Posted today on X by SPD_travels https://twitter.com/SPD_travels/status/1755646931622113493?s=20 As seen as it’s now the worst kept secret around the airport, here it is. China Eastern are proposing a Shanghai to Manchester flight. MU781 PVG 0145 MAN 0730 MU782 MAN 0930 PVG 0350+1 Mon/Wed/Fri from ...
Jump to postSaying Virgin have no competition to Tampa rather ignores the long running BA B777 out of LGW. They do not have the TPA market "all tied up" in any way. TBA you have missed the point here. I am talking about from Manchester. All of the one stop options from Manchester are with Virgin/Delt...
Jump to postAgain it illusory Since 2018 (last normal year) 18 frames 340/747 and 330 have left whilst 14 replacement 339/350-1000 have been received There is no really growth ! Isn’t the distinction that despite VS overall is down 2/3 frames because it closed LGW the number of frames available for LHR and MAN...
Jump to postWhat’s the deal with the two CEO’s going to Thai. Are they EOL with VS and permanently moving to Thai or on short term winter lease for W24
Jump to postIt says a lot about the 737’s positioning in the European market. Most full service carriers in Europe operate airbus narrowbodies, and the 737/MAX seems to have been the aircraft of choice for more lowco and leisure carriers ala Ryanair, Norwegian and Jet2 (although they are now slowly moving to a ...
Jump to postJust recently, TUI flew their last passenger 767 flight, ending nearly 40 years of history that started with Britannia TUI still has PH-OYJ (MSN 29384), currently in heavy maintenance in TPE. You may be right about TUI uk. According to some articles OYJ has another year left in service and will be ...
Jump to postSo my initial questions from 10 months ago remain… are they letting these slip because there’s a brand refresh coming, or do they not have the cash to paint them at the moment? I noticed this summer season that TUI U.K. even had at least one 737 flying around in a very faded rendition of the OLD TU...
Jump to postThomas cook UK also had 3 B767-300’s that were in 2-4-2 config. The furthest they flew was canaries and turkey though, they never went long haul
Jump to postHas the stripes novelty worn off already. Ive seen it a few more times now and think it looks ghastly… I have to disagree, I thought it looked terrible in pictures but having been under the landing flight path at FUE for the past 10 days I’d say in person it looks a lot better. The worst is the lea...
Jump to postMost of the 2013 787-8 fleet have this tatty worn out paint look now. The touch up painting from Thomson to TUI hasn't helped. I've been observing them all summer this year in and out of GLA and only the 787-9 fleet look consistent and fresh. Someone on another forum suggested there was some sort o...
Jump to postWhatever happens the second pier will obviously be the one with the A380 compatible gates if T1 is closing to coincide with the opening of the expanded T2. I would imagine the ‘third pier’ from the original plan is what has now become the bussing gate area, and the next pier will be on the site of ...
Jump to postWhatever happens the second pier will obviously be the one with the A380 compatible gates if T1 is closing to coincide with the opening of the expanded T2. I would imagine the ‘third pier’ from the original plan is what has now become the bussing gate area, and the next pier will be on the site of ...
Jump to postWhatever happens the second pier will obviously be the one with the A380 compatible gates if T1 is closing to coincide with the opening of the expanded T2. I would imagine the ‘third pier’ from the original plan is what has now become the bussing gate area, and the next pier will be on the site of p...
Jump to postI see G-MEDJ flew to the US for P2F conversion yesterday. Have all the ex BMI A321’s seen the end of their days with BA now? I know they’ve all been stored in MAD since COVID
Jump to postf4f3a wrote:Tui were supposed to get the max10 weren't they by now ? Maybe the 767s are to fill in capacity difference these larger narrowbodies arrive
Reminds me of the never ending BA rebrands from 1973 to 1984, you could se clearly where "British airways" had been slapped on, surrounded by a big clean rectangle of white fuselage and then later on with "British". Northwest's 1989 rebrand was the same, it was never even comple...
Jump to postLooks like they cannot wait to get the Airbusses to increase their fleet, so they are taking on 4 used 737-800s from SAS Along with a further two from sunwing, so 6 further used 738’s coming over the winter. This may be short term though to cover the phasing out of 733’s at LBA. If they needed any ...
Jump to postThere’s clearly a use for them. As an example most Saturdays in summer both would be flying MAN-PMI within an hour of each other then another 737 before midday. I don’t know the exact numbers but in all economy the 767’s must seat over 300. So around 800 seats to Palma before lunchtime on a Saturday...
Jump to postHas MAN-US ever really been successful for airlines that have invested in that type of operation? I get that EI needs to find a place to allocate aircraft that would otherwise have been focused around SNN and that IAG is looking for lower cost ways to boost its share of the market and compete (at M...
Jump to postThere were rumours that VS were looking to go all airbus, with A350’s A330-300 and A330NEO. This would mean the 787’s leaving with the A330-200 and 747’s. 12 A350’s 10 A330-300’s 14 A330NEO Gives the magic number of 36. Whether or not this has changed as it seems a mammoth task getting rid of 17 787...
Jump to postThomas cook definitely did during a pilot strike a couple of years ago
Jump to postThe management using the virus as an excuse is just pathetic. Just be honest, oh wait... management won’t ever blame themselves even with hefty bonuses. Flybe has collapsed due to the complete and utter mismanagement of the company and incompetent people above. Such a same for all staff who’ve lost...
Jump to postAll the ex monarch cook ones are going to JetBlue. All the Jet2 ones are ex TCX group, 5 ex UK and 2 ex DE Indeed i stand corrected. I thought initially they were taking on two of them. Looking at Jethros it looks like they will be operating 15 A321s this year. 7 owned and 8 chartered in. Titan are...
Jump to postThey could have done with them yesterday. I'm out in Tenerife at the moment and i counted 22 of their fleet at TFS yesterday afternoon. In fact it was pretty much park wherever there is a space there yesterday as at one point there were 52 A/C on the ground around 3pm which is by the far the busies...
Jump to postThe red-silver livery is much more attractive Are they operating both liveries concurrently or are they transitioning from one to the other? They’re operating both but the 7 ex TCX group planes will all be in holidays livery. The silver and red will be a Boeing only livery it seems. There was also ...
Jump to postJet2 do not seem worried about commonalty . It's more about right size and price . They got a great deal on the 800s and the 300s cost very little . This has worked well as they don't seem to utilise their fleet as much as other airlines. A lot of the flying is in the middle of the day which is gre...
Jump to postFor me it will be interesting to see if they pick up more Airbus single aisle or stick with the 737-800 coming from used sources (G-DRTZ and DRTM are due to join the fleet) and go with two fleets. This summer they will have 7 737-300s left (of various parentage) and 7 757-200s left and from what I'...
Jump to postThey work for a number of reasons. As an airline their service is exemplary. Their ageing second hand aircraft are in fantastic condition and are well looked after, and very rarely go wrong. And they have introduced the right new types at the right times, I.e 738’s to upgauge from the 733’s and to e...
Jump to postjuliuswong wrote:danipawa wrote:2 ex Thomas cook going to convertion too..
That would be MSN 1238 G-DHJH, close to 20 years young. Can't find the other one.
5 of the 7 A321’s Jet2 are getting are from TCX. A couple are going to Transat for the winter before joining Jet2 prior to summer 20. The remaining 2 are ex Condor machines.
http://www.jethros.org.uk/fleets/fleet_ ... s/jet2.htm
'Virgin Connect' .... connect to which VS flights exactly? They have 5 destinations from Heathrow: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, New Quay, Guernsey and Isle of Man. Nice destinations, all of them, but even together they are hardly likely to be huge feeders for VS' LHR operation. Plus, BE operate out of T2, ...
Jump to postIn all fairness, it’s a rarity to see the like of this on that scale. TCX also inadvertently helped the situation having so many Avion and smartlynx frames operating for them throughout the summer, meaning a sizeable part of the re-pat fleet was available to go. If that number was extra TCX planes I...
Jump to postAccording to Jethros.org.uk Airbus G-VYGL has had the lease date extended until November 2025 and G-VYGM until November 2022. Both still being leased from Air Tankers as before. With G-VYGK to join them next summer, but from what I can tell there is no confirmation yet as to whether this is summer ...
Jump to postIn the aftermath of the Thomas Cook collapse, TUI have now announced an extra Two Million Seats from their UK airports to destinations including Turkey, Greece, Balearics, Canaries, Egypt, Mexico and Florida. As well as committing to employing over 300 TCX Flight Deck and Cabin Crew. http://travelw...
Jump to postVS are prime candidates for the TCX* series A332’s at around 10-11 years old. They are perfect aircraft to expand the MAN ops and fill some of the long haul void left by TCX. Why on earth would they want to add three more oddballs to an existing fleet of just four other temporary oddballs which wil...
Jump to postFrom a list I have seen, it looks like the MT/TCX fleet are currently located at MAN,LGW,GLA,BHX,BRS,NCL (in descending order of number of aircraft there). It looks like none got stuck outside the UK. There is only OY-VKF which was doing MT ops out of MAN all summer which is parked up remote at JFK...
Jump to postThere are a lot of aircraft operating under Titan callsigns in the repatriation operation Privilege Nouvelair Avion Smartlynx GetJet DAT And more Is this the CAA passing the hassle of organising the majority of the repatriation to Titan and paying them to do so? Why couldn’t they just go to the airl...
Jump to postVS are prime candidates for the TCX* series A332’s at around 10-11 years old. They are perfect aircraft to expand the MAN ops and fill some of the long haul void left by TCX. The sharklet fitted A321 of which there are 15 will be in demand and go very quickly especially with the MAX issues. The rema...
Jump to postA380 of HiFly Malta, 9H-MIP will be used tonight to repatriate folks stranded in Dalaman, Turkey. I think that is going to be one busy A380 in the next two weeks ! HFM864P due out from Beja to Dalaman at 1615Z. Also A343 9H-SOL is involved as well, just dep Beja a few mins ago also to Dalaman, as H...
Jump to postBoston757 wrote:Do you think any US airlines will morning pick up any of their MAN slots.
The collapse will pushed 116 aircraft into the used aircraft market. Breakdown would be, according to planespotters.net: 16 A320 57 A321 12 A330 15 B757 16 B767 But lot of those ac are very old, so might be end like scrapp...let see who can get those B753, B767 can get second life as Freigthers Act...
Jump to postTUI switching in some 763ER's for 757;s on 3 routes this winter https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/286392/tui-airways-adds-new-boeing-767-manchester-routes-in-w19/ Boa Vista - 2 weekly Ilha Do Sal - 2 weekly Salzburg - 1 of 2 weekly They must be keeping hold of the two remaining UK r...
Jump to postDoes anyone know why Virgin has the 787, A350 and A330? You'd think a single fleet type would be more economical, but VS has always liked to have both Airbus and Boeing in the fleet. On the face of it, it's down to matching required range with required seating capacity. The 787 is too much range fo...
Jump to postHow about Virgin extend their reach down to Aruba, such a nice island. Virgin Holidays should have little problem selling that package. Virgin holidays offer Aruba, but it’s on BA and AA flights. If they are buying seats on the competition it shows they obviously don’t see enough demand to fly thei...
Jump to postIt seems to me they are completely re-shuffling in advance of the 744's leaving the fleet. It seems they want MAN all VS metal, so a mix of 330's and 350's will be up at MAN once the 744's go. 2 350's doing MCO and JFK with the remainder on A330-2/3 and potentially in the future neos. Thus leaving ...
Jump to postIt seems to me they are completely re-shuffling in advance of the 744's leaving the fleet. It seems they want MAN all VS metal, so a mix of 330's and 350's will be up at MAN once the 744's go. 2 350's doing MCO and JFK with the remainder on A330-2/3 and potentially in the future neos. Thus leaving L...
Jump to postGoing by the quantities, I assume these will replace the A332/333's like-for-like. That was my interpretation as well, albeit there is specific reference to “expansion” in the airbus press release. I think you could interpret this in one of two ways, either in relation to the 6 options, or because ...
Jump to postI think it would be better long term for it to be sold in bits. LH will succeed with DE long haul VS will succeed with MT long haul EZY will succeed with any of or all three short haul Im not sure Jet2 would be interested purely from a fleet perspective. They would be gaining A321's, and whilst ok o...
Jump to post[*] I hope so, either that or reintroducing the MAN-LGW flight Now that would be a surprise. The difference being it would actually be more of a feeder flight for MAN now than the other way round. VS at LGW over the past 2 years have, dropped CUN, moved LAS to LHR, reduced capacity on some routes to...
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