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My next booked flight - so in theory the 400th - will be a Dash-8 from Luxembourg to Copenhagen. While neither luxurious nor particularly exotic, it will be with my partner on our way to meet some very dear friends for a reunion and most of all, I am very grateful it won't be a Ryanair 737...

Another week, another pair of intra-Europe LCC flights. Friday 5th Eindhoven - Stansted with Ryanair. Security is always quick here, <2 minutes. Passport control also very quick, <2 minutes. Late departing due to cascading delay from the plane being late on the previous Murcia - Stansted run...

Another pair of mundane Europe flights this last week for a quick work trip to Rome. Tuesday 26/05 Ryanair Eindhoven - Rome Fiumicino. Another full flight on a refurbished 737-8. A very warm day leaving Eindhoven with temperatures in the 30s which made the waiting under the canopies above the...

I think there's two problems with the point raised here. The first is I don't think 50% is realistic (nor does even pessimistic analysis), but also that the damage is done at a % far lower than 50%. Analysis in Politico today gives credence to both: 10% cancellations across the board are...

I have seen elsewhere reports that BA have loaded quite a sizable number of May cancellations (though it hasn't filtered through to Flyertalk yet) as well as reports of cancellations by easyJet and Ryanair for May. I only have a couple of flights booked in May (both Ryanair and easyJet) and...

I was waiting for the way home today for the comparison. Today I flew Manchester - Charleroi with Ryanair. A newer/refurbished 737 today, ops by Malta Air. Again, completely full and again on-time. Security for Ryanair flights at Manchester is now much better now that it's not the old T3 set...

I flew Ryanair Eindhoven to Manchester today, my 96th Ryanair flight and 139th flight to/from Manchester. It was an un-refurbished 737, on time, and full. Passport control was very smooth exiting the Schengen area in Eindhoven. There are no e-gates at Eindhoven, just manual desks. Time at...

Interesting - I've been through Midi twice in the last month, and neither time were my biometrics taken, nor at the EU border in London. The point on the queue has been their MO for some time now. Given it's now hourly from the 14.52 to the 18.52, the delays easily compound. At Midi they now...

There were a few that went via the Cheshire Lines, particularly including one at about 4 in the morning. They haven't run via the Mid Cheshire line for quite a few years now.

BA's recent foray into Manchester - Gatwick was supposed to be in conjunction with moving the Islamabad flight to Gatwick from Heathrow, and I would imagine some spillover benefit on Caribbean flights. Given that I don't think there's a proper connections process at Gatwick, this was perhaps...

It's not in any way closed. You are conflating your opinion on a queue with a broader, sensationalised, point. Many airports have queues. Many have queues longer than 1 hour. However, as a reasonably frequent user of Schiphol (I would wager, more than you and more than your friend) it's rare...

I'm still lost on how that conflates to "effectively closed to non-Schengen passport holders for arrivals into the Schengen area" (post #11). There are many other airports with far worse queues. It doesn't make them closed to non-Schengen passport holders. If you want to play that game, when I...

More like advanced mid-haul - Dushanbe and Samarkand - Istanbul and v.v on Turkish Airlines A321s (5.5 hours ish) and Doha - Entebbe (6 ish hours) on an QR A320. Seats on Turkish are a bit tight, but that's also the same on any of their aircraft. The main challenge is the not per se the ratio...

Good result in the circs, though not quite up to QR's standards. I had a colleague who was booked back from Singapore via Addis Ababa to Brussels as their flight on one of the ME3 was cancelled which is quite the detour and quite a layover in Addis. 1772699288 The big question - did you use...

Unfortunately for an incredible number of people, flights you have not been will be a theme for at least a couple of weeks. Even as flights gradually resume, the flow rate is vastly reduced and I would imagine the ME3 are focusing on sorting out point-to-point repatriations rather than...

Probably adding 2 and 2 and making 72, but I noticed last week that a Dollands Moor to Scunthorpe train had run (https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:H07138/2026-02-13/detailed). Perhaps a coincidence and related to another contract.

Ah, I see what you mean. Interesting, nice to have an option to balance demand between their Milan routes if one is more or less popular than the other. When I was booking my flight on this route for just before Christmas, they wanted €130+ for MXP-MAN, but €38 for LIN-MAN on the same day, at...

I took the same route in reverse just before Christmas. I agree that the ITA A320 is an upgrade, though mostly for the quite generous legroom. The downside at Linate is that if you're going non-Schengen, it's always a bus and at the time the Manchester leaves, there's usually a couple of other...

You're right - humanitarian for me. Though that being said, there were a few tourists on my last flight from Istanbul to Kabul and again on KAMair from Kabul to Herat. I was chatting to a lovely Polish lady who was solo travelling around most of Afghanistan. Fascinating country, rich culture...

KBL Kabul Afghanistan HEA Herat Afghanistan JAA Jalalabad Afghanistan EZE Buenos Aires Argentina BNE Brisbane Australia SYD Sydney Australia MEL Melbourne Australia AVV Avalon Australia VIE Vienna Austria DAC Dhaka Bangladesh CRL Charleroi Belgium (used in 2026) BRU...