Trip to Spain and Portugal
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Many thanks to all of you that responded. Your help is invaluable. I think that I will suggest to SkyDemon that they put this type of information onto the system. We are Planning on sticking to the suggestions that you gave us. I'll give Casablanca a miss based on your reports, I wonder if these people realise the results of their actions. Someone should tell them
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I think it would be fantastic if people working at airports would realise their actions in terrible customer service and incredibly high fees would lead to us pilots actively avoiding them, and talking about it.
Perhaps back in the day, without the Internet and social media, it was rather difficult to broadcast a bad experience to a lot of pilots - but nowadays, it is clear that it is unacceptable.
The post does mention that this experience was quite some time ago - perhaps, if you call them you may well receive a very different response from them!
I hope you have an amazing flight irrespective!
Perhaps back in the day, without the Internet and social media, it was rather difficult to broadcast a bad experience to a lot of pilots - but nowadays, it is clear that it is unacceptable.
The post does mention that this experience was quite some time ago - perhaps, if you call them you may well receive a very different response from them!
I hope you have an amazing flight irrespective!
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We were in Casablanca last spring with a DA40 - Aerodrome Tit Mellil is fine - reasonable taxi ride to a not too expensive hotel on the boulevard. Helpful police, ATC lady in the tower likes to give you a stamp in your logbook. In Morocco follow VFR routes. Always have next waypoint with time and planned route available for RT purposes.
Flew through Rabat, Essaouira and Dakhla on our way south in 2013, it was pretty smooth. Much easier than some of the other airports we went through in Africa.
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I believe either Flyer or Pilot carried an article in the last year of someone making a flight down through Spain in to Africa on route to Tenerife. May be worth finding and reading, just a thought.
