Pocket Rocket? – that’s something else much less avionic to me!!

At Gill Airways, you’d often hear the Short 360 being reffered to as “That F*cking Thing!” by the passengers, as a sign of their disappointment of flying on the Flying Coffin/Flying Caravan/Flying Wardrobe/Flying Shoebox etc etc etc. The letters of complaint about the Shorts aircraft often kept me amused!

Dunno if this is a industry wide thingy or not either, but I’ve heard of the DC10 at Monarch being called the Death Cruiser

I hadn’t heard about it until I read you post, so, I’m unable to give any info I’m afraid. I don’t suppose that any pilot will turn back just for fun though – what happened? Can you elaborate? I’m interested as a passenger and not as a Monarch employee. I’d rather the pilot turned back or made an unscheduled landing if something went wrong on a flight I was on. Surely better than taking a chance?

Poor cow! Will she never fly again period or just never fly Monarch again?

It took ages to load up on my PC – but worth the wait – funny ha ha!!

Heel goed tenthije! Ik wens Nederland geluk met de voetbal spel.

YAWN!! Well, I hope Monarch don’t get involved in another series of that Holiday Airline pish! These programmes were good when they were on at first – but now they are repetitive, I say repetitive. They could well be showing the same series over and over again and no-one would know any different! I guess that it’s all just marketing.

However, I hope Ryanair avoid these programmes like they do main airports. Although people who have travelled with them (FR) know what they are like, I don’t think that they would drum up a whole load of new business showing it to the public on TV, do you??!!!:D

Tim Jeans was the Commercial Director for FR and was head-hunted by MTL to be their top-dog. Didn’t think it would go down too well in the MOL camp when Tim Jeans resigned, but that’s business…

A mini war seems to be bubbling away at BHX now – wonder who will win!!?? Wouldn’t like to see MTL get badly hurt by FR. It just reeks of pettiness, but that’s business again!!

There you go glafferty, another Monarch bod on the forum to ask Monarch questions to. Hope you have a great flight and a great holiday. 🙂

Originally posted by dan330
Great shots! I’m a particular fan of action shots so I have a few favourites.
Whats the 747 behind the KLM F70 taking off?

Could it be Martinair – do they still have the 747’s? :confused: