I like my flight to be a nice experience. Part of the fun of flying, since I was a kid, has been the in flight meal. I dont like flying no-frills.

Monarch used to make a big thing in their advertising that they were low-fares but offered all the frills.

I live in Yorks, my nearest airport is LBA but I usually fly from Manchester. I would rather pay a bit more and use BA Man-Lgw and then connect to Lgw-Gib than fly on Monarch now.

I agree that the low-costs are awful. I dont have a lot of spare money and always pay for my own flights but I save and fly ‘real’ airlines. Once in awhile I do still fly charter though but Im not impressed, they were better back in the 80s.

Used to fly ZB until they cut out their meals, newspapers and wine etc. Now they are just like the no frills airlines.

I flew Aviogenex too in the 80s when Yogoslavia was a popular package holiday destination.

As a child I loved the holiday atmosphere on the charter flights but today hate it!

Back when I was a little lad and through my teens, the charter carriers still allowed smoking, which was dreadful. Also, I recall how aften the flights would depart at awful times and we would always be hanging about in resort, after being kicked out of our accommodation at 12 noon and having to wait for a 2335 departure, which was invariably delayed. Good old DanDare

The likes of Air 2000 and Air Europe did much to enhance the reputaion of charter flights, with their new 757s and improved service but nowadays charter airlines are going backwards with their no-frills approach. Even my sister who has a family and is on a restricted budget doesnt even use the IT carriers.