GATWICK

[racedo]

racedo - as a child, my parents tried to teach me (although not sure they succeeded very well!) the mantra of "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"
Perhaps something we should all try to follow ?

DJ

Sometimes you are a bit naughty as well

[canberra97]

I thought racedo made a fair enough comment tongue in cheek yes but all the same quite humourous with some sense of truth attached to it!

[Trash 'n' Navs]

Another runway closure after surface break up!!?

Diverts to LHR and lengthy air holding.

Who was responsible for their resurfacing works? Seems it wasn't that good a job...

[lfc84]

these baggage wait times are horiffic

[FRatSTN]

Do we know if those flights even landed On-time in the first place? Gatwick has some horrific OTP as I'm sure most of us are aware.

[Hial Flyer]

The EK009 was def late as it diverted to LHR due to the delays.

[SteveHP7]

Was that the EK9 divert last night 9/9 or earlier in the week?

[Hial Flyer]

Diverted on 9/9.

[coathanger16]

Excuse my rather lame sketch but a rebuild of pier 3 seems feasible.

I don't know what the buildings around South Terminal are used for, and I'm not an expert on airport planning, but I can't see any reason why its not possible. Impact on pier 4 should be minimal.

Only problem I can envisage is accommodating the airlines that use pier 3 during construction. I don't know about gate availability at Gatwick - could they be shifted elsewhere or would it be a remote stand and bus scenario? With BA moving to the South Terminal a new lounge could even be built there???

[canberra97]

Coathanger16

The new BA lounges currently being built in the South Terminal in preparation for there move on 25 January 2017 are where the former VS lounges are situated.

[T250]

Excuse my rather lame sketch but a rebuild of pier 3 seems feasible.

I don't know what the buildings around South Terminal are used for, and I'm not an expert on airport planning, but I can't see any reason why its not possible. Impact on pier 4 should be minimal.

Only problem I can envisage is accommodating the airlines that use pier 3 during construction. I don't know about gate availability at Gatwick - could they be shifted elsewhere or would it be a remote stand and bus scenario? With BA moving to the South Terminal a new lounge could even be built there???

Pier 3 currently has 8 (Code E) stands, but several are split and can accommodate a Left/Right config for 2x Code C's or below such as 33L/33R, 32L/32R etc.

The buildings around the current pier 3 are crucial currently, they house the Airport's ID Centre and other administration offices. Not to mention a recently renovated brand new crew reporting building and associated staff security point too. Doubt these will be moved.

The ideal plan for reconfiguring Pier 3 is to actually get rid of just the connecting part of the Pier, and make taxiway Lima stretch all the way round to join Kilo by stand 31/15.

This would eliminate the cul-de-sac of both Pier 2 and Pier 3. So in other words, Pier 3 would be still the circle that it is, but with a taxiway continuing past stand 38 and probably going through current stand 31 on the other side to connect to taxiway Kilo.

[MAJP]

Vueling to Rennes

Vueling to Rennes from November 29th , with 3 weekly flights.

Schedules:

VY7525 RNS 13:50-14:05 LGW 320 4
VY7525 RNS 13:55-14:10 LGW 320 2
VY7525 RNS 16:50-17:05 LGW 320 6

VY7524 LGW 14:50-17:10 RNS 320 2
VY7524 LGW 14:55-17:15 RNS 320 4
VY7524 LGW 17:45-20:05 RNS 320 6

[Flightrider]

Rennes, starting in winter, at two months' lead time, with an A320? What is the world coming to? It's totally the wrong size of aircraft at the wrong frequency for that type of route and on sale very late. Madness.

[j636]

Are they minding some slots for themselves or others in IAG.

[kcockayne]

Rennes is fairly local to me & I have some knowledge of the potential demand for this route. On the face of it, this seems to be a highly optimistic operation. But, with low cost carriers you simply don't know what is going to happen. Perhaps Vueling will prove the doubters (including me) wrong.

[AirportPlanner1]

This has got slot-sitter all over it. You can't tell me they've looked at the SEN operation which has steady but unspectacular loads on its two daily prop flights and thought "this route is a goldmine which really needs a lot of off-peak capacity on odd days starting during the route's quietest period"!

If they are slot-sitting I can think of better routes to try if it's really short routes they're after.

[johnnychips]

If they are slot-sitting I can think of better routes to try if it's really short routes they're after.

LGW-BOH: The trains are pretty rubbish.

[strawberry Ribena]

Fourth Emirates flight ek23/24 has been cancelled, allegedly, due to lack of demand.

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/...-due-oct-2016/

[Seljuk22]

EZY to launch Ljubljana from 5th December
easyJet Media Centre

[AvGeek1]

Originally Posted by Seljuk22

EZY to launch Ljubljana from 5th December
easyJet Media Centre

4 weekly flights using a mix of A319's and A320's. Stansted flights are currently at 6 weekly so 10 weekly flights to Ljubljana overall from London with EZY.