Come Fly with Me (2010 TV series)

Production

Airlines

• FlyLo is a low cost, no frills airline owned by Omar Baba. Providing service across Europe and selected destinations across the Atlantic and South East Asia, it uses many hidden charges and unorthodox schemes in order to cut costs. These include £1 flights to New York City, upright flatbeds in economy class, and a very small hand baggage allowance. FlyLo also offers budget package holidays that do not go down very well with its passengers.
• Our Lady Air is an Irish low-cost airline, providing low cost routes across Europe. It saves money by flying to airports further away from the actual city centre, such as landing a flight to Barcelona in Ireland. Our Lady Air offers business class; in-flight meals; and no hidden charges.
• Great British Air is a major British flag carrier airline, providing a high class service around the world from the United Kingdom. The airline is renowned for having the finest first class service in the world, with champagne and chocolates on boarding, and well cooked meals on long haul flights. On short haul flights, both first and economy class passengers are given a complimentary small glass of fresh orange juice and a complimentary browse of The Daily Mail.

  Characters

Main characters

• Omar Baba – The double chinned, flamboyantly asinine Arab owner of low-cost airline FlyLo. Baba is parody of the controversial Greek "low cost flying" entrepreneur, Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
• Precious Little – A Jamaican woman in her 50s who professes to be a devout Christian, she is the manager of the airport's coffee kiosk. Precious deliberately causes problems that force the closure of the kiosk, allowing her to take the day off. Her main catchphrase is shouting "Praise the Lord!"
• Moses Beacon – The gushing, effeminate executive passenger liaison officer for Great British Air. Moses also runs a charity called WishWings which supposedly funds holidays for sick children but usually involves Moses simply using the money to enjoy the local gay nightlife, leaving the child in the hotel or even at home. His catch phrase is "if you'll pardon the pun," although there is usually no pun.
• Ian Foot – The pompous, racist and bigoted chief immigration officer, who often comes up with ridiculous reasons not to allow a foreign person into the country.
• Tommy Reid – A young, obtuse Scottish man working at Happy Burger, one of the airport's fast-food eateries. He hopes to work his way up to becoming a pilot, happily unaware that the two jobs are completely unrelated.
• Taaj Manzoor – Taaj is a young British man of Pakistani descent who works as part of the roving ground crew for FlyLo. He sports a shaved head and a chin curtain beard.
• Melody Baines and Keeley St Clair – Two snarky Liverpudlian check in girls for FlyLo. Later on in the series, the girls fight for the position of check-in manager and it is later revealed that Keeley got the job.
• Mickey Minchin and Buster Bell – Mickey and Buster are two shaggy paparazzi who haunt the airport's hallways, constantly messing up in their photo-shooting activities.
• Fearghal O'Farrell – A homosexual air steward for Irish airline Our Lady Air, who leads a destructive campaign in order to become Employee of the Year.
• Ben Roberts and James Stewart – Two British airport customs officers, with rather extreme methods of cataloguing the illegal substances they find, such as sampling drugs.
• Simon and Jackie Trent – A husband and wife pilot team, flying for Great British Air. Jackie constantly brings up the fact that Simon committed adultery with a stewardess.
• Peter and Judith Surname – Holiday makers who have suffered several horrific and surrealistic trips abroad after buying destination packages from FlyLo, dubbing them "The holiday from Hell!". Judith's husband, Peter, is forced to take a subordinate stance to Judith's overbearing personality, and is usually silenced by her. They have had many unfortunate events on their travels, such as a cruise where they contract a disease and then have pirates attack the ship, surviving a plane crash in Peru and having to eat Peter's leg, a holiday to Cyprus to a hotel that hasn't been built yet, and visiting a small African Island where they're kidnapped by a local tribe. Despite the traumatic nature of these experiences, they usually relate them to camera in a calm, deadpan tone, as if they were a collection of minor inconveniences.
• Penny Carter – A very elitist first-class stewardess for Great British Air's long haul flights who despises people who aren't upper class who have first class tickets.
• John and Terry – Father-and-son baggage handlers, who steal from passengers' luggage and are generally less than careful with it. Their name is a reference to controversial footballer John Terry.
• Helen Baker – The check in staff manager for FlyLo who later goes on maternity leave.
• Lisa – Check in staff for FlyLo. She receives several complaints from regular FlyLo passengers, Peter and Judith.

  Additional characters

• Hetty Wolf – A 92-year-old passenger, who pretends to be on her first flight, who scams Moses Beacon into buying her a number of luxury products, including an Yves Saint Laurent scarf and an iPad, and getting her a seat in First Class, before revealing she has flown many times before.
• Sue and Geoff Stott – A couple who are flying to Disneyland to get married.
• Asuka and Nanako – Two Japanese girls who have flown to the airport to see their idol, Martin Clunes.
• Mrs. Mumbutu - Liberian passenger whom Ian accuses of making up her country.
• Ashley – The supervisor who is there to help Tommy serve his first customer at Happy Burger.
• Lee Lodge – Trainee steward for Our Lady Air. He has a girlfriend and is heterosexual, but has homosexual intercourse with Fearghal O'Farrell whilst in a hotel in Dublin
• Captain Stirrick – A drunk airline pilot who causes a commotion.
• David Schwimmer – Stopped by Customs whilst trying to smuggle transsexual porno DVDs into the UK, initially blaming it on fellow Friends star Matt LeBlanc, before then blaming it on Jennifer Aniston.
• Mr Akhmed – A Muslim passenger that orders the halal meal option on the flight to Rome, but instead was given the kosher meal by Fearghal..
• Rupert Grint – Taaj gives Rupert his script for Future Cop 2000 when meeting him whilst he disembarked the plane from Los Angeles. Taaj asks Grint to pass it on to Daniel Radcliffe..
• The Woods Family – A family who turn up for their flight a week early. They stay at the airport for a week, then end up missing their flight.
• Kenneth – A border-patrol worker who instantly recognizes Ian Foot in disguise.
• Steve Downes – A police dog handler whose previous canine companions have mostly ended up in rehab. His current drug sniffer dog is called Bobo.
• George Spires – A Welsh toilet cleaner who is a fan of opera singing, and sings to the people who come in.
• Colin and Gavin – Battle re enactors who are not allowed to take swords to a re-enactment of the Battle of Agincourt; Colin later says he has killed only three people in the trade.
• ’Mr Nuts’ – A passenger of Our Lady Air who suffers from a nut allergy. Fearghal 'saves' him from dying.
• Corinne Oliver – The airport's officer of Special Needs. She is disabled herself and is pushed around by her helper, Bob.
• Bob – Corrine Oliver's wheelchair pusher.
• Flying School Instructor – Employee for the BAC, who interviews Tommy Reid for the chance to become a pilot.
• Ray and Anne Wilkins – Owners of the airport pub. They are known to chase departing customers through the airport in a bid for someone to stay 'more than twelve minutes'.
• Mary O'Mara – Air stewardess for Irish airline Our Lady Air, who wins the Steward Of The Year title in a draw with Fearghal O'Farrell.
• Dale Winton – Winton hosts Our Lady Air's annual Steward of the year competition.
• Mr Dubrowski – The Polish ambassador to the United Kingdom, whom Ian Foot accuses of working illegally in the United Kingdom, because he is Polish.
• George Allen - The baggage handler for Great British Air.

  Episodes

Series One (2010–11)

''Come Fly on the Wall'' (2011)

Cancellation

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