GATWICK

[LGWWelsh]

Detained by the UK CAA due to A/C airworthiness. Will remain there until the CAA are happy for it to be released.

[compton3bravo]

Arrivals Board

Just looked on the arrivals board for London Gatwick on the website - what an absolute shambles. Still showing expected flights for the end of April would you believe and the beginning of May!
Get a grip somebody please, it is a total disgrace.

[oldbalboy]

totally agree, as crew based there its the easiest way to track my up coming duties but now having to trawl through lists of flts for as far back as may 1st!!! cant take a lot to clear the 'old' flts and keep it up to date especially considering the number of delays due ash cloud, must really be hacking off the fare paying customers!

[True Blue]

The Lgw on-line timetable is showing Gothenberg from 6th Sept with Ezy. Not yet showing on the Easyjet system, is this a new route not yet announced?

True Blue

[Seljuk22]

Sorry if it was mentioned before but Tunis Air starts (if the sky is clear) twice weekly flights to Monastir and Djerba these days.

[Airlift21]

CitylineSwiss: Angouleme to Gatwick

All flights fromm Angouleme to Gatwick have been cancelled until at least Autumn 2010. According to CitylineSwiss, the Angouleme Airport authorities have failed to fulfill their side of the agreement with the airline. At least thats what they told me when my flight to LGW was cancelled. Anyone got any more info on this?

[Charlie Roy]

All flights fromm Angouleme to Gatwick have been cancelled until at least Autumn 2010.

Some tiny random airline operating some tiny random route is never going to work in the long run. London to Angoulęme will only ever work with Ryanair (if they can be tempted back) or maybe even better Flybe (although they already fly to Limoges).

Airports like Limoges, Poitiers, La Rochelle, Bergerac, (brand new) Brive, and even Bergerac and Bordeaux are all competing against each other for UK routes. It's a pity for Angoulęme, it really is, but CitylineSwiss will never be the answer to their prayers. If they're that desperate for a route to London they should just let Ryanair operate there for half nothing...

[Airlift21]

Charlie Roy,
I can see your point. I've now booked another flight on the same day from Bordeaux to Gatwick with BA. If those airports are competing with each other then I seem to have got the best deal - quite cheap compared to the other operators on the same day from the other airports!

[BAladdy]

BA A320 at LGW

Just noticed that BA have a 162 seater A320 operating flights ex LGW tomorrow and Wednesday.

On Tuesday it is due to operate

BA2936/BA2937/BA2940/BA2941/BA2588/BA2589
LGW/EDI/LGW/EDI/LGW/VCE/LGW

On Wednesday it is due to operate

BA2362/BA2363/BA2960/BA2961/BA8039/BA8040
LGW/MRS/LGW/GLA/LGW/JER/LGW

Does anyone know if this is to cover a A319/734 that is tech or is this a permenant thing?. Are the cabin crew at LGW A320 trained?.

Thanks in advance for anymore info.

[Charlie Roy]

Does anyone know if this is to cover a A319/734 that is tech or is this a permenant thing?

It's probably a wet lease covering during the strike, no?

[BAladdy]

Nope checked that it is definatly gonna be operated by one of BA's A320's.

They recently reconfigured them from 156 to 162 seaters.

If BA charter a aircraft it shows as operated by that airline.

This is showing operated by British Airways

[cornishsimon]

by all accounts according to another forum one 734 is down at the moment and 2 A320's are over at LGW to increase capacity and allow customers to be transferred from LHR to LGW during the strike!

CS

[Skipness One Echo]

I saw G-EUYA heading out on the BAW2686 on 23rd May which was surprising seeing a newish Airbus at LGW. Given that the B734s are pretty long in the tooth now and there has been no order for replacement metal, will LGW short haul survive the retirement of the 737?

LHR doesn't have 20 spare Airbuses I'm sure.

[Serenity]

Had heard down the line from some BA managers that the 73s are not being replaced, gone by about 2012!!!

[BAladdy]

Todays A320 was G-EUYA so definatly BA aircraft.

BA recently bought upgrade kits for there 734's engines and does not expect to replace them to 2015 at the earliest
BA postpones retirement of 737-400 fleet

[cornishsimon]

yes the 734's will be around for some time to come yet at LGW
even though they burn more fuel they are still owned outright by BA so cheaper than buying new or paying leases

longterm i would expect to see A320 family or EMB195's replace the 734's at LGW so that there is a common fleet with either LHR or Cityflyer, after all Cityflyer have have now got most of them so should be in a fairly good position to evaluate the EMB's.

CS

[firstchoice7e7]

nice to see the classics staying around, though i hope they do a cabin upgrade. Lufthansa are also keeping their 733/735 fleet and upgrading their engines, so BA arent the only ones.

[BAladdy]

longterm i would expect to see A320 family or EMB195's replace the 734's at LGW so that there is a common fleet with either LHR or Cityflyer, after all Cityflyer have have now got most of them so should be in a fairly good position to evaluate the EMB's.

I think the replacement will be Airbus. As Airbus crew are dual based at the moment (LHR/LGW). LCY/JFK airbus crew come from LGW.

I think the 734's will be replaced by the A319. BA may also add a small fleet of A318's for routes like LUX, MAN, GLA and EDI.

[cornishsimon]

I think the 734's will be replaced by the A319. BA may also add a small fleet of A318's for routes like LUX, MAN, GLA and EDI.

I always thought that the domestic routes carried really good loads so why would they want to downgrade the equipment to a A318 ?

[Charlie Roy]

Göteborg

New Easyjet route starting September:
Gatwick to Gothenburg Landvetter (GOT)
Starting mid-September. Flights are daily, departing Gatwick at 11:45 and arriving in Gatwick at 16:25

Gothenburg is a brand new destination for Easyjet.