Someone told me that we can check-in the night before at LGW, is this true and will this increase the chances of our bags going missing or not?

1) How many people travel everyday? Bags are bound to missing
2) 'In' thing at Thomsonfly? TOM don't handle the bags themselves they have ground handling agents to do that.
3) You're obviously a keen supporter of FCA (from the BRS thread), would you still be dragging thier name through the mud on here if you were travelling with them and this happened? Probably not!

It is unfortunate that you're bags were late arriving, but like delays, it is part of air travel. Happens to us all regardless of airline.

Yes, bags are bound to go missing and inevitably left behind when aircraft have to be changed for others going tech etc.

Here we go, firstly, I don't care how many people travel every day and that bags are bound to go missing. There were about 280 pax on the flight I'm talking about and nobody's bag 'went missing', the bags were left in Cardiff deliberately. That decision was not made by a baggage handler, it was made by Thomson.
As for being a 'keen supporter of FCA', well you're wrong, I'm just not a keen supporter of any airline who deliberately and sneakily leaves me 4000 miles from home with no luggage and then acts as if it's not their fault when it clearly was.

Bags offloaded
 

Now now boys and girls put your hand bags down.

There must be some one out there that can tell the correct picture.

If bags get off loaded there must be a good reason in my experience it looks to me and dont quote me like the more immportant thing over bags must be fuel.

From the story i have read the aircraft may have strong head winds on te sectotor for that day opperations will quote maybe a full load for the sector but for a number of reasons on the day this may not be the case (punn)

Opperating out of some places fuelers may over fuel an aircraft ang are unable to defuel, so this can create departure figures problems.

Aircraft info
 

Can anyone from Thomsonfly elaborate on what a/c type is used on the Glasgow- Tenerife route -Am i going to be sandwiched in a 733 or 752 ? I am due to fly out on TOM4043 on 05/01/07 returning on TOM4044 13/01/07

From the cargo schedule once again it looks as if it's planned to be a 752 all winter on both flights (Tue, Fri)

HTH
mmeteesside

very poor website, very poor timetable
 

DOES ANYONE AGREE WITH ME ON THIS?

firstly the website doesn't operate as well as say easyJet's or Ryanair's and takes an age to update/refresh.

secondly the 'book flight' section doesn't include ALL flights. For example if I want to book BOH-PRG I can't book it in the normal manner - I have to go into another section. I only know I have to do this because I really tried hard. How many other customers would just give up?

thirdly the timetable section is an absolute MESS. It must be a slots problem because the airline has NO consistency with its times of departures/days of departures. Often a simple route such as BOH-AMS shows about 2 pages of A4 in terms of timings/days of departure!!!

Compared with other LCC/charter airlines, the website is an embarrassment to the airline.

Comments please

"O" my God !
I was just coming on here to say the same, the website keeps freezing my pc to the point that I have to re-boot, I was just looking to book a holiday for a friend, I have now booked it through Firstchoice, I wonder how many lost sales they have due the the website or lack of it,
I realy thought it was only me who had the problem.

On another note, I am flying TOM on the 02nd NOV to LPA,from LGW, can anyone advise me if TOM provide TWILIGHT check-in at LGW, and if so what is the earliest time for doing so.

I was thinking the same! The TOM website is always really slow compared to other loco sites. They really need to sort this out.

Nakata, about your problem with not finding the Prague route in the main page. It is there, but you need to change the date first as these flights don't start until next month, which is the winter schedule. I know, once again a strange system, but this is something that TOM will have to address.

Website
 

I can't agree more - it has been appalling but response times have
slightly improved recently.

My PC is three years old with very little "known" data stored on it but
I still assumed that the problem was at my end rather than theirs.

I had a similar problem last year with airmiles and mytravel but the
latter is now fine. Also with mytravel, the mytravellite site on my
PC was totally different - super quick.

Keeping on the subject anybody know what the three based at BHX
are next summer - will BHX lose the 762 (Silverjet and all that)?

Pete

Cwl is to get a new route on TOM next year to BCN( see CWL forum). These new routes will surley mean that a new 737 will need to be based at CWL because the current 733 is overworked?

Cwl Tom New Route
 

Good to see Tom has another route out of Cwl.

If they are going to base another aircraft at Cwl they need to have some more destinations for it.

I would think the Bcn flight might operate three to four times a week and to justify another aircraft there has to be several other routes in mind to fill in this aircrafts weeks work.:ok: :ok:

I've heard that it will be 4 times a week:)

Winter 2007 now on sale via the website not much new really (well have only checked LGW/CWL/BRS) New for W07 CWL -> FNC, BRS->LXR operated by TOM

Some more winter 2007/08 news

LBA - Only ALC and TFS
HUY - No change (ALC/ACE/LPA/TFS)
DSA - Monastir replaced with SSH (though SSH has been dropped twice before so if it well actually start I dont know)

charters to australia winter 06/07
 

any word on whether TOM will be runnin those charters to Australia again as they did last year and Britannia did before that?

no TOM will not be flying down under this winter.

They are flying down-under this winter, all the way to New Zealand. You won't be able to buy seats though, the flights are ferries to the engineering base that is doing the IFE upgrade.

Hapag Express & Thomsonfly to merge