LUTON - 3

[Charlie Roy]

Originally Posted by pabely

Can't currently book Sunday on their booking engine for November kills my plans!!

pabely, location: IOM and Luton.

I feel your pain today

[Powerjet1]

Originally Posted by pabely

Can't currently book Sunday on their booking engine for November kills my plans!!

You can book Sunday's from Jan 07, although at the moment it seems to be IOM-LTN only, with no LTN-IOM in the booking engine. I'm sure this is just waiting to be loaded. Also, a few odd saturday's are in, so it is beginning to look as if it will become a daily service in the winter.

Also Liege is raising its head again, twice daily ex LTN. This would tie in quite nicely with the LTN based aircraft operating the route morning & evening, and doing the IOM in the afternoon. Would still leave a gap from mid-morning to fill somehow?

[22/04]

IOM

Believe I read somewhere BA Connect are stepping up IOM-LCY. Is this why they are axing LTN

[JDB1052]

BA dont do LCY - they are adding a fourth to IOM-Gatwick. Yugomanx do LCY so now its RE for the northwest, BA for the southwest and Manx for the east.
RE's Luton aircraft was an ATR72 this summer so if this stays, the IOM will be on it so they are probably getting rid of the double daily ATR42 to concentrate on a single ATR72 so. Still a mystery about what else the Luton aircraft is going to do?

[Buster the Bear]

BAcon flight will land at Gatwick not Luton from the winter.

Twice daily LCY-MAD with BAcon. No mention of IOM flights from there.

[JDB1052]

RE's website is now offering a daily service on IOM

[Powerjet1]

Originally Posted by JDB1052

RE's website is now offering a daily service on IOM

The Luton based aircraft appears to operate this service in the afternoon, immediately followed by the second LTN-WAT rotation of the day, which was previously operated by a GWY based aircraft. As the LTN-IOM does not depart until 15.05 each day, there is big chunk, say 0700-1430, available for something else.

[pabely]

Originally Posted by JDB1052

RE's website is now offering a daily service on IOM

Extra 1.5 hours in IOM for me at the weekend with Sunday timings.
With the loads I experiance, I'm sure double daily would be justified year round again now BACON is going south. Many PAX are all year round commuters. I can but hope.

[Buster the Bear]

London City is likely to be sold for between Ł450 & Ł500 million (ironically a Spanish consortium leads the chase), so what is the value of Luton if LBC were ever to decided on a sale!

I see Malev are pulling off the Budapest-Heathrow route and code sharing on the existing BA flights. Does this mean that Wizz and easyJet have triumphed?

[Charlie Roy]

Budapest

Buster the Bear

Ya, and SkyEurope no longer fly from Budapest to Stansted either, so Wizz and Easy will defo see their market share on London to Budapest route rising this year!

[Powerjet1]

Charlie Roy

This summer Wizz currently fly in excess of 250 weekly flights into/out of LTN, but this will fall to about 190 in the winter as some summer destinations finish. Luton-Bucharest starts 15 Jan 07 and two brand new destinations are earmarked to start in March 07 with another two due to be added in May. Wizz could then be operating between 15/17 routes from LTN by S07.

[Buster the Bear]

Gee-Wizz! that is phenomenal! I wonder if Wizz intend to utilise the extra capacity that winter will bring compared to this summer, or will they just fly less overall on their route network?

[King Pong]

I see that LSG Sky Chefs have set up an in-flight catering unit at Luton via its subsidiary City Net Catering and have won the catering contract for Thomsonfly. Alpha are feeling the pain particularly that they now have no food outlets in the departure lounge and only Bewley’s landside.

[Powerjet1]

Anyone heard how things are progressing at "Silverjet" in their quest to launch a business class airline from Luton. I note from another thread, that cabin crew interviews are starting next week, being held at an airport hotel.
Anybody have any other news?.

[Buster the Bear]

All gone quiet since they raised the launch capital via the 'Alternatives' market.

Where will they park?

[LTNman]

I see that a large area around stand 16 has been dug up again despite it only being dug up last year and given a new layer of tarmac. This time it is going to be block paved. The airport must be awash with money if they can afford to change the surface after only a year.

[LTNman]

I see that Thomson are showing some massive delays today. Their 23.55 Friday departure to Alicante has a 14 hour 40 minute delay. It was due back at 5.50 but will now not be returning until 20.00. Their 5.50 Ibiza arrival now not due until 11.40, which in turn is putting back their Paphos departure by nearly 6 hours. I wonder how many other flights are going to be delayed today until they can catch up?

[CAP493]

Where will they park?

On any South Apron stand(s) nose-in/push-back.

The Airport must be awash with money if they can afford to change the surface after only a year.

I think you'll find that Signature F/S contributed significantly towards the original cost and in any case, the previous Contractor involved is likely to be hit with a bill for these repairs as the surface put down is alleged to be of substandard quality.

[LTNman]

CAP493

Hope they are not the same contractor that did the runway then. Maybe they are the same contractor that laid the floor tiles in the terminal.

[Powerjet1]

See that the conversion of hangar 89 into easyjet's new HQ seems to be progressing well, with small amounts of orange paint now starting to appear on the roof structure. Big advertising board pushing their new Luton-Istanbul service on the the builders perimeter fence at the front.

What will be happening to their present portakabin offices when the transfer to the new building takes place early October?. Are they being pulled down to make way for something else.