simonchowder
Thomas Cook do (or at least did last year) send aircraft away on checks at the times where the flying programme is lightest, like most airlines, as they couldn't handle all the work in house in such a short space of time (Abu Dhabi was on last years list). Jet2 do have one line of heavy mx "C-Checks" carried out in house on the B733 fleet, which has already started this winter. All Jet2 75 mx is presently undertaken within the UK, with the 737s split between LBA and Jat in BEG.
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Only 1 QC aircraft is ever required in BFS. Other units are always pax only aircraft.
Ernest Lanc's
The "BLK"s third based aircraft story is getting tired. In the BLK thread you refer to it as being "A dark day for BLK when FR pulled out of MAN" Please can you tell me which of the following have taken over Ryanair's gaps out of Manchester:-
MAN-PRG (CSA pulled off)
MAN-DBV
MAN-SPU
MAN-REU
MAN-LPA
MAN-VCE
MAN-FNC
MAN-MIR
MAN-KGS
None of the above routes are replacements for those that Ryanair previously operated as taken from FR's website - Barcelona (Girona), Bremen, Brussels (Charleroi), Cagliari, Dusseldorf (Weeze), Frankfurt (Hahn), Marseille, Milan (Bergamo) and Shannon, and I would be surprised if all bar PRG don't have some sort of tour operator support, which BLK presuambly can't offer to most "niche" markets, which increases the viability to the operation of the new routes and reduces the risk to yourself, especially in an economic downturn. If a tour operator buys 50 seats a flight off you you now only have to sell 98 in house on a B733.