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Monarch delays & Compensations. Listed flights denied in O.P.
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Good luck mark, still not heard from them since they sent us the claims forms to fill in .0
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Yay!!! Post has just come, and there's two cheques for £209.84 each in it!!!!
Just hope they clear now
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You are so right, LBD.
I'm going to Court, and I suggest everyone forms a line![/QUOTE...lol already submitted my paperwork, and even emailed them a copy....lol...the response... will pass it over to legal....
I know there are those who feel contact MP's and such would be a diversion, but quite frankly my view is , it will take a great deal of pressure from various sides before they do anything....:j:j0 -
Well done Mark, I am delighted to for you....enjoy, take it you are rushing to use it to book another monarch flight lol....
! victory hundreds to go
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I know there are those who feel contact MP's and such would be a diversion, but quite frankly my view is , it will take a great deal of pressure from various sides before they do anything....:j:j
IMO it won't be until they start getting fined that they will do anything other than what they are doing now. I'd bet that the drop out rate after being fobbed off with EC's is 50%.0 -
Centipede100 wrote: »Mark2spark wrote: »
75-80% I would say.
Call me old fashioned, but I think it's inherently dishonest and indicative of a lack of integrity for any company just behave in such a manner. They don't deserve to stay in business.0 -
Centipede100 wrote: »
Call me old fashioned, but I think it's inherently dishonest and indicative of a lack of integrity for any company just behave in such a manner. They don't deserve to stay in business.
I have my doubts they will....
Firstly the size of fleet -
Monarch > 32 planes
EasyJet > 190 planes
Ryanair > 305 planes with rumoured 150 more on order
Now the age of fleet -
Monarch > 14.5 years average with 3 Boeings over 25 years old
EasyJet > 4.4 years average all Airbus planes
Ryanair > 4.2 years average all Boeing planes
Airline profit (most recent figures)
Monarch > £45 million loss in 2011
EasyJet > £225 million profit
Ryanair > £18 million
Number of passengers pa
Monarch > under 6 million for both charter and schedule
EasyJet > 60 million
Ryanair 90 million
Delays (not all flights analysed just representative)
Monarch > average delay just short of 30 minutes with 3% of flights over 3 hours. Their operation from Manchester being the worst with an average delay of 36 minutes per flight.
EasyJet > average delay of 9.15 minutes with 0.49% of flights over 3 hours. Their operation from Gatwick being the worst with an average delay of 10.89 minutes
Ryanair > average delay of 8.8 minutes with 0.32% of flights over 3 hours. Their operation from Stansted being worst with average delayof 9.4 minutes.
In addition Monarch only have UK bases whereas EasyJet and Ryanair have bases throughout Europe.0 -
Well done mark0
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111KAB, you need to level the comparison to compare easyJet's and Ryanair's UK based operations with Monarch.Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.0
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