rdc1000Have you thought about going LGW-Newcastle instead with Flybe, it means that you’ll have to do the metro journey to Newcastle city centre, but may be cheaper if there are a few of you.
rdc1000There are a variety of reasons why the flight could have been cancelled. Neilson would only have committed to a selected number of seats on the flight, and even if they had the option to purchase more as bookins increased, they may have had bottlenecks elsewhere in the system, i.e. no more hotel rooms/chalet beds available at the time you were searching for.
Overall the flight may not have been selling well through other operators, although I suspect it may have been culled as part of wider changes at the charter operators, and as part of a reduction in seat capacity. It is likely that there will be another Manchester flight on the same day, and some passengers may have been consolidated onto that, with others, like yourself, being forced to accept LGW. Given that there is 6 months of sales left then I would suggest it is the wider changes in the market that have led to this, as they would have taken a chance to sell seats otherwise.
Getting to LGW from Cumbria is a pain. I grew up in the Eden valley, and going on the German exchange was a pain as we had to fly DeutscheBA from LGW. I suggest you buy a family rail card and book rail tickets three months out.
rdc1000I’m afraid nobody in senior management will return your e-mails either, not least because most senior airline managers receive their e-mails via their PA’s for that very reason. All that would happen is that the PA would forward it on to the customer servcie department. I know a number of airline execs who don’t even have a visible e-mail address, their return e-mail addy’s just go straight back to their PA’s.
rdc1000That’s correct, it was their A380. Ironically it visited for a single day and happened to be being handled at the time of the AA emergency, consequently is on youtube as Emirates “super”.
rdc1000Why do you need it?
rdc1000Locations and captions on these may help.
New York apparently…
and Mexico City…
Montreal…
rdc1000Actually, I think what I meant was they weren’t allowed to come back in and do the same job within the corporation as freelance staff for 12 months…
That I’m not sure about, although I think someone I know got some temporary consulting work from the company he’d worked from (architecture) after they’d laid him off, but not fully sure of the circumstances.
rdc1000Don’t the circumstances of voluntary redundancy preclude the UK job seeker from working within the same type of work for 12 months anyway ? I know it applies in my field for sure…
No definately not. I’m not sure I’ve ever come across any profession which would have such a rule….you must just have picked badly.
Employers, if they make someone redudant cannot directly replace that person for 12 months unless they first offer the post back to the same person.
rdc1000Luckily I am informed that even the Airports recognise that to win this award it is not about the things you list, but instead about how good the parties are that you throw for travel agents throughout the year.
I say ‘luckily’ because if Manchester is judged to have the best customer service and business strategy in the UK then we all may aswell pack up now and go back to moving about on Penny-Farthings!
Airports were judged on their facilities, customer service standards, investment, innovation, travel trade relations, business strategy, environmental performance and commitment to their local communities.
(Airwise)
rdc1000The robot probably wouldn’t be very useful in an emergency evacuation though, or in dealing with pax making ‘bomb jokes’..
I guess it could always work in reverse for bomb joke passengers, move down the aisle, lift out of seat, eject out of back door! Not so much fun overall I’m sure though!
rdc1000I prefer the Dinner ladies to bring it with a smile. Blokes cabin crew…..I’d send Email.
I’m with you on that x2. I’d much rarther have a “dinner lady” than an e-mail to a vending machine by the rear exit.:diablo:
Guys, I don’t think you’ve thought this through. If you purchase your items from the “dinner lady” as she pases by then you only see her once…if you order your drink, then find she’s pretty, then you can order some peanuts later, and then perhaps some pringles, and then perhaps that bar of chocolate..each item one at a time, and then you’ve had her personally smile at you four times. Of course I would only order pre-packaged items by the end of this method because she’ll be so p*ssed off at being dragged down the cabin again and again (and not being left in peace with her copy of Hello!) she’s likely to spit in the later items!
Another way to look at it is that this is far more personal..it’s like a la carte in first class!
rdc1000Apologies but I still think the whole basis of the A380 was looking at transatlantic schedule data and seeing vast numbers of flights coming across the pond without realising that these were all the spoke flight numbers going into the hub airport for the one actual flight across from the US.
That caught quite a lot of people out in my IATA time…
I would seriously hope that people at IATA are not making basic and silly mistakes such as that! If you or anyone at IATA is using OAG, the most widely used and recognised source of airline schedule information, then they need to take a quick course in how to use it because there is a simple filter called “operating flights only” which will remove all codeshare services and only show ACTUAL flights and capacities. Given that OAG was and continues to be the way in which airlines feeding into the IATA ticketing system report, then this would be worrying if true!
I also think the airlines know what they’re operating and selling before they order such aircraft. They know their markets and also know the strategies for serving them, and have just been bitten by a bad downturn in demand, just as airlines were in the early 70’s just as fuel prices started to rise.
Many of the routes which the airlines intend to operate with the A380s are not transatlantic anyway.
So if you did work with the duplicated flight numbers providing x number of seats on a network, say transatlantic, surely you corroborated that against given passengers carried by the airlines? Agreed, it can’t be exact by city point but you would get a representative load factor for an airline or group of airlines which would show the numbers as tosh!
Need to do top down as well as bottom up to check the numbers.
And before that you’d surely spot the multiple arrivals and departures for a city pair at exactly the same times!
As I pointed out above, the airline’s who make the decisions to order these aircraft will know their market’s anyway, so I don’t think it matters if someone at IATA is a bit incompetent :diablo:
rdc1000I do think it’s an horrific piece of journalism, which is exaggerating the issue and misleading those readers who don’t possess suitable knowledge to spot this.
The issue of aircraft defferals is affecting all manufacturers, and yes it is a problem for those operators of the A380 because of the amount of capacity they have added at a bad time in the industry, but overall the real world may not be as gloomy as he’s trying to make out! Heck, 787 defferals are already being pencilled-in and that aircraft is unlikely to enter service before the expected return to growth in the industry.
He may have 29 years of knowledge, but I know a few others like that too, and I’ve picked up work from some of them once clients have realised what rubbish they spought!
rdc1000And the airline with no class at all has a a/c painted with a slogan saying “bye bye sky europe”.:mad: .Lets hope MAN but a flag out saying “thank god your going, you will not be missed”;)
Anyway sad to see another one go. Lets hope FR dont announce an ex-sky europe base in the next few weeks (which they probably will). EZY will be welcome by most people on the more western routes (AMS-VIE, VIE-LCA, ORY-PRG, ORY-VIE and MAD-VIE).
Well, too late, FR already announced a base at Bratislava a couple of weeks ago, so right on home turf for SkyEurope. That said, Wizz are the airline that have been going after them for some time across central Europe and Wizz’s decision to start a Prague base will have had a dramatic effect on cash-flow at SkyEurope just as a result of forward bookings bewing made with W6 instead. So consequently Wizzair have probably had more to do with SkyEurope’s demise if you’d like to blame anyone.
As for the slogan, come one and get over it. Ryanair do that about lots and lots of airlines, many of whom will not be going out of business anytime soon. And they’re not alone, other European LCC’s have been paiting similar slogans recently. Finally don’t forget the battleground that was Virgin’s fuselages with comments fired out in the direction of BA. These things are to be taken with jest.
As for MAN hanging out a flag, the only thing that needs hanging out there is the management, have they failed ot notice the only show in town these days are LCC’s! Despite rumours about EZY embarking on grand expansion at the Airport, I’m not sure they can be all that true given that LTN has been considered a touch pricey with a similar yield strength to MAN.
rdc1000I thought that was a cheaper scheme to save money.
Will just have to see what they roll the 747-8F out in….
I don’t know then, but I thought I’d read somewhere that they were bringing this in as a new livery. If this is the case then it is horrifically dull!
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