GATWICK

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by 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

You're not wrong.

It appears that the Monday flight swapped from LHR to LGW in September 2014 and the Thursday one a couple of months later.

Must pay more attention.

[davidjohnson6]

Oban - Ryanair have shown there are plenty of people who will put up with landing at Stansted around 11 pm if the price is low enough... have a look at Easyjet flights arriving into Gatwick or Luton at midnight or even 1 am

[adfly]

Seems to have slipped past people on here but Thomson are launching a weekly Gatwick - Phu Quoc (Vietnam) service next winter and adding an extra bi-weekly service to Phuket, bringing it to 1.5 weekly flights. Good to see the far east destinations are performing well for them.

Looks like 6 based 789's for Norwegian in the summer based on the increases posted.

[adfly]

Notice that the Med-View flights to Lagos have been upgraded to a 744 quite a few times recently. Hopefully this is a sign the route is performing well, and they seem to have some quite favourable reviews on the likes of Tripadvisor etc for a small carrier with a fairly dated fleet.

[True Blue]

CX going daily to HKG from 1st June 2017.

[toledoashley]

Varna is a new route for easyJet next summer.

[crewmeal]

Ryanair have shown there are plenty of people who will put up with landing at Stansted around 11 pm if the price is low enough... have a look at Easyjet flights arriving into Gatwick or Luton at midnight or even 1 am

And then complain bitterly on social media about having to wait for immigration and their bags vowing never to travel with FR or Easy again!

[tubby linton]

EGKK-A4553/16 *** NEW ***
From: 22/12/2016 01:00 UTC
To: 22/12/2016 03:00 UTC
DUE TO LATE NOTICE STAFF SHORTAGES LONDON GATWICK APPROACH WILL BE
CLOSED.DURING THIS PERIOD GATWICK DIRECTOR FREQ 126.825 MHZ WILL NOT
BE MONITORED AND ATC APPROACH SERVICES WILL NOT BE AVAVABLE. AIRCRAFT
WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE AN APPROACH DURING THIS CLOSURE.

[AerRyan]

3 diversions as far as I can see, doesn't look to be any more disruption as far as I can see.

[T250]

NATS are responsible for the approach control to Gatwick (as well as most other major London airports). Nothing to do with the airport themselves.

Maybe more suited to ATC Issues than here

[True Blue]

Pegasus Airlines

Does anyone on here know for sure if Pegasus Airlines will operate Lgw - Istanbul this summer? I have flights booked for May, but after I booked, the flights were taken off sale. They still show times, but no prices. I have contacted Pegasus and they assure me flights will be operating. However, my confidence is weakening as the flights have been off sale now for at least a month and I have read about Pegasus contacting pax only a few days before travel is due to advise flights have been cancelled. I have the additional issue of a connecting flight into Lgw to then travel on Pegasus for 4 of us. We are travelling through to Bodrum via Istanbul.

[jdcg]

I doubt that even Pegasus know.The security situation in Turkey is so volatile at the moment and Pegasus have already reduced capacity. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that continues. Pegasus came fairly late to LGW. They're much more likely to drop LGW than the well established STN, not least as most of the Turks in London live in the North East.

[Skipness One Echo]

Noticed a Virgin B744 departing from the North Terminal today, were passengers bussed from South airside? The planned BA 777 to JFK was on 31 with BA having a desk in Zone A. However Gatwick's decision to be the only aiport I have encountered who thinks FIDS screens landside are superfluous meant BA employed a small Pakistani looking chap to stand with a plastic sign at the railway station entrance holding a laminated sign saying "BA2273 JFK". There was literally nothing eles to help you. Oh Gatters......

They've removed all the landside FIDS screens from North now as well, assuming LGW's once a year travellers don't get too confused by necessary levels of detail......

[davidjohnson6]

Finnair to open a 2x weekly (Thurs + Sun) winter seasonal route to Ivalo in northern Finland beginning 14 December 2017

[BAladdy]

Tianjin Airlines are adding a 2 x weekly service to Xi'an starting 19th June 2017

Tianjin Airlines files Xi?An ? London Gatwick schedule from June 2017 :: Routesonline

[adfly]

Long Haul S17

Since there is unlikely to be any major changes between now and March and I have too much time on my hands today, I'll try to summarise LGW's long haul network this summer. As ever, let me know of any changes and corrections.

Air Canada Rouge

Toronto - 4 weekly 763
Vancouver (New!) - 3 weekly 763 (from 08/06)

Air Transat

Calgary - 3 weekly 332
Montreal - 3 weekly 313
Toronto - 7-10 weekly 333/332/313 (7x/2x/1x)
Vancouver - 6-7 weekly 332

British Airways - 13x 772 based

Antigua - 6 weekly 772
Barbados - 7 weekly 772
Bermuda - 7 weekly 772
Cancun - 3 weekly 772
Fort Lauderdale (New!) - 3-4 weekly 772 (from 06/07)
Grenada - 2 weekly 772 (via UVF)
Kingston - 4 weekly 772
Lima - 3 weekly 772
Mauritius - 3 weekly 772
New York JFK - 7 weekly 772
Oakland (New!) - 4 weekly 772 (from 28/03)
Orlando - 13-14 weekly 772
Port of Spain - 5 weekly 772 (via UVF)
Providenciales - 2 weekly 772 (via ANU)
Punta Cana - 3-4 weekly 772
St Kitts - 2 weekly 772 (via ANU)
St Lucia - 7 weekly 772
San Jose de Costa Rica - 2 weekly 772
Tampa - 7 weekly 772
Tobago - 2 weekly 772 (via ANU)

Cathay Pacific

Hong Kong - 7 weekly 359

Emirates

Dubai - 21 weekly 388

Iraqi Airways

Baghdad - 1 weekly 738
Sulaymaniyah - 1 weekly 738

Med-View Airline

Lagos - 4 weekly 763/744

Norwegian Long Haul - 5x 789 based

Boston - 4 weekly 789
Fort Lauderdale - 2 weekly 789
Los Angeles - 7 weekly 789
New York JFK - 13 weekly 789
Oakland - 5 weekly 789
Orlando - 3 weekly 789

Thomas Cook Airlines - 1x 332 based

Cancun - 2 weekly 332
Orlando - 3 weekly 332
Sal - 1 weekly 321

Thomson Airways - 2x 788, 1x789 based

Aruba - 1 weekly 788
Boa Vista - 3 weekly 752
Cancun - 6 weekly 788/789
Liberia - 1 weekly 788
Mauritius - 1 weekly 788
Montego Bay - 3 weekly 788
Orlando Sanford - 2 weekly 789
Puerto Plata - 1 weekly 788
Puerto Vallarta - 1 weekly 789
Punta Cana - 3 weekly 788/789
Sal - 2 weekly 752
St Lucia (New!) - 1 weekly 788 (from 04/05)
Varadero - 1 weekly 788

Tianjin Airlines

Chongqing - 2 weekly 332
Tianjin - 4 weekly 332 (via CKG/XIY)
Xi'an (New!) - 2 weekly 332 (from 20/06)

Virgin Atlantic Airways 5x 744, 2x 333 based (have used google flights and press releases as the new website is painful to use)

Antigua - 3 weekly 333
Barbados - 7-9 weekly 333
Cancun - 3 weekly 744
Grenada - 2 weekly 333 (via UVF)
Havana - 2 weekly 744
Las Vegas - 7-9 weekly 744
Montego Bay - 3 weekly 744
Orlando - 12-17 weekly 744
St Lucia - 4 weekly 333 (1 via ANU)
Tobago - 1 weekly 333 (via UVF)
Varadero (New!) 1 weekly 744 (from 02/04)

Westjet

Calgary - 5-6 weekly 763
Edmonton - 2 weekly 763 (only an 8 week season)
St John's - 7 weekly 737
Toronto - 7 weekly 763
Vancouver - 6-7 weekly 763
Winnipeg - 1 weekly 763 (only an 8 week season)

Average weekly departures = 280-289 Some of the increases are outside of the peak season, i.e. VS flying 9 weekly to BGI and LAS in April/May, I have tried to account for this in my averages although its by no means exact.
Average daily departures = 40-41

I count 45 destinations.

Unsurprisingly, Orlando is the most frequent, with up to 37 weekly departures (39 including Sanford), followed by Dubai and Toronto at 21 weekly each, and New York with 20 weekly flights then Vancouver with up to 18.

[vectisman]

Adfly.
I believe 13 777s will be based by British Airways for the Gatwick operation next summer.

[adfly]

Thanks vectisman, BA really have added 777's to LGW at quite a rate recently!

[Skipness One Echo]

Arrived on VS028 Tue morning, last day of Virgin in South Terminal after 32 years! Oddly enough they've already flown a proving flight from North with G-VROM last week. Going to be so odd to see BA on Pier 2 and 3 next to Norwegian.
Real winner is easyJet who get what is surely the best terminal on their whole network, albeit one with airbridges. Glass barriers going up to create gate rooms last week so going to be less open and airy going forward. Good to see LGW growing again now they can concentrate on their strenghts as a decent p2p airport rather than fantasies about hubs that no airline ever asked for.
Just a shame BA continue to have the poorest of their hard product at Gatters. Show them some love please? There's nothing left to cut! Second meal on BA long haul is now a two finger KitKat in Y. As I said, changed days.....

[davidjohnson6]

Skipness - I'm not so sure Easyjet came off best in the terminal move. South still has the train station... counts for a lot when the train from Victoria to Gatters is delayed and the security barriers have a conformance policy to discourage runners who only have hand luggage