Air Transat

I have recently returned from a two week holiday in Canada, flying with Air Transat. This was an airline I'd not heard of before, and in fact I didn't know I'd even booked with them, because I'd booked through a website called Globespan.com, and thought they were the actual airline. As I have now discovered, Air Transat are actually a charter airline, and you book with them via travel agents, including Globespan. Despite being a charter airline, they have a scheduled service throughout the year. ----------Airports--------- Air Transat fly from Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow ... more

This review is from my experience travelling by an Economy no frills Trans-Atlantic airline. There is nothing really special here but I thought I should share my experience, which isn’t always doom, and gloom you generally experience with no frills airlines. I was invited to visit my friends in Toronto for the summer last year and I jumped at the chance. It was a country I had wanted to visit for a while and the offer was one I could not turn down. January last year I began trawling the Internet for flights and prices and was astounded by the cost of the flights to Canada starting figure ... more

Booking through Canadian Affair, our airline for travelling to Canad recently was Air Transat. In all honesty, we had no dealing with them apart from getting on and off the plane, as everything was pre-booked and pre-paid with the travel operators beforehand. We arrived and booked in just over 3 hours before the flight left Gatwick for Canada, and this was smooth and painless, despite an employee going through the line saying they had overbooked and did anyone want to volunteer to postpone their flight for a day, with compensation, obviously. We didn't, but I understand that this is not an ... more

At all cost I try to avoid flying charter but at the time of booking my holiday to Victoria, (BC, Canada) I preferred to have the extra £200 in my pocket than in an airlines, so one of the the Canadian charter company's Air Transat were offering the best deal and I booked with them. Apart from saving money the other advantage of flying Air Transat was that I could fly to Vancouver without having to change planes (I'm a strong believer that if you don't change planes you have more chance of getting your luggage at the other end and less chance of being delayed). Although I was going to Victoria ... more

Normally, my parents book flights well in advance, and up until now we have always flown British Airways. This Summer, however, we left it much later before booking a holiday, partly because many people say it is cheaper to book late, and partly because we had already booked a flight to Rome in October, making the Summer holiday slightly less important (normally we stay at home during October and have our main holiday in Summer). However it soon became apparent that we were not going to get a decent holiday at any price, when we went to numerous travel agents with no luck. Finally, we settled ... more