RIP Monarch, last flight with you on the day before you went was just about as perfect as you can get on a charter flight, fab crew, spotless plane with superb legroom & seat width, on time etc. Flight back with Thomson's was OK but they still need to sort out their seat configuration, cramming em in like sardines will still force some folk to go elsewhere 1st.
Question is: who will take over? Wrong planes for Ryan air, right planes for EJ so crew & maintenance don't need retraining, certainly looks like they will grab some if not all of the slots & crew. For me I'd like to see Norwegian given some better slots, fantastic experience with them for not much more expense than the rest.