Thomas Cook also do this on their Turkey flights.
They tell passengers that there is no water available in the airport and they will be transported on coaches with no air conditioning!
I challenged the steward who gave this announcement and told him water was available on the transfer coach,2 bottles for £1 and the air conditioning is switched on when the coach starts moving.
I think its time this practice was stopped.

Hiya,
I'd just like to play devils advocate here... what if you did get on a coach with no air co,nditioning, and the airport didnt indeed have the facilities to purchase water? The complaints would then be that the crew didnt tell you this?
Please remember there will always be someone who needs water, and wont think to ask on the aircraft as they may have been asleep during drinks service, or a number of reasons, including long transfers in hire cars etc, we are merely just giving the passengers their final chance to purchase bottled water (english bottled water at that, an astonishing amount of people wont drink the local water for unknown reasons), its also great for the children you have in the party, people like to give young children water that they are familiar with.

hi ...from what Ive heard about the turkish ingenuity of making extra cash....if it was the case that no water available for holiday makers between the airport and the hotel....a few holiday makers making a complaint....and were not usually quiet about it....would soon reach a pair of turkish ears....and they would take up the oppertunity to supply for profit what was needed ....and water is not a complex product to supply.............the reps or the drivers on the coach transfer seem to have done just that...

The egyptians are also clever when it comes to filling a need and making it pay too

If for some reason there was no bottled water for sale at the airport....then the truth of the matter should be told ie

for thomas cook turkey

water was available on the transfer coach,2 bottles for £1 and the air conditioning is switched on when the coach starts moving.

.....but advise those using private transport they may like to purchase some water before touch down

But they should not mislead passengers about the conditions expected on arrival just to sell water ...as our poster said happened on the thomson flight to egypt

[quoteHiya,
I'd just like to play devils advocate here... what if you did get on a coach with no air co,nditioning, and the airport didnt indeed have the facilities to purchase water? The complaints would then be that the crew didnt tell you this?
Please remember there will always be someone who needs water, and wont think to ask on the aircraft as they may have been asleep during drinks service, or a number of reasons, including long transfers in hire cars etc, we are merely just giving the passengers their final chance to purchase bottled water (english bottled water at that, an astonishing amount of people wont drink the local water for unknown reasons), its also great for the children you have in the party, people like to give young children water that they are familiar with]