Originally Posted by
FRatSTN
Looks like the Wizz Air UK based fleet will increase to 12 aircraft by peak summer. Seems a brave move considering the aircraft issues they have currently, but with Ryanair also having increased from 6 to 7 based this summer, does this mean EasyJet have cut 2 based aircraft, or is this new capacity?
This morning W9 has x11 departures and W4 x13 so peak summer does look to be correct. I think W4 have been x15 arrivals before.
I think it was worked out the increase in based RYR has been done with a loss of away based aircraft. I suspect similar for Wizzair. There is a Titan 320 currently Luton based working for W9, and today a SkyUp 738 & x2 Avion 320 working for W4. No doubt all paid for by GTX.
It should be noted, RYR got only 69% of requested S24 slots so clearly they want more. The demand is there in their eyes, not just being a spoiler against Easy & Wizzair.
The airport has x3 more stands available than it did last summer, making this possible.
As far as I know, the EZY based fleet numbers remain the same.