Tel aviv flights with easyJet will increase to 9 a week from daily for winter 2012.....
There will be 2 flights a day on Mondays and Thursday's from the start of November. I wonder if this will signal even less flights for ElAl in the same period as they dramatically reduced their offering over this last winter.
Good news indeed...
Im not too sure it will worry El-Al too much as both airlines seems to be competing for different markets...
With the 2x A320's based at LTN that the easyJet uses on the longer routes, currently maxxed out operating 5x Weekly to SSH, 2x Weekly to Paphos and 7x Weekly to TLV. The airline will need to bring in an additional A320 to fly these two additonal rotations to Tel Aviv, and I wonder if this could mean we see further longer routes introduced this winter from LTN?
For people unaware and to pre-empt any questions asked, easyJet uses A320's on the airlines longer routes as the A319's do not have a central tank like other A319's and lack the range. Also the airline wants to get more bums on seats to operate these longer routes profitably.
The A320's usually do a short haul flight first thing in the morning, for example Luton to Belfast or Glasgow and back, then around 11am depart off to the above destinations, returning around 10-11pm at night.