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Old 9th Oct 2013, 10:47
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davidjohnson6
 
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Route is from Gatwick to Lleida in Spain, near the Pyrenees mountains, operated by Thomas Cook Airlines, chartered to Thomas Cook's ski holiday subsidiary, Neilson.

I'm reckoning as a minimum, that flights will be almost entirely about taking Brits to Andorra for a week of skiing and thne bringing them back to the UK. The number of people from Lleida visiting London for a week should be tiny.

I know that Reus and Zaragoza are not *that* far away, but Lleida would be rather more convenient for me....

The last 1-week ski package departs Gatwick on 23 March 2014 and returns to Gatwick on 30 March 2014. This means the flight from Gatwick to Lleida on 30 March is little more than a ferry flight, going out near empty to bring home lots of skiers. The question is how to persuade Thomas Cook / Neilson to sell one way seats on an empty ferry flight, and what motives they may have for *not* being able or not wanting to sell seats.
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