Originally Posted by
danielsirrom
We flew back into Birmingham from Skiathos on Friday, the TUI flight was 2.5 hours delayed leaving Birmingham in the morning. Most TUI flights were delayed that morning, some 7 hours plus. On boarding in Skiathos the TUI captain told us their supplier had run out of aviation fuel in Birmingham that morning and the other supplier had prioritised their competitor (I presume Jet2?). He had actually planned to hop to East Midlands to take on fuel but then fuel turned up. Another holiday maker in Skiathos said they'd seen something on social media saying fuel protesters were to blame. Is there any truth in this? Is there a media blackout on this info to block publicity? Nothing on the news, google search nor Twitter. Anyone know anything? Is running out of aviation fuel something that's known to happen?
Friday I would imagine was one of those days the airport/airlines at BHX would want to forget quickly. TUI schedule decimated, 788 didn't fly requiring a Hi Fly A330 Saturday to operate the Friday Tenerife, two 737 flights went out Friday morning and didn't operate inbound until Saturday. Wamos A330 today to operate a Saturday 737 flight knock-on effect from Friday. Added to all that on Friday, easyjet Belfast aborted take-off resulting in a six hour delay, easyJet Edinburgh-Geneva diverted in with a medical emergency briefly delaying movements, all Lufthansa Frankfurt services cancelled due strike action and other airlines handled by Swissport were suffering delays of two hours plus as well.
September
SAS are back again tomorrow on Copenhagen
easyjet
Nantes might have ended Friday as planned but Amsterdam is back to what it was starting at double daily although not too long before Wednesday and Sunday end up at once daily
Amsterdam 07:20-07:50 & 15:25-15:55 - slight time differences on some days
Glasgow - Three daily Monday, Tuesday Thursday (not new) & Friday (no doubt will cheer up Flybe no end)
Palma - stays 4 per week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (from Friday) & Sunday
Ryanair
Malaga goes from 11 - 9 per week with Monday & Tuesday changing to one flight
Dublin - Tuesday staying at 3 daily but Saturday back to 4 daily & Sunday back to 6. Corfu goes from 3 to 1 but not until 1st October
Jet2
From 14 operational to 13 most days with several frequencies reduced as planned but also Prague and Budapest restored on Friday at twice weekly and Rome back to 4 per week
Amsterdam has of course gone and Jersey now ends in September with Krakow still not restarting until February but Reykjavik returns at the end of the month. I had a quick look at this Friday and I could not see a replacement for the Amsterdam or Krakow service which were due to restart
TUI
One of the two Monday Corfu flights ends to tomorrow, Girona on Tuesday, Friday night Palma has ended already with Salzburg Saturday then a sprinkling of flights ending throughout the month but overall still excellent......well except time-keeping
Wizz
Wroclaw drops back to 2 per week as planned but all the rest continue
SAS
Copenhagen is back tomorrow 6 per week CRJ9 operated by Cityjet 10:00 - 10:40 Monday - Friday and Sunday 11:20-12:00 - over £600 one way tomorrow
Swiss
Now 5 per week with Tuesday added. Monday and Tuesday morning with Thursday, Friday and Sunday evening (E290 Monday & Thursday + E295 the west)
Brussels Airlines
The night-stop is already back making 2 daily in the week but on Tuesday this week the late afternoon is non-ops
Lufthansa
Frankfurt in general is 3 daily but only 2 Frankfurt flights on Friday and Munich is 2 on Thursday instead of 3
Eurowings
No change as far as I can see but Dusseldorf this week is A319 Monday am & evening YL-CSF A223, Tuesday both A223's, Wednesday 319/320, Thursday both A223's, Friday A223 in the morning and A320 in the evening with A320 on Sunday
Turkish
Antalya operates days 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 17, 18, 25 this month and Istanbul remains double daily until 3 October when it is daily for 2 weeks then 10-11 per week
Sun Express no change at present but still seems to increase to 6 per week at the end of the month
Air France
3 daily with the first 2 outbounds mainline and 3rd HOP. A321 tomorrow on AF1164/5 the rest are A319's/A320 mix at this time
KLM
Mainly back to 5 daily in the week although KL1433/4 non-ops Tuesday. KL1421/2 E295's Monday - Thursday, 73G Friday and KL1425/6. KL1433/4 Friday is an E190 not 175. Saturday & Sunday are 4 daily and 1421 on Saturday is a 738
Flybe
Brest ends Saturday
Aer Lingus
EI262/3 reverts to mainline A320
Corendon
Oh dear
Dalaman has ended already and Antalya will be Sunday only (11:45 out) from next Monday - still showing this Tuesday and Thursday (13:15-14:15) as final flights
Blue Air
Another delay now back to 1 November - not looking good as this is the third delay
No major change to
Emirates, Air India, Vueling, Loganair, Blue Island and Aurigny
Possibility of a couple of announcements in the next few weeks apparently but details sketchy - not Qatar and Austrian as far as I know.
Pete