My brother flew home from FRA this afternoon and was full of tales as to how windy it had been over there. I thought the M1 was bad last night but this is just scary stuff.

I can quite honestly say I’ve never seen a plane get so close to a fatal impact and come away unscathed (except for the winglet which I understand was lost)

ello!

I am booked to fly out of heathrow in may with BA, on a 767 (transatlantic to BWI). BA states my class of travel is “world traveller” and the online flight manager tells me the features the seats will have. World Traveller class does have seatback TV screens. However, BA use some 767’s to fly european routes, and these are fitted with eurotraveller seats (i.e. no vid screens). the flights over the atlantic are usually 5 hours plus and i would have thought that it would make sense to deploy the world traveller equipped 767’s on their “world” flights. I guess it remains to be seen. you may be in for a nice or a nasty surprise!

Enjoy your trip!

Sam

Short Haul 767s have never operated the MAN-JFK flight, there is no chance at all of that happening.

As for the route passing to AA, there is no chance of that happening any time soon.

No I can´t, Mark. If ones lives in the airport where Ryanair is the single operator in international routes, you can´t choose. 🙂 Being only operator, means that low fares are not that low, or it´s hard to get a good one.

In a competitive market one always has a choice. If your local airport only has LowCost direct international flights then you have two choices. Travel to a less convenient airport with a more appropriate flying schedule for your requirements. Or choose to connect through an intermediate airport.

Both of those options add inconvenience and in the latter case probably have an overall increased cost. So you have to balance what you want and what you can economically justify.

Do you succumb to the Ryanair way of life, pay for extras and pay a high cost for convenient direct flights from your local airport. Or do you pay a likely even higher price, connect through MAD on IB and suffer the inconveniences of a connection, but get your luggage carried for free?

Most people (you included from the sound of things) will take the best overall deal which is the Ryanair offer.

You have a choice because you live in a competitive market. The optimum choice is not as fantastic as you would ideally desire, but there are worse options.

I still don’t understand your points on baggage either. Just because a route has more or less people likely to carry baggage doesn’t make any difference to my previous points.

I’d like to come back when its fully open and the 28th of March

27th I hope! I’ve got flight booked that day specifically to use T5 😎

This reminds off the service AC wanna start with a A319 to LHR. Cant wait for this to start:cool:

Been and gone mate!!

FlyBe are really ramping up their LGW minihub:

BHD
JER
GCI
INV
IOM
ABZ
NCL
EGC

Up from just BHD/JER/GCI which they only had this time last year.

Oh come on! If I can check in online and print my boarding pass for a LAN flight in a remote Amazonian frontier town in Peru, then I think someone on holiday in Southern Spain can find an internet cafe to do the same! Its 2008 not 1998. :rolleyes:

As for checking in bags or not I don’t see how the purposes of a trip for the vast majority of people that fly Ryanair will change at the last minute to dictate whether they do or do not need to check a bag. I certainly know whenever I book my ticket whether I’m going to or not.

I agree with Dan entirely. Its not like this is being done stealthily or anything. The information is there extremely clearly when you book.

You either book a flight with Ryanair and accept their deal or you don’t. Simple as that.