grimlord01,

I think you mean 3-3-3? TCX don't operate any aircraft large enough to be configured 3-4-3.

Darren

I've been looking at flights with a view to going to Santiago de Cuba for the big Matamoros Son festival in September (there's also a big dance festival on at the same time) and the best dates and prices at the moment are coming up flying Manchester/Holguin with Thomas Cook. The only problem is I have only used Thomas Cook once and I wasn't impressed but I want if at all possible to avoid flying into Havana and having to mess around sorting out either an internal flight or the overnight bus to get to the other end of the island. I can arrange to be picked up from Holguin and it is just a couple of hours drive so that would be my first choice of arrival airport.

Has anybody any recent experience of flying this route with Thomas Cook? For example, is it really worth paying £11 for the meal? Any update since I used them some 5 years ago from Gatwick would be much appreciated. I do so miss Cubana!

SM

SMa,

You may be pleasantly surprised. They're just about on par with Thomson these days in economy and not far behind the scheduled carriers. I certainly wouldn't have any problems flying with them if they were the cheapest option. The meals aren't too bad, no worse than any other airline. They aren't cheap but then you are 7 miles high in an aluminium tube!

Darren

Hi Darren,

Just letting you know that today we've been able to log in online and pre-book seats for our MAN-CUN fight (TCX162/163) on 10th June 2015. This flight looks as though it's being operated by the renovated A330-200 with the 2-4-2 configuration. I just thought i'd let you know incase anyone else asks

Thanks, Darren, I can't actually book just yet, a bit of negotiating to do at work first but it does look as if they are the best option.

SM

Hi Darren. Can you please advise which craft I will be flying on from manchester- antalya on 27th June? It is a Thomas Cook flight TXC2548.
Thanks

alexkeirmaxmum,

Are you sure it's the 27th June? There are no flights showing for that date. That flight number is showing as a Sunday flight, not a Thursday? MAN-AYT-MAN (TXC2548/9) are operated by Boeing 767-300/ER.

Darren

Sorry you are right, it is the Sunday. When I go in to book seats, it shows configuration of 2-4-2. Would that be right?

alexkeirmaxmum,

That's correct. You'll find extensive aircraft information on our what Aircraft? guide (link below).

Darren

Thanks Darren.

We're looking to book seats for our journey on 10/06/15 from MAN-CUN and the return leg on 24/06/15 (flight no TCX162/163). Thomas Cook's website is showing the refurbished A330 (2-4-2 config). I was wondering if anyone has any info on which seats to avoid booking? I've tried searching on seat guru etc but i'm struggling to find the particular config. We're thinking of booking 38A, 38C, 38D, 37A & 37C.

Thanks.

Jac_789,

Seating is personal preference. The ones you're looking at are as good as any others.

Darren

jac_789
i flew to and from Orlando on this plane and thought the seats in 2's seem to have slightly more room than the row of 4. The exception was the row of 4 when you first enter the aircraft(the extra legroom seats) where there was that much room in front of the seats they were playing charades

grimlord01
Thanks so much for your reply. We've decided to book 2 sets of 2 seats with one directly across the aisle. Can you remember if the rows of seats are aligned so that seats C and D are directly across the aisle or are they slightly off-set?

jac_789 wrote:

We're looking to book seats for our journey on 10/06/15 from MAN-CUN and the return leg on 24/06/15 (flight no TCX162/163). Thomas Cook's website is showing the refurbished A330 (2-4-2 config). I was wondering if anyone has any info on which seats to avoid booking? I've tried searching on seat guru etc but i'm struggling to find the particular config. We're thinking of booking 38A, 38C, 38D, 37A & 37C.

Thanks.

They'll all be refurbished by then, Those flights look to be operated by one of the currently configured 3-3-3 aircraft which will be 2-4-2 for next summer.

jac_789
i think they are slightly off but not by much

hi flying man to las on 11/06/14 tcx718 i been rading films are shown on loop could u tell me what that means on loop ?

Hi buster,

We're flying MAN-CUN on TCX162 on 10/06/15, and from what I can gather (and what i've been told on here) all of the long haul A330's should have been re-fitted by then, meaning they will have 2-4-2 configuration and will all include the new entertainment system, which I *believe* means films will not be on a loop. I'm not 100% sure on this though, so clarification would be perfect.

we booked our seats on fly thomascook website and it showed 3-3-3 on seat plan.