Originally Posted by
WHBM
But this was ever the way with traditional IT holiday flight operators which were "captive" to a tour operator. TUI's forbear, Thomson, would use their own Britannia Airways aircraft to the extent practical, but then charter in from various operators, whether UK or resort based (Spantax, Transeuropa, that lot) to add to their capacity where required. They were often not advertised as such in the holiday brochures, it was only apparent on ticketing.
I get that but most of these AC being brought in don't seem to be planned. For example there was a wamos A330 in BFS yesterday operating for TUI and today there is a Privelege Style A321 on it's way to DUB now and a Privelege style 767 scheduled to op today's TUI tenerife flight from LGW?
Neither of these were planned as far as I am aware? Unless anyone else knows otherwise?