Icelandic Volcanic Eruption - Significant Disruption to UK Flights

dmpoole said:
Olympic holidays sold our tickets to other passengers.
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Well no, they probably didn't.

What happened is that the flights you had tickets for, for obvious reasons, don't exist. There are now flights running but of course people already have tickets for these flights which they purchased before the disruption - they are not 'your' flights.

So you have to wait until there is spare capacity on a plane.
 
I assume the reason for overbooking is to make sure they fill the plane, that way more people can get home quicker (even if it is a pain for those left behind). It stops situations like Jokester's where planes will have seats free (I assume due to no shows rather than trying to sell them).
 
[TW]Fox;16426437 said:
Well no, they probably didn't.

What happened is that the flights you had tickets for, for obvious reasons, don't exist. There are now flights running but of course people already have tickets for these flights which they purchased before the disruption - they are not 'your' flights.

So you have to wait until there is spare capacity on a plane.
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Back home now :(

Our flight was MON4621 and a letter went up in the hotel saying that all the people who had missed the April 19th flight were now going on April 23rd.
When we got to the airport we were told that Olympic had sold 50 tickets to Monarch.
After lots of arguing we made our way back to Luxor and went to the Olympic office where there were plenty of red faces and we were told we were now going on April 26th because they had sold our tickets on to Monarch (Cosmos) because they wanted all their people together.
Just got back on an Airbus A300 and everybody had 3 seats each while Thomas Cook passengers were flown to Heathrow and have then got to get on a coach to take them to Manchester :confused:
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Surely its going to keep doing this for a few months?

When it went off in the 1800's it quietly got on with spewing lava from December through to June.
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i thought it had almost totally stopped, but then thats the media for ya. Its totally ignored now because it aint causing us issues.
 
Wind direction is all they care about - which to be fair is all that does (right now) matter for the UK/EU.

The Valahnuk cam is in such a great spot - can now clearly see a plume going the opposite way but also the lovely red/orange glow from the magma erupting.
 
Thats what they were saying, though it did get up that high during the previous eruption, so Im not sure if it means we are about to see something spectacular?
 
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