TUI - We Do Not Feel Safe

TadleyBaggie

If the airline was truly flying unsafe planes, they would be banned from EU airspace:

https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/air-safety-list_en.pdf

Murphy_The_Cat

:beer:The OP would be happier on Yorkshire Airlines.

Takmon

LoveSavingMoney wrote: »

Nice and comfy is less of an issue. I guess I just don't like the principle of falling back on your T&C's to enable you to provide drastically inferior service to the customer for the same price. The mistake is theirs, but it is the customer being penalised with zero sufferance on their part.

But far, far more importantly, I just want me and my family to be, and feel, safe.

If you want to feel safe you can do some research online and you will see exterior/interior trim being held together by tape is in no way a safety issue.

Almost all safety issues will be with internal components that you can't see and even if you can see them the majority of passengers wouldn't be able to tell if there was something wrong with it or not.

NoodleDoodleMan

It's a piece of clear acrylic set into side wall panels to stop passengers' tongues getting stuck to the exterior window when it's -50 degrees out.

Nice one !!!

:beer:

z1a

I'm not a nervous flyer, but about 30 years ago I flew to Bulgaria on a Aeroflot Tupolev TU154, that reeked of fuel for the entire flight, and all internal panels were squeaking as the fuselage flexed.
Only time I've been relieved to land.
Oh, and Russian cabin crew virtually threw what was allegedly food at you at tea time.

interstellaflyer

Aircraft windows are in 3 parts, outer window, inner window and a clear plastic panel fixed to the internal trim. My guess is a clumsy passenger managed to somehow crack the plastic ‘window’ and rather than have an aircraft out of service, delaying hundreds of passengers, knock on effect maybe thousands because of a very minor, non critical part, they put some tape on it.

TadleyBaggie

coffeehound wrote: »

Don't think they are running one that old, though some are a little over 30.

Their oldest aircraft G-CELY is 32 years and 8 months old, so technically closer to 35 years than 30!

https://www.jetphotos.com/info/737-23662

Ballard

bobblebob wrote: »

Want to know an unsafe flight, the internal flight i got in Tanzania by AirExcel, small 16 seater think it was.


You turn up at the airstrip (there is no airport building), you tell the pilot your name and he checks you off a list. No proof of ID or anything. You then put your own luggage in the hold which never gets weighed. So you have to hope the plane isnt overweight, or the pilot becomes ill as their is no co-pilot

I had an almost identical experience but didn't feel unsafe in the slightest and loved the views all the way back to Dar es Salaam. Unbeknown to us we had a stop at another landing strip to pick up another couple of passengers on the way.

Nick_C

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Their oldest aircraft G-CELY is 32 years and 8 months old, so technically closer to 35 years than 30!

https://www.jetphotos.com/info/737-23662

I would rather fly in that than in a 737 Max though!

The RAF is still using a plane that is 33 years and 6 months old for VIP flights https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-bae146-1021.htm

coffeehound

@Tadleybaggie:

Touche! Fair enough I'd treat anything on that sort of site with scepticism, though: e.g. they are showing two aircraft as still active which were retired months ago, looking at the CAA register. Also, (being even more pedantic), I don't think any Jet2 aircraft are QC configuration anymore since they stopped running the overnight cargo ops for royal mail some time back.