Not Airworld – they didn’t start ops until 1994.

If it was 1990, then all the usual suspect were operating from MAN to ALC with night flights : Monarch / Dan Air / Britannia / Air 2000

The passenger will have made their contract with the tour operator, not the airline.

The tour operator is responsible for the actions of its contractors (e.g Onur Air)

Therefore the passenger needs to take up what happened with the tour operator. There should be some reference within the T&Cs of what the tour operator considers itself responsible for.

The only question to be asked, is whether Onur Air contacted the tour operator to advise them of the diversion as they would have been well aware of the eventual destination (presuming the flight deck crew had made themselves aware of what was a scheduled closure…)

As the aircraft would have been due to take a return load of passengers, how did they get from EDI to GLA?

This is what AEU have been up to the past week or so..

757
G OJIB
Has operated a couple of flights for Air Italy Polska, but returned to LGW last Tuesday
** This was the ‘Iron Maiden’ tour aircraft.**
Returned from these duties 18th March.
Remained in Iron Maiden c/s until around 25th May when it was repainted into all white c/s.

G OPJB
Air Italy Polska operations. spent last weekend at Lasham, presumably maintenance

G STRZ
Iceland Express operations, was in Stansted today

G STRX
bmi ops. went to Tel Aviv today

G STRY
bmi ops, went to Freetown today

737
G STRF
Sterling ops, flew to Florence today from Malmo

G STRH
Sterling ops, flew to Barcelona and Rome today, based in Oslo

No difficulties, just a different type of operation.
Not currently operating any aircraft in their own right (though the Iceland Express flights use Astraeus flight codes, and these are also used for positioning flights etc.).

Like bhxboy, I flew an outbound with FR and then inbound with EI, a little while ago.

Ryanair had a clear vision of what level of service they wanted to provide – it was budget travel, plain and simple.
Aer Lingus didn’t seem sure what they wanted to be – low cost or full service.

The most noticeable difference was the quality of the inflight service that EI provided – it was genuinely warm and represented the nationality of the country – as you might expect from a flag carrier. FR were decidely unimpressive.

On the ground, the service from the EI staff was patchy – some good service from someone whose job was to help out with the check-in process, but the service by the airside groundstaff of EI did not match up to what I had experienced with FR (who had contracted out their services)

As for food prices… not much between the two, if I remember correctly, Aer Lingus were a little cheaper.

FR operated more punctually.

I found the comfort levels on FR better than EI (seat comfort similar, and leg room as good or better)

Overall there was little to choose between the two.

Taking a balanced overview of the whole experience, then EI were the better operation – the single factor winning it for EI over FR being the excellent inflight service.

Small correction…

This isn’t quite right…

Europes First Commercial Sea Plane Route Takes Off

In Greece, AirSea Lines have been operating for the last couple of years from CFU to various points in the Aegean (though no flights have operated this summer, but are apparently due to resume soon) and if we cast our minds further back, there were plenty of services operated by seaplanes during the piston era.

I can remember a time when male stewards or pursers where revered and seen as masters in command of their cabins. Think back to the 50’s and 60’s when there was a certain glamour attached to flying and being served afternoon tea by a smartly dressed male purser was the height of luxury, aboard a Lockheed Constellation or Boeing Stratocruiser, for example

There certainly was some glamour then – my mother spent the 50s flying around the world with BOAC in Connies, Strats, Argonauts, DC7s and Britannias. Today of course it is very very different, but that’s progress.

They were probably just as gay back then as apposed to their modern day counterparts but they tended to hide it more..back then homosexuality was frowned upon and kept in the closet

This is correct too. There were a fair number of gay cabin crew then. Society allows more openness now.

I also have a cousin who is straight, who flew with BOAC and then BA – probably 30+ years service. He met his wife who was a stewardess (as they were called then).

its more a family thing, i feel i would be ridiculed by certain family members.

That’s a great pity, family should be there for support.

Ryanair also started a service to cardiff helping finish air wales.

Not the case. Ryanair operated the DUB-CWL route long before Air Wales came along.

If it’s fog at BRS then it’s high lying, rather than low lying given the height above sea level of the airport 😉

Your mate may have a surprise with the aircraft though… XL Airways of Germany are flying some of the XLA programme from BRS this weekend with an A320. Alternatively he could be on the KM A320 based @ BRS.