Thompsonfly

Advantages: Excellent flight prices and good customer service, wide range of european destinations, good leg room
Disadvantages: Poor terminal facilities, discriminatory?

I guess they are and they aren't. Thomsonfly are a budget airline, borne out of the much bigger fish, Thomson and their owners TUI, one of the biggest travel companies in Europe, if not the world. This means they have considerable financial clout and can “move mountains” or at least hold local councils to random, but more about that later. Being on the former Britannia Airways (now Thomson Flights) mailing list, I discovered Thomsonfly probably ...
...out of Coventry. It was quite a fortuitous e-mail. I was looking for flights to Alicante at the time, to take advantage of a holiday apartment we had been offered on the Costa Blanca for a ridiculously cheap price during the school holidays. WHO ARE THEY? As already stated, owned by Thomsons, they are a scheduled budget airline flying out of Coventry to 19 European destinations, including locations Spain, Ireland, Italy, Balearics, Austria, France ... Read review

Advantages: Small airport, helpful staff.
Disadvantages: Temporary terminal, poor directions to car park.

I flew with Thompsonfly from Coventry to Venice in April 2004. I booked over the internet which was simple and trouble free. You do not receive tickets or any confirmation through the post, so it is important to print off the confirmation e-mail, or at least make a note of the reference number. Without exception all the staff were friendly, cheerful, and helpful, including the car park attendants, the check-in staff at both ends, and the cabin crew. ...
...catering exclusively for Thomsonfly. When I travelled it had only been operating for two weeks. There were a few teething troubles, but nothing major and I would definitely fly with them again. If you are leaving your car at the airport, give yourself plenty of time to park the car and get to the terminal. There is a discount if you book parking in advance, which we did. They said they would send directions, but in fact they only sent a receipt ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap flights, easy to book
Disadvantages: Delays, poor customer service

As a student, holidays are a once every-three-years affair. And after our last journey, flying with Thomsonfly will be a once-in-a-lifetime affair. Cheap flights, yes - punctual flights...ah, no. Our flights were booked on the internet, from Doncaster to Amsterdam International Airport, departure February 23rd and return flight February 27th 2006. Booking Flights - Internet We booked our flights via the thomsonfly.com website. The site is incredibly ...
...dates you want to fly, where you want to fly from and to, and how many people are flying, all using drop down menus which are on the front page. The site then brings up a list of available flights, showing both departures and returns (if you're flying return.) You choose the flights you want, and the next page shows you the total amount of the flights (inc. airport taxes). You're then asked to confirm your booking, input the passengers' details, ... Read review

Advantages: They can fly me there quicker than I could fly myself
Disadvantages: I'd rather strap a couple of pigeons to me and fly myself!

Now, I have left writing this review for a few weeks since returning from my holiday, in that my opinion may now be balanced having calmed down from my awful experience with this airline!! And so to my balanced review.......... I am lucky enough to have parents who own a small house in Playas Flemenca, a 40 minute drive from either Alicante or Murcia airports (very convenient). They have owned the villa for around 4 years and myself and the bloke ...
...twice a year if I can find cheap enough flights (can you tell I'm from Yorkshire?!), which seems to have become something of an obsession of mine!! I have always until this year been a keen user of EasyJet, for their prices, the ease of booking on the internet, the overall service and because they flew from East Midlands (sorry, Nottingham East Midlands as it now likes to call itself), which is a 40 minute drive from said blokies family, and is ... Read review

Advantages: pre-booked seats
Disadvantages: very little legroom

Thomsonfly (not thompsonfly as the name of this category suggests), formerly Britannia Airways, is the charter airline of the Thomson travel agent (formerly Lunn Poly) and the Thomson Holidays tour operator, all of which are owned by parent company TUI, the german mega-company. I have only been on one pair of Thomsonfly flights, and this was only due to me leaving the booking to the last minute, and that being the cheapest available option - I wouldn't ...
...I did a piece of A level economics coursework about this market, and discovered that Thomson and the other three big operators are rated the worst for customer satisfaction. However, I was reasonably impressed with them. They sent the tickets through fairly quickly, they came printed in a book with a whole host of information about the holiday, and with tags to put on our bags. The seats were also numbered, which was nice, as I am used to flights ... Read review