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Monarch expands Canary Islands services

New year-round scheduled flights to Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura are being started by Monarch.

Services to the Canary island destinations will run from Birmingham, Gatwick, Luton and Manchester airports.

One flight a week will operate to Gran Canaria from Birmingham and up to two flights a week will operate from London Gatwick and Manchester from October 19.

One flight a week will operate to Fuerteventura from Birmingham, Gatwick and Luton and up to two flights a week from Manchester from October 21.

Flights have gone on sale via the airline's website for travel until March 27, 2010, with fares including taxes starting at £52.99 one way.

The introduction of services to Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura brings the total number of flights operated by Monarch to the Canary Islands to up to 64 a week, with almost 500,000 seats available this winter - a 32% increase on last year.

Monarch flights and holidays managing director Liz Savage said: "We are delighted to be expanding our network to the Canary Islands with the launch of scheduled flights to Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura in addition to our existing routes to Tenerife and Lanzarote.

"We are seeing huge demand for our mid-haul destinations - in June we carried 59% more customers to Lanzarote and 16% more customers to Tenerife compared to June 2008 and the addition of Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura means even more people can take advantage of our low fares and award-winning onboard service to these popular sunshine islands this winter.

With permission from Travelmole
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Hi, can anyone tell me which A321 operated the ZB894 from LTN to TFS yesterday.

Many thanks.
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Thanks again for that, how do you get this information, in there a website?
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nickappel,

Much Of Our Information Comes From Having Access To Different Airlines Flight Schedules (Well At Least For Me, Maybe Others Are Different) But The Main Way Of Getting Information On Flights (Registrations) Of What Aircraft Has Operated A Certain Flight Comes From ACARS. Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System.

Dazbo5 wrote:
ACARS is the acronym for Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System - a kind of text messaging service for aircraft enabling text communication without tying up radios. You can access an online datalog of ACARS transmission (for example ACARSD.org, or if you want to receive transmissions yourself, you'll need radio (VHF) receiving equipment and decoding software (I have an SBS-1 to get live information).


Gower
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Hi, further to the above post. how do you get the info on what aircraft type is doing a certain route? is it from acarsd.org?
how do you download this for me to get this info? website is very hard to understand.
Thanks.
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daz1971,

:offtop As Gower mentions, most use ACARS. Transmissions include aircraft registrations where type information can then be crossmatched. I don't use ACARS.org these days as I use SBS-1 directly, but put flight information you're looking for in to the search engine and you'll be able to extract all the information you need if available. I have access so some airline systems that aren't publically available, Monarch isn't one of them though!

Darren
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this acars stough is too complicated for simpletons like me! lol, i might just ask on this forum in the future, hope no one minds! thanks.
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Do Monarch have a copy of their in-flight magazine online at all?
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they have a copy of their menu online, just go on thw website and type "in flight meals" in the search box. Doubt they would need to make an inflight magazine available online though !

Steve
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nickappel,

nickappel wrote:
this acars stough is too complicated for simpletons like me! lol, i might just ask on this forum in the future, hope no one minds! thanks.


We Don't Mind At All

Gower
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My family and I (2 kids age 14 and 11, me & hubby) are travelling to Malaga with Monarch on 14th July 2009.

Monarch seem to want to push me to pre-book my seats which will incur a cost of about £60 for the four of us which I think is quite a lot of money.

My question is whether this is really necessary?

My only concern is that my children may end up sitting on their own if we are all split up. Would they actually do this? We don't mind being split into twos but obviously I don't want to take the chance.

Do you think I ought to pre-book or is it just a way of getting more money out of me!?

Thanks

Lisa
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LBD,

As seating is assigned at check-in, as long as you are there in plenty of time (recommended 2 hours before departure), you should be ok and get seating together. It's generally only when you arrive late after most others have checked and seats are filled that you run the risk of not getting seats together. You're normally ok on your outbound flight as the time you get to check-in is within your control. If you're on a package holiday however, you're at the mercy of the transfer coaches and you could be the first or last to get to the airport. There's a greater risk of being spit up on your return flight than the outbound because of this and hence, the optional extra of pre-booking seats. For peace of mind, some prefer to pay the extra and pre-book them. The airline will do their best to seat you all together, or if that's not possible, as close as possible. There are guidelines provided by the CAA to ensure families are sat together or as close as possible, expecially children, but it's only a guideline. They'll do their best though and it's personal choice whether to pay the extra or not.

Darren
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Hi again, just wondering why ZB896 (LTN-TFS) was operated by an A320 today, i thought it was scheduled to be an A321? Thanks.
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hi, thinking of booking flight to sharm on 25th march 2010 from gatwick, flight code is mon6814 departs at 09.15 flew there on first choice before and was very uncomfortable for 5 3/4 hours cramped up. just wondering what the seat pitch and layout would be on this monarch flight .
info appreciated
thanks
andy
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Dazbo, Partyboy_uk

Having previously requested flight information re. our flights to Paphos MON1734 14/06 / MON1735 21/06, I thought you might be interested to know that the outbound flight was the on the day when our A300 decided to go sick! We were told that on the previous sector to Preveza, it developed a technical fault en route and had to return to Manchester (not sure why...we were in Gatwick!). We finally flew out at 2230, 7hrs late, on G-MAJS (from memory), which had just come in from Sharm El Sheikh. We did it in an amazing 3hrs 40 mins (how fast is this plane...?!) I must say, we were kept informed of what was happening and were given 2 lots of vouchers. Monarch didn't deserve the abuse fired at them from some of our fellow passengers...

I was just intrigued to know if Partyboy could confirm what actually happened that day - why did the aircraft return to Manchester and what was the issue? When did the poor people going to Preveza actually arrive?! Apparently on the return Paphos sector, the delay was nearly 18hrs due to crew going out of hours but Monarch did put everyone into a hotel.

All too often, episodes like this seem to create negative feelings about an airline. However in our case, it really felt like Monarch had the best interests of all 360 passengers as their number one priority
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LBD

We have travelled as a party of four since the kids were little and flown with them for probably about 30 times over the years and we have always been seated together as a row of 3 and usually with me seated across the isle.

We have always made a point of checking in 3 hours prior to departure time but it is well worth it for peace of mind and a huge cost saving from the seat booking charges just be friendly and polite to the check-in staff and ask to sit together they are usually very obliging.

hope this helps

Andy
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I was just intrigued to know if Partyboy could confirm what actually happened that day - why did the aircraft return to Manchester and what was the issue? When did the poor people going to Preveza actually arrive?!


TMW9725, thank you very much for the kind words in your post. I am sorry to hear about the delay to your flight. Unfortunately, aircraft technincal problems are a normal part of running an airline and the delays that occure because of them. I am afraid that it is often the case that unless I am personally involved with a delayed aircraft then I do not get to find out the details surrounding the passengers on the flight. However, I do vaguely remember something about a flight that returned to Manchester having departed from Gatwick. Monarch have aircraft hangars at Manchester and Luton Airports where engineers are at hand to see immediately to aircraft that may have any problems that need to be worked on. This is probably the reason why the aircraft returned to Manchester. Other than this, it may have been that a particular part that was required to repair the fault was located at Manchester and so it would have been much quicker to land the aircraft there rather than somewhere else and wait for it to be transported.

I must say, we were kept informed of what was happening and were given 2 lots of vouchers. Monarch didn't deserve the abuse fired at them from some of our fellow passengers...


Contrary to what some people believe, crew really do try their upmost to get an aircraft to its destination and back as smoothly as possible. Believe me, crew do not want to be delayed any more than necessary as much as the passengers onboard. It is very refreshing to hear somebody who sympathises with crew for the "abuse" (in your words) that we sometimes receive, even though we do fully understand how frustrating it can be for passengers to be delayed. From my perspective it is also very good to hear that you were kept updated and provided with vouchers. Usually, after any delay, the Captain will offer an explanation once passengers are onboard but it is reassuring to know that the ground staff who work on behalf of Monarch before your flight, have kept everybody updated with regards to what the cause of the delay is and what they plan to happen.

Apparently on the return Paphos sector, the delay was nearly 18hrs due to crew going out of hours but Monarch did put everyone into a hotel


This sounds about right as crew would need a minimum of 12 hours rest before beginning another duty after their last one.
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