Originally Posted by
inOban
Since Norwegian is leasing several a/c for their scheduled ops (see routes online), they would presumably have to lease more for these chartered services. Maybe simpler for TUI to charter their own directly.
And lease directly too. One of the Titan A321's destined for Jet2 this summer has been working for TOM out of STN for the last couple of weeks. Air Tanker G-VYGM was working out of MAN for a while, G-POWD 767-300 from Titan is working out of MAN today and had done LGW in the last week, and also SE-RFR a 767 from the Nordics (ex G-OBYK) did a LPA run from LGW last week two.
It seems however that firstly as more of the 737's come back from Canada their is less need to lease currently (peak summer may be wholly different), but it seems that other than the titan A321 which has done STN services consistently for a number of weeks, the others are one offs, or a couple of days here and there, and that its only certain days of the week where they are short and it mainly seems to be MAN and LGW where they are using the leased a/c to cover the shortfall.
I wonder though as we move to peak summer time, is there going to be anything coming in for the whole summer to cover the max issue? (I know some of the 757's are staying longer but will that be enough to cover?)