This weekend I am travelling to Tuebingen to visit my sister who is staying there. This involves flying from Birmingham to Stuttgart, the nearest airport, and the only carrier to offer this service is the airline regular travellers affectionately refer to as Fly-may-be. This is an airline which has an appallingly bad track record of cancelling flights simply because it can’t be arsed to run them. My parents were travelling to Stuttgart with them a couple of weeks ago, and they arrived at Birmingham airport to find that their flight had been “delayed”. It was delayed for a couple of hours until it became clear that Fly-may-be weren’t even trying to find a replacement aircraft. Instead they decided to transfer everyone to their Frankfurt flight and treat the Stuttgart passengers to a two hour trip down the Autobahn. (more…)