Substantial consolidation by Monarch Airlines is the elephant in the room. The final version of their S15 programme is the one I'm most anxious to see. I note a suggestion that MAN is set to lose four based frames (I sincerely hope this is not so). Definitely leaving is the based A332 (capacity equivalent to 2 x A320). The larger B752 is also gone. Charters are gone. Long-haul is gone. What will the MAN fleet look like in S15? Eight or nine A320/A321?
Well 8 aircraft are going (well 10 but 2 new ones on the way). EMA loses both aircraft and we lose Our 757 and A330, but so does LGW, So LGW has lost 3 already and we've lost two and EMA has lost both, so I think it'll only be 1 less A320/321 as if there are route cutbacks surely BHX or LTN will lose an aircraft.