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Yes, GA. I took it to Jakarta in '94 and that was one hell of a long slog, delays in cdg, refuel in Abu Dhabi, stop in Singapore before arriving in Jakarta 26 hours later.
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Well that's....interesting. Changi from Gatters and not connecting with SIA, it's hardly low yield leisure. Anyone ever seen a disclosed P&L properly for Norwegian Long haul? This is market changing growth, BA have nothing to offer in this space and increasingly refurbished B777s don't look like any kind of answer.
Skipness - you might want to have a look here:
https://www.norwegian.com/uk/about/c...tor-relations/
https://www.norwegian.com/globalasse...eport_2016.pdf
https://www.norwegian.com/uk/about/c...tor-relations/
https://www.norwegian.com/globalasse...eport_2016.pdf
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And the food was amazing too, the whole experience of that flight even to this day has to be my all time best.
.....I actually loved the marathons from LGW on GA. Did a few in the 90's, the last being the start of my RTW honeymoon in '95 with a little LGW-AUH-BKK-CGK-(a/c change)-DPS jaunt. More fun than 14hrs sat in the same place!
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westjet B787-900 order
Today 02 May westjet announced they have placed firm order for 20 B787-900s first to be delivered 2019 so we might see the end of the old Qantas 767s thank good
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Slot capacity
What sort of capacity is Gatwick running at? I was interested to read about Rwandair starting thrice weekly flights return flights from KGL to LGW - made me think about how close Gatwick is to full slot allocation for departures and arrivals.
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As has been mentioned elsewhere, Air Europa are going to start codesharing with Ryanair. The idea of course being that Air Europa offers the long haul flight to Latin America while Ryanair does the short haul between Madrid and places in Europe.
Air Europa flies Gatwick-Madrid twice per day. Anyone want to say whether this might see some reductions in frequency ?
Air Europa flies Gatwick-Madrid twice per day. Anyone want to say whether this might see some reductions in frequency ?
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Why would it, Ryanair don't fly LGW-MAD, if anything it'll increase as Air Europa can send off less lucrative routes to Ryanair.
Last edited by AerRyan; 23rd May 2017 at 12:58.
Ryanair fly STN-MAD 4x per day against Air Europa flying LGW-MAD 2x per day
Air Europa do not have a strong premium brand in the UK and are presumably struggling to be cost competitive on point-to-point against the likes of Easyjet and Ryanair for London-Madrid
Air Europa do not have a strong premium brand in the UK and are presumably struggling to be cost competitive on point-to-point against the likes of Easyjet and Ryanair for London-Madrid
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Arrived Gatwick Sunday afternoon and passed through Border control in less that a minute, North terminal. I then went back through security to connect to a domestic flight, no delay at all. Really good experience.
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Looks like major problems at Gatwick this morning in both North and South terminals with the baggage system I'm hearing flights are leaving with no or only some of the bags passengers being told to fly without checked in baggage and it will be flown on to the destination on a later flight
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Norwegian will increase frequencies to the US next winter
Norwegian boosts London - US flights in W17 :: Routesonline
Norwegian boosts London - US flights in W17 :: Routesonline
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I see Norwegian seem to be dropping Budapest and Larnaca at the end of October as well. I know they are only 5 flights a week, but is the short-haul expansion at Gatwick over in favour of long-haul?
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There is already competition from LGW to Larnaca and I would have thought that Budapest was a very marginal route so I am not totally surprised with Norwegian cancelling these two destinations so the slots can be used for their long haul operations.
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