IB 4138
Not so. Any inspection of their schedule shows that an A320 leaves LTN on Suns, Tues, Thurs at 2215 for AGP. Another aircraft returns from AGP to LTN, leaving AGP on Sun, Tues, Thurs leaving AGP at 2145 having arrived in AGP from Newquay an hour earlier. The aircraft operates from AGP to Blackpool every day at 0800 followed by an ABZ on four days and Newquay on three days. After the Newquay flight it always returns to LTN. It is impossible to operate all the new flights announced yesterday otherwise. So the aircraft rotates from LTN three times a week.
It is not so easy to determine the crew slip pattern. I presume that this will be driven by cost so AGP is probably where the crew will be for this winter.
It looks like a pretty safe assumption that next summer there will be more flights from Blackpool to ALC?, PMI? FAO? so there might be a Blackpool based aircraft then. This would fit in well with MAN based crews. ABZ could take a based aircrfat for the summer, operating to AGP, PMI, ALC and possibly TFS, FAO. Newquay would then be operated on a LTN based aircaraft operating a W pattern.
All guesses but certainly achievable.
But it woulsd seem that Monarch will need at least 3 more aircraft by next summer or else they will have to put the A300 on either LGW or MAN based schedules. Has anyone got any rumours/info on this?