NCL-AYT will be a 24 hour delay by half 5 this evening.

Crewing is creaking less than 2 weeks in to summer season. :rolleyes:

There have been quite a few of those from GLA over the last couple or weeks too with several ACMI charters brought in the following day. Yesterday’s GLA-AYT hasn’t operated yet either and today’s LPA has been cancelled to make way for it. TUI seem to be seriously struggling for aircraft (amongst other things) at the moment with several either still with Sunwing or sitting on the ground after returning.

A few Dreamliners don’t seem to have moved in a while - are they receiving maintenance?

SE-RFZ that has been doing the MAN-CUN route for the last couple of weeks departed to Amman yesterday I am assuming for a maint check (correct me if I am wrong please) so that leaves one 900 series light as TUIP has not been delivered yet.

TUI is also being hammered with delays using Smartlynx from DSA and DUB too. Anyone know what time the Newcastle to Antalya is due to leave? and what's happening with the Glasgow Las Palmas?

G-TUII is en route to Newcastle now and looks to be operating the Antalya to Newcastle sector first so my guess is that it will then do the Newcastle to Antalya leg. Serious delay that.

You are correct.

TUIE is on its way back from Amman (although is a -8).

It’s possible the outbound passengers were bussed to MAN.

understood A320s ES-SAA and ES-SAX were for TUI use ,yet both seem to be just sitting outside STS at BHX doing nothing,while TUI are using NEOS and Euro Atlantic. Not sure if the A320s are still with STS for work ,but both have been here for some time

Cheers Jethro, any ideas how long it will be away for and if it is coming back

With so many aircraft running delayed and people claiming up to £500 per seat under eu261, how on earth are they going to make any money?

From the 99+% of flights that are running on time, or at least less than three hours late.

No worries thanks for the information :ok:

A bit like the comparable UK railway scheme for train delays - hardly anybody affected does claim (or have it accepted).

Well my Airtanker A330 was 3 hrs 5 minutes late on the BHX-TFS yesterday and despite me pre booking a window-aisle pair for the return trip planned on a B763, those seats have been magically changed to separate me and the Mrs to separate rows and seats (A&K) on whatever appears to be taking us back on Friday 20th. Aside from ridiculous check in queues, ridiculous security queues, 3hrs 5 min late arrival with no IFE in my seat, no normal catering on board and waiting for the bus to take us to resort as we were so late, the actual HOLIDAY has been fantastic. Believe you me I'll be talking TUI to the cleaners.

Please don't be so precious! No IFE? So what! If you paid to book specific seats then ask for a refund of the fee but the T&Cs will not allow any compensation for aircraft type or carrier changes.

I am sure that during your stay you will find some more faults that may give an avenue for a compensation claim, but do remember that the end result of compensation claims is higher prices for everyone.

You should be happy that they got you there. AirTanker was draughted in as an Ad-Hoc to operate the flight which is a different type / seating config to the original equipment, which has no IFE installed anyway!