Nasa - your point is...?

ah .. M1 .... sometimes it didn't REALLY mean "must ride".

Can recall sitting in MEL waiting for some seats many eons ago ... for whatever reason, the flight departed without us. Not quite sure who made the decision that we shouldn't be on it but, in the end, someone realised what had happened .. and that we were to pick up another aircraft from the next stop. You guessed it ... back they came to collect us. Hopefully the paying pax saw the funny side of things.

I'm with you Cheer up:confused:

By the by, part of the 146s seemingly great on time departure record was due to the fact that they have no ACARS, you could get away with up to a 10 minute delay ( or more ) and the fact that they were flight planned at ridiculous speeds ( 380 TAS ), meant it was easy to make time up enroute.
In spite of this fact, their reliability in latter years was pretty good.

BankAngle 50, I don't work for Jetstar and I've never flown on them...what I and others are sick of is Virgin spin.

Pete, so you dont know what your talking about then do you? I think you need to re-read my post; i would hardly say it was pro VB "spin!"