Spanair, any comments?

[loadsapixiedust]

Anyone had any experience of flying with Spanair? My parents have just had their Thomas Cook Prestige flight changed to a Spanair one and are a bit worried about some reviews they have read.

[SusieK]

Sorry but I had the worst experience ever on a Spanair flight coming f=home to Aberdeen from Majorca a good few years ago. It was an early morning pickup and we flew out of Majorca at around 7am so had been up since about 4am so when they served a cooked breakfast we were famished and ate the lot - BIG MISTAKE! A few hours later we were both very sick and have never been sick like it so we suspect we had caught food poisoning on the flight. DH was much worse than me - he ended up off work for a week - so we think it was the sausages that caused it has I had 1/2 mine then decided I didn't like and DH polished it off along with his one. On saying all that I would fly Spanair again, in fact I'm sure I have but I wouldn't touch their food with a barge pole. Infact it's made me wary of all airline food - unless it's piping hot I won't risk it.

[Boyle73]

Sorry but I had the worst experience ever on a Spanair flight coming f=home to Aberdeen from Majorca a good few years ago. It was an early morning pickup and we flew out of Majorca at around 7am so had been up since about 4am so when they served a cooked breakfast we were famished and ate the lot - BIG MISTAKE! A few hours later we were both very sick and have never been sick like it so we suspect we had caught food poisoning on the flight. DH was much worse than me - he ended up off work for a week - so we think it was the sausages that caused it has I had 1/2 mine then decided I didn't like and DH polished it off along with his one. On saying all that I would fly Spanair again, in fact I'm sure I have but I wouldn't touch their food with a barge pole. Infact it's made me wary of all airline food - unless it's piping hot I won't risk it.


The exact same thing happened to us when we travelled to Gran Canaria from Teesside with Spanair years ago.

We travelled with another couple and a single friend of ours, when they gave the breakfast out my husband was asleep so we ate his breakfast thinking we were being very clever. I fainted later on in the flight and we both couldn't stop being sick. A Doc in Gran Canaria diagnosed both of us as having food poisioning, we spent most of the first week ill. We reckoned at the time it was the sausages ::eek:

Sorry but we wouldn't fly with them again.

[wilkins76]

We used to fly from Exeter to Tenerife they seemed ok but we always used to land at San diego to refuel on the way to Tenerife which they never used to tell you, apart from that nice cabin crew and you get a meal which you dont no more unless you pay extra with most airlines

[Flo]

Flew with Spanair to Costa Brava, not bad, no frills but got us their in one piece - no major complaints - although I think the plane home was infested, I had some bites on my legs that came out after getting home.

[Fiona]

My aunty and uncle have flown with this airline and said never again!! The Spanish pilot misjudged the runway and touched down too far, he went up again and shouted "Ole"!! (his intercom thingy was on, goodness knows why!!) :omg: That is the honest truth and the passengers on the plane were terrified. Can`t say I blame them!! :confused2

[msdisneytonian]

my first every trip on an airplane was with spanair to tenerife - plane was very small and noisy, food was crap (glad i didnt eat it after reading some of the other comments) but it got us there and back in one piece plus it obviously didnt put me off flying - i would be very relunctant to fly with them again but would at a push.