Well my story begins back way back, It was my second time to Florida and we flew AirUk Leisure a 767-300 series I think and after an hour’s delay at MCO for our return flight we finally boarded but wait, one of the lavatory’s was broken and so a plumber had to be called out. Three hours later we finally left MCO. A little into the flight there was some confusion in the first cabin, a lady had a heart attack (typical) and we were forced to land at EWR , it was really fun watching all the ambulances etc follow the plane to the gate. Once she had been carted off it was very late and the pilot came on and said “we are currently searching for hotels for night and we will continue our journey tommorow”, the whole plane began to pack up and gather up when the pilot comes back on two hours later and sais “I’m sorry we don’t seem to be able to any hotels, but you may sleep in the terminal” we all looked at each other and thought ‘theres no hotel rooms in NEW YORK city!!’. Another two hours pass and another announcement “were sorry but we are unable to depart the aircraft because the terminal does not have enough security to watch over us”, some of the passengers revolted and demanded somethig was done. As the crews flying limitation time was drawing closer it was now too late to continuee to the UK, we flew all the way back to MCO were our crew departed and we awaited another replacement crew. eventually we arrived home another 12 hours later.

The End

I can understand that most pilots would prefer SFB to MCO, it is alot smaller and easier to operate out of in terms of traffic etc. I always hear of how people think takes ages to get through the system but we always seem to be off and in our car within 30-45 minutes which I know is pretty good for MCO. The whole idea is that yes, to Mr average holiday maker the system takes quite a while and seems endless, but to the frequent traveller who knows how to cut time here and there it can easily be done in the above stated time.

Look at what happend Caladonian though, and the other charters of this century operated into Terminal A.

Never fear about PPL’s there are plans for their future.

Lets agree to this there will always be two sides of an opinion (would’nt really be fun if there was not) and that on this one we’ll just have to agree to disagree. Makes life more fun.
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But your friends would not know what the comparison is on board a virgin flight as they only fly on BA flights and are around BA customers. 😉 😎

Well you can take a guess as to where I’m going,
LGW-MCO 7th Aug
MCO-LGW 5th Sept
747-400
and yes thats with Virgin, one more flight for me and it’s a freebie and I’m pretty sure weve got upgrades to premium as well.
The advantages of being flying club member….:)

Only because they could not afford it SOFTLAND

When I mean more formal, I mean theres a higher standard of person (if you know what I mean).

And yes Tampa is really good airport as well, especially because BA fly there.

MCO without a doubt, it’s the only airport in the world were some of the staff know me by name and are always really happy to see me again, also theres no british charter airlines anymore:D 😀
Along time ago there was too many five year olds and beer bellyed idiots wearing Man U tops (nothing wrong with the team).
Thats why we sent them to Sanford, out of the way so as not to frighten the american citizens. CLT is also pretty cool too.