I take it that’s one way?

Nope, that was return.

I tried to see how much a return was from Glasgow to Barra, but the BA booking engine is a sneaky little thing. There are plenty of £29 plus tax fares around (each way) but you can’t seem to get a £58 plus tax round trip.

If you could, then a return trip would only be £120 or there abouts.

But like I say, I’d definitely be up for it.

Its weird that they have switched to Orly, I suppose its better for passengers then the dump that is CDG.

Flex 35

Cheaper for the airline no doubt, so they get a few extra pounds as a result of the change, but I have to agree about CDG being a dump. Terminal 1 especially is so dated now, it needs transforming on both on the outside and the inside.

London Heathrow to Barra (via Glasgow) is a whopping £196 with British Airways. Mind you, I’d be happy to spend that for a decent trip.

I take it that if an airline provides coaches instead of flying you, you get a portion of your fare back? If we wanted to book National Express to our destination and spend 5 hours or more on the road, we would. And it would probably cost less than half what it does to fly.

I’m the sort of person that doesn’t do long journeys by road. It is by air or not at all.

Excellent shots! 😎

Indeed, a very good assesment of the situation, would only cause more disruption, because you would then have to operate 736 after 730, and that would cause more disruption if the a/c was already down to operate another flight, meaning more delays for other airports.

Incidentally now says this:
BE730 BELFAST CITY 0845 CANCELLED

Now that would p!ss me off, waiting around from around 07:00 (Considering check in times) until 18:30 to then be told its been cancelled.

You’ve got to laugh! 😀

But I guess its anything but funny. I would also be extremely annoyed at Flybe if I were on this flight. Many of these passengers will have been hanging around for over 12 hours now and will be knackered. Now the airline goes and does that to them.

You would think the pax on 730 would have taken prioity really, hope it doesn’t happen when I fly them in August! Still says next info at 18:00 even though its now 18:28

If it were me making the decisions, then I wouldn’t want to delay any other passengers. Having the first batch of stranded passengers is going to be bad enough, but to delay another flight to free up an aircraft is going to make another load of passengers just as unhappy.

By making those passengers travelling on BE730 wait for the scheduled aircraft, you’ve got half as many unhappy customers as you would have it used the aircraft operating BE736.