Thomas Cook

[conti onepass]

ive just booked manchester to toronto with canadian affair on thomas cook in june 2011 so have they lost it or what?

[JonnyBfs]

Conti...As you said I'm also travelling that route on the 757 in June and am slightly worried about this??

[GROUNDHOG]

Just tried to book premium to YVR in July and it would have let me. I am guessing Canadian Affair will just take the bookings and sort it out afterwards. To be honest I think it is back to BA for me cosats a little more but at least you know what you are getting and the date and time of flights isn't going to change.

[JonnyBfs]

Affair

If you try to book their flights on flythomascook.com it displays operated for Thomas Cook. The timings match the Canadian Affair Transat flights, and that is who operate "for TCX"

[Bagmanlgw]

Canadian Affair

Canadian Affair for Summer 2011 plan to opperate more of the flights with their own in house airline Air Transat ( Up to 4/ 5 flights some days )

The remainder of the flights from Gatwick at least will be opperated by TCX

So there will be a TCX summer flying programme to Canada for Canadian Affair but some what reduced from this summer

Winter 2011 / 2012 is planned toi be all Air Transat i am led to believe

Bagmanlgw

[GROUNDHOG]

After a gentle push CA have confirmed bu e mail all flights will be operated on an A330 with premium available. Didn't say which carrier. As TCX are removing premium ( allegedly) and Air Transat only have club cabins which are smaller than TCX it still doesn't give me the confidence to book.

[captaintrigger]

Monarch are possibly picking up some Canadian Affair work for next summer!!!

[Jamesair]

TCX will base a fourth aircraft at NCL for summer 2011.

[JonnyBfs]

Thomas Cook/transat

Transat don't have a B757 and that is the airline that it has for Thomas Cook. Might give CA an email and see whats going on?

[Fernanjet]

i believe tcx will be dropping ALL longhaul within the next 18-24 months and adjusting their concentration on the more lucrative medium haul market (turkey, egypt etc...)

Thomson will have the 787(eventually) and offer the longhaul, with TCX A330's concentrating on the mid-haul expansion.

[clareview]

Transat used to have B757s but now have widebody A310 and A330's only

[goldeneye]

Thomas Cook are not removing the Premium Cabin seats from the A330, there are just not selling them as premium on their own routes (ie SFB, LAS, CUN etc)

The Canadian flights are still offering Premium Service, and you are still able to select seats on the TCX flights. Also i am booked to fly CAF in May, and have premium cabin seats booked.

[David Sharpe]

Don't know if there is anybody with knowledge to answer the following questions ?

1. Which base does the aircraft operating the Sunday service to Monastir from Norwich come from, presumably operating a "w" rotation ?

2. TCX 131 L from Corfu to Newcastle on Monday 25th October 2010, did this aircraft operate to another destination on the Monday morning ? (note that the return arrival was scheduled later than normal at around 2030) I did note that the TCX 772 L from Corfu to Manchester had actually operated to Sharm El Sheikh as TCX 772 K in the morning.


Any answers appreciated.

[Ireland202]

Quote: 1. Which base does the aircraft operating the Sunday service to Monastir from Norwich come from, presumably operating a "w" rotation ?

The aircraft comes from Leeds. It does indeed operate a W rotation. LBA-MIR-NWI-MIR-LBA

Quote:2. TCX 131 L from Corfu to Newcastle on Monday 25th October 2010, did this aircraft operate to another destination on the Monday morning ? (note that the return arrival was scheduled later than normal at around 2030)

The aircraft operated to Antalya on the Monday morning.

[Evileyes]

Multiple Passenger Service questions have been moved to the Passenger & SLF Forum.

http://www.pprune.org/passengers-slf...ok-thread.html

However, once again we remind you that PPRuNE is NOT the place to go for an authoritative answer to your customer service questions.

Standing at the check-in desk crying "But PPRuNE said..." is likely to be an exercise in futility and disappointment.

The Mods

[goldeneye]

Just read on Jethro's that three A330's are to go from the fleet in 2011. The are the the three that operated with TCX prior to the merger with MYT.
Are TCX leasing new aircraft to replace these or scaling back longhaul.

[wanna_be_there]

apparently, they are getting B767-300's to replace the 3 A330's. (Cant remember where I read it though, or how official it is?)

Wonder where the 3 A330's will go? Scandinavia or a new operator?

[Spotter LBA]

Seems very strange to get rid of the newer A330's first as the MYT aircraft are the older. It wouldn't surprise me that TCX are scaling back longhaul as the Carribean will be massively hit with tourists from the UK with the new taxes on longhaul flights.

[Flyboy543]

The lease on the ex TCX A330's expires nov '11. They plan to keep the ex MYT A330 a/c due to the lower deck lavs installed. There should be more info about the future fleet after the new narrow body order has been announced ie, A32x with a view to A350s or B737ng with a view to B787 etc.

[Flightrider]

A large chunk of the A330 capacity has been deployed on short-haul flying over the last two summers anyway, so the merger has left TCX in a position where it had more A330s than it probably needed. You do not need an expensive A330-200 lease to be providing seats to Dalaman.

The interesting thing about this will be whether the fleet reduction with A330s being returned will lead to lay-offs at the same time as a procession of operators of questionnable repute are being drafted in from Lithuania, Latvia and Spain to fly under TCX flight numbers to provide extra capacity. The selling of these services as Thomas Cook operations when they patently were not led to more than a few customer concerns this summer.