Easyjet - 3

[StoneyBridge Radar]

Well some of the GB crews in Manch are under the impression that easy are not coming to Manch.

I'll have 20 of whatever they're smoking then.

Have they not seen the internal and external releases?

It's official, Easy are coming, and there's a mad little irishman looking to spoil the party tomorrow.....watch this space.

Stoney

[rebellion]

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....nair_to_expand

Here's the news!

[take-off]

well whatever you think of ryan, the have stole easys thunder witht the fact you can actually book a flight from manchester, at moment nothing is showing on easys' website.

[toledoashley]

I dont think that easy are going to put the seats on sale just yet - I think they have to wait for the approval of the take over of GT.

[cesare.caldi]

I dont think that easy are going to put the seats on sale just yet - I think they have to wait for the approval of the take over of GT.

This final approval is due by end of january, is not too late to put on sale the new summer flight from LGW and MAN?

[shamrock7seal]

BOH?

I've heard rumours BOH will be a base with one aircraft in summer 2008 - adding services to Nice, Palma, Malaga, Edinburgh and Belfast.

[eurostar builder]

Its so nice to see 3 Easyjet Airbuses in Bournemouth today lets hope these are encouraging.

[the_fish@blueyonder.]

I was looking at the EZY website earlier and noticed they've made a new route map section.

It now shows Egypt and Tunisia on it aswell as thier destinations. The map doesn't show the names of any other countries which they don't fly to at the moment, nor thier borders. I seem to remember that Tunis (TUN) was previously served by GB airways.

Could it be a sign that they're planning on some more North African routes to go along with thier routes into Morocco?

Happy Christmas to you all.

[cesare.caldi]

Easyjet probably resume several ex Gb Airways routes

[the_fish@blueyonder.]

I Was onboard EZY066 GLA-LTN this morning and the crew mentioned that new summer 2008 routes would inlcude flights to Egypt, Malta, Greek Islands (none mentioned specifically) and I think I also heard Cyprus mentioned too.

They also mentioned the new services would be from Manchester and Gatwick.

[LGS6753]

Fish@ -

I guess they were referring (not entirely accurately) to the GB acquisition.

[MUFC_fan]

I'm guessing they will be keeping the A320s and A321s for busier routes. I would be very surprised not to see an A321 at LPL/MAN during the summer months. The loads they get on their AGP, ALC, PMI, FAO etc. sectors are outstanding and an A321 would certainly be welcomed by the North west public.

I don't see a problem with operating these aircraft aswell, a short course for both sets of pilots to get certification for all three aircraft and away they go! (Unless the engines are different which may mean maintenance problems - can they change the engine types?)

[Glenn@LTN]

Rumour has it that 2 A321's will be based at Luton for the summer for the SAW and ATH routes, both routes fill a 737-700 with 149 seats, just last summer we had the Air Finland 757 on the LTN-ATH route and that was full too!

Glenn

[Ian Brooks]

I think you will see the A321 stay at Gatwick with MAN getting 2 A320 as the London GB routes are more suited to the A321 with a higher pax load

Ian

[the_fish@blueyonder.]

@LGS6753

It was indeed in reference to the GB takeover, which they mentioned at the start of the announcement. I just thought I'd let people know theat they are advising passengers of the news routes already.

[toledoashley]

I agree with the the comments that the 321's will be staying at LGW. I wonder what new routes EZY could intoduce with the additional slots it has with the dupliaction of routes ie FAO/PMI/AGP/ALC/RAK?

I think something like some more eastern european routes + a mixture of some new summer destinations. Monastir/Cagliari/Varna/ or what about some more city routes - Copenhagen/Riga/Tallinn/Zagreb.

Really excited to find out where the expansion is going to happen. Please can we have some expansion in the north of London as well please!

[ICING AOA]

Keeping the GB's A320s and A321s in the fleet might result extremely hasardous for easyJet in the near future.
Those aircraft do have a higher operating cost (more fuel, more cabine crew, etc) and compared to an A319 it will obviously be more difficult to reach a reasonable passenger load outside of the summer season.
The good point of those aircraft is that they can fly onto longer routes such as MAN -> Canaries/Egypt,etc.. but then it's not really the easyJet's policy to fly that far, because it seems to be more lucrative to make 2 shorter flights with an A319 instead of a longer one with an A320/321 for the same amount of time.
Also, the A319/A320/A321 conversion course for all Airbus cabine crew and flightdeck crew will cost easyJet a lot (moneywise and timewise).

Lastly, I am surprised that the LGW/Corsica routes previously operated by GB in summer are not anymore on the map.

[orangetree]

You can rest assured that the A321 will go where the commercial bean counting brigade think it will make most money. I don't necessarily think that's LGW. As for range, the 319 can go to the same places the 321 can...if Easy want to spent the money increasing the MTOM that is.

[ICING AOA]

...if Easy want to spent the money increasing the MTOM that is.

Indeed, but it's not easy with easy

[MUFC_fan]

1. A320 has same cabin crew as A319 as EZY have 156 seater version.
2. A319 can fly further than both the A320 and A321.
3. An LPL-AGP in August is much more lucrative on an A319 than two BFS, AMS etc. rotations.
4. Converting takes not even a a couple of days and if they wished to convert ALL crews from BOEING to AIRBUS then the A320 series really won't bother them much.

Overall, there are not that many problems with the A320 and A321s in the EZY fleet and we can probably expect the airline to increase these with their A320 SERIES order of 92 extra - not not A319, but A320 SERIES.