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David Amurun, Air Nigeria’s Country Manager for the UK said: “Air Nigeria’s return to its long hub operations with a London-Lagos route is exciting news for passengers. Gatwick Airport has excellent links into London and the South East making it easily accessible for business travellers and passengers wishing to fly between the UK and Nigeria to spend time with friends and family. We look forward to commencing flights in September. “
Air Nigeria’s preference to operate its London-Lagos route from Gatwick sends a strong message that Gatwick is changing and becoming the London airport of choice for airlines wishing to establish and develop a strong London network
Air Nigeria’s preference to operate its London-Lagos route from Gatwick sends a strong message that Gatwick is changing and becoming the London airport of choice for airlines wishing to establish and develop a strong London network
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In other news, the Gatwick timetable is show the presitgious Harare service being operated as follows :
RZA800 / 801 0630 0830 Wed Fri Sun
Who they? Google was not my friend.
RZA800 / 801 0630 0830 Wed Fri Sun
Who they? Google was not my friend.
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Virgin to launch Cancun (2 weekly, B744) on 12th June 2012.
Virgin Atlantic Announces Nonstop Service to Cancun Beginning in 2012 -- SOUTH NORWALK, Conn., June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Virgin Atlantic Announces Nonstop Service to Cancun Beginning in 2012 -- SOUTH NORWALK, Conn., June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
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Haj-lgw/stn
German wings still offer this route at STN, I wonder if Air Berlin passengers have jumped over to them ? or there might be some other reason but it does seem strange for Air Berlin to drop the route so soon after the move.
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...not only 4U going HAJ-STN twice-daily, but also LH (operated by BD) 3x daily HAJ-LHR. Not much room for AB to squeeze-in. Possibly also the 'wrong plane', i.e. a turbo-prop instead of the jets the others run (or the other way around: Jet too big for the market). AB is more expensive than 4U on average, and its cost base is much higher than 4U's and also BD, which LH cleverly use to avoid 'their' unions and the (currently) strong Euro. HAJ is quite a small market in reality, squeezed between HAM, BER and even FRA (fast trains). AB didn't get their direct LON-BER to work, you wonder what they can do. Their business attitude is very 'German' and somehow 'wrong' for the UK market. One of the 'more in trouble than others' airlines of Europe, let's see where OneWorld takes them. My impression w.r.t. LGW is: Don't count on them.
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also BD, which LH cleverly use to avoid 'their' unions and the (currently) strong Euro
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Well it is currently unserved from LGW and EZY dont seem to like FRA much as they say that it is 'overcrowded' which is why they don't serve it. There will also probably be some connecting traffic although I would have thought with LHR up the road at least 3 daily flights would be needed to keep the route competitive and viable for fussy business travelers! What Aircraft are they planning on using, I presume it's either a 733/735 or A319/A320/A321.
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LH to LGW is indeed a bit of a surprise but when you consider that Lufthansa Italia is to be wound up/closed etc at Milan, Easyjets presence at Milan Malpensa has to be part of the challenge for LH there. Nonetheless, the presence of LH on LGW Germany service may make FRA less attractive for EZY and encourage them to avoid the route, or maybe may spur EZY on to challenge LH ex LGW.
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now official:
Will be twice daily on Boeing 737-500, probably mostly aimed at attracting long haul connecting pax living in the south of England who do not like to go all the way to LHR just to catch a LH flight through FRA when heading to the Far East...
As such, I think it is more to be seen as competition for the gulf carriers who serve LGW, than it is to prevent EZY from ever serving FRA really, although it also does that at the same time.
Lufthansa -*London Gatwick new addition to Lufthansa programme
Will be twice daily on Boeing 737-500, probably mostly aimed at attracting long haul connecting pax living in the south of England who do not like to go all the way to LHR just to catch a LH flight through FRA when heading to the Far East...
As such, I think it is more to be seen as competition for the gulf carriers who serve LGW, than it is to prevent EZY from ever serving FRA really, although it also does that at the same time.
Lufthansa -*London Gatwick new addition to Lufthansa programme
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LH vs. EZY at LGW
LH's point is to compete with EZY even before they start operating from FRA. Purely political decision. EZY has assigned slots for Winter 2011 for two flights FRA-LGW and is expected to say something about this sometime soon, and LH want to show their power at FRA (they even own 10% of the airport company). Also the prices are so low, it seems they want to hit FR STN-HHN also. But the schedule is not ideal, e.g. outbound from FRA at 16:00 is too early for most people. LH used to go FRA-STN in the past to annoy FR, as some may remember. I don't believe this will stop EZY in any way, just that LH _hates_ to see them at FRA and would fly this plane empty if necessary. EZY's other planned route FRA-GVA would break a valuable LH monopoly. Oh, people on airliners.de are speculating about AB FRA-LGW in a OW context, but that doesn't seem obvious to me at all (due to the leisure-only BA destinations from LGW).
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Interesting news certainly.
Perhaps the AB speculation you speak of, would be a link for passengers going the other way on OW. Ie, not PAX wanting to fly to Germany and beyond from the UK, but instead, German pax who would want to fly to the destinations in the Caribbean etc etc, which are only served by BA from LGW.
Perhaps the AB speculation you speak of, would be a link for passengers going the other way on OW. Ie, not PAX wanting to fly to Germany and beyond from the UK, but instead, German pax who would want to fly to the destinations in the Caribbean etc etc, which are only served by BA from LGW.
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Does anyone have any info as to when the Hellenic Airways flights from Athens to LGW will start?they were due to start on 1/7 then were put back to 3/7-and on the lgw website the last 3 flight days have had canx by them(and todays)
It is due to be operated by A340 and i am looking forward to seeing this!
Thanks
Does anyone have any info as to when the Hellenic Airways flights from Athens to LGW will start?they were due to start on 1/7 then were put back to 3/7-and on the lgw website the last 3 flight days have had canx by them(and todays)
It is due to be operated by A340 and i am looking forward to seeing this!
Thanks
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Hi
Does anyone have any info as to when the Hellenic Airways flights from Athens to LGW will start?they were due to start on 1/7 then were put back to 3/7-and on the lgw website the last 3 flight days have had canx by them(and todays)
It is due to be operated by A340 and i am looking forward to seeing this!
Thanks
Does anyone have any info as to when the Hellenic Airways flights from Athens to LGW will start?they were due to start on 1/7 then were put back to 3/7-and on the lgw website the last 3 flight days have had canx by them(and todays)
It is due to be operated by A340 and i am looking forward to seeing this!
Thanks
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Flights to LGW are no longer availabe online. Hopefully the will go back on sale once the A343 is delivered.
The carrier is currently using a A 458 seater747-200 reg SX-TID to operate the JFK service