Excel Drops 738 from Newcastle

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Well I have a particular interest in this as I'm supposed to flying it in September, but pprune are reporting this morning that Excel will now have 2 x 737-400's at Newcastle with Air Scandic operating the 737-800 programme with a 752!

A better aircraft to fly on but I'd have rather flown with Excel.

Can anyone shed any light?

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Just tried re-booking my flight on both Expedia and xl.com and indeed my flight has been repalced with Scandic flight numbers!

B*gger.

Anyone know what their Finnair 757s are like?

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Good news for NCL, obviously the flights due to be operated by the 738 were filling quickly, and now the AY 757 is making a comeback to NCL :D
So this summer, NCL shall have;
Thomas Cook: 2 x 752
Britannia: 2 x 752
MyTravel: 1 x 320
Excel Airways: 2 x 734
Air Scandic: 1 x 752

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And presumably that frees up the 738 to go elsewhere.

Anyone got any SCY752 experiences they can tell me about?

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Nah only ever flown on the A300 with SCY, good airline though. The AY 757s tend to have less seats than UK charters have on their 757s.

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But Excel don't have any B737-400s.

Shome mishtake, shurely? ;)

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And presumably that frees up the 738 to go elsewhere.

Anyone got any SCY752 experiences they can tell me about?

I flew OH-LBS, MAN-HER when it was subbed in for what was meant to be a Flyjet B752. To be honest, it's likely to be more comfortable than the Excel B738 would have been. Even though it was quite possibly my worst flight ever. ;) Ok, well it was simply due to the fact that after the 3 hour delay(Flyjet's fault), no food (Flyjet's fault) and my 'window' seat turned out to be a nice blank wall. :mad: As you can tell, I've never had any horror stories concerned with any of the flights I've taken, hence why that particular flight was my worst. ;)

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But Excel don't have any B737-400s.

Shome mishtake, shurely? ;)


Nice lisp, Sir Connery

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Both Excel 734s leased from Islandflug Grey :)

I would much prefer a Scandic/Finnair 757 to an Excel 738, I think the AY 757s are quite modern, my friend flew MYT last year which was operated by an AY 757 and he thoroughly enjoyed the flight.

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Both Excel 734s leased from Islandflug Grey
Oh - not them again???? :rolleyes:

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Yes :)

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SCY6921/2 TENERIFE 10:00 20:20 TUE
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Thanks guys.

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Not exactly a new airline for NCL, having SCY based a Finnair 757 for a few years before it changed to an XLA 738 last year