Map Below…
ENSURE… when you go… respect the local residents, dont park if a draft place,(or in the drive at the end of the lane) (parking on the grass is the only option on Wood Lane but beware of the rocks the locals put down and dont make a mess of the grass..
Go to the end of the road where theres is a metal gate (public footpath, climb over the next gate and then your there..
Your free to walk up and down, its a public foot path..
Ps.. you will see a handful of spotters there… I tend to go there early morning as the run way switches over at around 12pm on a weekend.. and about 11am on a weekday… (Monday)
Red marks the spot… Yellow is the route to get there…
Rick
Why is it so important?? its beyond Belief to me a planes a plane gets you from A to B!
Why dont you just look out the window when you get to your boarding gate and vuala there will be your aircraft! Complete with Reg!!!
Thanks for that lukeylad……. really helpful… 🙂
Let me explain a little further………………
End of last year I went to Sharm, I used and booked via First Choice in store at their Hypermarket, upgraded to “Star Class Premier” which cost £150.00 per person where i was offered the below…
Priority check in and boarding
Dedicated Premium cabin crew
Pre-take off cocktail and complimentary drinks throughout your flight (excluding champagne)
At least 36” seat pitch
Choice of at least 12 movies and 10 interactive games
Personal 9” widescreen seat back TV
The tickets arrived, stated MAN to SSH (long Haul) —
Arrived at the airport, boarded TOM G-OBYE (exisitng TOM aircraft) and sat down……. after paying the premium upgrade we felt a little disappointed, … worst was yet to come…… I requested a pre-take off drink, the cabin crew member said we are not offering that on the flight today….. I thought.. ok.. its only a drink before take off………….
Once in the air, i requested a drink and was told, thats £2.80 please!!! :confused: — at this stage i said… no.. is it not complimentary drinks throughout the flight for us premium PAX’s??
The answer was NO…. this is a short haul flight!!! All you get is extra leg room!! At this stage around 50% of the PAX all started complaining because they had all been sold the “Star Class Premier” package…
IFE
TOm Cabin in Premium..
Leg room in Premium.. (im 5ft 9in)
IFE again…. sky map..
When we arrived in resort I called First Choice to complain and to down graded our return leg… (i was not paying the same amount go going home!!)
In short.. they downgraded me and said i would have to appeal/complain once back in the UK.
(im not going into detail about this… but i got the £150 per person refund for the return leg but not the outbound! )
IFE in ECO… (Smaller screen)
Photo of the TOM 767-300 – (BYE) through the gate, blue tinted glass..
I have used the FCA 767 to Mexico twice in premium which is like this….. (see the difference…)
Below is a poor quality photo of FCA 767-3 — with the “relax” lighting
First Choice have advised it will be one of their FCA aircrafts rather than a THOMSON aircraft’s but using the new ToM prefix??
So…. the reason i would ideally like to know which aircraft im is that i have an option to pre-book seats,
If its the FCA 2-3-2 config we dont mind were we sit… even in the middle as its not as cramped with the 2-3-2 config from experiance with them in economy, but if its a ex TOM 2-4-2 i would prebook as the 4 seat in the middle are cramped (from experiance)..
Some people may just say, why did you not go with Virgin or another carrier… reason.. cost and the hotel which we wanted to stay in…..
Skymonster – just like to say thank you for your post as its the most constructive.
Cheers
Rick
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