Originally Posted by
RedMark
Perhaps these flights were XL Airways rescue flights.
No, based on the info above these are charter flights for Exclusive Escapes it seems. Thanks for the info I may use them next year if I go to Kefalonia only. There is also currently a sea plane to Ithaka from Athens via Patras that may be fun to try (if they don't fold in the mean time!). The price for the BMI flights seems better than what I paid for Monarch. Headline price of £112, but then add ons for food, baggage allowance increase and leg room brought it up to £150. Add the hotel and taxi and train fares to Gatwick for the 6am departure and it doesn't look cheap anymore.
On the subject of XL, several people in the resort I was staying at were affected by XL's closure. They were fuming that the rep was on a day off and wouldn't come in to help sort things out! In the taverna's later that night people were making very drunken toasts to XL airways. I hope they managed to get home somehow.