I'm a made redundant resting salesman and someday I'll enter an opinion on the fact that kids mothe...
I'm a made redundant resting salesman and someday I'll enter an opinion on the fact that kids mothers are nanny goats or should that be the other way round.I think I better add that I live in Co Londonderry, N. Ireland
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This opinion could have been written on under any of these headings it really is charter flights in general. Hard luck Airtours
Apart from the oil it is basically lack of space. If a visitor from Mars was in his UFO hovering over a Mediterranean holiday resortairport and saw an object come out of the sky and land he would be amazed. Here was this cigar shaped thing with bits sticking out the side approx 30 yards long and 13ft wide coming to a stop, the doors opening, steps being pushed to the doors and strange shaped things with 2 arms and 2 legs starting to climb down the steps. After 3 minutes he thinks how many
of these things can you put in such small space and little did he know they’d been there for a least 2.5 hrs.
There is a similarity between this situation and Hallmarks slogan for their stores in the US “pile them in, stack them high and sell em cheap”
These in case you didn’t recognise them are package holiday flights on chartered aeroplanes. Now we can’t blame the travel companies completely They can only sell what the British public want to buy and after years of experience the companies have discovered that “we” will only pay X amount of pounds for our fortnight in the sun. Since they have originally priced it at X+Y pounds and found that JCM are doing it for X pounds, that’s the usually tasteless sort of customer they market for, the other companies to compete have to put extra seats in their plane to cover the lower prices offered to the public by JCM in case some respectable holiday maker would misguidedly book with JCM and swear, after the experience, never to take a continental holiday again. Over time that would eliminate the average punter who doesn’t go on holiday to drink, fight or fornicate for Britain.
Let’s talk about holiday flights, you’ve meant to book in 2 hrs before flight time and barring traffic problems most people do, you join the end of a lengthy queue because although you’d no traffic problems the desk staff did and are half an hour late. The couple in front have more luggage than Noah took on the Ark but you reckon its all for the hold until she tries to fit a bag the size or a cello case into the hand luggage measurer. Once informed that it’ll have to go in the hold you find out she’s a hypochondriac and she has to take about half Boots stock every hour to see the next hour through
and they’re all in her cello case. Much later when you eventually get your boarding tickets you find you and your dearly beloved are on the same plane but 23 rows apart.
Now we move into the duty free, me smirking silently knowing I won’t have to buy her booze on the plane, and as usual I have to explain buying 400 fags is not a good idea because they’ll be cheaper in Spain, the Canaries, Cyprus, Greece and even Tunisia. After this regular contretemps we repair to the bar for the most expensive drink I ever buy and just as we settle down an announcement is made that our plane is about an hour late. I immediately go to the phone and try to set up a second mortgage so that I’ll have some money left to enjoy our holiday.
Eventually we are seated on the plane, well I’m seated anyway, and the plane takes off and then the seat belt signs go off and you say thank God because that extra hour has meant extra consumption of the amber fluid and what with the bladder adjusting itself to the change of pressure you head for the loo but there’s a lump or metal in the way being chaperoned by pretty ladies, and of late occasionally by a pretty man, and my relief problem is not high on their list of priorities and to put things in their proper place judging by the demonstration moments earlier there seemed to be more chance of crashing into a mountain and surviving with the correct use of the life jacket than I had of getting to the toilet.
This started out as a very serious opinion on charter flights but I got carried away and the FA replays are about to start on TV so some time tomorrow I’ll finish this “opinion” under God knows what. If you want to follow it check profile.
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Advantages: Staff try their best in a bad situation, its just a shame about the company they work for, and the flights are cheap (you get what you pay for) Disadvantages: Too many to list!
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