Hi, Jo-Anne, what happened was that it decided to snow at Luton Airport for about an hour very early last Wednesday morning (21st March). We had arrived well in time for our 6.30am flight when it was announced that the airport would be shut while they cleared the snow. At about 8.00am they reopened the airport. Hurrah, thought we, we'll soon be on our way. Other, proper, airlines flights began to move and our optimism began to rise. Then, disaster!
EasyJet announced that all their flights that day had been cancelled for mysterious "operational reasons". It turned out that the real reason was because once a certain number of slots have been missed, they just cancel flights rather than inconvenience people on other airlines. We were upset to put it mildly! I phoned EasyJet's laughably titled Customer Service department to be told that the reason our flight had been cancelled was because planes could not land in Madrid! Now, I'm no expert, but that sounded pretty implausible to me. Was the weather really so bad all day last Wednesday in Madrid? Anyone who can shed some light on this, please do.
Anyway to cut a long story a bit shorter than it already is, we have decided to have another go in the autumn when we've got some more holiday and this time, we're going to fly with
Iberia or
BA . Sorry to bore you all with my tale, but sometimes you need to get these things out of your system.
Cheers
[This message has been edited by MadridMan (edited 03-28-2001).]
) 
