G-KEST
4th Mar 2004, 01:17
Hello there,
Another trip with that infamous low cost carrier R***air. It was great and at a fantastically low price booked some three months before. Departure on time from Stansted at 0730Z on 19 February and after a 45 minute trip a smoothish arrival at Charleroi with fast processing there - was in my transport by 0935 local time. return on 22 February was fine but I had cut it a little short in getting from hasselt to Charleroi. The Range Rover I travelled in was doing about the same speed as the 737. It was to get me to the airport in time to have a 35 minute predeparture time check in for the 1820 local flight back to Stansted. No problems but the flight was 99% full and managed to depart 15 minutes earlier than scheduled so my time after check in was minimal. Had a Spanish lass giving out the safety brief with a tinge of an Irish accent and she rattled it out so fast it was quite unintelligable. mind you it was an EI registered 737-200 so the UK CAA Flight Ops guys would not have had jurisdiction anyway. Even on a trip with Tarom in an IL62 back in the early 1980's to Constanza had the Romanian "stakhanovite" cabin female speaking slow accented but understandable English to her load of Brits on a Cosmos package holiday.
Nice arrival back at Stansted around 15 minutes early at 1750Z. The longest element of the trip was getting my car out of the clutches of BCP at Bishops Stortford Football Club carpark - Ah well.......!!
I just love low cost carriers.
Trapper 69
Another trip with that infamous low cost carrier R***air. It was great and at a fantastically low price booked some three months before. Departure on time from Stansted at 0730Z on 19 February and after a 45 minute trip a smoothish arrival at Charleroi with fast processing there - was in my transport by 0935 local time. return on 22 February was fine but I had cut it a little short in getting from hasselt to Charleroi. The Range Rover I travelled in was doing about the same speed as the 737. It was to get me to the airport in time to have a 35 minute predeparture time check in for the 1820 local flight back to Stansted. No problems but the flight was 99% full and managed to depart 15 minutes earlier than scheduled so my time after check in was minimal. Had a Spanish lass giving out the safety brief with a tinge of an Irish accent and she rattled it out so fast it was quite unintelligable. mind you it was an EI registered 737-200 so the UK CAA Flight Ops guys would not have had jurisdiction anyway. Even on a trip with Tarom in an IL62 back in the early 1980's to Constanza had the Romanian "stakhanovite" cabin female speaking slow accented but understandable English to her load of Brits on a Cosmos package holiday.
Nice arrival back at Stansted around 15 minutes early at 1750Z. The longest element of the trip was getting my car out of the clutches of BCP at Bishops Stortford Football Club carpark - Ah well.......!!
I just love low cost carriers.
Trapper 69