Olympic Airways

Celia and I travel to Greece once a year. Or we have done for the last few years.

Now the first rule of travel in Greece is to avoid Olympic Airways. Their flights are usually late, or don't run and most of their staff seemed to be have trained at the Rosa Kleb charm school.

The classic story was that a couple of years ago, I had the cheek to book a gluten-free meal. Did we get it? Of course not! They accused us of lying about the booking and they did the same to the unfortunate passenger who claimed he ordered a vegetarian one. Incidentally neither of us got so much as a drink or cup for coffee or tea!

Now this year, they had a good try at lousing up our holiday, by moving the flight that connected to Skiathos with our Gatwick-EasyJet flight to Athens from a convenient time to very late at night. We thus had eight hours to waste. Luckily we found we could hire a very cheap car from Hertz, using a Nectar card of all things to get a discount. So we had a nice day by the sea at Rafina!

When it came to getting off the island, they of course decided to have a strike the day before. We didn't chance the late night flight to Athens, so took the SeaCat and a coach! It was much more reliable.

EasyJet brought us home two days later. On time!