ACL S25 Initial Co-Ordination Summary
Rather dissapointing outlook at this point it must be said.
Transavia we know about. They have 274 slots across the season to service Rotterdam starting 3 April 2025. Interestingly Transavia France have requested 840 slots (equivelent to 2x daily) to service Paris-Orly from LHR and LGW. None have been allocated as of intial co-ordination at LHR and only 480 of them have been given a slot at LGW, though many of those are off-slot, including 12.5% of them that are more than 2 hours from their requested time. If they were intent to start Paris-Orly from London then surprising to see STN not intially requested for those.
Likewise Sun Express have a good increase and most of this is public knowledge and already on sale.
Ryanair is hard to tell exactly what's changed. They always tend to hoard a load of slots and hand them back at the January deadline. From what I can tell it looks as though they may be slightly heading towards the 2019 model again of more away-based turns arriving in the morning 07:00-08:00 period but that could easily change. There are 1,260 slots for WAW (around 3x daily) which is almost certaintly Ryanair, so looks like there could be an intention to move WMI to WAW. However, ACL also manage WAW slots and would look at this point Ryanair haven't secured those slots there, which could preclude that.
BA City Flyer looks interesting. They go to 16 weekly (8 rotations p/wk) over the weekends from WC 12th May with seemingly 4 E190's nightstopping Saturday night into Sunday. That's around double what they did in S24. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see this come to fruition.
EasyJet very typically nothing exciting. Looks as though AMS will see a slight frequency reduction but appears 2 more domestic rotations per week for most of the season on a Wednesday and Thursday with the odd time changes. Currently they appear to be retaining more domestic frequency over the peak summer from late June to early September compared to S24, but will have to see if this actually happens. As a personal note I'm amazed they don't do a Paris route as that's a glaring gap they could easily operate with minimal competion.
Jet2 looks largely similar with definitely 17 based aircraft required. It would seem based simply on the initial co-ordination that STN wouldn't likely serve any LTN W's but that's not to say it can't change of course given this is fairly recent news.
Pegasus, AJet and Corendon all showing increases. I'd imagine most are speculative and may or may not happen. Pegasus currently are holding for up to 11 rotations a day which is 2 or 3 more than at peak in S24. Corendon almost always hold additional slots then never use them.
Turkish mainline (ie not AJet) have slots for a nightstopper 73H, which they've also applied for at LGW. I beleive they're operating this now at LGW for the current winter schedule so would seemlingly be trying to retain this for summer. In any case I think we'd be very unlikely to see this at STN.
Same goes for Royal Air Maroc and Air Algerie. These are clearly a back-up for extra LGW/LHR capacity. Royal Air Maroc have requested 86 slots (3x weekly) at both LGW and STN for Casablanca. None at LGW have been allocated whilst STN has been but more than hour from their requested time. Air Algerie is for an A330 operating 2x weekly on Wednesdays and Thursdays which is a weird allocation in any case. They however don't appear to had requested LGW and given they operated STN for a period during 2022, it would seem STN is at least their preference for any LHR overspill they might want to put in.
Aurigny have an increase in slots though as pretty much confirmed by themselves, STN will be unlikely to operate at all in S25.
Of course, all of this is heavily subject to change, much of it likely already has since the initial co-ordination. They'll continue to be removals and indeed possible additions, but as always is good to see the potential interest from airlines at this stage.