GATWICK

[toledoashley]

It is interesting that many of these new routes which have popped up at Gatwick are not 'traditional' leisure destinations i.e Beach... Costa Rica, although does have a beach market is more about the wildlife, and Lima is also more adventure... The reintroduction of New York, and the addition of Oakland and Fort Lauderdale as a direct competition to Norwegian.

Those traditional beach routes are being mopped up by Thomson/TUI, even with BA pushing the holidays component hard - so its not just Norwegian they are competing against. TUI are now introducing Sri Lanka (which BA dropped at the Maldives tag), in addition to the new Mauritius route...

[AirportPlanner1]

Granada is a nice place but good luck to EZY getting it to work long-term. FR, ZB and BA have all been and gone in the last ten years or so.

[jdcg]

BA still operate from LCY

[compton3bravo]

With reference to Granada, I would have thought easy would have commenced the service from December to take advantage of the ski season in the Sierra Nevada which is close by. Lovely city Granada but gets very very busy in the summer - Alhambra etc - and gets very hot as well - up to 40C but wish the service well but would not be surprised to see it pulled after one season.

[toledoashley]

Granada is now on sale - as expected - 3x p/w Tu/Th/Sat.

[True Blue]

Air Canada Rouge starting Vancouver 3 weekly from June 17.

[adfly]

Air Canada appear to be swapping 3 of the Toronto flights for Vancouver next summer. As it stands, this is how LGW-Canada is looking next summer:

Air Canada Rouge

Toronto - 4 weekly 763
Vancouver (New!) - 3 weekly 763

Air Transat

Calgary - 3 weekly 332
Montreal - 3 weekly 313
Toronto - 10 weekly 333/332/313 (7x/2x/1x)
Vancouver - 7 weekly 332

Westjet

Calgary - 5 weekly 763
Edmonton - 2 weekly 763
Ottawa - 7 weekly 737 (via St John's)
St John's - 7 weekly 737
Toronto - 7 weekly 763
Vancouver - 6 weekly 763
Winnipeg - 1 weekly 763

[canberra97]

So no more Halifax or St Johns flights then from Air Transat for 2017?

Strange that Halifax will be dropped especially as Westjet are not flying the route.

[Skipness One Echo]

Rouge blinked first on Toronto I see. I suspect that might go back to daily nearer the time....

[adfly]

Tianjin Airlines

Tianjin Airlines are increasing the frequency of their Gatwick-Chongqing-Tianjin route to 3 weekly, and also introducing a new Gatwick-Xi'an-Tianjin route, although the frequency of the latter is not get confirmed.

www.businesstraveller.com/news/2016/11/10/tianjin-airlines-to-increase-uk-services/

[Skipness One Echo]

Tunis Air appear to have either moved from LHR or are splitting LHR/LGW as TU790 today is inbound Gatwick.

[c52]

TU790 has been the flight number to London for at least a few years, regardless of the airport.

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by Skipness One Echo

Tunis Air appear to have either moved from LHR or are splitting LHR/LGW as TU790 today is inbound Gatwick.

Tomorrow's shows as reverting to LHR on the Heathrow website, then none at all after that, and the only one I can find on the LGW website is today's.

Very strange.

[vectisman]

Did post this elsewhere but no suggestions yet. Anyone on here able to suggest a reason? Thanks.


Just being curious but is there any reason why the Gatwick to Cape Town flights
do not seem to be appearing on the Gatwick arrival and departure boards? Well at least not on the Gatwick website. Several flights have already taken place. They have been clearly visible on flight radar so are operating. BA2064 is en route now due in at Gatwick at 0505 Sat morning(now arrived) but again nothing on the arrivals board. Is this just a glitch? All these flights have appeared on the arrivals/departure boards on the BA site. As I said just curious.

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by DaveReidUK

Tomorrow's shows as reverting to LHR on the Heathrow website, then none at all after that, and the only one I can find on the LGW website is today's.

TAR790/791 now seems to have settled down as TUN/LGW Mondays and Thursdays and TUN/LHR on the other days (doesn't operate on Wednesdays).

Still a bit strange.

[sewushr]

The Tunisair operation to London has been split between Heathrow and Gatwick for more than a year now (possibly as much as two years?) Twice weekly to Gatwick and four weekly to Heathrow

[wallp]

Norwegian

Norwegian don't seem to be letting BA put them off with some significant expansion plans

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/270203/norwegian-proposing-london-gatwick-trans-atlantic-expansion-in-s17/

Interesting departure time for the second JFK flight. Will that be the earliest departure from London by any airline?

[toledoashley]

From what I have heard, the expansion from Gatwick for next summer has been in the pipeline for a while.

That second NYC frequency is interesting, and strikes me as something they could do on the Boston (with a 737MAX) as well when they arrive.

[inOban]

Out and back in a day from LGW. I wonder who wants to leave NY at 12.00 and get into LGW at around midnight.

[EI-A330-300]

Well if Aer Lingus can make it work, DY should have a market for it.