Thomas Cook Flights

[scoobydooby]

Does anyone have any experience on the Manchester to Orlando route? They are currently. 1k less than Virgin via Travel City direct for next August and 2k less than the Virgin holidays site so I am a bit tempted. I am quoting prices in relation to 4 adult seats. Is is bearable? I have only flown Virgin economy or occasionally PE for the last 7 years.

 

[tinkertaylor05]

Does anyone have any experience on the Manchester to Orlando route? They are currently. 1k less than Virgin via Travel City direct for next August and 2k less than the Virgin holidays site so I am a bit tempted. I am quoting prices in relation to 4 adult seats. Is is bearable? I have only flown Virgin economy or occasionally PE for the last 7 years.

We flew that route in May, they were excellent, we had their refurbished plane which made the 9hrs a breeze. I sat next to an ex pat who lives in Florida and flies regularly, said he'd been on every carrier and that was his best flight, he was a tall guy and had plenty of room.

Not sure if we were lucky but intend to use them again.

 

[BettyBoo29]

I'm flying that route in 4 weeks!

Fingers crossed it will be great!

The same as you we opted for TC rather than Virgin as was soooo much cheaper

 

[micksn]

Came back from that route last week. Both ways were on time and baggage allowance fine for us. Lots of leg room, seats ok not very comfy for sleeping, but fine for sitting. Food on outbound was better than inbound. You pay extra for drinks. IFE is standard (limited) package, but you can control times or £3 extra for premium - more choice if you want that. Standard (iphone) ear phones worked fine.
For us the flight takes the same amount of time whoever you fly with so we would rather pay less if possible.

 

[wayneg]

We wanted a one way flight MCO~MAN last month. TC cost me just over £200pp, VA wanted £1,000pp so guess who won

Downside to TC:
Poor seats(not well padded), not half as comfy as VA.
Having to pay £1.80 for every can of soda.(plus cost for alcohol if wanted)
No online check in so long line to check in (1 hour)
Very confusing who gets a meal and who doesn't, staff had a very long print out of every seat entitled.
Mega strict at check in, handluggage 6kg not an ounce over, I had to move my netbook to another bag that was under (but then you can go away from the desk and change it back and buy more weight airside and/or duty free)
Checked luggage again strict but depending how you book you get different weight allowance, we were on a Condor ticket codeshare so got 23kg, next to us had 20kg.
IFE not good, £3 to upgrade (no idea how good that was, I wasn't paying)
For about 30 mins they seemed to be constantly trying to sell you something, IFE, Earphones, duty free, drinks, snacks etc.


Upside:
It cost us £600 instead of £3,000
We got home safe and landed slightly early.

TC not the best Transatlantic carrier but if the price is right no hesitations using them again.

 

[scoobydooby]

Thanks for all the replies. It's going to need to get cheaper then probably. I am keeping them in mind though as expecting Virgin Atlantic to be stupid prices.