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Loads of them!!
Main two are Coventry Airport Handling and Mid West who both handle the full range. Others dabble in Ga and exec traffic for example I believe blue city might venture into this area.
Main two are Coventry Airport Handling and Mid West who both handle the full range. Others dabble in Ga and exec traffic for example I believe blue city might venture into this area.
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Indeed they were and flight support in turn have been taken over by a Gatwick based company airbase interiors but they still are known at Coventry as Coventry Airport Handling
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The airport management have now formally lodged their appeal to the High Court against the verdict of the last planning inquiry, on the grounds that the conduct of that inquiry was legally flawed. If the high court agrees sections of the inquiry would have to be re run. No date has yet been set for the hearing. The suspicion is that this could all take a very long time!
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CAFCO-C hopefully have very deep pockets then to take this to the High Court, as with Thomsonfly scaling back on routes, I cannot see much money being generated by commercial operations at the airport...hope for more Wizz expansion maybe, with possibly another small based carrier, and expansion of cargo, GA and Business Jet activities? The Airport, along with hundreds of others, is at the Routes convention the next few days, so hopefully they might be able to entice more companies.
Although I personally would like to see 2mppa at Coventry and an expansion (or at worst consolidation) of routes, there is a part of me that would have liked to have seen the owners submit a revised application for a permanent passenger facility for the same capacity as the current IPF (obviously current IPF granted retrospective planning consent by former Deputy John Prescott for 0.98 million passengers)...obvious question to ask though: is 0.98 million passengers enough to keep the airport running? If the owners are unsuccessful in their appeal, will that signal the end of passenger operations (again) at Coventry?
Looking at the Luton thread, and the idea of the interchange, maybe the Airport owners could adopt that idea and buy some land for a 2 million+ passenger terminal on Coventry City council land, and then ferry the passengers to a departure point (when needed) by a "people mover"...certainly thinking outside the box.
One further question, has the consultative committee now stopped meeting every 3 months following the June 15th decision? There have been no consultative committee meeting notes posted on the Coventry Airport website since the meeting of 19th April.
Although I personally would like to see 2mppa at Coventry and an expansion (or at worst consolidation) of routes, there is a part of me that would have liked to have seen the owners submit a revised application for a permanent passenger facility for the same capacity as the current IPF (obviously current IPF granted retrospective planning consent by former Deputy John Prescott for 0.98 million passengers)...obvious question to ask though: is 0.98 million passengers enough to keep the airport running? If the owners are unsuccessful in their appeal, will that signal the end of passenger operations (again) at Coventry?
Looking at the Luton thread, and the idea of the interchange, maybe the Airport owners could adopt that idea and buy some land for a 2 million+ passenger terminal on Coventry City council land, and then ferry the passengers to a departure point (when needed) by a "people mover"...certainly thinking outside the box.
One further question, has the consultative committee now stopped meeting every 3 months following the June 15th decision? There have been no consultative committee meeting notes posted on the Coventry Airport website since the meeting of 19th April.
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The airport's reluctance to deal with Warwick District planning authority in submitting a new application might have something to do with one of their most vociferous opponents now being chair of the planning authority. If they have to return for another bash at planning permision I'd like to see them try for a reintroduction of the outline planning permission that was allowed to lapse. It would be interesting to see what justification the planners could give for turning down an identical application to something that had previously been granted.
The idea of a terminal within the juristiction of the Coventry planning authority has been mooted although somewhat tongue in cheek, there's certainly plenty of development land in close proximity to the airport boundary that falls within Coventry.
The idea of a terminal within the juristiction of the Coventry planning authority has been mooted although somewhat tongue in cheek, there's certainly plenty of development land in close proximity to the airport boundary that falls within Coventry.
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just been reading one of the recent posts on the jersey thread, it mentioned one of the reasons thom are axing most of the jersey routes is that 738's cant land/take off due to the length of runway, also on another thread this was the reason why routes are being dropped from cvt and other aiports. i thought thom are getting mixed 737ng aircraft, it seems, it looks like only 738's. so is this goodbye to thom winter 08/09. has anyone have any idea when/if thom are announcing more routes, after all thom did say more routes to come.
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The B737-800 has operated a number of times in and out of Jersey, these flights tend to be on long sectors with a tech stop on the outbound leg, when they operate to Paphos in Cyprus when the are full they need to tech stop at Beauvais in France as the runway in Jersey is not long enough for a fully laden 800 on that type of sector
As for Thomson pulling out on some rotes it is for a number of reasons and one is not the load factors on the routes they are pullint but with the change within the company and the aircraft changeing to B737 800 jersey is not viable with the 800 as this goves the best pasrt of an increase on 40 percent or more load fact available.
With the routes Thomson operates to Jersey the B737 500 is of a good size to fill for the market they were aiming for so a LCC operation into Jersey an aircraft of a hundered is what the Jersey market can take.
As for Thomson pulling out on some rotes it is for a number of reasons and one is not the load factors on the routes they are pullint but with the change within the company and the aircraft changeing to B737 800 jersey is not viable with the 800 as this goves the best pasrt of an increase on 40 percent or more load fact available.
With the routes Thomson operates to Jersey the B737 500 is of a good size to fill for the market they were aiming for so a LCC operation into Jersey an aircraft of a hundered is what the Jersey market can take.
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The BBC press release of the TOM Jersey cutbacks talks about Coventry being retained for next Summer.
Looking on the Thomson Holidays website, it is possible to book Pisa from Coventry, but only on a Saturday, so that might come back?
The decision to axe a lot of city routes does not bode well for the likes of BCN, SZG, VLC, AMS and ORY for next Summer.
Looking on the Thomson Holidays website, it is possible to book Pisa from Coventry, but only on a Saturday, so that might come back?
The decision to axe a lot of city routes does not bode well for the likes of BCN, SZG, VLC, AMS and ORY for next Summer.
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It has been discussed earlier, and elsewhere; but I am led to believe that CVT and Jersey are not great airports to operate the 737-800 out of/into; so by basing the older a/c at CVT TFly can retain the CVT - Jersey route!
A friend who lives on the Island said this was reported on local radio (which is normally quite informative) as being the case; hence a lot of TFly's other bases having Jersey axed!!
Shame though.
A friend who lives on the Island said this was reported on local radio (which is normally quite informative) as being the case; hence a lot of TFly's other bases having Jersey axed!!
Shame though.
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I'm not sure the 737-800 is the only issue here. The CVT based 737-500's go back to the leasors in the first quarter of next year so any service from CVt will be operated by 737-300's. I'm not sure what the rate of disposal is for the 300's but feel certain there will be than the CVt based 300's in the fleet for next year at least.
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That is an encouraging result from September, thanks BHX5DME. Just now appears to be a shame that such a number will not be replicated for a few years at least, considering Thomsonfly's withdrawal from the cities, and halving the number oif aircraft to be based at Coventry next year.
Who knows, maybe with Wizz's announcement of expecting to have a fleet of 100+ aircraft by 2014, they might be looking towards Western Europe for bases...obviously Luton would probably be the first airport they would consider...wishful thinking.
Re the TOM situation with Jersey, axing flights from the other 3 bases might just be a blessing for this route from Coventry, particularly discontinuing Luton. Passengers living between Coventry and Luton who wish to go to Jersey will obviously now have less of a choice...unless someone replaces LTN-JER
Who knows, maybe with Wizz's announcement of expecting to have a fleet of 100+ aircraft by 2014, they might be looking towards Western Europe for bases...obviously Luton would probably be the first airport they would consider...wishful thinking.
Re the TOM situation with Jersey, axing flights from the other 3 bases might just be a blessing for this route from Coventry, particularly discontinuing Luton. Passengers living between Coventry and Luton who wish to go to Jersey will obviously now have less of a choice...unless someone replaces LTN-JER
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Wizz do not have a base at Luton, for the first time ever a single airframe will night stop this winter.
Thomson/TUI are in consolidation following the merger. Savings have to be proved to make this marriage worthwhile to shareholders, thus the cut backs. How this affects Coventry is to be debated, but ultimately, the runway length and future fleet types could hinder its progress?
The A320 must be more suited to Coventry than the -800?
Wizz is a successful brand within Eastern Europe and one that Coventry should be proud to have.
Thomson/TUI are in consolidation following the merger. Savings have to be proved to make this marriage worthwhile to shareholders, thus the cut backs. How this affects Coventry is to be debated, but ultimately, the runway length and future fleet types could hinder its progress?
The A320 must be more suited to Coventry than the -800?
Wizz is a successful brand within Eastern Europe and one that Coventry should be proud to have.