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Sorry flitefone but you are incorrect. At the moment there are 10 A320 based at Gatwick and 11 ex BMI A319 until March. A tenth G-GAT** will join them in April along with 4 more ex BMI A320 from LHR for the summer season. Other airbus from LHR also supplement at times to cover maintenance and at times to increase their utilisation. At the moment there are 10 Boeing 777 based but will be joined by an 11th when Gatwick-New York starts in May. The number of routes and flights has increased quite a bit in the last couple of years. You can always check by looking at the BA Jet Tracker at BA Source. Choose an aircraft and check where they are flying to and from. For Summer 2016 I stick by my total of 37.
Hope thius helps.
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Hope thius helps.
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In fact today one A320 and one A319 are flying from Gatwick that are normally based at Heathrow. The G-GAT* tend to stay at Gatwick but most of the others can swap around. Now the Boeing 7373 are gone and there are Airbus pilot bases at both airports it make it easier.
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I believe that 3 BA airbus overnight at Glasgow, Edinburgh and Jersey. The majority of the 777 are also away from base overnight. Easyjet also have night stops, maybe about half a dozen. Some of their (Easyjet) early morning arrivals are also on aircraft based elsewhere.
I agree though, there are a lot of might stopping aircraft during the summer. When returning from trips to Paphos which tend to arrive around 2230/2330 or later as you taxi in you can many aircraft parked up for the night. Most stands are used, remote or otherwise.
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I agree though, there are a lot of might stopping aircraft during the summer. When returning from trips to Paphos which tend to arrive around 2230/2330 or later as you taxi in you can many aircraft parked up for the night. Most stands are used, remote or otherwise.
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Gatwick BA Fleet.
Flitephone, there are 10 A320s, 11 A319s, and 10 772s based at LGW. As vectisman says there are often substitutions from LHR to cover maint. I'm not sure where you are getting your info from but it is wrong! 
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Sierra Leone
Of general interest, but could anyone "in tune" with LGW schedules possible advise the current status of flights to/from Sierra Leone? I understand that an airline, Fly Salone, may be operating with a leased Icelandair 757....would this be on a scheduled or part-charter/scheduled-charter basis? Freetown does not seem to appear as a destination from LGW on the official (LGW) website, at least not in the drop-downlist of destinations served.
Also are there any rumours or plans for BA to re-start ops to FNA?
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Also are there any rumours or plans for BA to re-start ops to FNA?
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Been a long day.....Night stopping fewer aircraft away from Base saves costs for sure.
There's only ~40 on terminal stands at the North Terminal, some of which don't have an airbridge for the right hand stand.
http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/pamsl..._2_EGKK_2-2_en
The BA based short haul fleet at LGW consists of
- 11 ex BMI A319s G-DBCA-K
- 1 ex BMED A320 G-MEDK
- 9 second hand A320s with the tenth having fallen through due to QA issues, the 10th is currently at Woensdrecht.
For the summer peak a number of LHR based A319s are rotated through as required but BA are still not even half the size of easyJet in short haul.
http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/pamsl..._2_EGKK_2-2_en
The BA based short haul fleet at LGW consists of
- 11 ex BMI A319s G-DBCA-K
- 1 ex BMED A320 G-MEDK
- 9 second hand A320s with the tenth having fallen through due to QA issues, the 10th is currently at Woensdrecht.
For the summer peak a number of LHR based A319s are rotated through as required but BA are still not even half the size of easyJet in short haul.
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I was under the impression that Garuda was moving to Lhr at the start of the summer timetable. Flights from Lgw are still showing right into the summer. Are they still moving?
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Garuda Indonesia Non-Stop service for 2016
Hi Guys,
I've been member on here for a while but haven't posted on the Gatwick page.
In regards to Garuda Indonesia, I was under the same impression about their transfer to LHR. However I've just seen a recent article from Anna Aero who have a piece about Garuda at Gatwick and they clearly explain that they are committed to LGW as there is demand from that region for their service.
It also states they are looking to make the service non-stop to Jakarta this year. Let's see what happens as things change on a daily basis!
Check out the link below
anna.aero meets with Garuda Indonesia at WTM in London
I've been member on here for a while but haven't posted on the Gatwick page.
In regards to Garuda Indonesia, I was under the same impression about their transfer to LHR. However I've just seen a recent article from Anna Aero who have a piece about Garuda at Gatwick and they clearly explain that they are committed to LGW as there is demand from that region for their service.
It also states they are looking to make the service non-stop to Jakarta this year. Let's see what happens as things change on a daily basis!
Check out the link below
anna.aero meets with Garuda Indonesia at WTM in London
heneghanj - welcome to the Gatwick thread and hope you get as much out of it as others do.
Sorry to be picky but the Garuda interview at anna.aero wad published on 04-Nov-2015 while news about Garuda moving to Heathrow came out in public around 18-Nov-2015, about two weeks later. While it may have been based entirel on correct info at the time, I'm not sure we can rely too much on the contents of the interview in 2016.
Sorry to be picky but the Garuda interview at anna.aero wad published on 04-Nov-2015 while news about Garuda moving to Heathrow came out in public around 18-Nov-2015, about two weeks later. While it may have been based entirel on correct info at the time, I'm not sure we can rely too much on the contents of the interview in 2016.
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The article you posted was from the WTM in October 2015, I think you can discount what the General Manager for UK & Ireland Jubi Prasetyo actually says as obviously the situation has changed since that article was written and I think Garuda actually made a press release in November regarding the transfer of their Jakarta route from LGW to LHR commencing at the end of March 2016 at the beginning of the IATA summer season and have supposedly gained a few evening slots with departures from Terminal 4 sharing with other Skyteam members and connections.
I have googled several times but can not find any schedule for LHR so it may be the fact that Garuda were not able to obtain the appropriate slots for their planned schedule from LHR or have decided to stay at LGW at least until they can find suitable slots at LHR.
I personally would like to see Garuda remain at LGW but looking at it from the airlines perspective it makes far more sense for them to transfer to LHR and move in with fellow Skyteam members at Terminal 4.
I have googled several times but can not find any schedule for LHR so it may be the fact that Garuda were not able to obtain the appropriate slots for their planned schedule from LHR or have decided to stay at LGW at least until they can find suitable slots at LHR.
I personally would like to see Garuda remain at LGW but looking at it from the airlines perspective it makes far more sense for them to transfer to LHR and move in with fellow Skyteam members at Terminal 4.
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Fly Salone have ACMI'd the aircraft in and flights should be showing on the LGW webpage.
BA have not shown any interest in restarting FNA since they pulled out back in 2014.
Fly Salone have ACMI'd the aircraft in and flights should be showing on the LGW webpage.
BA have not shown any interest in restarting FNA since they pulled out back in 2014.
Garuda
I have just checked a date in May and flights are giving no info for LGW but coming up with actual fare prices for LHR..so sadly think they are going to LHR when they said
I have just checked a date in May and flights are giving no info for LGW but coming up with actual fare prices for LHR..so sadly think they are going to LHR when they said
http://www.anna.aero/2015/11/04/anna...he-uk-ireland/
OK so is that 75%-80% between where?
LGW-AMS
AMS-(SIN)-CGK
To be anything like profitable it's got to be the LON-AMS-CGK figure I think, which would mean 37-40% of the load is starting from London, probably less? I suspect he means they've filled 80% on one or two days, and that's been presented to look like an average load factor when it's a max load factor. My experience on this run has been great service and almost no passengers sadly.
Jubi Prasetyo: “Well firstly it has taken 12 years for us to be able to get this service back into the UK so this time we have returned with a completely different product that is not just a service but an experience on the new 777s that we have. The route has been performing as we have expected and we have seen strong loads between 75%-80% which is very promising to see within the first 12 months. What is of interest though is how well the route between London Gatwick and Amsterdam has been performing. We have seen that weekend breaks have been very popular and flights have shown to have a load factor of around 90% during that part of the week.”
LGW-AMS
AMS-(SIN)-CGK
To be anything like profitable it's got to be the LON-AMS-CGK figure I think, which would mean 37-40% of the load is starting from London, probably less? I suspect he means they've filled 80% on one or two days, and that's been presented to look like an average load factor when it's a max load factor. My experience on this run has been great service and almost no passengers sadly.