Duesseldwarf

Thanks for the advice! I cant wait to go to Copenhagen. I’m flying easyjet STN to CPH and staying for 1 night – Copenhagen seems a great place. I plan to go to Malmo for the day by train on the Oresund Bridge

I look forward to getting the “wine gums”

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dan777

I swear I read somewhere that by law there must be 1 flight attendent for 50 people each??? Don’t Ryanair Boeing 737-800’s carry 189 people? I would have thought there should have been 4

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dan777

14 1/2 hors for me!!! This was back in August 1996 so I was 10 years old – I remember it very well.

Flight was Saturday morning flight from Alicante, Spain to London Gatwick with Caledonian Airways. Seeing as this was a TriStar flight, 400 passengers were to be on this flight. First of all, we arrive at Alicante 2 hours before take off when we find 2 check in desks for 400 people – you can imagine how long the que was!!! It was soooo long that most of the passengers had to stand outside as the terminal was so small then – not very nice in 90 degree heat with high humidity!

After an hour we get to the check in desk to see a stupid piece of paper saying : Flight CKT??? delayed 11 hours due to gone tech! (Most of the passengers didnt not understand what gone tech meant! That is all that bit of paper said.) Seeing as the check in agents were Spanish with little english, there was no help, until a holiday rep came along and literally 400 people ran up to him wanting to find out what was wrong! he must have been petrified! Thankfully some more reps came up. Once checked in, we were given a meal of Cold Chicken and Rice, Runny Chocolate Custard and a cup of water – AND THAT WAS IT!!!! . Seeing as this was 1996 – there wasnt much activity compared to how it is now. After 11 hours we found out that the plane only had a minor techinical fault but we had to wait while the plane flew LGW-Larnaca,Cyprus, Larnaca to Gatwick, Gatwick to Alicante!!! After about 12 hours everyone was getting ratty and then were about 20 kids all together running round screaming – one angry women told these 2 little boys to f*** off!!! Not the best choice of words for youngsters!!!!

Finally after 14 hours our plane landed and we took off 30 minuites later. Crew were “sorry” and gave us cards to write out for compensation – we got £35 for each person in the end!!!! So generous! Then to annoy us even more, they kept waking us up for food when we were all trying to sleep!

Lets just say that was a memorable trip 😉

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dan777

In Airliner World a couple of months ago, it said Ryanair was very interested in starting a low cost service from London Stansted to Vilnius, Lithuania once they join the EU in 2004. I strongly beleive Ryanair will start eastern european routes once these members are part of The EU.
The Slovakian low cost airlline SkyEuope wants to add 737-300’s to start low cost flights to Amsterdam, Paris, London etc – so there is a demand for these type of services

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dan777

Aircraft confirmed as Airbus A310

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dan777

I was booked on a buzz flight to Murcia in August this year but got refunded earlier this month. Ryanair are e-mailing buzz former ticketholders of a special offer where you can book reduced tickets until midnight tonight. I just booked a flight which saved me £40 return !!!
😀 😀 😀

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dan777

by the way Ryanair is NOT scrapping the Stansted to Grenoble service!!! Service will still operate 1 flight a day from 1st May 2003.

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dan777

Seems very intersting – a low cost carrier keeping 1 price for every seat! At least they are flying to major airports and not “Ryanair Alternatives” . Good choice of destinations seeing as none of them compete with easyJet (yet!). Good luck to them 😉
Hopefully they wont end up like Debonair did by competing at Luton.

Yet another British low cost airline to add to the list!

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dan777
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