Originally Posted by
simba8
Haaretz is reporting that El Al cheaped out by not landing in Europe (hotels for the passengers, replacement aircraft etc) but I think the real story is really the continuing occurrence of maintenance issues for their airplanes and that they are now going to be wet-leased some of their aircraft.
You can replace 'ElAl' with 'United'. Yep UA is having the same problems day in and day out. Same problem they run their planes to the bone and when something goes wrong no spare planes to be had. (UA had a problem the other day with its ORD-LHR flight which diverted to Goosebay, resulted in the pasengers flying to EWR and then to LHR). So LY is far from the only carrier that simply is looking for the cheapest way out of things
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-barracks.html
Last edited by craz; Jun 17, 2015 at 8:48 pm