Any pics of the cats (I presume you are referring to RAF Jags)?

Looks like somebody did:

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.cgi?227210

I’ll dig out a few.. 😉

Woohoo! 😉 😀

hi my parents booked our holiday today with mytravel we are flying to palma to catc mv sunbird a cruise ship on 17th july 2004 and going to malta,sicily,naples italy,olbia sardinia,ajaico corcixca,and back to palma it is a 7 night cruise then we are staying at the alcudia pins hotel in aludia mallorca.

does anyone know if mytravel are ok or may go bankrupt or could have massive delays by the 17th july and know the current state of the company
also we are flying from gatwick at 6:50am does anyone know what aircraft we would be on concidering the cruise liner holds 1000+people and other people just going to hotels?

does anyone know the current state of gatwick airport if the viewing is available from the sports bar in the departure lounge and know good places to view a/c at palma or malta etc.

also has anyone been on the cruise ship or alcudia pins in the last 2 years?

thanks
EAL_KING

Mytravel are here to stay, atleast for the summer, so no worries there.
Delays can happen to anyone, although Mytravel aren’t the best, you’d be unlucky to be seriously delayed.
I stayed in Alcudia a few years ago, at the Bellvue holiday village. You can’t miss it! The thing dominates the place! 😀
Looks out for a restaurant called ‘Bananas’ on the main strip(if it’s still there!)
They were the best out of all of the restaurants I went to in the 2 weeks.
Superb garlic bread! 😀

I hate it when you send your gran out to the off licence for you and she ends up in Toronto. 😀

LOL!! 😀 Hey, she’s 80 in a couple of months! 😀
So the Canadian relatives our coming over here this summer.
On Mytravel, booked at the Canadian end. Classy! 😉 🙂

Best bet is to have a look on teletext or flight arrivals to see if other inbound Atlantic traffic to GLA (for example) is also delayed by a similar margin? If so, it’s often down to weather conditions on the US eastern seaboard hampering departure times, happens quite a lot and if you’ve been watching satellite weather pictures of the last couple of days you’ll see it’s been pretty crappy weather coming from that direction, in fact I think you can look out your window to see what I mean.

The delays have been happening semi-frequently this the flight started.
The past 2 days it has been delayed 2hrs, and on a few occasions before that since it has started. Although I am reliably informed that the GLA suffered an even bigger delay today. 🙂

It’s also a plane load of disgruntled passengers wondering why their flight is more than 2 hours late! 😉
Maybe WD can give us an insight into EWR ops? because that is where the delays are originating. 🙂
I wish I could see the movements like that from my back garden!

from Irish Examiner

By Conor Keane, Business Correspondent
JETMAGIC is to be wound up after a search for fresh investors failed to secure an estimated €15 million required to re-start the company which ceased operations from its Cork base in January.

Cork Chamber of Commerce chief executive Michael Geary, who led a search for new investors, said that at this stage he believed there was no one out there willing to put Jetmagic planes back in the air.

The Irish Examiner understands that preparations are being made to wind up the company, which closed in late January with a deficit of close to €3.5m. More that €11m in equity had been invested in the company by mostly Cork-based shareholders

Jetmagic has yet to appoint a receiver or seek the protection of the High Court by asking to be put into examinership.

A formal announcement on the method of winding up the company is expected in the coming days.

Accounts for Jetmagic Limited, covering the year to March 2003, during its start-up phase show that shareholders provided €3.62m in interest free loans to the company in 2003.

It is understood that the loans were converted to shares since then. Among those who provided the loans were five directors who gave €240,170.

Shareholders in the company, which include former Aer Lingus chief, Michael Foley; IDA director Gary Duffy; Bowen Construction director Pat Kelliher; O’Flynn Construction director Brian O’Neill; solicitors Colm McGuire and Ciaran Desmond; air traffic controller Jochen Schnadt; ex- Jetmagic CEO Pat Raftery; Gary Tomlins; Colm McGuire; Guy Perrem; Timothy O’Connor; Alex McCarthy; Kevin O’Connor and developer Gerry Wycherley, are understood to have invested close to €11 million in the company before it hit the financial turbulence which grounded it.

In the year to the end of March 2003, company directors were paid €212,478 in “fees and other emoluments.” An accounting team has completed a creditors’ list and the total amount outstanding to, mostly Cork-based service and supply companies, will be in the region of €3.5 million.

Jetmagic’s 103 employees did not receive any redundancy payments because the company was not in business long enough for them to build up statutory entitlements.

A further 25 workers employed on a temporary basis by baggage handling and service provider Servisair also lost their jobs when Jetmagic ceased operations.

Aer Arann has already commenced operations on the Cork-Belfast route replacing the service previously offered by Jetmagic.