PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Ireland West Airport Knock
View Single Post
Old 24th Aug 2019, 15:44
  #21 (permalink)  
FRatSTN
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Essex
Posts: 1,492
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Indeed, Canary Islands are too far to be served on W patterns as would only be able to be served by a single crew with no changes (a UK/Ireland to Canaries return is about getting to limits as it is).

The only other ways this possibly could work is night stopping aircraft/crew. ie a STN based crew could do STN-NOC-TFS (overnight in TFS) then do TFS-NOC-STN.

Alternatively, a DUB crew could operate DUB-TFS-NOC (then transfer back to DUB) whilst a second crew from DUB would travel to NOC and operate NOC-TFS-DUB.

EasyJet do the former a fair bit with LGW crew and the likes of Jet2/TUI will do the latter in some cases. But for Ryanair, both cases would be unlikely I'd have thought.
FRatSTN is offline