Originally Posted by
P330
Presumably, the NEO has the same number of seats as the CEO and could therefore start work straight away on routes scheduled with these?
They COULD, but they're really intended to replace the 757s due to constantly increasing maintenance costs.
Originally Posted by
Wycombe
Pleasant flight with Jet2 on Saturday LGW-TFS. This was a whole aircraft charter for P&O Cruises. Jet2 seem to be encroaching into what has been largely a Tui operation over recent years. It still is on long hauls (mainly to BGI) but there were lots of a/c substitutions over the Winter (mainly using Wamos) which didn't go down well with some of P&Os customers. Wondering if Jet2 will muscle in on this aswell with the A330's? (although it is mainly a winter op)
The charter flights are solely a winter offering, just because the company has spare aircraft capacity around the raft of C-checks and EV runs. During summer, the sole focus is on selling seats and holidays through Jet2holidays, with .com seats taking up the slack. Jet2 very rarely operates ad-hoc charter flights in summer. There are no plans to take on larger aircraft than the A321, with the ACMI leases only there to give additional cost-effective capacity on prime routes.
I would LOVE if we did long-haul routes, but I don't think that's on the radar right now (and certainly not for at least the next 5 years).