First Air

Advantages: Cheap but not cheerful
Disadvantages: Offer you no support if things go wrong

...Now the holiday season is fast approaching, no doubt many of you will be perusing the websites and holiday books for ideas on where to spend that elusive two-week break. To be honest, when booking a package holiday I never really took into consideration which airline would be responsible for taking me to my Mediterranean destination. All I looked for was the nearest airport and then the price. ***** WHO ARE THEY AND WHAT THEY DO ******** Since we travelled with Air 2000, they have since become First Choice Flights. As Air 2000 they were quite surprisingly an award winning UK airline. Every year, the airline's 29 aircraft make on average 30,000 flights from fifteen airports in the UK and Ireland. Air 2000 started on 11 April 1987 and is the UK's 3rd largest charter airline. The airline flies from Manchester, London... Read review

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Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Show no compassion for customers

...Last year my family and I booked a holiday to Cyprus with First Choice. Before you book your summer vacation this year, read my story. I was a bit dubious about going as I am prone to deep vein thrombosis. I have a gene missing in my blood which means I cannot sit in one place too long, never can go on a long haul flight, cannot drive too long without regular breaks and I cannot get pregnant without injecting a blood thinning drug. So a holiday for me is big deal. I sought the advice of my GP prior to booking and he said as long I injected fragmin (a form of heparin) two weeks before and during my holiday, I should be all right. He also told me to advise the airline which was Air 2000 of my condition and that I must sit at the front where I could keep my legs out thus preventing a clot in my vein. Deep vein thrombosis... Read review

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Advantages: No problems with safety
Disadvantages: Delays, comfort

...Our flight from Stansted on Saturday morning 12 May took off after a delay on the tarmac. Apparently, the air traffic was very busy and so we ended up waiting for a slot for 30 minutes. We were heading to Palma airport in Majorca for a First Choice holiday at the Luz Marina Hotel in C’an Pastilla for seven nights. Please also see my opinions on First Choice and on Majorca. We had previously travelled to Majorca two years earlier and once again had chosen accommodation available through First Choice only. We then also flew with their Air 2000 sister company. That was when the seats were actually padded. Now they looked like a schoolboy’s prank; toilets with material on top, not pulled quite tight enough so a small dip was visible, waiting for you to fall down into the abyss as soon as bum met cloth. At least this year... Read review

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