Thomas Cook

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by ihadcontrol

When i booked the flights, only 4 weeks ago, I booked 9:30 so this change has only happened in the past few weeks - if it was months and months in advance i'd understand.

Doesn't work like that.

There is a brochure/marketing departure time, which never gets changed during the season. You can find mid-season the holidays still being sold to the original details when the flight series was changed long before. Differences to the brochure/booking details only get advised to theose travelling the standard 2 weeks beforehand. It is a partciular issue at the beginning/end of the season, when a range of different arrangements are made, consolidations, etc, but the advertised details are still those standard for the whole season.

[Welsh Bobby]

Tcx @ Cwl

With the addition of SSH and MIR to TCX W09/10 CWL schedule,will this now mean a full time based unit for the winter?

Will TCX be doing any long haul from CWL for S10....definite market especially SFB? TOM have been so inconsistent and unreliable there.

[plaincrazy]

Tcx @ Cwl

Hi Welsh Bobby, from what i can gather the MIR route will be provided by a W pattern aircraft and cant see them operating SSH on A320, so it will same as W08/09 with once aircraft based 4days a week

[BFS101]

For winter 09/10 TCX is operating a flight to SSH from BFS. BFS usually gets a based A320 over the winter and this still appears to be the case, with times to suit a based unit.

However the Thursday ACE flight operates 10.40 - 20.35. On the same dates SSH flight operates 09.00 - 22.25, so operated by a different aircraft. Do you know what aircraft SSH will be operated by?? 757?

[Torque2]

Yes, SSH to be operated by 757.

[conti onepass]

rescue 767

what the rescue 767 about as in previous thread. is the all white one with basic thomas cook titles on it????. if it is flew back on this today TCX534L from palma, full flight, half of the toilets did not work, over row 20b a large amount of water dripped out of roof on takeoff... but the cabin crew were lovely.

[Welsh Bobby]

Will the winter 09/10 SSH from CWL be operated by a 757?

[cabot]

Belfast - 1x A320

Birmingham - 3x B752

Bristol - 2x A320

Cardiff - 1x A321

East Midlands - 2x A320

London Gatwick - 3x A320 (3rd not due until 05 Jun 09), 1x A321, 2x B752, 2x B753, 3x A332, 1x A333

Manchester - 2x A320, 2x A321, 4x B752, 2x B763, 3x A332

Glasgow - 4x B752, 1x A332

Leeds Bradford - 1x A320

London Stansted - 1x A320

Newcastle


Can anyone throw light on which A332 is based in GLA or are they rotated as an when required ? Are all TCX 332's fitted with seat back screens or not ?

[Envoy320]

SSH will be B757 from CWL

Rescue 767 is a figure of speech....2 767's operate for TCX, only 1 of them is scheduled for 100% of the week, the other for approx 50% of the week, leaving 50% of the week available as a spare aircraft.
It is either 767 - not a specific one.

the GLA A332 will be rotated and they all have seatback TV's

[cabot]

Reason i was asking was because on July 7th i'm on GLA-POP flight and i understand a 332 was/is to be used.Just curious as to which aircraft was to be used.

[Envoy320]

GLA - POP will be on the A330-200 but it will be end of June or early July before the aircraft will be rostered for that flight and even then is subject to change right up to the last second!

[pug]

Anyone care to speculate as to why TCX have completely pulled out from HUY for the winter season? Despite consistently high load factors? Is it just not cost effective to do w-patterns just for the sake of a couple of weekly flights or is it that other operators are scaling back and they would be left to fill the seats on their own?

Thanks in advance.

[Envoy320]

have they ever operated through humberside in the winter?

I thought it was a summer only operation

[airhumberside]

I think this is the first summer TCX have operated into HUY. We have had JMC Air and MYT in summer but not TCX

TCX outbased a B757 at HUY for the first time for Winter 2007/08 operating ACE/TFS. This continued into Winter 2008/09 with part season LPA/FUE/LCA/DLM added. Up until last week full season ACE/TFS and a longer LPA season was on sale for Winter 2009/10

[John Boeman]

If I am remembering correctly;
Flying Colours = JMC = TCX.
Airtours = MYT + TCX ≥ TCX
So I guess it's still JMC and MYT flying in there.
(Somebody makes alot of money out of those name changes).

[Kestrel_Stu]

Don't forget Airworld, Caledonian and Inter European.

Some of our pilots have now been through 4 name changes with the "same" company!

[Psr777]

• Airworld absorbed into Flying Colours Airlines.
  
• Goldcrest International, Peach Air absorbed into Caledonian Airways.
  
• Flying Colours Airlines and Caledonian Airways merged and rebranded JMC Air.
  
• JMC Air rebranded Thomas Cook Airlines.
  
• Inter-European absorbed into Airtours international, which rebranded to Mytravel Airways.
  
• Mytravel Airways and Thomas Cook Airlines merged to form Thomas Cook Airlines.

I wish I had the patent on aircraft paint!!!!

[goldeneye]

I have a feeling that the TCX flights from HUY over thw winter were operated because of FUA going under who were supposed to operate these for Thomas Cook Tour Operations.


Psr77

Peach was a low cost subsidiary of Caledonian Airways CKT and operated under its own code of KGC. They operated L1011's leased from Air Atlanta and B737's leased from Sabre. Goldcrest was never an airline just a broker.

They were shut down by the parent company Inspirations Holidays (Carlson) when they were bought/merged with Thomas Cook in late 1998.

[airhumberside]

TCX HUY Winter flights started in November 2007 when Futura were still flying. The TCX outbased aircraft took over Lanzarote from Air Europa and replaced a TFS w pattern that MYT did the previous winter

[Psr777]

Goldeneye:

Although Goldcrest International was a broker, and it employed cabin crew as an separate company,as well as using aircraft supplied by Air Atlanta, they were also trained and operated on Caledonian Airways aircraft when the need arose. When Goldcrest was "closed" those cabin crew, were absorbed into Caledonian Airways or some went to Peach Air.

Peach Air was actually a "brand" set up by an Inspirations director, with the same colours to the Sunmed brand, and although they only flew Air Atlanta and Sabre aircraft, again when they were "closed" the cabin crew were absorbed into Caledonian Airways.

I was trying to show that the number of mergers and amalgamation over the last 10 years with TCX on the cabin crew side has been higher than the norm.

Rgds