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Into commercial service already, one day after delivery with it positioning from Manchester to BHX and out to Bridgetown. It appears to be covering for the late running inbound (IA) from Bridgetown.
I notice another is around 3 or 4 hours late into Gatwick but on another forum it mentions the 787 dispatch rate in general (worldwide) is now over 99% and certainly there are few problems with the Thomson BHX aircraft usually.
Timetable
Any plans to update this as it is now around 4 months out of date and showing 2015 summer flights which were canned months ago?
Very confusing if you find a flight in the timetable and go to book it only to be offered a completely different airport or day.
There are at least seven major errors for the BHX schedule where they even either the wrong airline operating, wrong day and in one case the destination is no longer offered.
Winter 2015/6 seems to have the times back to front for all airports with the UK departure time showing as destination departure time so it looks like every flight is operated by away based aircraft. A very basic mistake and not something you expect from Thomson.
This was picked up upon by other posters ages ago and still no change.
Pete
Into commercial service already, one day after delivery with it positioning from Manchester to BHX and out to Bridgetown. It appears to be covering for the late running inbound (IA) from Bridgetown.
I notice another is around 3 or 4 hours late into Gatwick but on another forum it mentions the 787 dispatch rate in general (worldwide) is now over 99% and certainly there are few problems with the Thomson BHX aircraft usually.
Timetable
Any plans to update this as it is now around 4 months out of date and showing 2015 summer flights which were canned months ago?
Very confusing if you find a flight in the timetable and go to book it only to be offered a completely different airport or day.
There are at least seven major errors for the BHX schedule where they even either the wrong airline operating, wrong day and in one case the destination is no longer offered.
Winter 2015/6 seems to have the times back to front for all airports with the UK departure time showing as destination departure time so it looks like every flight is operated by away based aircraft. A very basic mistake and not something you expect from Thomson.
This was picked up upon by other posters ages ago and still no change.
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757 767 MAN program Summer 15 - Winter 15/16
Hi.
Tough question I sure, has anyone any ideas on the 757/767 program out of MAN for Summer 15 then on to Winter 15/16?
Thanks in advance.
Tough question I sure, has anyone any ideas on the 757/767 program out of MAN for Summer 15 then on to Winter 15/16?
Thanks in advance.
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It seems from my observations that every Thomson 787 flight leaves an hour or so late, and that they regularly struggle to meet their 2 hour turn around time. Clearly they utilise them heavily, not surprising for such an expensive asset, and they cannot help traffic delays and weather problems but I wonder if their time tabling is not overly ambitious
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Almeria - It is one flight that flipped between Thomson and Monarch. Monarch of course have dropped it although it still remains in the booking engine and they haven't issued a press release (though most airlines don't unless it suits them) confirming it has gone but as it is nearly February it doesn't look good.
However it is still displayed in the timetable with Thomson flight numbers as is or was Djerba and that is now on Thomas Cook. Antalya on Tuesday shows Onur air and that is Thomas Cook, Wednesday Palma is shown as Air Europa but is Thomson, which was accommodated by switching Ibiza to Germania.
Wednesday Enfidha was Nouvelair and is still shown in the timetable but it went off sale only a few weeks after the first release for it to re-appear as Germania a few months later but on a Thursday.
Dubrovnik was doubled to twice weekly (still shown as such in the timetable) but then the TUIFly Palma was changed to a Thomson aircraft so something had to go so it was Dubrovnik.
However the Sunday was for packages and the new Thursday for cruises so now Dubrovnik as a package destination seems to have been dropped although they seem to be offering flight only on the Thursday.
Also the Saturday is wrong with six Thomson aircraft advertised yet only five based but other than that it is quite accurate.
For those who haven't nodded off, does anybody no why when there are only two major tour operators (sorry Cosmos and Olympic) that they are allowed to collaborate by using each others flights? BHX now has Palma on a Monday, Antalya on a Tuesday, Djerba on a Wednesday and Bourgas on a Friday on Thomas Cook aircraft?
Thomson certainly use Monarch at BHX but they are a scheduled operator, isn't it a bit too cosy cooperating with Thomas Cook? I doubt TC won't mind this year having put an extra aircraft in BHX or Thomson for getting them out of a fix.
Pete
Almeria - It is one flight that flipped between Thomson and Monarch. Monarch of course have dropped it although it still remains in the booking engine and they haven't issued a press release (though most airlines don't unless it suits them) confirming it has gone but as it is nearly February it doesn't look good.
However it is still displayed in the timetable with Thomson flight numbers as is or was Djerba and that is now on Thomas Cook. Antalya on Tuesday shows Onur air and that is Thomas Cook, Wednesday Palma is shown as Air Europa but is Thomson, which was accommodated by switching Ibiza to Germania.
Wednesday Enfidha was Nouvelair and is still shown in the timetable but it went off sale only a few weeks after the first release for it to re-appear as Germania a few months later but on a Thursday.
Dubrovnik was doubled to twice weekly (still shown as such in the timetable) but then the TUIFly Palma was changed to a Thomson aircraft so something had to go so it was Dubrovnik.
However the Sunday was for packages and the new Thursday for cruises so now Dubrovnik as a package destination seems to have been dropped although they seem to be offering flight only on the Thursday.
Also the Saturday is wrong with six Thomson aircraft advertised yet only five based but other than that it is quite accurate.
For those who haven't nodded off, does anybody no why when there are only two major tour operators (sorry Cosmos and Olympic) that they are allowed to collaborate by using each others flights? BHX now has Palma on a Monday, Antalya on a Tuesday, Djerba on a Wednesday and Bourgas on a Friday on Thomas Cook aircraft?
Thomson certainly use Monarch at BHX but they are a scheduled operator, isn't it a bit too cosy cooperating with Thomas Cook? I doubt TC won't mind this year having put an extra aircraft in BHX or Thomson for getting them out of a fix.
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On it's way back to LGW now. That is a long delay!
I see the MRU it was supposed to operate the next day was done by the 767. According to their website the 767 has 283 capacity and the 787, 291. What happens to those extra 8 pax if they show up? It's not like they can stick them on their next flight if it only operates weekly.
I see the MRU it was supposed to operate the next day was done by the 767. According to their website the 767 has 283 capacity and the 787, 291. What happens to those extra 8 pax if they show up? It's not like they can stick them on their next flight if it only operates weekly.
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It would appear that the MRU flight due out of LGW yesterday(TOM58), is actually operating today by G-TUIB, having left LGW at 16:07. Not on a 767 yesterday.
Long delay for that flight as well!
Long delay for that flight as well!