LIPZ From Austria, joined Jun 2006, 1075 posts, RR: 0 Posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 2981 times:
The spanish low cost carrier Vueling is to open its 4th base at Seville airport basing 3 new Airbus 320 by December, as announced today. The new 'hub' in Seville follows current centres in Madrid, Barcelona and Paris. In addition, rumors suggest the 5th base's launch, in Italy, expected to be announced some time in the upcoming months in order to start in 2008. Strong candidates are Rome and Milan.
Vueling is also going to introduce several new domestic and international routes during the next winter season :
*Alicante to Brussels (effective Dec 16)
*Alicante to Rome FCO (effective Dec 15)
*Barcelona to Nice (effective Oct 1)
*Granada to Paris CDG (effective Oct 28)
*Granada to Rome FCO (effective Oct 29)
*Madrid to Bologna (effective Oct 28)
*Madrid to Brussels (effective Oct 28)
*Madrid to Nice (effective Oct 28)
*Malaga to Brussels (effective Oct 28)
*Malaga to Rome FCO (effective Oct 28)
*Seville to Amsterdam (effective Dec 1)
*Seville to Bilbao (effective Dec 1)
*Seville to Brussels (effective Dec 2)
*Seville to Lisbon (effective Dec 1)
*Seville to Milan MXP (effective Dec 2)
*Seville to Venice (effective Dec 1)
Varig md-11 From France, joined Jul 2000, 1575 posts, RR: 9 Reply 1, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 2743 times:
good luck to Vueling
it's an adorable airline!
I flew their first FCO-CDG and they offered everybody a glass of champagne and one of us won a free ticket: they did the lottery while we were cruising
also the crew was so friendly and nice compared to Easyjet jail wardens
AF TW AA NW BA U2 TP UX LH SK AZ MP KL SN VY HV LS SS TK SQ RG
Bullpitt From Spain, joined Mar 2004, 871 posts, RR: 9 Reply 5, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 2415 times:
hi MIgAiR54
Yes it's true they have cash backing them up but remember these companies are willing to risk their money but if they don't start to see some results they will let it die. After all they also have share holders who in the end will ask to justify those losses.
Remember you can have a full flight and still loose money. The way I see it is that their growing but loosing more and more money, I can understand in this business you can't expect a profit the first few years, but at the rate they're increasing their losses I wonder how much patience will the investors have. Remember one major investor has already pulled out ( and by the way cashed in at the expense on minor share holders who have seen the shares go down from 1st Jan by more than 22%) Several top managers have left the company and growth is starting to bite into their reputation as the start to have major delays and other logical problems. Go to google and put quejas vueling and you'll see what I'm talking about.
These are my principles but if you don't like them I have others
Joost From Netherlands, joined Apr 2005, 3128 posts, RR: 4 Reply 6, posted (5 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 2165 times:
Vueling today announced that they will withdraw from CDG-AMS. No surprise at all, I was surprised when they actually started the route: competition from train and car is heavy, and then there still is AF-KL, to defend it's home-turf.
I wonder what will happen with AMS-AGP and AMS-ALC, as both flights were operated in a W-pattern by the CDG aircraft. ALC is still bookable, AGP isn't for now. Does anyone have more information?
Maybe when they open a FCO-base, they can add FCO-AMS and operate W-flights again, or maybe they will reschedule the SVQ-AMS flight.
yes, they do from MAD (4x week) and BCN(3 times a day) but i think both are seasonal routes.
Quoting Acelanzarote (Reply 8): Anyone know why they have so far avoided flying to the Canary Islands?
good question, FR is already flying from GRO to TFN and FUE.
Quoting Joost (Reply 6): they will withdraw from CDG-AMS
very difficult route, i think there are better routes to use this airplanes and slots, some destinations in north Europe and Germany could work very good.
LXM83 From Switzerland, joined May 2005, 569 posts, RR: 5 Reply 12, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1715 times:
Quoting Joost (Reply 6): I wonder what will happen with AMS-AGP and AMS-ALC
As far as I can see on their website, AMS-ALC is still available until the end of the Summer 2007 timetable. AMS-AGP is also available in Winter but now originates AGP-AMS-AGP instead of AMS-AGP-AMS. The timetable seems to fit in between a BCN-AGP and an AGP-BCN flight.
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IMHO they'll be lucky if they make it to the christmas holidays.
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