Zero ambition to open Pakistan, no presence in market or brand awareness. It's all about US holidays. BA? W route such as: LGW-ISB-MAN-ISB-LGW? Would cost a fortune having crews in hotels at both ends. Zero need for crew to hotel in Manchester , just put them along with many other local living BA c...
Jump to postDo you really understand hub and spoke economics though because your posts seem to show you don’t? It doesn’t mean all passengers are going to board at LBA it means some passengers can board there a they are grouped with passengers from other locations to fill at least a daily flight. Obviously onc...
Jump to post3AWW Manchester is the third most visited city the UK when combined with Liverpool the region Has more visitors than Scotland and Northern Ireland doesn’t even register in the top twenty.Now true much is domestic and internationally Visit England fail missably on promoting the region effectively You...
Jump to postAlso Jordan has a lot of group tours abd with the reduced services from most international airlines to that area ofvthe Middke East RJ probably getting incentives from the Jordanian government as tourism is key pillar to the economy. In addition Jordan being the second gateway for aid to Gaza and S...
Jump to postJerseyFlyer wrote:Write-offs?
Maybe Virgin Holidays should expand the locations they sell to in order to create demand on the slots they have access to. Eg Cairo which is still available as a BMI remedy. The Heathrow slots are used or leased out for easy money . With the current fleet size they use the majority with support fro...
Jump to post3AWM wrote:I’d also suggest Phuket at LHR which may be looked on favourably for a slot application due to being unserved.
Maybe Virgin Holidays should expand the locations they sell to in order to create demand on the slots they have access to. Eg Cairo which is still available as a BMI remedy. I believe Cairo may have been lifted by EasyJet although the routing is Giza- Luton; as Cairo International is heavily conges...
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Really it wouldn’t make any commercial sense for Virgin to do that. Maybe they sshould in invest in educating travel agents about the availability of one stop routes through ATL and JFK in the same way they sell eastbound routes through DXB, The thing is for many routes now that doesn’t offer anyth...
Jump to postSurely the problem is that all new routes they try are only viable in the summer, and even then there isn’t enough demand for daily services. The distinction between Virgin and all of the carriers you list (I might also include BA) is that they all transit passengers through a single hub. I actuall...
Jump to postFarnborough has never been much of a civil airliner event .
Its about avionics, supply chain, and an aweful lot of military equipment. Its not even open to the public these days
MAN-ORD is no better. ORD being a Star and Oneworld hub will always get connecting passengers on that end. For VS, MAN-ORD is a O&D route with no connections on either end, will always struggle. Chicago has been largely dehubbed internationally by ALL the US carriers and Team have nothing at al...
Jump to postTBF Vegas has a big conference scene and I have travelled there many times on business, however these events nearly always take place in the winter and although I check availability at MAN suitable flights have not yet been on sale so I usually end up transiting through AMS. May be you should add.....
Jump to postLet's face it 3 days per week over summer with no demand is going to cause anyone at IAG any sleepless nights. Isn't the difficulty at MAN for Virgin that they do OK at selling leisure routes like Disney, Vegas and weekend breaks in New York but they aren't able to offer any consisent dailiy servic...
Jump to postAs I say, I think the most logical expansion plan for MAN with an extra based unit would be: Summer - 3x LAX, 2x TPA Winter - 2x LAX, 3x DEL Tampa is a low risk gamble, it's already proven to work from LHR, MAN is the second largest European market to Florida IIRC, MAN-MCO is 12 weekly, instead of ...
Jump to postTried and dropped before. ORD-LHR already has endless capacity and is Star and One World dominated. What about MAN-ORD then? MAN-ORD is no better. ORD being a Star and Oneworld hub will always get connecting passengers on that end. For VS, MAN-ORD is a O&D route with no connections on either en...
Jump to postApologies for being late to the party in response to some of these posts... Likewise people in the London area also go to Tenerife, they just don't do so in anything like the kind of number they do from MAN and only a handful of them will fly there from Heathrow.. What you would also need to consid...
Jump to postI am led to believe a OW lounge may be opened at MAN, EUK would likely use this. More (rumoured) expansion coming though. Can’t see that any time soon. Huge queue of other worldwide ports would be way above any investment at MAN. I doubt EI or BA would fund it. My only observation is that this is a...
Jump to post@rutankrd Although there is some interesting stuff here about the Leeds runway I don’t see it as something that couldn’t be corrected without the right investment. It’s not true that Manchester competes with Düsseldorf or Vienna et al as there is virtually no chance of passengers travelling from th...
Jump to postI agree with you that SQ are very disciplined at maintaining fares which is why they haven’t increased frequency to daily. Although LGW doesn’t compete with MAN SQ clearly see more growth potential there and at Heathrow or they wouldn’t be seeking to add services. Don’t have an interest in any spec...
Jump to postUntil they reach full post COVID levels it’s not going to be possible to determine what the correct market fares are butinability to fill SQ flights as I have previously stated is either linked to lack of overall demand (MAN-SIN) or the availability of a lot of cheaper but viable alternatives. I wo...
Jump to postUntil they reach full post COVID levels it’s not going to be possible to determine what the correct market fares are butinability to fill SQ flights as I have previously stated is either linked to lack of overall demand (MAN-SIN) or the availability of a lot of cheaper but viable alternatives. I wo...
Jump to postThe number of gulf.carriers at MAN is clearly hurting yields. Some of the lesser known carriers like Gulf Air and Kuwait might find better fares at LBA, particularly if they are flying on smaller frames. Average paid fare to Middle East and Asia, year to date MAN - £778 LBA - £722 Based on fare bas...
Jump to postWow, I am shocked to see DL exit LAX-LHR. I get there’s too much capacity, but as others have mentioned, that is an extremely important business market that I am shocked they don’t want to have their metal on. Where will that slot go? I thought the 3rd new ATL-LHR frequency was pulled from DTW but ...
Jump to postI don’t want to go into the details because I don’t know the history of those services but at least one of those services are new. I’ve invited you to give an idea of how long SQ have continuously served those airports but you have dodged that question and essentially just restated what you put in ...
Jump to postWhat exactly is different? Curious to know. TIA! 7481003 7481021 I dare you to spot the bottom wavy red line a tad thicker and lacking the 3d gradient effect; however from a distance other the pedants would anyone ever notice - answer’s on a post card I’m pretty sure the top ribbon is also thicker ...
Jump to post[photoid][/photoid][photoid][/photoid] Will G-ZBJA be repainted as well? I’m curious to see how the B787’s will look in BA’s in-house livery design, as the tail is different than on the Boeing-painted frames. I would think after the refurb it would go to DUB for repaint. And yes the Boeing 777 tail ...
Jump to postA slightly different take on the annual statistics for 2023: Top 27 destinations by passenger numbers. https://i.ibb.co/n0Dc54N/Screenshot-1988.png Striking that AFKL terminals combined are the number one 1,6 million journeys (Now true Easy compete on both) but the absolutely massive ! Evidence whe...
Jump to postWhat still surprise me is the fact, that currently no US-airline is serving MAN after the lifting of the COVID19-restriction. That this NATL-gab is filled by Virgin and Aer Lingus, which each build up a small hub, shows that there is a certain demand. Is there any specific reason for that? This is ...
Jump to postWesterwaelder wrote:.BaronHamstead wrote:Virgin have also purchased 10 weekly slots from KLM (5 Deps and 5 Arrivals)
They have also received a daily pair of remedy slots from BA. (1 arrival 1 departure)
Assuming the remedy slot is route(s) specific? Any guesses?
Westerwaelder wrote:BaronHamstead wrote:Virgin have also purchased 10 weekly slots from KLM (5 Deps and 5 Arrivals)
They have also received a daily pair of remedy slots from BA. (1 arrival 1 departure)
Assuming the remedy slot is route(s) specific? Any guesses?
A bit surprising that FR has the rights to operate these flights? EU and Morocco have a fully open sky treaty and have had for some years Also a wider customs union short of single market membership Doesn’t stretch to Brexit Britain and flights from the UK must be by EasyJet or Ryanair UK but these...
Jump to postA bit surprising that FR has the rights to operate these flights? EU and Morocco have a fully open sky treaty and have had for some years Also a wider customs union short of single market membership Doesn’t stretch to Brexit Britain and flights from the UK must be by EasyJet or Ryanair UK but these...
Jump to postI really don't understand why Morocco would want a HSR line at 320 km/h between Agadir and Marrakech. It's hilly/mountainous terrain, and Agadir is a beach resort - a normal 120 km/h rail line should be more than enough. If the Chinese want to throw money at it especially in Africa and for politica...
Jump to postI really don't understand why Morocco would want a HSR line at 320 km/h between Agadir and Marrakech. It's hilly/mountainous terrain, and Agadir is a beach resort - a normal 120 km/h rail line should be more than enough. If the Chinese want to throw money at it especially in Africa and for politica...
Jump to postAnother factor is that there are trains, even high-speed ones. Marrakesh to Tangiers is a little over five hours, with seven trains daily and a fare starting under 20€. That is going to limit the market and the yield. True is that; those ONCF duplex TGV variants make the UK network sort of pedestri...
Jump to postSimply a matter of RAM using the tried a tested Hub and spoke model I suppose Go back to the sixties and seventies RAM certainly routed more flights to Europe via Tangiers than they do today. Air Arabia fly from Tangiers to Agadir however much of the domestic traffic “may” be marine related in one w...
Jump to postGulf Air isn't really tapping into the mass connecting market, If they were, I would have expected them to have pitched in at a frequency of a minimum 4 weekly when they relaunched in 2022 (relaunch is not exactly the right word as they had to go AUH-AMS-MAN back in the early 1990s as BAH-MAN wasn'...
Jump to postGulf Air isn't really tapping into the mass connecting market, If they were, I would have expected them to have pitched in at a frequency of a minimum 4 weekly when they relaunched in 2022 (relaunch is not exactly the right word as they had to go AUH-AMS-MAN back in the early 1990s as BAH-MAN wasn'...
Jump to postIcelandair doesn’t need to anything to damage Play. Play are a company thats achieved just one months operating profit in its history They have bugger all money, crap credit and gearing quite disturbing. Whilst the public face PR statements remain positive with a stated aim to be profitable this yea...
Jump to postIrishAyes wrote:seriously, Air Peace? they really need to let this thing go….
Juneyao is a privately owned Chinese airline with bases at both Shanghai airports and Najing. It's longhaul fleet currently consists of 7 789s with another 3 on firm order. Two of which are currently in storage awaiting rework. The narrowbody per airfleets consists of 30 A320ceos, 19 A320neos, 27 A...
Jump to postAn added complication in Nigeria that many members may not be aware of - Many supposedly private airlines in Nigeria post 2000 are actually quasi-owned to various percentages by a National Fund called AMICON or something on the lines of something similar done in Islamic countries like Malaysia and ...
Jump to postWell demanding Heathrow didn't work. They're going to Gatwick. https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/fg-in-talks-with-uk-on-air-peace-lagos-london-flight/%3famp So the entire story could be filtered to UK Transport authorities raising the middle finger at the Nigerians cash for access approach a...
Jump to postflex takeoff which is a reduced thrust setting to promote efficiency and reduce engine wear. I believe overall fuel consumption may actually suffer due to longer roll, but cutting down on peak engine temperature - hence wear - outweigh fuel (which is not a lot of fuel actually) Similar generation 7...
Jump to postSimple answer see A330 especially later HGW versions, A340-600 and current A338/339 all effectively answer your question
The 340-200 and 340-300 are perfectly fine and competitors of similar generation 772 models.
Much more likely Lufthansa cargo than any of the self loading freight divisions. It remains a desperately impoverished nation in the main , whilst there is a bourgeoning middle class it’s based off what can only be considered bonded labour and not a little corruption and nepotism . Producing throw a...
Jump to postI feel like ITA becoming majority owned by LH Group is pretty likely, and there are possibly some benefits from ITA being in the Star Alliance. Depends who you ask. I live in London... when I fly to Italy I go nonstop - Star has little or no presence on UK-Italy routes so if ITA becomes more compet...
Jump to postTC957 wrote:AirBourne wrote:Will any VS aircraft be painted into the Skyteam livery?
Good question. I always understood that alliance members were required to have one of their fleet in the alliance livery.