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hibtastic wrote:Easyjet have added Seville and Jersey to their route offerings from EDI from S18. Both 2x weekly I think.
BA are offering a new 1 x weekly service to Florence from EDI.
QR will upgauge the DOH-EDI route from 788 to A359 in S18 most likely to boost J and Cargo capacity.
bergkampsticket wrote:hibtastic wrote:
QR will upgauge the DOH-EDI route from 788 to A359 in S18 most likely to boost J and Cargo capacity.
Have the loads on the EDI route held up since the political situation in Qatar?
factsonly wrote:Due to slot constrains at AMS and more profiable slot use to other destinations, KLM are reducing S18 frequencies to the Northern UK:
- INV from 2x to 1x daily - except July + August 2x daily.
- MME from 3x to 2x in July & August
- NCL from 5x to 4x daily
- EDI from 6x to 5x daily - except July + August 6x daily
- GLA from 4x to 3x daily - except Sat & Sun + July & August 4x daily
These freed slots will be used by KLM to operate:
- AMS-NTE = new route 3x daily
- AMS-LCY from 7x to 8x daily.
- AMS-HEL from 3x to 4x daily
- AMS-GDN from 1x to 2x daily
factsonly wrote:Due to slot constrains at AMS and more profiable slot use to other destinations, KLM are reducing S18 frequencies to the Northern UK:
- INV from 2x to 1x daily - except July + August 2x daily.
- MME from 3x to 2x in July & August
- NCL from 5x to 4x daily
- EDI from 6x to 5x daily - except July + August 6x daily
- GLA from 4x to 3x daily - except Sat & Sun + July & August 4x daily
These freed slots will be used by KLM to operate:
- AMS-NTE = new route 3x daily
- AMS-LCY from 7x to 8x daily.
- AMS-HEL from 3x to 4x daily
- AMS-GDN from 1x to 2x daily
Jerry123 wrote:Qatar Airways have released flights from November 2018 onwards for Cardiff Airport.
Flights will be 5 weekly on Monday's, Tuesday's, Thursday's, Friday's and Saturday's.
Monday's and Friday's 07.30-12.10 DOH-CWL CWL-DOH 14.40-00.40
Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's 01.05-05.45 DOH-CWL CWL-DOH 07.05-17.05
Arion640 wrote:Jerry123 wrote:Qatar Airways have released flights from November 2018 onwards for Cardiff Airport.
Flights will be 5 weekly on Monday's, Tuesday's, Thursday's, Friday's and Saturday's.
Monday's and Friday's 07.30-12.10 DOH-CWL CWL-DOH 14.40-00.40
Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's 01.05-05.45 DOH-CWL CWL-DOH 07.05-17.05
Is this down from daily?
trent900 wrote:Regarding TUIs decision to pull long haul flights from STN.
Has anyone heard any reasoning behind this? They did seem popular.
D.
Btblue wrote:trent900 wrote:Regarding TUIs decision to pull long haul flights from STN.
Has anyone heard any reasoning behind this? They did seem popular.
D.
Maybe it has something to do with Emirates starting a daily (?) service this coming June. Better to focus on Gatwick where they, TUI are an established player (good old Britannia Airways).
Will be interesting to see if the likes if Qatar Airways offer a service from STN, too.
Btblue wrote:trent900 wrote:Regarding TUIs decision to pull long haul flights from STN.
Has anyone heard any reasoning behind this? They did seem popular.
D.
Maybe it has something to do with Emirates starting a daily (?) service this coming June. Better to focus on Gatwick where they, TUI are an established player (good old Britannia Airways).
Will be interesting to see if the likes if Qatar Airways offer a service from STN, too.
Cunard wrote:Btblue wrote:trent900 wrote:Regarding TUIs decision to pull long haul flights from STN.
Has anyone heard any reasoning behind this? They did seem popular.
D.
Maybe it has something to do with Emirates starting a daily (?) service this coming June. Better to focus on Gatwick where they, TUI are an established player (good old Britannia Airways).
Will be interesting to see if the likes if Qatar Airways offer a service from STN, too.
Why would an impending start of EK to DXB have any effect on TUI which is a inclusive holiday company that previously flew long haul flights from STN to the holiday destinations of Cancun, Las Vegas, Montego Bay and Sanford?
TUI officially announced that they were not going to offer long haul from STN in May 2017 and that they would concentrate their London long haul operations at LGW.
EK announced in December 2017 that they intended flying from DXB to STN that's 7 months difference between the EK announcement and the TUI press release in May 2017.
TUI and Thomas Cook for that matter are two totally different operations to EK and both cater for a total different market and neither would overlap or compete in any way so no comparison whatsoever.
That doesn't mean that they won't return at some point but Thomas Cook were already active and established in those markets so TUI didn't have a large share of the business to warrant the continuation of their long haul operation at STN.
With regards to Qatar I was personally expecting them to announce STN before the EK announcement but after Qatar had recently obtained their seventh daily slot at LHR I knew it wasn't time for STN but I am very happy with the fact that EK are going to 'finally and well overdue' fly from DXB to STN.
As I mentioned in my earlier post I can imagine that MAG and STN will be looking towards the east for further long haul expansion with the hope of obtaining a link to China with one of the Chinese carriers and possibly Scoot from Singapore if they eventually expand further into Europe after recently announcing TXL.
Arion640 wrote:Depending on EK's success Qatar are bound to follow them into STN within 3 years. I also think the catalyst to starting STN was to get the new F suites into their busiest and most important market as quickly as possible.
Talking of UK secondary airports, can EK get the 787-10 into Bristol? I think it may be too long even though the -9 goes to Bristol with TUI.
Jerry123 wrote:Arion640 wrote:Depending on EK's success Qatar are bound to follow them into STN within 3 years. I also think the catalyst to starting STN was to get the new F suites into their busiest and most important market as quickly as possible.
Talking of UK secondary airports, can EK get the 787-10 into Bristol? I think it may be too long even though the -9 goes to Bristol with TUI.
TUI have never used the 787 9 into BRS it's always the 787 8. I doubt very much EK will use the 787 10 as i doubt it could operate from BRS and there is a rival service starting at CWL. Also with BRS there is no runway extension mentioned in the Master plan consultation either.
Arion640 wrote:Jerry123 wrote:Arion640 wrote:Depending on EK's success Qatar are bound to follow them into STN within 3 years. I also think the catalyst to starting STN was to get the new F suites into their busiest and most important market as quickly as possible.
Talking of UK secondary airports, can EK get the 787-10 into Bristol? I think it may be too long even though the -9 goes to Bristol with TUI.
TUI have never used the 787 9 into BRS it's always the 787 8. I doubt very much EK will use the 787 10 as i doubt it could operate from BRS and there is a rival service starting at CWL. Also with BRS there is no runway extension mentioned in the Master plan consultation either.
Well that pretty much answers the question if TOM can't get the -9 into BRS like I previously thought.
If the runway did get extended it wouldn't stop EK operating to BRS even with QR at CWL. Anyhow looks like QR have the monopoly for the time being.
Cunard wrote:Arion640 wrote:Jerry123 wrote:TUI have never used the 787 9 into BRS it's always the 787 8. I doubt very much EK will use the 787 10 as i doubt it could operate from BRS and there is a rival service starting at CWL. Also with BRS there is no runway extension mentioned in the Master plan consultation either.
Well that pretty much answers the question if TOM can't get the -9 into BRS like I previously thought.
If the runway did get extended it wouldn't stop EK operating to BRS even with QR at CWL. Anyhow looks like QR have the monopoly for the time being.
I don't think that there is any possibility to lengthen the runway at BRS due to it's altitude and geography and the fact that it slopes at one end of the runway.
Arion640 wrote:Cunard wrote:Arion640 wrote:
Well that pretty much answers the question if TOM can't get the -9 into BRS like I previously thought.
If the runway did get extended it wouldn't stop EK operating to BRS even with QR at CWL. Anyhow looks like QR have the monopoly for the time being.
I don't think that there is any possibility to lengthen the runway at BRS due to it's altitude and geography and the fact that it slopes at one end of the runway.
I thought it would be possible to extend it out into the common. The road however would have to be re routed.
Obviously the other end which overlooks the sea isn't going to happen.
by738 wrote:How many departures were there to Bridgetown? (presumably even one extra could give a ridiculous percentage rise?)
CrawleyBen wrote:An article has appeared on the ch-aviation website that suggests Ryanair might consider starting flights from the currently closed Manston Airport in Kent if the site ever re-opens as an operational airport again. KLM also mentioned within said article - link below for anyone whose interested.
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news ... it-reopens
Mods - wasn't sure this warranted own thread so hope posting here is ok?
Ben
CrawleyBen wrote:An article has appeared on the ch-aviation website that suggests Ryanair might consider starting flights from the currently closed Manston Airport in Kent if the site ever re-opens as an operational airport again. KLM also mentioned within said article - link below for anyone whose interested.
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news ... it-reopens
Mods - wasn't sure this warranted own thread so hope posting here is ok?
Ben
Themotionman wrote:
Was the KLM route doing well before the airport closed?