[OT] Things can always get worse...
Nov 18, 2011, 12:28 am
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Nov 18, 2011, 3:01 am
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GBP 20k for 180 passengers is only GBP 111 per passenger.
The airline was bust so they could not otherwise have travelled, and GBP 111 is probably cheaper than having to arrange flights back yourself. I think that these passengers were comparatively lucky.
The airline was bust so they could not otherwise have travelled, and GBP 111 is probably cheaper than having to arrange flights back yourself. I think that these passengers were comparatively lucky.
Nov 18, 2011, 3:05 am
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This is why travel insurance was invented surely. Get off plane, call insurance and wait for them to sort it out.... Have a few more days holiday 
Nov 18, 2011, 4:34 am
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Who do they think they are, the Daily Fail?
Nov 18, 2011, 4:39 am
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I wonder what the travel insurance poistion on this actually is, I don't recall it being mentioned on my last policy.
Nov 18, 2011, 4:55 am
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What's weird is that Comtel Air's web site claims that they are an executive airline, with a Falcon 2000 jet (well, could be more than one, difficult to tell). So was the Amritsar to Brum flight wet leased?
Edit: found the answer in the Beeb's story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ngham-15775920
Mint Lineas Aereas run two 757-200ERs. That's a long old haul from Amritsar on a narrow body aircraft.
Edit: found the answer in the Beeb's story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ngham-15775920
Mint Lineas Aereas run two 757-200ERs. That's a long old haul from Amritsar on a narrow body aircraft.
Nov 18, 2011, 4:58 am
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