Never again now eh? Poor Sabena, I miss you. If I ever had a daughter I would call her Sabena.

I feel sorry for Gulf Air they have served the region for years and then along comes Emirates, Oman air and now Etihad taking business away from their hubs. What next a Bahrain Airways nicking the Bahrain business.

Abu Dhabi is Gulf Airs teritory, how dare this new airline rain on their parade! Dont let them win GF!

I suppose Jet2 are OK. I would fly them over any of the other no-frills. They did good taking on BD at LBA and their ludicrous fares.

They are proud to be a Yorkshire airline as well and I like the Yorkshire rose they have painted on their aircraft. Dont you wanna be me mucker LBA?

I thought that might wind you up! I bet you are a nice lad really. Let us Yorkshire lads be friends. Luv x

How unlike you to disagree with me LBA! Mytravel have only themselves to blame, they overreached themselves. I do feel sorry for the workforce though. The company always seem to have a friendliness and optimistic outlook.

MyTravels problems were they grew too fast, they wanted to take on Thomson and become the dominant force in the charter sector. They paid way too much for Inter European/Aspro and then proceeded to sell their packages on cost and not quality. The result was more than a few appearances on Watchdog which affected their reputation. So they then rather stupidly changed their name to MyTravel involving a huge rebrand and tried to save money by cutting customer service and charging passengers for a meal on-board.

They continued to operate a motley assortment of aircraft including old DC10s and 757s that were maintenance heavy and often suffered long delays again affecting customer loyalty.

The company has always seemed to be made up of a happy bunch of people. Its cabin staff are amongst the most friendly and I wish them well.

My nanna once went on one. She is a lady used to the Oriana and before that the Canberra. She said the Airtours ships were like being on Stena Sealink vessel Dover-Calais!