Monarch to Maldives
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Monarch to Maldives
Relations going to Maldives from LGW this Sunday pm on Monarch. Do outbound crew stay there the entire week and bring next one back following seven days later?
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Anyway, I doubt the aircraft would stay there for a week so it must be repositioning somewhere else?
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Anyway, I doubt the aircraft would stay there for a week so it must be repositioning somewhere else?
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As innocent as the question was no doubt intended, it is unfortunetaly the case these days, that security considerations often arouse suspicion to such requests. Although it is not necessarily a state secret, people are rightly reluctant to divulge any details in public concerning the whereabouts and duration of crew layovers.
Thankfully it is very infrequent, but there have been incidents where such knowledge has caused difficulty in the past, and for that reason it is ill advised to pursue the matter specifically.
Generally speaking crews on long haul flights will require a rest period downroute before operating an onward or return service. Sometimes this might be as little as half a day other times it might be a week or more. Sometimes crews are repositioned on their own or other services to return to their base, or to operate another service.
Thankfully it is very infrequent, but there have been incidents where such knowledge has caused difficulty in the past, and for that reason it is ill advised to pursue the matter specifically.
Generally speaking crews on long haul flights will require a rest period downroute before operating an onward or return service. Sometimes this might be as little as half a day other times it might be a week or more. Sometimes crews are repositioned on their own or other services to return to their base, or to operate another service.
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As innocent as the question was no doubt intended, it is unfortunetaly the case these days, that security considerations often arouse suspicion to such requests. Although it is not necessarily a state secret, people are rightly reluctant to divulge any details in public concerning the whereabouts and duration of crew layovers.
Different airlines may well do things differently. I flew on a MIA-EZE-USH charter which operated once every 8 days for a cruise line. The way that that airline did it was that the first crew operated MIA-EZE and paxed home. The second crew paxed to EZE, opeated EZE-USH-EZE and paxed home. A third crew paxed to EZE and operated the final EZE-MIA sector. Monarch could equally be doing something similar to MLE, and the OP's question seems to me to have been a natural question to ask.
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Re: Monarch to Maldives
I posted the original message. I assure you all that there was certainly nothing implied regarding security of airline or crew. I`m just a simple anorak with no connections whatsoever with airlines, security..whatever. My question was one that any relation might ask. Do those two human beings in the front of the aeroplane drive it Gatwick to Maldives and back OR Gatwick Maldives and then stay in hotel for one week OR ride back to LGW as pax?
Simple as that. I humbly apologise if there were any doubt regarding security.
Thank you.
Simple as that. I humbly apologise if there were any doubt regarding security.
Thank you.
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Re: Monarch to Maldives
Yes, the crew does have rest days in the Maldives. In fact there was a crew there - and in Colombo - on boxing Day 2004 when the tsunami struck. The aircraft is operated back by the previous crew in the pattern. The tricky bit is the beginning and the end of the series, where some crew positioning is necessary.
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Re: Monarch to Maldives
The cabin crew we talked to last year said that they were on Male for a couple of days, not one of the resort islands, but they did have a day trip out to one. Good luck to em I say, if you have to look after the likes of me, then you deserve all the rewards you get
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The crew involved in the Boxing Day tsunami were on Boduhithi. The number of days there will obviously depend on when the next flight is due in, or if there is an urgent requirement for the complete crew, or members of it, to be somewhere else. This 'urgent requirement' can come unexpectedly, such as crew sickness elsewhere, or a sub-charter for another airline.
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Re: Monarch to Maldives
hi ,
I am ex crew for monarch and I used to oporate flights to the maldives to begin with the flight went via bahrain and we oporated 10 day trips there! eventually the trip went direct and I myself was lucky enough to have 2 week trips to the maldives. We were put up on a beautiful 5* resort island!!and paid £550 allowances, those were the days!
I am ex crew for monarch and I used to oporate flights to the maldives to begin with the flight went via bahrain and we oporated 10 day trips there! eventually the trip went direct and I myself was lucky enough to have 2 week trips to the maldives. We were put up on a beautiful 5* resort island!!and paid £550 allowances, those were the days!
