Alba Star airline

NoodleDoodleMan

We've seen a TUI offer to Mallorca which would suit us - but the flights are by Alba Star.

Has anybody flown with this outfit before ?

Would appreciate any experiences please.

bagand96

Haven't flown with them myself.  Charter airline using Boeing 737-800 aircraft, been operating for some time now and TUI have used them in the past.

NoodleDoodleMan

Thanks - some years ago we flew with a charter airline Spanair, now defunct - let's just say it was different.

The trolly dollys only had Spanish with very basic English.......or so it seemed, at least !!!

bagand96

I fall into the camp of one 737-800 for a short hop across Europe will be much like any other 737-800 (or Airbus A320 etc)

There is a TripAdvisor page for Albastar which it's fair to say has mixed reviews. The majority of the bad ones seem to be either a delayed flights and subsequent struggle to claim EC261 compensation, or people who'd had a short notice change and were just cheesed off they weren't on a TUI branded aircraft with TUI crew. The latter issue certainly wouldn't bother me at all but must be a priority for others. 

Flown a few foreign charter airlines over the years. As it happens Spanair went on to become a major player in Spain, second largest airline in the country at the time of their collapse. 

NoodleDoodleMan

I've seen those mixed reviews.

We have the option to book through Jet2, so I reckon we'll bodyswerve TUI this time.