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[OltonPete]

Summer 19 & winter 18

Wizz

Summer 19 showing Bucharest at 3 a week (no change) and Cluj 2 a week which has yet to start. Other routes not released

Ryanair

An extra Krakow added for summer on a Monday with an away based aircraft.

The only other summer change is the second Thursday away based Malaga has been moved to a based evening flight on a Wednesday.

Winter now sees Malaga 6 a week with the away based Sunday the most recent addition, Alicante is daily with Tuesday the latest addition around a month ago. They have shaved a rotation off Dublin on Tuesday and Thursday to make it 5 daily Tuesday-Thursday but still up slightly on last winter when Sunday, Monday and Friday were just 4 daily but they will be 6 daily this winter if nothing changes. Faro was the only other increase going from 2 to 3 a week.

Jet2

Very fluid and generally positive with the changes mainly around Easter with Naples now twice a week from mid month, Antalya 4 a week (Thomas Cook 5 a week at Easter), Dubrovnik 2 weekly and Rhodes staring at Easter. I have not noticed any high season changes for summer 19 recently but still a lot afternoons with 14 departures requiring 12 aircraft. Summer 18 retains use of the 9th based as they have retimed some flights from mid September.

Air India

Troubling as Friday Delhi has now been off-sale about a week from 12 October thus making it only 6 a week from 18 October and it does not appear again thereafter.

No TAP

15 new destinations including Dublin but no surprise BHX is over-looked as they have never said they would operate from BHX but they must have such a stunning network to ignore up to 6000 pax a month. I can't believe it would affect the Manchester service too much as at present most would be heading to Luton or Bristol for O & D although some connecting pax would be using Heathrow (If not AF from BHX) and this could be an excellent opportunity to take passengers off any airlines and alliances

Flybe.

A lot of chopping and changing with the winter 195 with it mainly on the seven a day Amsterdam rather than Paris. Some winter cuts after Christmas - Lyon from 7 a week to 5, Milan between 5 and 8, Knock 3 a week at times both HAJ & HAM 4 a week even Inverness loses the Saturday service at times.

Pete