Just tried to look at flights LGW-MXP in August 2013. No flights are displayed on calendar/Flight view when booking for the whole month! Checked Earlier Dates aswell, Still no flights.
Also, I checked summer flights to Milan also from Birmingham and Manchester. Those too had no flights displayed!
Me thinks that Monarch has decided to pull out of these routes!
Unfortunately most of BHX flights were on sale for next summer fitting 9 based aircraft and this included Milan.
All Milan services no longer bookable after 4 November from BHX, LGW and MAN. It seems to much of a co-incidence for time or day schedule changes, it does seem that they are all about to be pulled.
A bit late in the day to get the frequencies replaced but lets hope as BHX could do with a few more rotations to the Canaries.
Seems odd that Air One and Monarch should both cancel their Gatwick-Malpensa services. Have Easyjet been offering particularly low fares on the route with the effect of booting out the competition ?
can somebody tell me how many aircraft is based at bhx..I was working near fen end and sure I saw 6 aircraft ( mix 757 320/1 and pretty sure I saw a 737) I know its probably old topic ( but I wouldn't know how far I would have to go back)
My folks had a near 24 hour delay with Monarch 2 weeks ago on the FAO-LGW route. I happened to check the Monarch Facebook page to see if there was any info, as they weren't getting anything locally. I was stunned at what I read about an airline that I had heralded for many years. Littered with complaints about delays, poor customer service and attitude, it was nothing short of a PR disaster.
Buy its always those who moan, complain and have an axe to grind that frequent forums like that. All the thousands of happy passengers just come and go and enjoy their holiday/journey.
Be good to have the happy people add a balance to the arguements.
Well said Serenity!!All the great work we do week in week out ,are very conscious of are work and service to the customer,the hundreds who say they want to "let the company know how well they have been helped,taken care of,dealt with a particular situation"....but all you publicly see are the complaints!!,...oh well sky suit on and back to work with a smile
Just been confirmed on Jethros that the A320 which was planned to be a standby aircraft for 2013 (G-MPCD) will now not be retained for summer 2013 and will leave the fleet along with th A300 (G-MONR) on 4th November.
On Monarch pulling out of Malpensa, surely this will become a common problem in the coming years, as the new plan is to concentrate more so on short haul routes rather than growing their long haul network.
The majority of routes are already dominated by easyJet and Ryanair; companies that have become experts at trashing the competition in recent years. Are there any gaps in the market?
Because of this, I really cannot forsee a long term future for the airline, unless they vastly differentiate themselves from the competition or adopt the same business model.
Have Monarch officially cancelled (completely) their order for the Boeing 787-8? No possible change of heart?
On Monarch pulling out of Malpensa, surely this will become a common problem in the coming years, as the new plan is to concentrate more so on short haul routes rather than growing their long haul network.
The majority of routes are already dominated by easyJet and Ryanair; companies that have become experts at trashing the competition in recent years. Are there any gaps in the market?
Sorry Danny but you need to do some analysis. Easy cancel more routes than Monarch percentage-wise...fact. In the last 12 months Monarch have launched 22 new routes and cancelled 3. Easyjet have launched 140 and cancelled 25. In percentage terms Monarch have cancelled 13% and Easy 17%. With the exception of MXP I don't see any evidence whatsoever of easy/Ryan "trashing" the competition as far as Monarch is concerned. They more than compete with orange and blue on the majority of their network to AGP/ALC/FAO/TFS/PMI/ACE/LCA/PFO/SSH etc etc etc.....
So how will Monarch cover the slots left by the removal of the Milan routes?
Totally agree with Dannyboy39. I see Easyjet Kicked them out of the Milan Malpensa route from gatwick! and also I see that they have reduced their programme to Barcelona next summer aswell!. Even LGW-ALC peak summer programme 2013 is showing just one rotation a day mid week vs. Easyjets 4-5 flights a day.
And Monarch says that they are trying to take hold of the market!!!!!
I dont know about that!
I just think Monarch product is too similar to their rivals or not different enough!
...oh well sky suit on and back to work with a smile
