Originally Posted by
toledoashley
They should be offering packages to their own hotels, but not necessarily on their own airline. So easier to facilitate flexible durations etc.
Keep the airline for destinations which LCC hasn’t reached or have a high volume - Turkey, Egypt, Gambia, Cape Verde - plus long haul.
To be fair thats what they do aim to do and have done historically. Mainly using seats on EZY and in the past MON to cover most of spain and some of their Greek destinations. However, with a huge reduction in demand to Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia and The Gambia - all for obvious reasons over the past couple if years or so - it has of course made sense to redeploy their own metal on to some of these shorter routes.
A320 wet-leases aside, Thomas Cook Airlines UK have now managed to streamline their fleet down to two types; A321 and A330. This will obviously make a lot of operational sense. More so when politically in the countries they previously had their niche in can build back up their trust in the UK holiday market.