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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:14:09 +0100, "Peter McGurk"
full-service, world-class airline."
It doesn't say schedule or charter. Now I believe Britannia and/or
Monarch used to run charter flights to Australia on which you could buy
a ticket from them for just the flight. Those flights run on a regular
timetable and offered full meals and entertainment. They were not no
frills flights, were they then full service and are Britannia and
Monarch world class airlines.
Lansbury: a valid point. I'm not defending priceline, or attacking them -www.priceline.co.uk/travel/airlines/lang/en-uk/infoctr/airlines.asp
Being one for splitting hairs, that page says "You agree to fly on anyfull-service, world-class airline."
It doesn't say schedule or charter. Now I believe Britannia and/or
Monarch used to run charter flights to Australia on which you could buy
a ticket from them for just the flight. Those flights run on a regular
timetable and offered full meals and entertainment. They were not no
frills flights, were they then full service and are Britannia and
Monarch world class airlines.
simply sharing what they told me. You are of course correct - those
carriers do have scheduled operations and I'm sure they mix charter and
scheduled passengers onboard. What defines "full-service", though? Free
food, we'd probably agree - charters do that... free bar on longhaul? Not
any more - CO are going to start charging for drinks on their transatlantic
services and use the money they save from the bar to improve the meals, I'm
told. Are BY/MON world class airlines? Not in my opinion although I have
used the Monarch Crown service from ALC to LTN and it was pretty reasonable,
about as good as IB, for example (who aren't very good on shorthaul)...
"Full-service, world-class" is a wooly description... I wonder if Adrian
could post and tell us which carrier his punter ended up with!
Peter