Hey everybody as Im sure you are all aware GSM have begun their summer programme from YHM (Hamilton) There first flight arrived today over 3 hours late. Its not the best start and isnt a good sign for the summer ahead!!!
How many 757s will be operating the YHM-Europe flights or are we looking at days when delays keep building growing from minutes to hours to days?
By: SHAMROCK321 - 5th May 2007 at 17:46
Well when I left work yesterday the DUB-YHM flight was delayed 4 hours it eventually left 7 hours late.
I had a woman on the phone today who had arrived without her bag (I found it) and she said the only positive thing was she was in business class and the service was excellent.
By: Oasis747 - 5th May 2007 at 15:13
Isnt this the first day they serve LGW too. anyway theres a 6 hour delay on the flight from Hamilton.
11:25 GSM152 HAMILTON VIA GLASGOW EXPECTED 1700 South Terminal
By: Jon Taylor - 5th May 2007 at 13:39
The
Vancouver – Manchester GSM952 Is delayed for 27 Hours and 10 minutes
A GSM952 05 May 14:45 Vancouver Expected 6 May 17:55
Im not sure if it departed Manchester on time.
Jon
By: RIPConcorde - 5th May 2007 at 00:59
Could you elaborate on that statement please?
I’ll try!
The YHM schedule has been delayed since it first started due to the late delivery of the 2nd B752 and the 3rd one is yet to arrive, hence the fleet is so stretched that they have no way of making the delay up. (on another note, check the 26.5 hour delay on YVR/YYC at GLA today/tomorrow).
The EDI delays on Thursday.. well, BCN the previous few days had been operating with B738 via Glasgow, on Thursday BCN was direct as the B738 had returned to GLA which I believe resulted in a shortage of aircraft at EDI as there was nothing to operate the AGP flight. The EDI delays were also partly down to very poor scheduling in trying to keep the delays to a minimum.
Easiest thing to do is read this thread 😉 – http://www.egphforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=742&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
By: jethro15 - 4th May 2007 at 19:51
These problems (EDI yesterday and YHM) are down to shortage of aircraft.
Could you elaborate on that statement please?
By: RIPConcorde - 4th May 2007 at 17:46
Didn’t the Malaga go all to pot at the last bank holiday (easter) as well. I remember sitting in the departure lounge at EDI listening to people rant at a 6hr delay with GSM.
I would say too much too soon. Are these genuine ‘tech’ probs or just shortage of a/c?
These problems (EDI yesterday and YHM) are down to shortage of aircraft, as you say, caused by attempting too much too soon. They have a strong customer base in Scotland (although for how much longer?) and they have worked on buillding on that until they expanded so dramatically.
By: SHAMROCK321 - 4th May 2007 at 15:45
Again the GSM flight from DUB-YHM was delayed 4 hours today.
They never sent a list of passengrs through so check in staff had no idea who was actually supposed to be on the flight.
Eventually a rep turned up with the name lsit and refused to talk to pax it was going so badly.
By: chrism20 - 4th May 2007 at 10:46
Could be worse, you could be a EDI originating GSM passenger today. Both AGP flights and the NCE flights have delays varying from 5-8 hours.:rolleyes:
Didn’t the Malaga go all to pot at the last bank holiday (easter) as well. I remember sitting in the departure lounge at EDI listening to people rant at a 6hr delay with GSM.
I would say too much too soon. Are these genuine ‘tech’ probs or just shortage of a/c?
By: Richard Taylor - 4th May 2007 at 07:23
Too much too soon?
By: RIPConcorde - 3rd May 2007 at 20:18
Could be worse, you could be a EDI originating GSM passenger today. Both AGP flights and the NCE flights have delays varying from 5-8 hours.:rolleyes:
By: Ren Frew - 3rd May 2007 at 17:06
The YHM flights weren’t their only problem yesterday. From what I heard, the 767 operating for AIC went tech atLHR, the outbound YYC or YVR was heavily delayed too.
It was a bit chaotic, and can’t all be blamed on the media or weather.
Latest 737-700 was delivered to Glasgow a few days ago coming from BFI non-stop.
They still have a relatively small fleet and unfortunately these things happen… Planes go tech all the time, it’s just easier to cope with when you are a large airline with a large pool of aircraft at your disposal.
By: David2386 - 3rd May 2007 at 16:14
The YHM flights weren’t their only problem yesterday. From what I heard, the 767 operating for AIC went tech atLHR, the outbound YYC or YVR was heavily delayed too.
It was a bit chaotic, and can’t all be blamed on the media or weather.
Latest 737-700 was delivered to Glasgow a few days ago coming from BFI non-stop.
By: andrewm - 3rd May 2007 at 15:50
Andrew,
I dont think you can judge them by their first single service. I have rarely heard of a launch flight that goes on time due to press wanting coverage etc. I bet the delays were related to weather or press/media/launch!
Lets give them a chance to get warmed up!
By: gary o - 3rd May 2007 at 14:48
I was hoping they would use a 767,but a 757 will do just fine,alot of the charters suffer from delays so i suppose this is no different:rolleyes:
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