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There some excellent picture of the new British Airways South Terminal check in area on Flyertalk plus pictures of the former Virgin Clubhouse renamed the Speedbird Lounge which is the temporary Club/Silver lounge with First/Gold directed to use the No1 Lounge.
By all accounts the delay to the opening of the new BA lounges was down to an electrical sign off even though everything is ready to go health & saftey were not ready to have it signed off in time.
Be great to see a line up of BA tails along either side of Pier 2 although for BA moving to the South Terminal I will miss that nice view of the airport as you walk over the bridge.
By all accounts the delay to the opening of the new BA lounges was down to an electrical sign off even though everything is ready to go health & saftey were not ready to have it signed off in time.
Be great to see a line up of BA tails along either side of Pier 2 although for BA moving to the South Terminal I will miss that nice view of the airport as you walk over the bridge.
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Some pictures of the new VS lounge and a few of the V-Room next door here
V-Flyer View topic - Gatwick North: we have lift-off!
V-Flyer View topic - Gatwick North: we have lift-off!
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As a LGW worker, I see Easyjet at North such a monumental waste considering how large the stands are. Perfect for all wide-body aircraft. And EZY hardly use all the jet bridges!
Oh well, look forward to trying to work around South with even less room now.
Oh well, look forward to trying to work around South with even less room now.
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There was obviously a lot of work done in both North and South Terminal check in areas overnight or was there work in progress whilst the BA and VS check in areas were operating as normal, that's includes all the signage.
But I have to admit I like the look of the new BA check in area in the South Terminal.
But I have to admit I like the look of the new BA check in area in the South Terminal.
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Air Asia X resume service
Seen links on LinkedIn and online earlier today regarding the sudden resumption of Air Asia's operation at Gatwick. Apparently their delivery of A330Neos was delayed from 2018 to 2019
https://centreforaviation.com/analys...elaunch-324647
https://centreforaviation.com/analys...elaunch-324647
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It seems odd to me that the low cost airline Air Asia X are going to be operating everybody's favourite sardine can widebody in a comfy 9 abreast configuration when that vast majority of legacy carriers are now 10 abreast. Surely this is a case of deja vu with them flying 8 abreast A340's on the route previously, the lack of commonality with the rest of the fleet combined with the large number of seats that need to be filled surely can't all be made up for by the superior CASM when comparing to the A340's? (IMHO)
It will be good to see them back in Europe, although I remain cynical an A330-900 could fly KUL-LGW with a full load even in a less dense configuration that what they currently use. I suspect BKK-LGW would be more realistic range wise. Will be interesting to see what happens anyhow.
It will be good to see them back in Europe, although I remain cynical an A330-900 could fly KUL-LGW with a full load even in a less dense configuration that what they currently use. I suspect BKK-LGW would be more realistic range wise. Will be interesting to see what happens anyhow.
None. The SAS thing is about reducing costs on existing flying. They have three nightstops at LHR (ARN, CPH and OSL) and so it would seem as though these - together with some other services through the day to make crew patterns work - will be crewed from a lower-cost London base than using Scandinavian crew nightstopping LHR.
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Gatwick-New York route carried 330,573 in 2016 with both DY & BA operating. DY increasing from 7 to 13 weekly flights in August 2017, so approxiametely an extra 60,000 seats available in the latter part of 2017. Route is doing well according to numbers, we don't know about yield though.
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Whats going on with Gatwick today? Several flight waited for 30 mins today AFTER landing for an available gate, has gate assignments/availability been an issue since the terminal moves ?
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Originally Posted by canberra97
Well it's officially change over day today for BA and VS along with Easyjet, does anyone have any information regarding to days move and how it is going
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I should imagine by now it's all operating just fine as I haven't heard of any issues or problems since the move except for the initial delay in opening the BA First lounge and by the time Easter arrives and definitely Summer the operations by all airlines concerned in their respective terminals will be as normal, so I don't envisage any problems.