I recently travelled to Lanarca with Flyjet, with 8 other people. We all booked through Thomas Cook. I`d read all the reviews so a couple of us booked the extra leg room seats.

We boarded on time at Manchester so were relieved things were going well then as we were actually on the run way the brakes came on and we were told the equipment that tells you were other planes are in the sky and that tells other planes were you are had broke so we had to go back and wait for an engineer.

One of our friends is scared of flying so you can imagine the effect this had. They also had to refuel the plane now which seemed strange. Anyway we sat on the plane for 2 hours with no drinks and then once fixed had to be towed to the runway?

The plane was old and shabby and unless you book and pay for extra leg room then prepare to be uncomfortable. The food was the worst plane food I`ve ever had and as already mentioned you get charged £1.80 for a drink with your meal. The staff were nice.

On our return flight we were told on the coach on the way to the airport that there was an hour delay. We then spent 3 hours in Lanarca airport which had no air con on and no where to sit and there was no information about the delay on the screens and as the flights went ours just disappeared off the screen.

We were going to buy some duty free at the airport, but had waited, knowing we probably had a long delay, then an announcement came asking us to board immediately so no duty free. Once on the plane we were told there was a slot for us at 18.56 and this was at 18.48, which meant we had 8 minutes. We were told that if we missed this slot we would have to wait 191 minutes for the next slot and knew we would be stuck on the plane again.

The air hostesses did the emergency demo at high speed as the plane headed for the runway and then dashed for their seats. Thankfully we took off and everyone cheered. I spoke to the hostess about whether the company was buying new planes in Oct and she told me the company was closing and they have been told that they`ll have no jobs. So it looks like you won`t have to avoid this airway for long.