Anybody know if East Midlands is going to get a Tuesday service?
From my analysis, there's currently a big gap in the EMA schedule for one aircraft between the 12:55 arrival from WMI until the 17:00 departure to ALC.
The total time to do the rotation EMA-NOC-EMA (including turnaround time in NOC) is 2 hrs 50 mins. With a turnaround time of 25 mins (usual time) and 50 mins (usual crew change time), that makes a total of 4 hrs 05 mins which fits perfectly between the WMI arrival (12:55) and ALC departure (17:00) at exactly 4 hrs 05 mins.
If true, flight times would be:
EMA 13:20 - NOC 14:35
NOC 15:00 - EMA 16:10
or...
EMA 13:45 - NOC 15:00
NOC 15:25 - EMA 16:35
...depending on whether they do the 50 minute turnaround in EMA before or after a NOC rotation.
This is just pure speculation, I have no idea whether it will happen or not. But if anybody hears anything then I would imagine it's true since the schedule seems adapted for it.
However there isn't any space for a Friday service and to me it's seems a bit odd to fly every day except a Friday but no service on Tuesday and Friday makes more sense for some reason.
Last edited by FRatSTN; 30th Jan 2013 at 16:53.