Jet2 Fuel Stopover added to Lanzarote return flights...

jackieblack

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

It sill counts as a direct flight, which is different from a non-stop flight.

This is what I was going to say

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_flight
A direct flight in the aviation industry is any flight between two points by an airline with no change in flight numbers, which may include a stop over at an intermediate point.[1] The stop over may either be to get new passengers (or allow some to disembark) or a mere technical stop over (i.e. for refuelling purposes only). These are often confused with non-stop flights, which are flights involving no intermediate stops.[2] When there is a change in flight number, the subsequent flight is referred to as a connecting flight.

joerugby

I'd be fed up if my return flight from the Canaries took six hours. For me four hours is short haul (just). In six hours you can cross the Atlantic

mad_rich

Find out where the stopover is.

If it's elsewhere in the Canaries or Spain, then leave them to it.

If you find that your 'fuel stopover' is elsewhere in the UK, and that several passengers disappear during it, then you have been sold a pup.

Two hours additional time for a splash and dash sounds rather long time.

aerostar

mad_rich wrote: »

Find out where the stopover is.

If it's elsewhere in the Canaries or Spain, then leave them to it.

If you find that your 'fuel stopover' is elsewhere in the UK, and that several passengers disappear during it, then you have been sold a pup.

Two hours additional time for a splash and dash sounds rather long time.

The stopover for fuel is likely to be North Portugal, Oporto, depending on how busy the refuellers are, the aircraft will have to wait its turn, also as it is in August the Canaries route is very busy, so even if the aircraft was fuelled quickly, it may have to wait for an air traffic slot.

So I would think the 2 hours extra is probably the maximum time Jet2 thinks it would take.

I have done the route some years ago, out of season and the stop over was 1hr 15mins.

If Jet2 said it would be 1hr 15mins, and was 2 hours, you would get complaints, if it is less then no complaints about the reduced time.