Summer for tfly
MAN will be having a 737 - 800 based there for the summer possibly g-cdzm but not confirmed yet, several bases will be at the receiving end of w patterns run out of dsa boh, and possibly cvt, possibly run on 737 - 300's (low cost one way, charter the other) but most likely charter both ways on 737 - 800's.
the 737-500's are still trying to be bought out of the lease but it's still unconfirmed whether they wil be replaced by more air worthy 737-500's from the leasing company or whether the whole of the 737 fleet will be 300's and 800's.
unless sales go through the roof 757's and 767's will not be operating low cost routes, the 767 -200 is still being fazed out in preference to the 767 - 300 and these will start to go on permanent lease from 2011 when tfly should be taking it's first delivery of it's 787's.
all flight numbers will be changing to a tom prefix from may 1st and you should be able to tell what aircraft type/flight type you are on from the first digit. again this hasn't been finalised.
dsa at the moment is tfly's new baby and main focus, sales are through the roof and dsa should be operating 4 737-300's, 2 737 - 800's and a 767 - 300 (sharing with CWL) from early may. company focus is on making this a major based within the next few years and finally closing it's lba base and moving the single 757 it has based there to dsa.
dsa has been operating the first of it's mixed fleet flying on the 737 - 300 using a w pattern on a tuesday back into nwi (low cost dsa-alc, charter alc - nwi, then charter nwi - alc and low cost alc - dsa) passenger reactions have not been favourable because of the state of the aircraft, lack of entertainment etc etc. whether tfly will take heed of this and only use the 737 - 800 on it's mixed flying charter routes no one knows.
hope this helps