And presumably that frees up the 738 to go elsewhere.

Anyone got any SCY752 experiences they can tell me about?

Just tried re-booking my flight on both Expedia and xl.com and indeed my flight has been repalced with Scandic flight numbers!

B*gger.

Anyone know what their Finnair 757s are like?

The BBC site tells a slightly different story saying the aircraft caught fire during taxi (which contradicts the refuelling story) with passengers escaping down emergency shutes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4307511.stm

Minor injuries reported so nothing serious by the sounds of it (thankfully).

The aircraft was a 777 which was refuelling from Tornoto.

It was indeed a Pakistan Airlines flight and the aircraft appears to have caught fire during refuelling.

Breaking News here on the Sky News website:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1172792,00.html

In answer to one of the questions above, Nice was served once a week on a Saturday in Summer 04.

Schedule now confirmed:

http://www.teessideairport.com/devel/press/index.shtml#story29

I too am shocked by Prague being dropped.

But at least we have Paris.

I can’t get my head around the rationale of Cork though? Is Cork going to work more than the bucket and spade routes which have had their frequency dropped?

I agree, we need another aircraft or some ‘w’ routes. Personally, I’d like to see Flybe or someone really put some effort into MME; I always get the feeling that with the ad-hoc schedule from Baby (and the lack of aircraft no: 2), that things could go pop at any time.

As an aside, Ryanair will start a daily Rome service in the next couple of months. 🙂