In case you are not aware, Fly Thomas Cook is the airline only wing (pardon the pun) of Thomas Cook holidays.

Since early this year (or was it last year) they own MyTravel. All of which was pretty bad news for anybody looking to fly to Orlando Florida from Manchester. Why so?

Well, in the flight schedule for 2010 it shows that every Thursday is a SCHEDULED flight to Sanford (SFB) leaving Manchester. However, if you try and book the flight you are told that it is unavailable.

It should be noted that MyTravel’s flight enquiry system also produces the same results.

So I contacted Fly Thomas Cook via email to enquire why it’s the case that a flight is schedule and yet doesn’t appear to fly and they offered up this explanation.

Dear XXXXX XXXXXX

Thank you for contacting flythomascook.com

Flythomascook.com are not able to advise on flight availability, seat cost and route information due to the constant changes that occur on our live system, please though, feel free to search for all availability via our search facility on our website www.flythomascook.com.

.....

Yours sincerely

flythomascook.com

So Fly Thomas Cook is unable to advise me if/when Thomas Cook flights might happen? That doesn’t exactly sound encouraging does it.

But what I’ve since found out that following the summer, there is a “great likelihood” that Thomas Cook will no longer be providing a winter scheduled service to Florida. Which is a total pain in the a**e for anybody who

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