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Hamilton Flights
The Hamilton Airport website has a news release today about the GSM flights. They are saying there will be three flights daily implying some will be double drops. Flights start in May 07 with booking available from October this year.
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Hmmm, interesting. How will this affect Globespan's relationship with Transat? Also, it looks as they will be going head to head with Canadian Affair/TCX who also use 189 seat 757s to Toronto YYZ from Glasgow, Gatwick, Birmingham and Manchester. I was on the GLA-YYZ flight this summer and it was excellent - will GSM manage to get 35 inch seat pitch on their 757s?
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NCL is being rumoured as a GSM destination from Hamilton, also Canadian Affair will use TCX for 757 service from NCL. Canadian Affair is part of the Air Transat group. Globespan (holiday part) have cancelled their long standing contract with Air Transat in favour of using GSM and Zoom.
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Daily flights
GLA - YHM
MAN - YHM
STN - YHM
Weekly
BFS, BHX, DSA, EDI, EXT, LPL, NCL - YHM
MAN - YYZ (767)
Not yet bookable from UK as yet with the exception on the MAN - YYZ.
With DUB and SNN - YHM due on sale 15 Sep
GLA - YHM
MAN - YHM
STN - YHM
Weekly
BFS, BHX, DSA, EDI, EXT, LPL, NCL - YHM
MAN - YYZ (767)
Not yet bookable from UK as yet with the exception on the MAN - YYZ.
With DUB and SNN - YHM due on sale 15 Sep
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Seems that GSM will operate flights from Toronto Hamilton to many many major airports in the UK for S07.
Flights will be operated by the B757-200 series, with 189 capacity. 12 UK destinations in total, Belfast, Birmingham, Doncaster, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, London Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle and Shannon.
Belfast - weekly Thurs departure
Birmingham - weekly Wed departure
Doncaster - weekly Mon departure
Dublin - to be released on Fri 15 Sept
Edinburgh - weekly Fri departure
Exeter - weekly Tues departure
Glasgow - DAILY departures throughtout Summer 07.
Liverpool - weekly Sun departure
London Stansted - DAILY departues throughout Summer 07
Manchester - DAILY departures throughout Summer 07.
Newcastle - weekly Saturday departure
Shannon - to be released on Fri 15 Sept
Flights will be operated by the B757-200 series, with 189 capacity. 12 UK destinations in total, Belfast, Birmingham, Doncaster, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, London Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle and Shannon.
Belfast - weekly Thurs departure
Birmingham - weekly Wed departure
Doncaster - weekly Mon departure
Dublin - to be released on Fri 15 Sept
Edinburgh - weekly Fri departure
Exeter - weekly Tues departure
Glasgow - DAILY departures throughtout Summer 07.
Liverpool - weekly Sun departure
London Stansted - DAILY departues throughout Summer 07
Manchester - DAILY departures throughout Summer 07.
Newcastle - weekly Saturday departure
Shannon - to be released on Fri 15 Sept
with all these routes being anounced, why do all airlines avoid bristol like the plague, i know in the past all airlines that have operated to canada from Bristol have had the kiss of death on them, ie Oddessy,Canada 3000, tradewinds, all went out of bussiness, though not because of operating into brs !!, but the loads always seemed to be pretty good, would be nice to see a canadian route on the board again as if Cwl and Ext can do it whats the problem with Bristol ?
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just realised my mistake before you all jump on it, Tradewinds did not operate Toronto route, it was Worldways. so back on subject,any plans for any flyglobespan operation in the future at bristol,as it seems like they are going everywhere else in the u.k.
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Im guessing they have got a good deal from Hamilton Airport, but wii pax really want to fly there if going to Toronto it self when you have a shed load of flights in to YYZ. ie AC, BA, TS, TCX, MYT, OOM from LHR, LGW, STN, EXT, BHX, MAN, GLA, EDI, NCL, CWL, BFS.
Also Hamilton is around 56 miles to central Toronto (further from the airport.) and a bit less to Niagara Falls.
Also Hamilton is around 56 miles to central Toronto (further from the airport.) and a bit less to Niagara Falls.
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Don't think it is. According to the company website it is the trading name of a privately owned company called The Airline Seat Company Ltd.
Would be very surprised if it had anything to do with Transat as it charters aircraft from TCX and MYT (although I think it utilises the odd Transat service in the winter).
Back to GSM, they will have to go some to match the TCX 757 flights for comfort. Good luck to them though...
Would be very surprised if it had anything to do with Transat as it charters aircraft from TCX and MYT (although I think it utilises the odd Transat service in the winter).
Back to GSM, they will have to go some to match the TCX 757 flights for comfort. Good luck to them though...
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Air Transat's Holding Company has bought either Canadian Affair or The Airline Seat Company. This is a recent move, hence this summer. Air Transat is doing none of Canadian Affairs flights. This will change next summer though (not sure about this winter's flights)
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Yes Canadian Affair were purchased by Transat AT in early august for about 20 Million Euros. see here
Dont think this will have any impact on TCX/MYT for next summer as C.Affair are still selling them, in addition to TS flights. Also during the winter season C.Affair sell Monarch on YYC flights from LGW & MAN. But after that we will see.
Dont think this will have any impact on TCX/MYT for next summer as C.Affair are still selling them, in addition to TS flights. Also during the winter season C.Affair sell Monarch on YYC flights from LGW & MAN. But after that we will see.
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Turnaround Time !
Whyte said Hamilton is the right choice for a low-cost carrier. "We chose Hamilton because ... as a low-cost carrier we try to operate into the regional airports," he said. "Our customer base in the U.S. is sophisticated in that they know it's a lot less hassle to fly out of regional airports.
"We have to turn our airplanes quickly, we can't afford to wait three or four hours to get back on line, we want to do it in 20 minutes if we can," he said. "This is also a large base, we have two-and-a-half million people just in this area. That's a good base for us and if we have no competition, which we don't at this point, we're probably going to be the flavour of the month."
"We have to turn our airplanes quickly, we can't afford to wait three or four hours to get back on line, we want to do it in 20 minutes if we can," he said. "This is also a large base, we have two-and-a-half million people just in this area. That's a good base for us and if we have no competition, which we don't at this point, we're probably going to be the flavour of the month."
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35 inch seat pitch. Don't know about the width but seating was a standard 3x3 757. I know we are not talking Eos or Maxjet here but it is definitely the most comfortable transatlantic crossing I've had in economy class. No PTVs on the 757 but I will happly give up PTVs for an extra few inches of seat pitch. It cost less than the other alternatives as well.
Oh, and I bow to the superior knowledge of airhumberside, goldeneye and transwede regarding Transat's takeover of Canadian Affair. I must have missed the takeover news as I was in Canada at the time
Oh, and I bow to the superior knowledge of airhumberside, goldeneye and transwede regarding Transat's takeover of Canadian Affair. I must have missed the takeover news as I was in Canada at the time