Tcd

[lettie]

ok folks who's traveled with tcd this year can you give me some information please. lost my nerve cant wait any longer for cardiff flights to come down. thinking of booking with tcd from gatwick good prices thank you.

 

[traycie2201]

Haven't travelled with them this year but have booked for september, went with them last feb and no probs, in my eyes there are risks of delays etc with any airline, I like to have my $$ the other side rather than spend on the flight, however we have flown with AA, Virgin and BMI in the past and on various occasions either had or didn't have delays, the longest so far was on Virgin for i think 10 hours due to a faulty tyre and one needing to be flown in from miami. Book at the price you want to pay i say. have a lovely holiday

 

[lettie]

thank you yes i will save my $$$$$$$$$$ have a lovly holiday thanks

 

[natalielongstaff]

we are flying with them in september as well, 1st time with TCD for us

 

[alyssa'smom]

hi we went with tcd in january no problems and we have booked to go again in sept we have always found the service to be great, and like you have said more $$$$$ at the other end, as long as they get you there, that's fine by me.

 

[Flump]

We are also flying with TCD for the first time at the end of August.

 

[Trev]

ok folks who's traveled with tcd this year can you give me some information please. lost my nerve cant wait any longer for cardiff flights to come down. thinking of booking with tcd from gatwick good prices thank you.

this will be our 3rd year in a row travelling with TCD from gatwick. Never had any problems - TCD always appear to be well organised, especially on arrival at Sanford airport.

Don't know what dates you are waiting prices for, but a lot of dates now appear to be totally sold out so I wouldn't hold out too long!!

 

[Lauren101]

Yes we are flying with TCD in August too - from Manchester - have read some mixed reviews though - so would be nice to hear some positive ones to make us all feel better!!

 

[snookhams]

we flew with them for the first time last year and as DF and I suffer with severe leg problems, we treated ourselves to Sunshine First and I could not fault them one bit, the service, the staff everything was excellent and I would have no hesitations about using them or recommending them. All airlines have problems, some of which are totally unforseen and out or there control.

 

[ariel75]

i travelled with them in january no probs at all no delays on the way 1 hour on the way back i also have a friend who now flys with them always they have no back seat tv but we were at the front and had the screen in front of us and i didn't watch that. I'm definately going to go through them again and would definately recommend them to anyone else.

 

[Bigbluebear]

Hi, i travelled with TCD from manchester on 30th(well it should have been) July this year. We were delayed for 27 hours. The first three hours of the delay we were sat on the plane. Then we were sat in the airport for another 3 hours before we were told the flight wouldnt be going until the next day.

I understand and accept faults can happen and i have no problems with that. Well, other than the pre flight tests not being carried out before the passengers are on board the plane.

What i did have a problem with, was the complete and utter lack of organisation after this happened. Nobody told us anything. It was like a game of follow the leader, except there was 500 people instead of 5. There appeared to be one member of TCDs staff trying to get 500 folk from the airport to hotels. Also, this was the same day the incident took place at glasgow airport, but instead of telling people that busses werent allowed to the front of the terminal, they just told us we had to walk to the bus station without any explanation. With all luggage in tow, which had to be collected again.

This was no problem for my party as we knew what had happened, but a lot of people didnt. A lot of families had young children, who by this time were very tired. Also, when it was announced that 200 folk would be put into a hotel in the airport, it was like a stampede getting to the gate. rather than say it would be disabled, and familes with children under x age, it was first come first served.

we were eventually put into a hotel for the night. We were told we would be picked up at 5am to return to the airport. This was fine as it meant we would really only be losing half a day of our holiday. What actually happened was everybody got up and ready, walked out the hotel room to find a note outside all the doors saying pick up time was changed to 12!! This resulted in loads of folk being up, showered and dressed at 5am for mo reason. Again, there was folk who had dragged young kids out there bed. If the note had been put UNDER the doors then everybody could have just went back to sleep instead of getting dressed!

Another plane had to get flown in to take us as the problem on the first plane(one panel of lights wouldnt light up) hadnt been fixed.We had a party of 11 flying and two out of the 11 seats on the original plane we had were broken. In comparison to other airlines ive flown with, the planes themself are shambolic. The staff arent very pleasant, you have one choice of inflight entertainment, and the in flight food is a joke.

On the way home, we had no delays, however we were on the original plane with the broken seats. And yep, the same two seats were still broken a fortnight later. We actually said to the staff when we were on this plane to begin with and they didnt seem bothered in the slightest.

Despite all of this, they are the cheapest flights i can find for next year, so im probably going to be flying with them again as im not too bothered about how enjoyable a flight i have. If the flight is a major part of your hoiday and you dont mind paying extra, i would avoid TCD.

 

[lettie]

thank you all for your replys, unfortunately things can happen out of our control, So lets hope we all have a good flight and best of all a good holiday .I have just booked with them we are going on the 24th august from gatwick see you there all of you have a super holiday.