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In administration
« on: 02 October 2017, 07:57:42 »

Monarch airlines have gone into administration,flights have been cancelled and rescue/repatriation flights[both terms have been used on TV news this morning]are in the air to bring home holidaymakers etc.
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Re: In administration
« Reply #1 on: 02 October 2017, 08:16:30 »

To a layman, pretty impressive effort to get the 100,000 back.

No doubt manna from heaven for Ryanair- spare pilots!
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« Reply #2 on: 02 October 2017, 09:38:05 »

To a layman, pretty impressive effort to get the 100,000 back.

No doubt manna from heaven for Ryanair- spare pilots!

The problem with Ryanair isn't that there aren't enough pilots available - it's that there aren't enough pilots that are prepared to work for them. Most Ryanair pilots are on what are effectively Zero Hours Contracts, and treated as self employed. Works for young and eager crews getting their hours up, not so much for experienced captains and first officers. Also the Monarch fleet is almost all Airbus (34 A320/321 and just 1 B738), whilst Ryanair are all B738's, so would need lengthy conversion courses (which they will have to pay for themselves) before they could fly for Ryanair. 
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Re: In administration
« Reply #3 on: 02 October 2017, 09:44:28 »

Oh. Senior moment. pilot is a pilot except they aren't!
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Re: In administration
« Reply #4 on: 02 October 2017, 11:24:58 »

Oh. Senior moment. pilot is a pilot except they aren't!
Only thing I ever consider is my definition of a Good Pilot is one that has the same number of Landings as He has TakeOffs.  ;)
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Re: In administration
« Reply #5 on: 02 October 2017, 12:13:46 »

One positive side affect will be the impact on their handling agent :-X

It's a shame though as they, along with Britannia, were the longest established charter airline in the UK. Some very good, experienced people work for them :'(
 
Hopefully Easyjet and Thomas Cook will be able to absorb many of them, as both are almost exclusively Airbus operators :-\

The engineering side should be ok as they service several airlines beyond Monarch.
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Re: In administration
« Reply #6 on: 02 October 2017, 14:58:28 »

This time last week i was in Dalaman airport , Turkey, watching people board a Monarch plane , talk about timing 
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Re: In administration
« Reply #7 on: 02 October 2017, 18:13:35 »

People who lose money due to this are fools, as it was widely publicised this time last year that they were on sticky ground...

...so only a complete mong would book without protection.


Its a shame about the disruption of course, both to customers and staff  :'(, and it does reduce competition between the larger carriers at that end of the market.

But following the last minute cash injection last year, plus the uphill mountain of us trying to leave Europe, everyone could see the inevitable :(
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Re: In administration
« Reply #8 on: 02 October 2017, 20:30:38 »

Interesting mood at work today. Slightly disconcerting to see an airlines entire base fleet parked up out of the way :-\
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Re: In administration
« Reply #9 on: 02 October 2017, 23:17:23 »

This time last week i was in Dalaman airport , Turkey, watching people board a Monarch plane , talk about timing

Funny cause this time 23 years ago i was boarding one in gerona ;D
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Re: In administration
« Reply #10 on: 03 October 2017, 07:25:07 »

A friend of ours has had to cough up 1500 euros to their hotel as their accommodation was booked via Monarch too, as if it couldn't get any worse
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Re: In administration
« Reply #11 on: 03 October 2017, 07:41:49 »

Interesting mood at work today. Slightly disconcerting to see an airlines entire base fleet parked up out of the way :-\

Guess they'll be arriving at Lasham soon. ;)
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Re: In administration
« Reply #12 on: 03 October 2017, 07:50:35 »

A friend of ours has had to cough up 1500 euros to their hotel as their accommodation was booked via Monarch too, as if it couldn't get any worse

That is something you absolutely should not do, Monarch wont have been paying them even close to that sum....
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Re: In administration
« Reply #13 on: 03 October 2017, 09:07:59 »

A friend of ours has had to cough up 1500 euros to their hotel as their accommodation was booked via Monarch too, as if it couldn't get any worse

That is something you absolutely should not do, Monarch wont have been paying them even close to that sum....

I heard about this on the radio this morning and it seemed very odd. Surely the hotel are contracted with Monarch, not the holidaymaker? Afterall, I doubt they'd be honouring bookings FoC if you landed at your destination just as the airline went pop.
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Re: In administration
« Reply #14 on: 03 October 2017, 10:11:42 »

A friend of ours has had to cough up 1500 euros to their hotel as their accommodation was booked via Monarch too, as if it couldn't get any worse

That is something you absolutely should not do, Monarch wont have been paying them even close to that sum....

I heard about this on the radio this morning and it seemed very odd. Surely the hotel are contracted with Monarch, not the holidaymaker? Afterall, I doubt they'd be honouring bookings FoC if you landed at your destination just as the airline went pop.

Absolutely but, as we all know, some will try it on and it would appear, make a quick buck in the process!
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