According to Emirates President Tim Clark, demand is coming back quickly with the only challenge of adding capacity being not having enough staff: https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2022/03/29/emirates-makes-enormous-swing-from-annual-loss-to-near-profitability-tim-clark/ Plenty of pilots fro...
Jump to postBucharest is the largest growing to 12 aircraft in a few months.
Jump to postyep. also from Venice to Sharm. The Egypt flights are a competition for Easyjet. If Ryanair gonna fly to Egypt in the near term? — Algeria wants to become a tourist destination. But there is a high visa fee. An e-visa is planned but no visa on arrival. That's not the way to grow tourism! — Josef Va...
Jump to postSo jet2 is soon to be an airbus airline, another European Boeing customer Boeing has lost
Jump to postOperating loss of $300 million is actually impressive if you think about it. They have minimal O&D demand meaning all revenue they got came from transfers and probably cargo. Really impressive result. Was just about to say that actually a operating lost of 300 million is pretty incredible. That...
Jump to postIt’s gonna get confusing in Ukraine with Buzz, Bees and Wizz.
Jump to postARN seems the new Vienna in Northern Europe. They only lack Wizz before the blood battle is served. Norwegian is probably the one which should accelerate the most if they don't want to loose their second/third most important market overseas. If ARN has reduced airport fees Wizz will enter the marke...
Jump to postalright. the more I think about it, the more could a merger/take-over with Easyjet make sense. Wizz being strong between Eastern and Western Europe. Easyjet having a quite big presence intra Central and Western Europe. Wizz wants to grow inside Western Europe anyway. And they want to have 500 plane...
Jump to postThen when are the other A321neo’s ordered.
Jump to postThey have already been operating the 321neo for a year I’m confused?
Jump to postWhy are easy cramping capacity when their rivals are expanding? Have they forgotten that their competition is with Ryanair and Wizz, not chasing Lufthansa and IAG business pax could help them.
Jump to postSurely Ryanair need the MAX 10. They are going into a future of more slot restricted airports with only room to grow is to up gauge aircraft, especially when their competitors in easyJet and especially wizz who are cramming 239 seats into their tubes. W6 and FR are very close in terms of unit cost I...
Jump to postDoes anyone know much about the carrier bluebird Nordic? They ordered 25 737 P2F, quite a lot what is their business model do you think they will succeed?
Jump to postOh, I really have missed you guys. Soooooo, work has been going gangbusters lately. I've honestly taken my eye off the ball of our much loved, back ramp cargo fleet. Let me just get this straight though... 1: Potential of new "Chinese" Mad Dog freighters. How on earth do you mess up dispa...
Jump to postRyanair offers tickets from Germany to Tel Aviv for 13€. Even though the German APD for this route is 32€ already. https://www.kiwi.com/ee/search/results/germany/tbilisi-georgia,eilat-israel,tel-aviv-israel,yerevan-armenia,amman-jordan,aqaba-jordan/anytime/no-return?airlinesList=FR&multicity_re...
Jump to postI simply do not see wizz at 500 aircraft, despite all of their efficient and competitive flying, there is simply no room in today’s market for them. The biggest problem for W6 growth and even they are complaining about it is airport capacity, Wizz is the new entrant to the market, the Western Europe...
Jump to postWizz Air to expand its network from BEG this December. They will launch BCN, HHN, BLL and VXO. Interestingly enough all flights will be operated by the A320. Either Wizz Air will downgrade one of their two A321 or they will be adding a third plane to their Belgrade base. All flights are already in ...
Jump to postThe A220 is one of the best decisions BT made, for there smaller market they could have easily went with the 737NG and MAX or the A320 family which is standard for most smaller national carriers, they would have had more empty seats to fill and would have to raise prices to compensate for it, a LCC...
Jump to posti just checked KTW<>DTM for November and December. It's flown 3-4 times daily altogether by Ryanair and Wizz. Prices are down to 8€ and may get lower :D Good for a day trip in Dortmund, Katowice, Krakow. Especially for the Christmas market. What a crazy route. My estimate about the demand on this r...
Jump to postThe A220 is one of the best decisions BT made, for there smaller market they could have easily went with the 737NG and MAX or the A320 family which is standard for most smaller national carriers, they would have had more empty seats to fill and would have to raise prices to compensate for it, a LCC ...
Jump to postWizz Air will launch Plovdiv to Dortmund, Luton and Memmingen from November. It looks like this winter will be the busiest ever for Plovdiv after the recent Ryanair Dublin announcement (in addition to Ryanair’s Stansted route). Plovdiv has previously had a few other Ryanair routes, which didn’t las...
Jump to postIn other places, due to staff shortage, Wizz uses wet leases. https://aviation.direct/en/aura-airlines-hilft-bei-wizz-air-aus I was on a italian domestic flight operated by Air Horizont, with a decrepit 737-400. The flight was fully sold, which meant that there were about 10 pax overbooked as that ...
Jump to postI am not saying there aren't any opportunities, there are... absolutely. All I am saying is that growing too fast can come with its own risk. After all, they wouldn't be the first carrier to suffer from expanding way too fast. I think it all depends how well their gambles pay off. They gambled on N...
Jump to postPersonally I am shocked about Riga ... I understand they will still serve several destinations but they have been an important player there for many years back. I guess there is a party at BT HQ today as they can relax a little bit. Wizz have been a fairly insignificant player with 6% or so of RIX ...
Jump to postWhen MOL speaks about Wizz having an "East European plane maintenance", people may get ideas quickly. People havn't heard about the LH maintenance because there was no reason to worry about. One of Ryanair’s biggest maintenance centres is in Kaunas, Lithuania I doubt they would accuse wiz...
Jump to postI think there will be benefits for vaccinated people in more and more countries, including for international travels. So incentivised, more people gonna take the vaccines. — Yeah Tirana has now 35 Wizz destinations including Abu Dhabi. I remember there was a surge after the Ernest airline was gone....
Jump to postI understand that TIA was known to have high airport fees and that is why it was avoided by the LCC’s. after COVID has a new operator arrived or is the existing one introduced a incentive scheme
Jump to postI’m pretty sure they stated that the Vilnius base will be all 320. On a cost basis I believe that wizz with the 321 and especially the 321neo is the cheapest airline in Europe in terms of CASK. However when we look at a base like Vilnius which is all A320 could be competing against Ryanair’s 737. On...
Jump to postThey also based another aircraft in vilnius from December. It will be their 3rd aircraft in Vilnius but if I remember a while ago they used to have 3 aircraft. New routes to Reykjavik and Yerevan, increasing Luton, Dortmund and Oslo. If they are cutting some places and adding new then I just think t...
Jump to postOn their product brochure they are advertising both 300 and 200 variants, which is a key advantage allowing conversions from both feed stocks, while the 767 is limited I believe to only the -300 version mainly for conversion. IAI will convert a 767-200. The 12 767-200s that ATI and ABX operate for ...
Jump to postThe line at Dresden was supposed to do 12-14 conversions a year as I remember, but the first few years they never got close to hitting capacity. 20 is a huge order for this line. Giving it some more thought, ATSG is highly-opportunistic. They always reserve a lot of slots at IAI, who is happy to gi...
Jump to postYou must remember that easyJet is a big player in UK regional especially from its big city bases, BA aswell is well connected from LHR to other cities. The rest is for smaller players to take.
Jump to postI’m surprised Ryanair or Ryanair group does not have a dedicated thread like other airlines, especially during this moment when it is most active airline in Europe. Are Ryanair news so interesting? Ryanair is mostly covered in the news regarding low worker's rights. There is no vision. They don't w...
Jump to postJet2 is known to look after their aircraft and take it right to end of its service life.
Jump to postIt seems Qatar has brought back its A330 aircraft back into service, any ideas or suggestions why are these aircraft being operated as cargo aircraft?
Jump to postI’m surprised Ryanair or Ryanair group does not have a dedicated thread like other airlines, especially during this moment when it is most active airline in Europe.
Jump to postDid jet2 take some a321’s from Thomas cook? If so maybe they were happy with the aircraft and it’s performance and decided to contact airbus directly for more.
Jump to postWizz has just announced two new summer seasonal routes from CWL/DSA to Jersey (JER). Both operated by a DSA-based A321. Both routes were cancelled quietly even before the first flight (along with the London-Gibraltar route until the end of August). I think they dropped these routes this summer to c...
Jump to postSurprised with FCO over CIA, o thought the latter would be cheaper?
Jump to postEspecially when a lot of leisure traffic is more focused on the coast than zagreb
Jump to postI thought Zagreb was known for high fees, I guess C19 made them change their mind.
Jump to postThey just announced another route, Dortmund to Palma de Mallorca. Clearly aiming at German holiday makers, Mallorca is a very popular holiday destination in Germany. It was only just a few years ago they were known as "the eastern European airline", with no bases in Western Europe. Look a...
Jump to postWizz shares had been performing very well recently so probably not a bad time to sell. I wonder if this increases or decreases the chance of a potential takeover? Crazy how highly priced they are even there COO and CEO sold shares in them, they are above pre pandemic levels while burning cash and t...
Jump to postIts a sad, but inevitable day for Norwegian. They make no mention of future fleet types, one would imagine it will be built around the 737-800. Is there nay information on when Norway and EASA might clear the MAX for service? Yes weak Norwegian sells there valuable LGW slots to go set up shop next ...
Jump to postThe UAE have there vaccination plan going very well, with such a small population if they keep this rate by may the whole nation will be immunised, and probably by March hit the critical 60% mass for deceleration of spread
Jump to postYes weak Norwegian sells there valuable LGW slots to go set up shop next to the most fierce competitor in Europe at STN.
Jump to postWhat benefit do they see in these temporary routes? also any news about their Gatwick expansion they were complaining about slot squatting and restrictions however at the same time easyJet managed to secure more slots and base more aircraft, with Norwegian dead, that looks like a significant player ...
Jump to postI don't think they have a problem with cash in there report released last week they said they had 1.5 billion euros. Which is still healthy for an airline like wizz. They are cutting back on any routes than are unprofitable for wizz, except the ones in Norway which their primary focus is to kill Nor...
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