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When checking in give the girl a nice big smile say hello, works every time, never paid a penny in excess yet.

Smoothie :bow it must be the dashing sailor in you :wink:
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Sorry, a big smile, rupees etc dosent work anymore, it has gone very official in Diablom especially My Travel (20k) plenty of us were charged in February £6 per kilo excess, we were not to bothered because we brought a cabinet home and were expecting to pay extra but loads of people were pretty upset, you have no argument because your weight limit is clearly displayed on your flight tickets.
I think your best bet is to be one of the first in the queue they seem to get a bit more keen on the later passengers. :sulk :sulk
Allan.
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Sorry, a big smile, rupees etc doesn't work anymore,

O well I will just have to try and manage with the 30k we get with the

upgrade with First choice, hope to off load a lot of the incoming with Rob at

CWT

:lol:

Alan
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never tried rupees :shock:

a big smile always works :) :)
:wink: :wink:

:fly roll on #Thursday :fly
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Martin d

Are you on the 1-30 ish FC flight from Gatwick on Thursday, flight was originally 2-30. Seems to be a few problems with FC flights. Keep them fingers crossed eh mate. See you in the bar if you are!


yes, on that one! look out for 2 scots drinking champagne :D
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our flight was changed to from original booking , found out when on plane that we werent stopping at bahrain.,lot off people dissopointed .seems not many airlines stop now ,does any one know the reason for this ?
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Hi Ladyjan
hope you enjoyed your holiday.

If I was on a non-stop flight to Goa rather than having a refuelling stop-over in Bahrain, I think I'd be over the moon rather than disappointed!

Polly
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On my first visit to Goa we stopped off at Dubai to refuel etc , but then on my last 3 visits we stop off at Barhain.
Just wondering is there any reason to this? Why have charter flights stopped stopping at Dubai or do some still stop at Dubai rather than Barhain?

This is just out of curiosity.

Thanks
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Just arrived home yesterday on the Monarch flight to Gatwick. Despite all the bad press about Monarch, we couldn't fault them, other than the food! Just wondered if the First Choice Flight that was delayed 24 hours had arrived back in the UK yet. The Monarch steward took great delight in telling us all that Monarch flew the required spare part over and there was not a First Choice Engineer who could fix the problem, so a Monarch engineer was there to save the day.

Hopefully reading this will restore your confidence in Monarch. :D

Bobbsy
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I have to say that i think monarch are great, a lot of people slate them but i have never encountered a delay with them, cabin crew are always really friendly and cannot do enough. Monarch are a low cost airline, this is why most of the 'cheap deals' are flying with monarch so the price reflects the legroom etc.
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has anyone on here flew the birmingham - goa route with thomson recently - the one that departs at 02:45 on a Monday morning? I was wondering what sort of routine they went for with regards to food and drink timings for the flight - I am hoping that as soon as we take off and they have done their briefings etc they will turn the lights off for a few hours rather than try and serve drinks food etc. Can any one let me know what they did please?
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I was just about to ask the very same question. We fly from Brum a week on Monday (10th I think) and was just wondering what the plane, journey, food etc etc were like

:)
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Would thoroughly recommend the Star Premier Upgrade with First Choice.
Good service, comfy seats with good leg room, extra baggage allowance,reasonable food and friendly staff. Well worth the extra. Much, much better than grumpy Monarch Airlines upgrade and cheaper.

AL
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:roll: hi guys just clicked onto virgin atlantic flights and noticed that a flight from london to mumbai on the 4th dec 2006 until the 4th jan 2007 was £355 plus taxes what i would like to know is has anybody flown to mumbai with virgin before and if so what was the service like compared to other airlines any info would be welcome even recomendations about other airlines i.e prices, service,comfort etc cheers andy :idea:
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Flying with Monarch from Manchester In March, Friday 3.30pm. Booked with Travelpack.
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Booked Monarch Manchester to Goa 3 months ago (for November) and just got a £49 fuel supplement invoice this morning, No explanation, no apology, just pay us another £49 dear customer.

My cases are in the hall awaiting a taxi tomorrow morning to take us to the airport for flights to Vancouver. We're going Premier Class to Vancouver for about £25 more than it costs Monarch cattle class to Goa.

Is somebody taking the mickey here? :?:
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try southall travel 422 rtn bargain for nov 06
Why do you want to go 1 way charter 1 way schedule anyway???????
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I have won a voucher £250 to be used with Thomas Cook. It has to be used for a package holiday before the end of December 06 and the booking must be made over the phone. ( Dont mention the voucher till you have the price) its yours for free if you can use it as I won it but wont be using it ,,,, just say you can use it and send me you address and I will post it to you PM me first one will have it
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has anyone flown with K.L.M. its a dutch airline just found flights on the net to mumbai going out in oct 06 coming back in april 07 for £323 couldnt believe it so phoned them they said the rtn flight isnt coming up yet as available to book , but to keep in contact over the next couple of weeks and they will book it at that price if anyone is interested in checking this out the website is

http://www.KLM.COM

and phone number direct line to thomas who i spoke to is 02074649961
there policy is to answer the phone after one ring and they did when i phoned .

the seat pitch by the way is 31 and they stop over in amsterdam

anita :fly
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Anita
for general questions about KLM go on to the flights forum- if you post there I am sure you will get a big response. (Just don't do a search on KLM to find what I think of them!!!!)
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