peach air – far from a peachy experience

A few years ago, when our charter flight tickets arrived for a holiday to Rhodes, I was suprised to find our carrier was an airline I had never heard of, the now infamous, Peach Air.

I was quite looking forward to flying Peach Air, my grandmother who has been flying since the 1940s, was quite apprehensive. The name didnt exactly inspite confidence.

We were even more spooked when we arrived at the gate at Manchester airport and could see an old Tristar waiting there. My gran, remembering flying on Court Line Tristars in the 70s, exclaimed in true Northen fashion ‘oh, eck its got a chimney’ in reference to the tail mounted engine! She said that thing must be as old as the hills, indeed it was!

The flight passed rather uneventfully and our worries about Peach Air seemed to go unfounded.

Glad our flight was before the well-documented in-flight depressurisation of the very old, dilapidated 737-200, where the Captain and a member of cabin crew passed out in mid-air.

I woulo loved to have known the average fleet age of that Peach Air, whose aged aircraft included a pair of 737-200s and some old Tristars!