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[Fairdealfrank]

Quote: "Air India are using three daily slots at LHR, two DEL and one BOM."

Sorry, my mistake, Skipness, had it at 2 daily slot pairs not 3. Still makes AI a shadow of its former self and running far fewer UK-India flights than BA, for example, or even 9W.

[OltonPete]

December International route analysis

Passenger figures from the CAA, average per flight and load factor estimated by me using a BHX blog and libhomeradar for movements (2011 figures in brackets). Still quite a few routes estimated due to not knowing all cancellations and variable configs.

Swiss are probably happy with dropping nearly a third of their rotations and only losing 18% of pax. Sharm has not been included as the split is not right and I think the FNC figures might be wrong.

BRUSSELS...7873...(8405)...42 PAX...48%

LARNACA...3157...(3325)...175 PAX...82%

COPENHAGEN...6943...(7370)...76 PAX...67%

GRENOBLE...2608..(977)...130 PAX...72%

LYON...NIL...(1568).

PARIS...29752...(28444)...90... PAX...75%

BERLIN TXL...5595...(nil)...104 pax...75%

DUSSELDORF...12419...(11114)...52 PAX...61%

FRANKFURT...20160...(20639)...105 pax...73%

HAMBURG...2719...(1722)...62 pax...72%

HANOVER...4044...(3963)...67 pax...80%

MUNICH...15285...(12507)...86 pax...63%

STUTTGART...1794...(2867)...30 pax...38%

CORK...6016...(5906)...50 pax...70%

DUBLIN...41716...(41770)...130 pax...70%

KNOCK...2111...(3359)...36 pax...50%

SHANNON...2795...(2749)...47 pax...65%

WATERFORD...1158...(NIL)...36 pax...46%

BERGAMO.....3017....(NIL)....126 PAX...67%

MILAN...1729...(1468)...38 pax...43%

ROME FCO...3021...(nil)...126 pax...71%

VENICE...2003...(nil)...100 pax...55%

MALTA...2517...(2381)...157 pax...83%

AMSTERDAM...35440...(37048)...93 pax...82%

FARO...5500...(5144)...152 pax...77%

Funchal...1395...(nil)...78% pax...45% Based on what should have operated - something not right here

ALICANTE...12071...(14483)...168 pax...82%

BARCELONA...5043...(nil)...148 pax...78%

GIRONA...nil...(2322)...

MALAGA...10661...(11199)...157 pax...77%

PALMA...2501...(0)...139 pax...79%

ARRECIFE...5835...(6792)...154 pax...77%

FUERTEVENTURA...2338...(2924)...146 pax...73%

LAS PALMAS...3750...(3071)...141 pax...73%

TENERIFE...13367...(14708)...167 pax...81%

STOCKHOLM ARN....2076....(NIL)...79 pax...60%

GENEVA......6030....(6731).....131 PAX......83%

ZURICH...9470...(11550)...73 pax...71%

ISTANBUL...6663...(4616)...107 pax...68% (based on 155 seats for the A320/738)

PRAGUE...nil pax...(4668)...

BUDAPEST...2846...(nil)...158 pax...83%

KAUNAS...NIL...(1917)

BYDGOSZCZ...4430...(4125)...158 Pax..84%

GDANSK/NIL...(2506)...

KATOWICE...2442...(2148)...153 pax...81%

KRAKOW.....2764.....(NIL)...138 PAX...73%

RZESNOW...3840...(2289)...148 pax...78%

BRATISLAVA...3426...(4276)...171 pax...91%

ASHKHABAD...4654...(5084)...129 pax...70%

DUBAI...40274...(39471)...322 pax...77% - No doubt includes EK40 pax delayed from 30/11/12

ISLAMABAD...8119...(8174)...239 pax...65%

NEWARK...6997...(7568)...143 pax...83% -

Pete

[MARK 101]

Think the current political events may well put an end to the likelihood of Air Algerie starting in the near future.

[ballyctid]

Should have been on FlyBe BE 7114 from Milan, now stuck in Milano over the weekend!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[cloudy1]

Monarch S13/Olten Pete

Olten Pete: You seem to be a man in the know.......... How is the Monarch S13 fairing up now they have added Split and Bordeux into the programme.
How are the shedules looking and how many units will be required from April/May onwards. Thanks in advance.

[ATNotts]

Think the current political events may well put an end to the likelihood of Air Algerie starting in the near future

That assumes there was any likelihood in the first place!

[Planeaddict]

EK39 is being diverted to Glasgow, have a look at it's flight path here (seems to have circled around Bromsgrove a couple of times): EK39 / UAE39 Live flight info - Flightradar24

Airport has been temporarily closed for snow clearing so there are a lot of other diversions.

[MAN777]

Unconfirmed snippet from another forum.

EK 39 wanted to Divert to MAN but EK ops sent him to GLA because they wanted to keep MAN clear just in case LHR operations got worse and they needed an alternate for A380 flights. The flight has terminated at GLA with crew night-stopping

[OltonPete]

Monarch

cloudy1

I will start with May as it is a lot easier.

May will start with 8 units with the 9th arriving on Wednesday 22/5/2013, which is the day Bordeaux appears to start. I haven't checked later in the summer schedule yet to see if this reduces or all 9 continue until winter.

April is unbelievably bad and I convinced myself they were waiting for confirmation of new aircraft deliveries and by the first week in January they will release a load more flights fully utilizing six aircraft.

I assume it is not about aircraft delivery but more about an early Easter, as the 4/5 based units barely do anything.

Considering last year it was four busy units plus four BMI Baby based I am surprised that they have cut it to 4/5 units doing very little even with Easter that bit earlier - my two go back to school 16/4/2013 so it is not that early. Examples of the scale of cutbacks, Malaga, Faro, Alicante have always been daily from the end of March matching FR on AGP and ALC and slightly ahead of BMI baby, as they were 4-6 a week.

This year Malaga is four a week, Alicante five and Faro three. Last year Almeria (every year), Mahon (every year), Palma (every year) and Dalaman (last year) all operated and not a single flight. Las Palmas is weekly and so is FUE. TFS when the schedule was first released was daily plus a second on a Tuesday and Friday - now it is just six a week.

Wednesday I can only find three flights all day, Monday uses four but one doesn't start until after midday.

I am sure Saturday had a Las Palmas depart in the afternoon but this has gone and the aircraft does nothing.

Pete

[chinapattern]

Olton Pete do you know what we have based this summer? Is it x5 A321's and x4 A320's? I've lost the plot a bit as the Monarch thread reported that x2 of the A321's being sourced are now going to be A320's.

[OltonPete]

Monarch/Thomson

chinapattern

No idea I am afraid, I have asked before but the fleet expansion change of two A321's to two A320's, as you say has probably meant readjustments.

If I have time I could do a few dummy bookings and check the seat-maps

Same with Thomson - is it 3 (757) and 2 (738) or 4 and 1?

At present these types could make the difference for BHX being up or down some months this year.

Snow

Six hour closure not too bad considering the amount dumped in the last 24 hours.

Update - the ZB 321's seem to coming after all

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Pete

[groundhogbhx]

Snow

Well done to the snow team for keeping the place open so long, building up at 1mm every 5 mins towards the end. The snow had other ideas about the quick de-ice and let a few more go. Everyone landed and took off safely even with 8mm of snow over the runway

Good luck if next weeks snow does the same!

[Ioniser]

LH from FRA , EI fron SNN and SK from ARN all diverted to MAN.
Pax by road back to BHX

[crewmeal]

How will the poor DXB passengers get back from their diverted flight from GLA?

[cloudy1]

Olton Pete - thanks

Thanks olton Pete! As informative as ever.

[Kazamb]

EK GLA Diversion

I understand that the flight is coming in tomorrow from GLA as EK 8040, along with passengers apparently and then will depart with the passengers today's delayed EK flight.

[chinapattern]

RE MON/TOM

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what Monarch serve up. Regarding Thomson it’s a pity they haven’t based one of the high density 767’s at BHX for the summer like they did in summer 2010; perhaps with the 787’s (hopefully) arriving soon there could be room for some last minute flexibility? x1 763, x3 757 and x1 738 would be been nice. It seems that even though economics are generally looking better we are still looking at lower capacity....even TCX used to send a 763 to Dalaman that year.

[getonittt]

EK Gla diversion

I understand that the flight is coming in tomorrow from GLA as EK 8040, along with passengers apparently and then will depart with the passengers today's delayed EK flight

So 2 lots of 777 pax needing hotels for the night..kerching! Thankfully the evening flight got in an hour after re-opening.

[Mr @ Spotty M]

OltonPete

Your link with regards the A321s is a red herring.
That web site as it states, incorrectly stated that the new build A321s had been cancelled.
The 7th and 8th aircraft to be acquired are second hand A321s, this is why it is no use looking at seat plans for flights this summer.
Jethro's correctly reported that these a/c may now be A320s, as that was the case last week.
This is currently very fluid, as the airline would like A321s, but there is a lack of suitable aircraft on the market of the type Monarch wants.
However some A321s are being offered to Monarch, which are not ideal and a decision is awaited by the board, this to go with the A321s or the A320s being offered.
Other problems that have to be taken into account are delivery dates, some may be late May which gives the airline problems.

[crewmeal]

Other problems that have to be taken into account are delivery dates, some may be late May which gives the airline problems.

Ah! Eastern European sub charters again? Lets hope customers who have paid for the Monarch product get the Monarch product.