Originally Posted by
OltonPete
Matt, having sample checked the various winter timetables yours is a masterpiece, so many late changes and constant revisions not helped with the local half-term only just starting, which Ryanair & Jet2 have reacted to extending seasonal flights but virtually ignored by TUI.
Jon added the new routes above and the only change I have found is a disappointing one and that Aegean Athens will be back on 28 April not mid February.
Some other changes are as follows -
Lufthansa Munich night-stop has ended - service returns to double daily most days, Frankfurt between 3 or 4 a day. The usual January reductions are in place
Eurowings have started using the A321 tonight on the Dusseldorf and although not daily it is eventually listed for Monday morning and Wednesday Thursday Friday and Sunday evening but the mid afternoon service has stopped on Wednesday & Thursday as has the mid morning Tuesday and the major disappointing one is that Prague has ceased for winter
Swiss Zurich - extremely disappointing back to 5 per week from 8 per week last week, mainly Helvetic although Saturday from Feb half term is double daily by Swiss until the end of the winter season
SAS - Another disappointment - The second Thursday flight has stopped and by December so will the second Monday and Friday so back to 6 per week and less in January
Brussels Airlines - a surprise as the A319 reappears from today in place of the Cityjet CRJX
Turkish Airlines - Technically an increase on summer and last winter, as it is a double daily A321 variant which hold more the Max and last winter was 10 per week
Air France - I have lost the plot with them it is all over the place, some days 4 some days 2 over winter. A general rule of thumb on average 3 daily in the week with 2 HOP and one A320 but when there are 4 flights the two AF are A223's. An odd one is Monday's in January appear to be 2 flights only for a few weeks but 3 per day the rest of the week
KLM - Much better and easier to follow - The 5th weekday flight stays until Christmas and returns late February - I can't remember the last time we had 5 winter flights a day
Vueling - Oh dear. Orly has gone and Barcelona 3 per week in November and 4 at best
Sun Express - Antalya is an increase as here all winter twice per week
Emerald via the Belfast City service increase to 5 per day Sunday Monday Thursday and Friday - quite ironic as they struggled at times to maintain 4 daily in summer but all 5 operated today
Ryanair - Budapest has landed with Valencia and Seville starting tomorrow but from last winter Gdansk, Vilnius, Billund Stockholm, Toulouse and Bordeaux are lost plus a few Irish route frequencies so the schedule is similar in flights per week to last year but 6 based rather than 5.
Jet2 - No idea how it compares to last winter but seems up especially as the three A321's are based and operate every day and joined by at least A21N (11 December for TFS). Vienna has been converted from a Christmas Market route to all winter and even the A321 is used in December. A few routes have extra frequencies or operate for longer. Cologne is added to the pre-Christmas flight list (9), with Prague getting 4 flights per week in the same period instead of the normal two, Krakow gets the A321 for a few flights in the same period and Budapest gets a third flight for three weeks over Christmas and New Year. They also have started operating the P&O Tenerife flights and they have Ivalo Santa flights lined up as well. Some days appear to require 13 aircraft but most operating just one flight.
TUI - Again this seems up on last year with the third Boa Vista operating all winter and 3 Sharms until just after Christmas. The January decreases also seem a lot fewer than normal with Enfidha, Marrakech and Agadir all operating in January but it remains to be seen if this happens. Sal moved days from Tuesday & Saturday to Monday & Friday and fitted in nicely for 788 ops but then was downgraded to the MAX and I assume the 788 is required elsewhere those days.
Wizz - No new routes but increases on Craiova from 2/3 to 4 per week, Warsaw & Krakow will be 3 per week from mid December onwards and Bucharest should be 5 per week all winter.
easyjet - Other than the new routes, Lisbon has been downgraded this winter to the A320 from the A21N, Geneva shows a brief new high of 20 per week with 4 daily on Sunday for a few weeks but 3 daily otherwise up from 2 daily last winter and Thursday sees a third flight for a few weeks with Saturday remaining at 4 flights. Glasgow has taken the hit with just 8 flights a week and none on a Saturday, but Edinburgh has been increased to a maximum of 20 per week although January sees some reductions. Belfast gets a 4th Sunday service no surprise with that one. Milan is new for winter operating twice per week
EK of course will be operating the A388 & 77W this winter compared to 2 x 77W last winter and Qatar daily compared to zero last winter - Saudi has been covered by Jon
Pete
Jet2 first NEO due to operate now on 6th November - initially will be GSUND based. Will position from MAN on evening of 5th Nov