If they’re happy with a ground shot they can have mine from the same spot!

What a disaster!
What I have struggled to understand,like Skymonster I suspect,is why this forum and it’s associated magazine have almost grovelled for this guy’s approval and why comments that are accepted (not necessarily by me,I must add) as fair game for other airline CEO’s,were outlawed for him.
There seems almost to have been a craving for a “youngster” to make good.
Terribly sorry for all those who are the losers in all this

Barry

As Grey Area says,very interesting post.
If we read what information is in the public domain,the aircraft provider is making it pretty clear the dispute is over money and that,worse,it had been going on for days which is incredible as the lifespan was only a week.
Whatever the “management” has it is clearly not money.That is where all the others mentioned (MO’L,Adult Branson,and The Greek) score.They either had a father who owned half the Eastern Mediterranean,or had track records in other businesses which left queues forming to back them.
I’m no expert but would have guessed you’d need upwards of half a million in hard cash to launch even a small outfit,even with a leased a/c.

Barry

Si’s links are indeed accurate in as far as they go but they rather play down the fact that they were identical liveries apart from the “a” on the end of the name,because they were part of the Air Europe (ILG) group.When the parent co went bust in the early nineties,the Spanish arm was rescued by Spanish backers buying it out of the group.Their livery was later modified to what you see (or in your case,don’t!) today
They’ve really re-invented themselves as a lo-cost with a large domestic network in Spain in recent years and the reason you rarely see them in the UK is the same as why you see so few other EEC charter or lo-cos in relative terms – that is,the UK market has been captured by our own very successful holiday airlines and the likes of EZY and FR et al.
Could you be thinking of Air Comet as the large-ish Spanish one that recently collapsed?

Barry

Bmused55

I think the picture showing,as you so rightly say T4,shows it still fenced off and not opened.I don’t think “The Row” was that much less crowded even then as there were only 3 terminals and,of all airports.it probably reached near capacity years ago and expansion since has therefore been restricted.I’d hazard a guess that arrivals per hour isn’t that much different now.
Happy days….

Barry

Whether you’ve flown on one or not the Ilyushin 18 is the best.Anything without props isn’t a serious contender anyway.
Prejudice,or what?!!

Barry

To give a sensible answer to something like this I’d have to consider whether the plus points or the minus ones were actually in the airline’s control.It’s no good blaming the airline if there’s a weather delay or suchlike.

On this basis the two best in recent times were Cathay and South African.
BTW,I think Emirates are overrated and their hub is a nightmare

Worst?….Like Josh,I don’t really have silly expectations and have never really had a flight in over 400 I’d have seen fit to complain about,but the only airline to twice in one year (2009) take money off me and then totally screw up a trip by altering flight times (to the point of needing extra hotel nights) was…………Flybe!!

Barry

Hi Paul
Quite an interesting idea!
For me it started with a different hobby……train spotting in about 1955 which had a different “image” back then.Virtually nobody could afford a camera and it was all about collecting numbers…..preferably ones your mates hadn’t seen and were jealous of!
Got into aircraft for a few years around 1960/62 then interest waned ’til my first flight in 1969 on a Bristol Britannia
Around 1980 I felt I could not “spot” every aircraft and that I’d rather get a photographic record of what I COULD see.It’s still the “collecting” thing to me though.A camera is rather like a spade i.e. you don’t need one if you haven’t a garden.In my case I wouldn’t have an interest in photography if I weren’t ‘graphing a/c and it’s still about the buzz of competing for the unexpected catch to tell others about.
I’m not really interested in photographing the mundane over and over again or in looking at other’s results in that category.
I do lots of trips,previously with very poor film equipment but post-digital with Canon 400d’s and decent lenses…also Leica and Panasonic “bridge” cameras and am experimenting with used Pentax DSLRs.The mission is to “cop” the unexpected and it’s more often than not in vain.
Here are but 2 exceptions and one (the Yak) is one of my favourite pictures regardless of the subject a/c.
Yak was very unexpected at Bergamo in 2007 and was gobsmacked to see a 707 (last time I saw one fly) at Salzburg in the same year

Best regards to all
Barry