Tuesday 3 April 2012

Monday 2nd April-French ATC strikes

The strikes by French ATC created havoc with flights across Europe and certainly didn't do PMI any favours.There were several cancellations and many flights had long delays,a horrible start for anybody travelling out for the Easter holidays.
Despite that turmoil I did pick up a lot of movements and there were some that grabbed my interest.
Firstly Air Arabia Maroc used A320 CS-NMA from and to Nador.Unfortunately with a 0130 arrival and 0230 departure not that many would have caught it.
German Sky B738 D-AGSB was also in ,which was probably a first visit for PMI.
This is their 2nd aircraft and was previously TC-SKU with their Turkish parent company and was delivered to them at the end of November 2011.
Finally Jet2 used Strategic Airlines A320 LX-STA on their Manchester service which came in a couple of hours last eand went out around 4 hours later because of the ATC restrictions.
It looks like similar problems are being had today,Wednesday 3rd, as well, with the morning Easyjet's running a couple of hours late.Lets hope it smoothes itself out later.

Keith