MyTravel flashbacks.....
Recent MyTravel A330 flickr posts by Rob and Swire (see links below) prompted a search through the archives for any that I had taken at Ringway, Manchester.
I found this one, a photo of most dubious quality in so much as it isn't even vaguely sharp, but an interesting one nonetheless.
You'll immediately see that the aircraft doesn't even say "MyTravel" but "Garuda International" which is the airline of Indonesia. Why? Well some 18 months before this photo was taken, MyTravel agreed a merger with Tommy Cook. Carrying its MyTravel livery, this aircraft (can't see the registration) became part of Thomas Cook Scandinavia based in Denmark. However things took a twist when just a few months later Garuda were banned from Europe for not meeting EU safety standards. Now to be honest, I'm not sure if Tommy Cook leased "acceptable" planes such as this one to Garuda so they could continue some sort of European service until they were reinstated. They may simply have been for Hajj use, when pretty much every spare serviceable plane around the world is required to transport people to Mecca. Whichever, a hybrid livery appeared for a while which was effectively the old MyTravel with Garuda titles! Complicated eh?
MyTravel flashbacks.....
Recent MyTravel A330 flickr posts by Rob and Swire (see links below) prompted a search through the archives for any that I had taken at Ringway, Manchester.
I found this one, a photo of most dubious quality in so much as it isn't even vaguely sharp, but an interesting one nonetheless.
You'll immediately see that the aircraft doesn't even say "MyTravel" but "Garuda International" which is the airline of Indonesia. Why? Well some 18 months before this photo was taken, MyTravel agreed a merger with Tommy Cook. Carrying its MyTravel livery, this aircraft (can't see the registration) became part of Thomas Cook Scandinavia based in Denmark. However things took a twist when just a few months later Garuda were banned from Europe for not meeting EU safety standards. Now to be honest, I'm not sure if Tommy Cook leased "acceptable" planes such as this one to Garuda so they could continue some sort of European service until they were reinstated. They may simply have been for Hajj use, when pretty much every spare serviceable plane around the world is required to transport people to Mecca. Whichever, a hybrid livery appeared for a while which was effectively the old MyTravel with Garuda titles! Complicated eh?