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Belfast/Manchester
Does anyone know when/if Easyjet will start Belfast/Manchester route?
There were rumours a few months ago, and in the papers but now no news on it?
There were rumours a few months ago, and in the papers but now no news on it?
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The french version of the Easyjet website is showing as latest news the fact that it was opening a shuttle plane service between Lyon and St Etienne, with 10 flights a day. Given the airports are 100km apart, does this make sense. There is nothing obvious to say it is an april fool, but it did appear on their site yesterday.
Can anyone shed any light? I fly regularly to STN from Lyon, and live 3 miles from St Etienne airport, so have a more than passing interest.
Can anyone shed any light? I fly regularly to STN from Lyon, and live 3 miles from St Etienne airport, so have a more than passing interest.
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Just spotted on the net:
Source: netimperative
Digital agency, Splendid has been hired by easyJet to help transform the low-cost airline’s website customer experience.
Activity will focus on consumers who visit the easyJet site with a set budget but uncertain of when and where they want to travel.
From its inception, easyJet has led the market through its use of the internet as a ticket distribution channel. It is now looking to the future and redefining its travel portal to offer customers a more intuitive web experience.
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”Only 40% of our customers know precisely when and where they want to go when they visit our site,” says Paul Curtis, Head of Application Architecture at easyJet.
“That leaves as many as 60% of customers looking for inspiration and ideas, and who would consider varying dates and offers. Customers often have a set budget in mind, but are open to new destinations. Most travel portals don’t support these people, and customers spend a lot of time searching around for the best deals.”
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A customer who is less sure of their destination can specify the dates they’d like to travel and their preferred departure location. The map then identifies all the locations they can travel to within those dates and displays fares in real time without the customer having to submit multiple searches.
Using Silverlight, Splendid incorporated a sliding bar to the left of the screen, which helps the user to set their budget for that trip, moving the slider up or down reveals or hides destinations according to their cost criteria.
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”easyJet wanted to explore customer needs throughout the travel lifecycle”, explains Paul Bishop, Managing Director of Splendid. “Using the findings from a programme of user experience research, we were able to map out their journeys and explore whether rich applications could be used to increase the number of flights booked, build customer loyalty and develop new revenue streams.”
In addition to the destination finder, one final concept is a fare finder that gives the user the total price for their party, and lets them flip through different dates easily without resubmitting a query and a chart that helps the customer find the cheapest dates to travel if they’re unsure of their destination.
It is expected that once rolled out, the new site will transform the customer experience of easyJet in 2008. It is hoped the new technologies and intuitiveness implemented offers users far greater flexibility when booking online than competitors can provide, attracting new customers and ultimately resulting in far more bookings with easyJet.
Activity will focus on consumers who visit the easyJet site with a set budget but uncertain of when and where they want to travel.
From its inception, easyJet has led the market through its use of the internet as a ticket distribution channel. It is now looking to the future and redefining its travel portal to offer customers a more intuitive web experience.
(...)
”Only 40% of our customers know precisely when and where they want to go when they visit our site,” says Paul Curtis, Head of Application Architecture at easyJet.
“That leaves as many as 60% of customers looking for inspiration and ideas, and who would consider varying dates and offers. Customers often have a set budget in mind, but are open to new destinations. Most travel portals don’t support these people, and customers spend a lot of time searching around for the best deals.”
(...)
A customer who is less sure of their destination can specify the dates they’d like to travel and their preferred departure location. The map then identifies all the locations they can travel to within those dates and displays fares in real time without the customer having to submit multiple searches.
Using Silverlight, Splendid incorporated a sliding bar to the left of the screen, which helps the user to set their budget for that trip, moving the slider up or down reveals or hides destinations according to their cost criteria.
(...)
”easyJet wanted to explore customer needs throughout the travel lifecycle”, explains Paul Bishop, Managing Director of Splendid. “Using the findings from a programme of user experience research, we were able to map out their journeys and explore whether rich applications could be used to increase the number of flights booked, build customer loyalty and develop new revenue streams.”
In addition to the destination finder, one final concept is a fare finder that gives the user the total price for their party, and lets them flip through different dates easily without resubmitting a query and a chart that helps the customer find the cheapest dates to travel if they’re unsure of their destination.
It is expected that once rolled out, the new site will transform the customer experience of easyJet in 2008. It is hoped the new technologies and intuitiveness implemented offers users far greater flexibility when booking online than competitors can provide, attracting new customers and ultimately resulting in far more bookings with easyJet.
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Easyjet seem to be withdrawing their Gatwick - Bucharest route from the beginning of June. Anyone know if this is definite, and why? Personally, I want to explore the likes of Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Croatia (having been most places in Western Europe) but the low-costs haven't really dived in to this market as I thought perhaps they would.
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Sorry to throw a cat amoungst the pigeons, but this article has appeared in the Times.
EasyJet has been tipped by The Times as a potential bidder because in January Silverjet appointed Amir Eilon - a former easyJet board member and a close friend of its founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou - as a non-executive director.
An industry insider said Eilon was known as a ‘deal-maker’ in the industry, having helped in the easyJet flotation of 2000.
From 1998-2006 he was a non-executive director of the airline, playing a key role in its takeover of Go and also in the securing of an option to acquire Deutsche BA.
EasyJet has been tipped by The Times as a potential bidder because in January Silverjet appointed Amir Eilon - a former easyJet board member and a close friend of its founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou - as a non-executive director.
An industry insider said Eilon was known as a ‘deal-maker’ in the industry, having helped in the easyJet flotation of 2000.
From 1998-2006 he was a non-executive director of the airline, playing a key role in its takeover of Go and also in the securing of an option to acquire Deutsche BA.
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If you look at the Silverjet thread also running on this Forum, you will see that Silverjet have categorically stated that easyJet are not one of the potential bidders. However ... that doesn't stop Stelios doing anything on his own.
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Winter 2008/9 - reduced fleet?
Following on to what slide blower has stated, another forum mentions
an internal e-mail with the following points: -
Part quotes
"73G's to be accelerated out of the fleet due fuel costs
ex Gib Air aircraft to be accelerated out of the fleet
Five less aircraft in the fleet for winter 2008/9"
End of quote
Any of this true and if so who are who are having the 73G's?
Pete
an internal e-mail with the following points: -
Part quotes
"73G's to be accelerated out of the fleet due fuel costs
ex Gib Air aircraft to be accelerated out of the fleet
Five less aircraft in the fleet for winter 2008/9"
End of quote
Any of this true and if so who are who are having the 73G's?
Pete
Last edited by OltonPete; 11th Apr 2008 at 15:41. Reason: added text
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All true. No idea where the NG's will go to yet.
Skipness One Echo, the fuel burn difference isn't that drastic, but it will be a hell of a lot cheaper to maintain just 1 type (and seeing as the majority of the EZY fleet is Airbus, the Boeing will go).
All true. No idea where the NG's will go to yet.
Skipness One Echo, the fuel burn difference isn't that drastic, but it will be a hell of a lot cheaper to maintain just 1 type (and seeing as the majority of the EZY fleet is Airbus, the Boeing will go).
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It has been shown a number of times that there is virtually no difference in the fuel burn between the two aircraft and that infact the 73G can offer a small % in better fuel economy over the competition,
however i think just like FliegerTiger said it will be much cheaper to run and maintain there operations based on just one type.
however i think just like FliegerTiger said it will be much cheaper to run and maintain there operations based on just one type.
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The bus also has more seats (if they could fill them). The NG leasing is expensive compared to it. Perhaps they could hand them back to Boeing as experimental airframes to see if they can at last come up with a 21st century competitor instead of sticking an old tart in a new skirt every few years. Boeing have built may excellent aircraft in their time. The NG isn't one of them 
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The bus also has more seats (if they could fill them).
Any thoughts, anyone?
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They have looked at removing seats several times since the bus induction to no avail. There are a few areas of the network where the 156 config is useful though or at least was prior to the world banking meltdown.
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Do you know if the obstacles involved in removing the six seats are regulatory or commercial? I can see the commercial case in a way - the six seats generate extra revenue when filled. On the regulatory side, would there need to be some form of re-certification? Obviously amendments would need to be made to SEPs/SOPs.