Their failures are being a matter of jokes on the press. Civil aviation has been monitoring the airline since they had five emergencies in a month. Now under Iberia maintenance, things seems to have improved.
But I am surely not really lucky with them. There´s always something weird. Delayed because a dog had escaped from the cargo hold, in other flight the Scottish pilot announced we were flying other airport (I live in SCQ and had told we were flying SVQ), and yesterday, a very scarying take off from Barcelona.
No clouds, no winds…and a really bumpy take off. Then in the middle of the take off, he started to circle around Barcelona for a while, and after 10 minutes climbed again with no turbulences at all. Does anyone guess what could have happened?. NO WAY…….FLY VUELING
By: keltic - 4th December 2007 at 22:08
Thanks Adam. I prefer not thinking about it. The bad thing is that turbulences seemed like vibrations. But let´s thing it was just traffic restrictions 🙂
By: adamdowley - 4th December 2007 at 20:43
Never stop climbing, circling and then climbing again. I fly every month and it was really weird. I would appreciate to hear possible explanations.
Air Traffic Control restrictions or routings likely.
As for the five emergencies in a month, I assume you mean situations where the emergency services were called to standby the side of the runway as an aircraft landed. Not to worry – this happens more than people might think, and Clickair is not the only airline by any means to have ‘as many as’ five emergencies in a month.
By: keltic - 4th December 2007 at 20:06
Well yes, RingwaySam. I don´t want to say they are dangerous, I mean in a serious risk, but things could be improved (as pilots trade unions are denouncing here). As far as take off is concerned, it was really weird.
Never stop climbing, circling and then climbing again. I fly every month and it was really weird. I would appreciate to hear possible explanations.
By: RingwaySam - 4th December 2007 at 17:54
Seriously, do you really think the EU would let any Carrier in Europe fly if they thought they were dangerous. Circling the airport isn’t a big deal – Maybe there was a problem and they fixed it, why alert the pax when it’s been fixed. Theres some things that pax don’t need to know.
As for the bumpy takeoff, just because the wind is calm on the ground doesn’t make it calm in the sky.
By: keltic - 4th December 2007 at 17:48
Yes indeed. I kind of BA GO in it´s time. Only intention to push Vueling aside, but using huge amounts of money from Iberia and indirectly by Iberia. Despite Iberia being private, still uses the goverment tools all the time.
Initially it was a separated unit to keep Iberia pilots quiet, but now is being integrated more and more and many routes are being transfered to Clickair. Also owned by Iberia Regional (Air Nostrum) Iberworld and other minor shareowners
By: RingwaySam - 4th December 2007 at 17:46
Yeah, should deffinatly fear for you’re life eh 😮
By: tenthije - 4th December 2007 at 17:08
Now under Iberia maintenance, things seems to have improved.
Was Clickair not started by Iberia to fight against Vueling, Ryanair, Easyjet etc.
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