Very sad indeed that they’re ditching the name. I know it was a little corny, but their old “Britannia Royal Service” did make the passengers feel a little special.

So if they’re using Thomsonfly on what was Britannia, does that mean they will be selling “Britannia” charter tickets on Thomsonfly.com? At the moment you can buy Britannia charter tickets in either direction through Thomsonflights.com but maybe this will change. You can get offered Thomsonfly tickets on Thomsonflights.com if you enter BHX or EMA in your search criteria. It assumes you won’t mind CVT if you asked for either of these.

Its sad to see these great charter airlines not being able to decide of they’re “No-frill/Lo-cost” or not. Bring back hot towels!!! :rolleyes:

Oh good, nice to see a 145 now in new colours. Maybe they’ll use the left over paint for a few more livery upgrades! bmi have to be slowest I’ve ever seen to update their fleet!

AV8air went bust a while back after only a few weeks flying!! Good news for the DC-10!!!

Thats strange… I have a friend who was with AV8 as a Number 1. Last time I spoke to her she said the UK work had all been pulled yet they had all been sent to Brussels to work on the AV8 767 for some Belgium charter company.

AV8 was the in-house airline of CT2 (Club Travel 2000) was it not? I thought they had purely decided not to operate their own flights and ditched the 757? The 767 was definately still doing something in Brussels after the 757 went.

Anyone know anymore???

Oh, ok. Well I got AMS in the first couple of weeks of Feb with no problem. Cost me £60 in tax for two seats, thats it.

I’m an ex-bmi employee, having worked in Res as well as crew I know these seats tend to be held back at weekends etc. They are usually there, but believe me, they fly out the window, especially as the staff get to know about them first and are allowed to book as many as they want. Remember, they only have to offer 1 seat on a flight to make these claims don’t they. Doesn’t help you I know…

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