COVENTRY

[Frogga]

I've been informed that the scotch flight has now ended, aswell as one other, which flight number wasnt mentioned to me.

[Leofric]

The "Scotch flight", actually NPT874/5 EDI-CVT-EDI, operated normally all of last week as did EGL40H CVT-EDI. All the other regular freight flights also operated - Belfast, Belfast City, Kortijk, Eindhoven, Maastrict, Frankfurt(2), Paris, Dublin(3), Jersey, Liege.

[ATNotts]

CVT:

It's not so much the "credit crunch" (thats credit squeeze in English - as opposed to American) but the weak pound which has meant that, combined with the high cost of living in UK, migrant workers from Poland can now get a better overall standard of living in Poland, than they can in UK.

Unfortunately inbound tourism from the Polish regions isn't significant, except possibly to London, so without the flow of those migrant workers and the associated VFR traffic there are bound to be cuts, and I wouldn't mind betting that Ryanair won't be immune.

[jamesp]

the faro flight due in today is delayed until tomorrow. does anyone know if tom will be using 757 to bring today's pax as well as tomorrows ( approx the same time )

[airhumberside]

Is the SkyWings cargo service to Weeze still operating

[Leofric]

The Weeze service only lasted a very short time. Perhaps the reference to a ceased service was to this.

[call100]

Four new routes announced for next year..
Tunisia
Monastir
Zakynthos
Menorca
All thomsonfly....
Don't know any other details yet. A/c etc...

Thought they would be swarming the board with that one...

[Alvechurch]

call100

There was a teeny bit of swarming when these routes were announced in April.

[Shed-on-a-Pole]

Monastir (city) is located within Tunisia (country), so call100's list actually shows just three new Thomson routes unless the plan is to serve a second Tunisian destination as well.

Cheers, SHED.

[call100]

Sorry folks just quoted local rag and brain didn't connect the Monastir cockup.

Alvechurch...Yes, but they have just confirmed them have they not? Personally If they run I don't think they will last. There is still time for them to be pulled.
Fingers crossed for you though...

[cvt person]

There are four new routes from Thomsonfly, Corfu, Zakynthos, Menorca,and Monastir. All with seats predominantly sold through the associated holiday companies as Thomsonfly moves back to the charter model.

[MUFC_fan]

I'm sure TOM sell their flights seperately aswell on thomsonfly(dot)com. All charter carriers sell their seats seperately aswell so they can fill their a/c up.

Please correct if I am mistaken.

[Alvechurch]

New Routes

According to the Telegraph, the announcement has come from Coventry Airport with Thomsonfly confirming the routes.
This belated news which might have been expected in April when Coventry Airport began highlighting the four new routes on their website, does not of course have any connection with the Legal Appeal underway in London this week.

Will the High Court judge be impressed by such obvious spin?
Unlikely.

[cvt person]

MUFC You are correct the point I was hamfistedly trying to make was that Thomsonfly in general and at Coventry in particular possibly having seen the economic down turn on the way is moving away from routes that were dominated by seat only sales i.e. Paris and Amsterdam to holiday routes where they can block sell most of the seats to their associate holiday companies.
Alvechurch somehow doubt that a London based judge reads the Coventry Telegraph so if it was to influence the high court hearing its not a very productive way of going about it!! More likely a journalist who wasn't actually in court seeking something from the airports press spokesman to pad the story out.

[call100]

It would not influence anything anyway...The hearing is purely to decide if the judgement was legal. Not a rerun of the whole thing.

[A Very Civil Pilot]

Thomsonfly will now only have 1 aircraft based at CVT from October 2008.

[Leofric]

Not the only airport to have winter cutbacks. Planned to be back to 2/3 next summer.

[A Very Civil Pilot]

Agreed, not the only airport to have winter cutbacks, but the only one whose principal operator is rapidly pulling out of the scheculed market, and concentrating everything into medium and long haul charter. The CVT base (along with BOH) is out of step with the rest of TUI travels plans.

We'll find out more after the Tfly meeting today.

[airhumberside]

The BOH base has had a number of charter flights added for next summer leaving only Palma and Malaga as high frequency routes, and even then at only 3xWeek

[A Very Civil Pilot]

It's one aircraft for good now, although some routes will be a 'W' pattern from elsewhere.