ACL S26 Initial Co-ordination
Some interesting slot allocations put in place for STN in S26:
Emirates - Looks like they have been allocated slots for a third daily service as they have 26 weekly slot pairs (3 daily would be 21 slot pairs of course, +5 as cargo?)
Turkish - We already know about these, expected to operate 18x weekly to IST.
Pegasus, Sun Express, AJet and Corendon are all showing further increases. I'm sure we'll see something here. A couple such as AJet starting Bodrum is already publicly known.
Arkia - Daily service to TLV and this is already on sale. They only operated a few weekly services starting quite late in the S25 season so this would be a good increase.
Royal Air Maroc - Have slots allocated to operate for the full season in S26. 2 weekly slots pairs, increasing to 6 weekly from late-June to mid-September. For S25 they operated 3 weekly pairs for the peak period only.
EasyJet - No significant change but looks like a few frequency increases maybe possible.
BACityFlyer - Also may deliver a small increase which remains to be seen. They have up to 7 slot pairs per week.
Air Asia X - Slots allocated for a daily service but these are +60 minutes from requested times. They have also been allocated slots at LGW - Not convinced we'll see this as nice as it would be.
Eurowings - Allocated 8 weekly slot pairs. They also requested 13 pairs at LGW but only 6 were allocated slots. Interested to see if this pans out given their history serving STN.
Aegean - 4 pairs have been requested and allocated but only from mid-August onwards. 11 pairs have been requested at LGW, also from mid-August, but none there were allocated slots.
Jet2 - Compared to historics they have a +9.3% increase in movements and a +12.9% increase in seat capacity. My key takeway from that is some upgauging but not expecting any major change from them apart from maybe some extended seasons on certain routes.
Ryanair is always difficult to tell at this point as they usually hold a significant amount of new slot requests and release them after handback. I don't imagine they'll be much more than maybe a few percentage points increase.
No real change to talk about from TUI, Air Algerie, FlyOne, HiSky, Royal Air Maroc or Transavia.
PLAY has of course gone and there is no request this time from AirBlue.