My Air Transat Experience
Jun 17th 2012, 8:47 pm
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
Jun 17th 2012, 9:05 pm
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
My sister flew on them and said it was worst travelling experience she'd had. Cramped seats, horrible food, had tho pay for booze, old fashioned tvs and shit films, dreadful check-ins, flying out of a crappy UK airport, rude staff and top it all she had to stop in Calgary on their way here. Her assessment of the experience, cheap and very nasty.
Jun 17th 2012, 9:09 pm
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
Sorry, don't want to hijack the thread with something that's unrelated, but thought I ought to mention it just in case you weren't aware how tough Canada is on permission for single parents.
Jun 17th 2012, 9:36 pm
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
Just checking, but you mention 'me and my son' in your posts, you are aware that you need his father's permission to remove him from UK jurisdiction, or a court order to that effect if he's not going with you?
Sorry, don't want to hijack the thread with something that's unrelated, but thought I ought to mention it just in case you weren't aware how tough Canada is on permission for single parents.
Sorry, don't want to hijack the thread with something that's unrelated, but thought I ought to mention it just in case you weren't aware how tough Canada is on permission for single parents.
Jun 17th 2012, 9:53 pm
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
Never again.
Jun 18th 2012, 12:45 am
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
+1. My HID once flew from TO to probably Newcastle on AT. The flight stopped over in Montreal and then proceeded after a 4 hour delay. Bad enough but then after another two hours the cabin started to fill with fumes from the engines, so they had to return in extreme discomfort to Montreal for a further 8 hour delay. I think the "flight" took a total of 25 hours.
Never again.
Never again.
It isn't with any one airline - shit happens with them all.
Jun 18th 2012, 1:02 am
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
I had a similar experience with Delta from Denver back to the UK. Overall it took me 32 hours of travelling from aircraft technical issues to the pilot being over hours so we couldn't take off and we had to go back to the gate and wait 4 hours for a replacement pilot.
It isn't with any one airline - shit happens with them all.
It isn't with any one airline - shit happens with them all.
Never again.
Jun 18th 2012, 4:08 am
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
Of course, none of the chavs and lager louts, allegedly travelling on AT, are Brit. expats living in Canada. We are all such quality people!
Jun 18th 2012, 8:44 am
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I've only flown once with them back in 2008 (MAN to Van) but I had wonderful seat with ample legroom (I think I paid a bit extra for it but don't recall now).
Jun 18th 2012, 10:42 am
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Re: My Air Transat Experience
for this reason alone I would only use them again as a last resort.