BHX-LPA
One happened last night at BHX and it was relating to the BHX-LPA.
This is a regular TCX Saturday evening departure from BHX to LPA
arriving back to BHX in the early hours of Sunday.
However last Saturday the aircraft arrived from Turkey on Saturday
afternoon and positioned empty to Glasgow (757). It then operated
GLA-LPA and back into BHX.
Then the usual BHX-LPA operated last night, then the aircraft retuned to GLA from LPA (I assume with last weeks GLA outbound pax) and then empty back to BHX at 6am ready for the early Sunday departures.
Thomas Cook have done this for years but from memory Thomson have not.
I am amazed that after factoring the fuel costs on the empty legs that
money can be made but I assume the bean-counters have sanctioned it.
Pre school holidays can be lean times at BHX but usually the last two
weeks in June and not mid July. Was the Scottish school holidays later
this year as I seem to remember this kind of thing happened earlier than
mid July?