I guess that's because the disaster's have been so high profile. They've said on BBC that they found the black box. So hopefully they can find out what really want.
Positives: 30 years flying, never had a single fatality. Only fly 737s. Probably the most successful LBA in Europe. Negatives: Everybody, without exception, hates them.
I agree they have a bad rep but I've always found them ok. Mind i always pay a bit more for seats and priority boarding. Better seats than monarch and Jet2 too.
All airlines registered to operate in Europe do so to the same incredibly high standards, regardless of rep and price. Air travel is generally very, very safe. Which only makes tragedies like today the harder to bare. I'm also thinking of the technicians who conducted the visual inspections yesterday. They will currently be going through hell.
You have to pay more to get a seat? ****ing hell thats bad. Flew with some right dodgy airlines in Russia but a seat was always included in the price.
It hit the mountain side at 430mph. No wonder it was reduced to shrapnel. Have you seen the pictures? It just disintegrated into a million small pieces.
Agree. I have travelled hundreds of thousand miles by air so far in my life and have experienced no problems during flights. I was,however, booked on a flight from South Africa to London in April 1968 after receiving a telegram from sister in Hull stating my dad had died suddenly. My return telegram asked my sister for the funeral date but had no quick reply. My company arranged an option of an earlier flight and I took it up. My sister's reply came after I had left for the airport and if I had known it's contents would have gone with my previous booking. That plane, a Boeing 707, took off after it's first stop in South West Africa and crashed killing 122 of the 123 on board. I passed over the wreckage on landing at the same spot a week or so later.
I always think times like this are the best to fly. Everyone is on even more increased alert about safety.
Not a good week for Boeing... Sky News @SkyNews A Boeing 737 carrying 78 passengers has requested an emergency landing in St Petersburg after one of its engines failed.
Anyone see the documentary on Heathrow the other month? Very interesting, the fact that struck me the most was the cost to replace an engine on a 747. £8 million. For one engine. RIP to the poor souls who died in the crash yesterday, terrible.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/british-nationals-likely-crashed-plane-221926363.html?vp=1#2XKtDPd https://uk.news.yahoo.com/a320-one-worlds-most-popular-planes-112947691.html#EH45WOS
****in' ell.... And wasnt there a businessman from Hull on the missing Malaysian Airlines flight? Hardly any Brits involved in either and there's 2 from here. RIP.
