A guy in one of the companies we do work with refers to FlyBe as MayBe. The slightest bit of fog and they can't land. The planes don't have the same computer guidance systems as more modern planes.

Therefore, he got stuck in Glasgow for his flight back down to Birmingham because the plane from Birmingham couldn't land at Glasgow in the fog.

He eventually gave up waiting, got an EasyJet flight to London and got his wife to come all the way from Coventry to pick him up.

I flew to Birmingham and back with them and never had any problems though.

Are you sure it's the systems? Ryanair - at least, this was the case a few years ago - had a similar thing, because their pilots weren't qualified to fly in bad visibility. Something to do with instruments-only flight and the higher pay packets pilots command if they're qualified in that.

It may be bollocks, though.

You could be right . . . I wasn't convinced when the guy said it was their guidance systems, but I just went with what he said anyway.

My friend's sister is a pilot. I'll get him to ask her.

My iuncle tried to get a refund from Flybe because he had to go into hospital for a heart ptoblem and therefore couldn't fly. He received his £65 ticket back minus a cancellation fee of £15 and another administration charge of £35. He got a cheque for £4.25 in the end because they also took off VAT...!

You do realise that the nofollow tags in every blog mean your spam's utterly pointless, because it instructs search engines to ignore links such as yours? You can't have any Google juice if you don't behave.

I've deleted the spams now, making your comment a non-sequitur. A good one, mind.

I'll come back and add some spam in later.