Talking about FlyJet’s notorious delays, there’s an episode of Holiday Airport, focused at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus, where a FlyJet flight to Gatwick is delayed over 5 hours I think it was. The poor Olympic Holidays rep had to deal with the fallout of upset and angry passengers.
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Yeah I've just watched 10 minutes of an episode of that and had to switch it off as my blood pressure rocketed... I remember many years back operating a "rescue" flight picking up another airline's passengers as their plane had gone tech in Turkey and we were supposed to fly back empty, we got absolute earfuls off them for the delay, the change and the lack of food on-board - we should've left them there :/
@EssexWolf1993
5 ай бұрын
@@ExpoAviation Oh dear… 😖
@AviationCommercials
5 ай бұрын
I come home from vacation and find a new video from you. Just splendid. I look forward to the Silver Airways and Hispania. When I was in college, a classmate's boyfriend flew Silver and liked them, before he eventually started flying the BA A318s to London City. Great video Phil!
@ExpoAviation
4 ай бұрын
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) I'm most of the way through the Silverjet script and looking at things it is a real shame that they didn't make it as I know it would have caused other carriers to up their game and drop their prices, oh well. As part of the "war of the transatlantic biz carriers" I'll be covering the history of the BA A318s too :)
@edwardsp1916
5 ай бұрын
Loved the Red Dwarf reference, my favourite episode. Great video, very informative.
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Thanks, I'm glad someone got that reference :)
@TR_M88
5 ай бұрын
These videos get better and better Phil, thanks! Can’t wait for the Silverjet episode hope it’s not too far away.
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Thank you, I'm already 3 pages into the Silverjet script so hopefully not too far away :)
@michaelw8966
5 ай бұрын
I can’t tell you how much I loved this video, and to make it even better you’ve got a Silverjet follow up! A video I’ve been requesting for a long time! 😊 Thank you so much for the time and effort you’ve put in. It’s much appreciated ❤
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Thanks Michael I'm glad that you enjoyed the video and your kind words :)
@ChrisEngland-yc4wy
5 ай бұрын
A lot of work gone into that story Phil. Well done😅 And you seem to have found an airline I havn't done work on😅 but most of the others mentioned in the story had my hands on them. Licenced Engineer with FLS 😊
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Thanks Chris, is that your way of saying you had no part in their many delays? ;) Just kidding of course :)
@ChrisEngland-yc4wy
5 ай бұрын
There were a few tech delays🤣 But like you say in the story, we had 12 hours downtime once a week, but by the time it got there we had no time at all. Airtours, Air UK Leisure, My Travel, 24 hour delays were common in the 90’s. STN, MAN, LGW we moved around. 👍
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Oh indeed, I remember some particularly lengthy delays with my personal best being 36 hours. I do wonder had EU261 existed in the 90s how the airlines would have coped, I think it was only Flying Colours that were largely unscathed (or the least delayed as they repeatedly won "most punctual charter airline" awards) - on a similar note I remember Excel (as we were then) winning some fancy award and then we had a 21 hour delay on the same day.
@rondon9897
5 ай бұрын
Brilliant thank you was keen to know what happened to these. As you say, like most of these companies, bit off more than they could chew.
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Thank you :)
@skylineXpert
5 ай бұрын
I remember Bruce Dickinson used to fly for Astraeus... I also remember scanway-tyrkiet eksperten hiring Aurelia as a substitute at one point. But the story about their thailand adventure: after they stiffed the hotels the owner said: we are not going baack to thailand. There Is no money to be made.
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Yes he did, I bumped into him once "backstage" at the airport when I was coming in for a flight and he was heading out after one so I didn't want to bother him but he still said "hello" :)
@zionismisterrorism8716
5 ай бұрын
IEA used to have a really cool cheatline livery. Sad they're gone.
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Yes it was a really smart livery.
@alfredwilson4224
5 ай бұрын
@@ExpoAviationFJE was the best airline I've ever served on in two decades as Pursrer; wor 767 was a 200ER though, not a 300 ❤❤
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Yeah I don't know how I mis-read it from my script and didn't notice at the time, I did manage to have it flash on the video with it being a 200ER as I'd spotted it at the last minute.
@ryankenyon5010
5 ай бұрын
Maybe it's sleep deprivation, but I was laughing out loud about that 767 that just kept being shuffled to different airports for storage. Great video, as always!
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Haha yeah it was like a booby-prize :)
@NatJB
5 ай бұрын
Excellent video. I used to dispatch FlyJet out of Manchester and it was interesting to say the least. As you've identified, delays were a regular occurrence and par for the course. EB was affectionately named Betsy, she was an old lady with lots of medical problems. I dispatched her last flight out of Manchester and final arrival. I think some of the flight crew went to Silverjet. Happy days working the ground and it had a little bit more job security. I also dispatched Viking, Strategic Airlines, Tor Air, SAGA Airlines, Virgin Sun, Flying Colours, Air Atlanta Icelandic, Air Scandic and many more, all of which are now a distant memory.
@alfredwilson4224
5 ай бұрын
agnes and betsy and chunky charlie ❤❤❤
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Hehe cute nicknames :)
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it :) They were old girls and are still going strong despite their age, that's a nice honour to be handling her final flight :) Yeah lots of names from the past there, are you still on the ground?
@NatJB
5 ай бұрын
@@ExpoAviation I left aviation in 2018 after 22 years. Massive changes occurred in this time and many airlines came and went. Since I left I never found another industry the same, the same feeling, the same buzz. I still miss it to this day, but my days of 0300 starts, working weekends, bank holidays and Christmas are over, I did it for too long and don't fancy doing it again. I'll always be aviation through and through though, too many Jet A1 fumes inhaled over the years, it'll always be part of me.
@davidwilkinson2275
3 ай бұрын
I worked these on the ground at NCL, they were known as "flytech" and sweepstakes were often taken on how long delays might be. Almost as chaotic an airline as Viking, who would ask Ramp Agents to "lose bags" as their MD83s would be too heavy, or SAGA who told a dispatcher that if they didnt get volunteers to offload, the crew would sit there till they ran out of hours. Unreal times with some of these airlines! Great channel, thoroughly enjoying the memories of these long gone companies!
@ianstewartorr8455
5 ай бұрын
Thanks to another interesting video greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Thank you :)
@ianstewartorr8455
5 ай бұрын
@@ExpoAviation I look forward to seeing your next video
@sailorssilence1983
5 ай бұрын
another awesome video
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Thank you :)
@E_WANR
5 ай бұрын
great video as always ! cant believe they lasted as long as they did with their questionable practises aha
@E_WANR
5 ай бұрын
also do you have any way we can support your work ?
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Many thanks for your comment, I really appreciate it :)
@thomassharp2719
5 ай бұрын
Do a story on Flyer Airlines.
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
Once the dust settles and I can get the facts from the liquidators :)
@gordonwerner
5 ай бұрын
Phil … have you made a diagram of all the spaghetti like connections between all of these former “airlines”
@ExpoAviation
5 ай бұрын
I do have one in my head already but will do a special episode in the near future which looks at the various family trees of some airlines.
@antr7493
5 ай бұрын
@sexyguy3647
5 ай бұрын
Excellent video, my favourite for a while now I eagerly anticipate the Silverjet vid
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