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Thank you, I hope it will be worth the wait but rest assured I still have it near the top of the to-do list :)

Thank you :) That is indeed quite a downgrade and an early sign that costs are starting to get cut, no doubt as a regular flyer you would have been in a great position had the MaxFlyer programme rolled out properly? Did you ever try Eos or Silverjet and if so, how did they hold up against MAXjet in your opinion?

Thank you :) I agree regarding Canada, WestJet has done very well for itself but aside from them everyone else has fallen by the wayside one way or another and usually with Air Canada's or the Government's involvement somehow (Wardair, Canadi>n) - though there are of course other reasons such as bonehead management ala Jet's Go / Royal / Canada 3000 (had to say bonehead rather than a less diplomatic word for legal reasons). I still sadly end up flying economy/coach quite often but if the price for an upgrade is not too far off the basic price I'll pay more and go for premium economy. We're off to Arizona (again) for our honeymoon this summer and it was around an extra £150 each to upgrade to premium economy on the LHR-PHX & ORD-DUB sectors, stuck in steerage for the other legs though :/

A pleasure :) I got the idea from @EmmaCruises who includes at least one British-ism in her videos, it's helped me sound less wooden by putting in some more local dialect :)

wow that's cook! I hope you enjoyed the video :)

Thanks, I'm glad to hear that my jokes are landing as intended :)

Yes I've been cabin crew / flight attendant with one of Europe's largest low-fare airlines for the past few years now. Started flying 19 years ago with an airline called Islandsflug who I covered back in episode 50 :)

Yeah sort of, similar business models but different levels of service, similar aircraft types but different engine variants, so close that maybe a partnership could have been on the cards :)

​@@ExpoAviation shame it didn't last long for em If they did partnership they could of lasted bit more 🙁

Well that's a question :) The airline that I'd most like to revive hasn't actually been covered by the series yet and that would be my beloved Monarch. To go with one from the series, avoiding the obvious choice of one of my former employers - XL, I would say Midwest Express. Their level of service was exceptional and the prices were easily comparable to a regular economy fare with a major carrier, yes things fell off towards the end when the cost cutting came in but to bring them back before that happened would be great. Out of all of the airlines that I've covered they are honestly the one that I regret never getting to experience first hand, though I would also have loved to have had a ride with Chalk's. I honestly do think that Air UK never got a proper chance, once KLM increased their stake they just turned it into a feeder service. I do think that the name may come back in the next few years though depending on how KLM and Delta deal with Virgin Atlantic...

Thank you, much appreciated :)

Yeah, they'd also had a previous attempt when the new terminal first opened but axed the route a year later (which is what I was referencing with the "bad luck" of Stansted Airport).

Indeed, I should have saved it for Halloween ;)

Indeed, there is a very good chance that had they still been around they'd have been doing exceptionally well today :/

I have got some notes on them at the ready :)

Indeed, the main problem would be that Max & Silverjet were officially headquartered in different countries (the US for Max and UK for Silver) but there could have been ways to resolve that one, the question is by the time that they would have realised the need to merge they may not have had time to do it! I do think Maxjet & Silverjet would have worked well, probably with Silverjet being the lead brand to survive more than a merger of Maxjet and Eos.

Thank you :) It will be interesting to see what happens in the near future, any new airline which wants to operate a similar model will face the same problems as these three did back in 2007-08 but hopefully could learn from their mistakes to have a better go at it :) From a passenger perspective I fully encourage it as I love premium economy and try to use it whenever I can afford to :)

Thank you I really appreciate that. I've not done Cyprus Airways yet (I've done Eurocypria, Helios and KTHY from the other side) but do intend on doing them soon along with Cobolt as that would complete the "set" of Cypriot carriers.

@@ExpoAviation Cool, I look forward to seeing those. I flew with Eurocypria too, on the most dreadful flight, time wise that is, from MAN.

Thank you, I hope you enjoyed the rest of the video :)

Not yet but I'll get there eventually.

Sadly the demise of Monarch was not as big as it should have been as the company had already changed direction so had become little more than "just an airline" but the collapse of Thomas Cook was enormous, there was government intervention in Germany to stop their side collapsing, several other foreign governments were quietly behind a rescue package but the UK government allegedly didn't want that to pass due to the "B" word... When a small carrier collapses it's not a big deal (except for those involved) as another one will sprout up eventually, Thomas Cook collapsing completely changed the landscape as after all it was the second largest tour operator, while Jet2 expanded and easyJet have ventured into the charter package business TUI are still the largest and now overshadow everyone else.

I specifically walked from the Luxor down to that spot just to film the DC-10 as sadly they are pretty much extinct over here in the UK now (heck we don't really see MD-11s any more since FX got more 777s).

Haha yeah it's an odd one, it's quite popular over here and has grown in popularity along with Coors Light and Bud Light (the latter only becoming available here around 7-8 years ago). I'll drink most things (except Carling - true p****wasser) but lean towards a nice ale or bitter - I'm delighted to see the rise in popularity of ale in the US and always enjoy partaking in some light-hearted japery such as "can I drink my bodyweight in this?"

Thanks :) I've got a load of them waiting to be uploaded, once I've figured out what to do with them.

It's 37 miles from the departure end of runway 24L to the coastline at Wallasey :) Yeah, chatty happy passengers are ok ;)

Haha my partner is a Scouser, I like to occasionally put the accent on to wind her up ;) I always enjoy coming in to JFK but so far have been unlucky and not managed to score the famous Canarsie approach (even on domestics). I bet living so close and getting to see all those aircraft types and airlines would have been amazing, especially with the variety back then :)

Thanks for your kind words, I hope that this episode was worth the wait :)

Once the dust settles I will start working on them, I've already got a few notes on file ready :)

I'll add them to my list :)

Yeah it's a shame, I'd have like to have used them but by the time I found a route that I could use they had already been absorbed into AS :(

I'd say it took two months in total, I was quite fortunate that some info was handed to me on a silver platter (pardon the pun) as I could get quite a bit of info from their own website archive. The struggle was putting it all into words. It took 5 hours to record the audio and trim it accordingly, once that bit is done it's a lot easier but still takes around 3-4 solid days to put it all together into a video (I honestly can't figure out how I used to make a new episode each week back in 2020).

Thank you :) Eos will be coming up soon as part of this "story arc" I do also have a half done script on Globespan and do also intend to cover America West soon :)

It does sound something like AA would do, after all just look at what they did with Legend over in Dallas.