home as well as the offer of a full refund if deciding not to travel. That is on top of the EU261 compensation. Whilst passengers are in the airport, they will also have to be provided with refreshment vouchers and information as and when it becomes available.

Not good at all but theres for certain the passengers in the UK and abroad will have been looked after as best they could given the circumstances. It looks as though TUI sourced a Norwegian aircraft to pick the AGP passengers up late overnight where the TUI aircraft had originally broken down.

If the delay was with a fly/cruise holiday, then you would have to cancel the holiday, probably no options to catch up with a ship forty hours later.

Which it wasn't. Although theres also the possibility of booking such passengers on to a flight to the next nearest airport on the cruises port of call. Either on their own airline or other... It has happened before believe it or not. Holiday companies and airlines don't purposely want their aircraft to breakdown and be unsafe to fly so to annoy their customers. They do practically everything in their day to day power to reduce any disruption when it does happen. But when they've run out of any realistic options, unfortunately someone's going to have to bare the brunt of it on a the very rare occasion in the grand scheme of things.

Vokes55,
You are WRONG with your statement 'that TUI don't cancel flights LIKE EVERY OTHER AIRLINE'. JET2 DO NOT CANCEL FLIGHTS. Thomas Cook DO NOT CANCEL FLIGHTS. Just to mention two airlines.

For a short delay there is often time built in to allow an arrival to the ship from the original port, often several hours before it leaves. On occasions they will hold the ship but it's rare due to disrupting the ships program. I have seen on a number of occasions that the flight might do a double drop, for example a Canaries cruise starting in Tenerife but first stop in Gran Canaria may mean the original flight routing UK-LPA-TFS-UK. TUI's cruises are generally around certain parts of the Med so don't get too far away by the next day in order to drop off at another Airport en route.

Can anyone in the know please tell me why the Glasgow to Rhodes flight & return (BY1666/7) are always running 1 - 1 1/2 late every week?

The flight times were changed from 15:15 to 17:55 (ex Gla), but nearly every week (apart from a couple of exceptions), this flight has been leaving late.
For example, yesterday the flight was 50 mins late arriving from Palma (landed 15:13), which still left a 2 Hr 40 min turnaround.
1 or 2 delays I could understand....but every week????

Slots. Welcome to summer in Europe.

Vokes55

If you want people to take your comments seriously, you need to be more accurate in your statements.

There's nothing inaccurate about what I've said, and I'm not going to lose sleep over how a spotter on an internet forum takes my comments. But thanks for the advice, dad.

Vokes55,

Your a nasty person. Absolutely no need for your sarcastic comments. You said 'every other airline cancels flights' other than TUI . Again I say You are wrong.

Actually I said TUI don't cancel flights like every other airline. The emphasis being on "TUI don't cancel flights", hence the reason you might see long delays on the top of departure boards whilst "MOST" other airlines have cancelled flights. easyJet and BA both cancelled flights to Turkey and the Canaries from Gatwick yesterday. You won't see these on the top of departure boards today, you won't see it in the news, but you will have 180+ passengers on each with their holidays dependent on availability of other flights in the middle of Summer. Norwegian is the only airline I can think of that actually adds additional capacity the following day to cover a cancellation. Personally I'd rather have a 24 hour delay with duty of care, knowing my accommodation hasn't been cancelled at my destination and my transfer will still take me to my hotel, than face a cancellation with the option of a refund or rebooking onto the next available flight, which could be a week later. I can also say from personal experience that travel insurance doesn't always take care of all consequential loss from a flight cancellation.

Maybe Thomas Cook and Jet2 don't cancel flights either. But this thread is titled "TUI Airways".

Absolutely no need for personal attacks either.

Vokes 55
I apologise for the personal attack. Absolutely no need for it.

Yes I agree with your sentiments about preference for delay instead of cancellation. That is why I would never book with certain airlines for that very reason.