Online check-in ? Whats the advantage of that in a “holiday airline” ?

The same as for any other airline…

Get passenger to do the check-in agents job from home…
Get rid of check-in agent…
Save money.

Self service check-in has nothing to do with customer service from the airlines point of view. Except from a marketing point of view of course.

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Now for some trivia; Ryanair new aircraft deliveries don’t have lifejackets under the seats so where are they? Have a guess. 🙂

I’m guessing in a compartment in the PSU (overhead panel) the same as on DBA 737’s.

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Bmused and Softlad are right, that is what they are for.

The only airline I’ve worked for that included them in their evacuation drill was Excalibur. All of the others felt that it would waste time during an evacuation setting them up. I’m inclined to agree.

On Excalibur aircraft the ropes were kept in the very narrow locker above the overwing exits not built into the exit frames. No other aircraft I’ve worked on, including other airline’s 319/320 aircraft have had any ropes fitted for this use. It always seemed especially strange to me that Airbus bothered with this as the 320 family has an off-wing slide.

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What about an Aurigny RJ100 in the latest aurigny.com billboard scheme?

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The “council estate” thing was just a joke based on the oft-used and well known Southwest version I also included later on – sorry if anyone was offended.

Absolutely! Although I still contend that low-fare carriers have made the flying experience less pleasant overall.

Having said that, I stick by my comments about low-fare carriers. Whilst they may be good for most of the travelling public, the drive for lower and lower fares has been at the expense of the staff who work in the industry. Erosion in terms and conditions that low-fare carriers have applied to their own staff (and by consequence of needing to compete, the staff of other airlines), has turned the airline industry overall into a far less pleasant place to work.

Think of all the complaints from farmers over the price reduction demands made by companies like Tesco – Tesco want to give customers low prices for items like meat and milk, so they make demands on farmers that result in it being difficult for them to make money. Same principal applies with low fare-carriers. Next time you buy a flight for next to nothing, remember its the staff who “handle” you through your journey who have a less pleasant working life than was the case before the low-fare sector caught on.

This latest innovation by FlyBe will be another change than impinges on staff for the worse – there will be far more arguments at checkin over paying for baggage, and far more problems for cabin crew who will inevitably be forced to work out how to stow all the extra carry-ons in the limited cabin storage space on a packed DHC-8. Remember its not the poor sods who have to deal with irate customers who have brought in these innovations. Nothing, repeat NOTHING, like this would be introduced unless those at the top of the tree believe that they can either (a) save money/decrease costs or (b) make more money, as a result of the change. It is they who make the decisions, but it is the staff at the sharp end who have to deal with the fall out and the crap.

Andy

Every word absolutely correct Andy. Well said.

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You have to remember that compared with the rest of Europe the Dutch are very laid back, cool and fun loving.

Compared with the drawings at the beginning of the thread, the actual photograph makes the livery look like a bit of a non-event.

The cabin is a bit loud in the drawing, but presumably like the livery it will be a bit quieter in the flesh.

I’d love the uniforms if they weren’t in Transavia’s bright green. I’d far rather have a rugby shirt than the shirt, tie and waistcoat I have to wear every day.

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I think it is interesting that nobody has mentioned the Vickers Viscounts which operated in VS colours inthe 1980’s, serving Maastricht from LGW. Go find those photos…. 🙂

Skymonster did!

including several different Viscounts (only one at a time) on the LGW-Maastricht route:

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