Teesside - Turkey Flight Cancelled

[Pembo330]

Heard last night that a friend of mine who is travelling from Teesside to Turkey on a summer charter this year have had their flight cancelled and told they must go from Newcastle.

I'm presuming the flight was a MYT flight? Can anyone confirm? If so, doesn't this contradict the claim that MYT pulling out of Teesside won't affect the passengers?

Anyone have an update on the Teesside Summer Schedule?

[johnwalton]

Conversely, my MYT flight from NCL to PMI was cancelled and I was told I would have to fly from MME with JKK. I kicked off though, and got a flight a day later from NCL.

MYT blamed "lack of sales" for my flight as the reason, so maybe the same is true here.

[IB4138]

Local reports on Costa del Sol say tour operators are reporting a down in bookings of 25% this year. It is not surprising if other areas are experiencing similar reductions in reservations.

This is something I have been predicting for a while on the CdS as the number of people owning their own holiday accomodation grows, IT operators will feel the pinch. Hence the growth in LCCs and flight only sales.

For example, Mijas Council have approved the building of a further 10,000 homes in what is now called "Golf Valley", going inland from La Cala, with several more golf courses under construction.

The situation for IT operators will only get worse as more people find their own holiday accomodation.

Is it surprising, that one of the first destinations for start up LCCs is Malaga?

[mmeteesside]

Updated schedule!

Heres an update on the schedule for the summer:

Air Europa
Palma 2235 2135 -----6- AEA434/433

Air Southwest
Jersey 1105 1035 -----6- WOW9102/9101

Balkan Holidays
Bourgas 1845 1745 1------ BGH /

Britannia Airways
Alicante 1455 1340 -2----- BY320A/320B
Ibiza 1505 1355 --3---- BY157A/157B
Palma 1455 1330 ---4--- BY144A/144B
Palma 1435 1315 ------7 BY448A/448B

Eurocypria Airlines
Paphos 1055 0955 --3---- ECA815/814

Futura
Las Palmas 1220 1120 1------ FUA1518/1517

Iberworld
Arrecife 1510 1400 ---4--- IWD /
Tenerife 2335 2235 ----5-- IWD3453/3454
Palma 1710 1610 -----6- IWD /

Onur Air
Dalaman 2035 1935 1------ OHY450/449

Pegasus
Bodrum 1020 0920 1------ PGT466/465

Spanair
Reus 0620 1205 1------ JKK3451/3452
Las Palmas 1305 2255 1------ JKK3453/3454
Larnaca 0700 1735 --3---- JKK3455/3456
Arrecife 0700 1620 ---4--- JKK3461/3462
Ibiza 0500 1120 ----5-- JKK3465/3466
Mahon 1215 1820 ----5-- JKK3467/3468
Tenerife 1915 0515+1 ----5-- JKK3469/3470
Alicante 0715 1345 -----6- JKK3471/3472
Palma 1440 2055 -----6- JKK3474/3473
Faro 0600 2320 ------7 JKK3155/3158 [W to NCL]
Palma 0940 0845 ----5-- JKK3144/3143

Larnaca - Arrecife - ???? - Ibiza - Mahon - Tenerife - Alicante - Palma - Las Palmas - Faro - Reus - Las Palmas

Thomas Cook Airlines UK
Mahon 1240 1125 ----5-- TCX296K/296L

bmibaby
Alicante 1645 2325 1-3-5-- WW4113/4114
Belfast 1400 1615 12345-7 WW5717/5718
Belfast 0950 0920 -----6- WW5717/5718
Jersey 1400 1650 -----6- WW4009/4010
Malaga 1645 2330 -2-4--- WW4003/4004
Malaga 1720 0005+1 -----6- WW4003/4004
Malaga 1815 0100+1 ------7 WW4003/4004
Nice 0755 1245 -----6- WW4109/4110
Palma 0715 1310 1-3-5-- WW4307/4308
Prague 0835 1325 -2-4--7 WW4007/4008

ARRIVALS BOARDS

Monday
0100 Malaga WW4004 733
0910 Aberdeen T3581 J32
0920 Bodrum PGT465 738
0945 Heathrow BD332 100
1005 Amsterdam KL1533 F70
1120 Las Palmas FUA1517 738
1210 Reus JKK3451
1310 Palma WW4308 733
1410 Aberdeen T3585 J32
1420 Amsterdam KL1535 F70
1615 Belfast WW5718 733
1635 Dublin FR602 737
1705 Heathrow BD338 100
1710 Aberdeen T3587 J32
1745 Bourgas BGH T54
1935 Amsterdam KL1537 100
1935 Dalaman OHY449
2010 Aberdeen T3589 J32
2100 Heathrow BD340 100
2255 Las Palmas JKK3454
2325 Alicante WW4114 733

Tuesday
0910 Aberdeen T3581 J32
0945 Heathrow BD332 100
1005 Amsterdam KL1533 F70
1325 Prague WW4008 733
1340 Alicante BY320B 762
1410 Aberdeen T3585 J32
1420 Amsterdam KL1535 F70
1615 Belfast WW5718 733
1635 Dublin FR602 737
1705 Heathrow BD338 100
1710 Aberdeen T3587 J32
1935 Amsterdam KL1537 100
2010 Aberdeen T3589 J32
2100 Heathrow BD340 100
2330 Malaga WW4004 733

Wednesday
0910 Aberdeen T3581 J32
0945 Heathrow BD332 100
0955 Paphos ECA814 738
1005 Amsterdam KL1533 F70
1310 Palma WW4308 733
1355 Ibiza BY157B 752
1410 Aberdeen T3585 J32
1420 Amsterdam KL1535 F70
1615 Belfast WW5718 733
1635 Dublin FR602 737
1705 Heathrow BD338 100
1710 Aberdeen T3587 J32
1735 Larnaca JKK3456
1935 Amsterdam KL1537 100
2010 Aberdeen T3589 J32
2100 Heathrow BD340 100
2325 Alicante WW4114 733

Thursday
0910 Aberdeen T3581 J32
0945 Heathrow BD332 100
1005 Amsterdam KL1533 F70
1325 Prague WW4008 733
1340 Palma BY144B 762
1400 Arrecife IWD 320
1410 Aberdeen T3585 J32
1420 Amsterdam KL1535 F70
1615 Belfast WW5718 733
1635 Dublin FR602 737
1705 Heathrow BD338 100
1710 Aberdeen T3587 J32
1935 Amsterdam KL1537 100
2010 Aberdeen T3589 J32
2100 Heathrow BD340 100
2330 Malaga WW4004 733

Friday
0845 Palma JKK3143 320
0910 Aberdeen T3581 J32
0945 Heathrow BD332 100
1005 Amsterdam KL1533 F70
1120 Ibiza JKK3466
1125 Mahon TCX296L 320
1310 Palma WW4308 733
1410 Aberdeen T3585 J32
1420 Amsterdam KL1535 F70
1615 Belfast WW5718 733
1635 Dublin FR602 737
1705 Heathrow BD338 100
1710 Aberdeen T3587 J32
1820 Mahon JKK3468
1935 Amsterdam KL1537 100
2010 Aberdeen T3589 J32
2100 Heathrow BD340 100
2235 Tenerife IWD3453 320
2325 Alicante WW4114 733

Saturday
0515 Tenerife JKK3470
0920 Belfast WW5718 733
1005 Amsterdam KL1533 F70
1035 Jersey WOW9101 DH8
1245 Nice WW4110 733
1345 Alicante JKK3472
1610 Palma IWD 320
1650 Jersey WW4010 733
1735 Dublin FR602 737
1935 Amsterdam KL1537 100
2055 Palma JKK3473
2115 Heathrow BD340 100
2135 Palma AEA433 738

Sunday
0005 Malaga WW4004 733
0945 Heathrow BD332 100
1005 Amsterdam KL1533 F70
1315 Palma BY448B
1420 Amsterdam KL1535 F70
1635 Dublin FR602 737
1745 Heathrow BD338 100
1935 Amsterdam KL1537 100
2115 Heathrow BD340 100
2350 Faro JKK3458

[Pembo330]

Thanks for the update guys.

[crewboi83]

I think MyTravel have aimed to cause as little disruption as possible to its passengers from MME. Considering they have had to pull their a/c out of MME I don't think there has been that much disruption, just a shame that your friend has been told to fly from NCL, maybe the dates they wanted were not availible on the OHY flights MME-DLM or the return, im sure there is a valid reason. I havn't heard of anyone else having problems, but im sure its the last resort the had.
There will be one or two flight that maybe can't be ad-hoced out to other carriers cos they mite not be able to op the flight.
As for the cancellation of the NCL-PMI flight, dont know why that was cancelled mate, try taking it up with ya travel agent, You'll actually find that MYT are doing more flights to Palma this year that last. 1x Mon AM 1x Wed AM and 2x Sat departures.

[johnwalton]

I'm at a bit of a loss too, because we wanted to book an extra person on to our holiday in January and were told the flight was "full" - in actual fact I think MYT had already made the decision to pull the flight.

We were booked on a Friday departure MYT1821/2 (ETD2125, ETA0355), but now have been rebooked on one the saturday 1545 departure, which aint all that bad because at the time we booked the Saturday departure was £150 more expensive.

When I got in touch with MYT they wanted me to pay the £150pp to avoid flying from MME, but they backed down after a while, and I even got them to throw in free inflight meals! Travel agent takes the same line as the MYT letter, "lack of sales", "these things can change as plans are finalised".

To be honest, I couldn't see where the flight would fit into MYTs flight plans anyway, because the 2 based aircraft were both out on other sorties at 2125 on Fridays. Methinks there was a cock-up in scheduling somewhere along the line, but maybe i'm wrong.

[mmeman]

It seems that there has been a few IT flights from Teesside cancelled from what was proposed in the brochures and on the airports website.


Just a quick look and it seems flights to Gran Canaria (Sat night), Malaga, Rhodes, Tenerife (Tue) and Bodrum (Sun) and Dalaman (Tue) have all been cancelled. And I think I saw someone post that the Balkan flights were possibly also going to be cancelled. Is this amount of consolidation going on at all airports in the UK? I know that MyTravel pulling their based aircraft has had some effect, but they have replaced it with a Spanair aircraft, which could have done exactly the same amount of flights as the based MyTravel aircraft.

I understand also that MyTravel are using bmibaby for Malaga flights. Is this the first time a tour operator have used a low cost airline? It will be interesting to see how it works. Will Mytravel clients pay the same for the flight as if they booked directly with bmibaby?

[MEFLYBE]

The Humberside-Rhodes flight appears to have been cancelled

I think MME will be more than OK this year in terms of passenger numbers with the launch of bmibaby up there

Regards

Mike

[mmeteesside]

Still, we've got Air Southwest on a saturday morning

mmeteesside
MME Movements

[greciangod]

Our flight from Exeter to Crete has also been cancelled for the whole summer. We were given an alternative flight from Gatwick which is over 250 miles away! No other alternatives were offered.
The flights from Gatwick were both during the night also.

[MEFLYBE]

Also looks like the Humberside-Varna flight has been cancelled. So 2 new destinations Varna and Rhodes have been cancelled already, before the season has even begun!

Regards

Mike

[WHBM]

Will Spanair be basing crews at Teesside or will they just be doing nightstops from Spanish bases (some of the nightstops look pretty short!)

[LGS6753]

Observation - Balkan Holidays (the main operator to Bulgaria) seem to cancel whole flight series frequently. Perhaps there just aren't enough punters going there.

[crewboi83]

from what i hear, the spanair crews will do about 1 week of flights, then get off in say ALC, PMI TFS etc and another crew will get on, and then they will work for a week out of MME

3x crews based in hotel at MME at any one time
thats just what ive heard, not for deffinate.