Thomson Airways

[mmeteesside]

Looks like a whole new livery on OOBA, as the tail is the same blue as the fuselage I noticed, as well as larger titles (compare it to FDZR/S the two new 738's)

[OliWW]

Yes thats correct. G-FDZT and G-FDZS need bigger titles, for some reason it just doesn't look right, at least G-OOBA does, but then it has the same colour tail, which I don't think looks like, but I guess we will have to adapt once again.

[RoyHudd]

Thanks busz. Not good at all. Middle East may provide work for some, but by no means all. LIFO, I presume?

[busz]

Something that looks alot like LIFO yes

[OliWW]

Does anyone know where the aircraft will be based for S10, or any indications?

[bjones4]

Looks like a whole new livery on OOBA

Looks like the guys at Maastricht had run out of pale blue when G-OOBA was in the shop, G-OOBD has been rolled out once again in two tone.

[take-off]

will the first choice airbuses get this look or will they be leaving the fleet before a repaint?

[clipstone1]

think they have another 3 years but somehow not sure they'll get a $80k each repaint in that time....altho would be the first time an airbus was in Thomson colours (even BY only managed some iffy 320s from TransAer in white with a BY tail)

[EGCC4284]

TransAer a blast from the past

[TankEngineStar]

What type of aircraft do Thomson use for the Manchester-Marrakech flight?

[MUFC_fan]

TOM832 is a 737-800(W)
TOM722 is an A320

U21895 is also an A320.

Hope this helps!

[RH57]

787 Order

Tui travel profit statement out today seems to suggest in the small print that the B787 order has been cancelled.

"Foreign exchange losses on aircraft order book hedging of £16m have been offset by a gain of £23m from discontinued

hedge accounting on the ten Boeing 787 orders which have been cancelled"

[busz]

10 787's have been cancelled. 13 remain as firm orders and we have taken up 13 options

[Ian Brooks]

It is only part of the order that was cancelled a few weeks back, as there they were also taking the First Choice aircraft as well.
Think the order still totals about 12 aircraft

Sorry duplicated as Busz pipped me to it
Ian B

[David Sharpe]

Marrakech

Noted the above comments regarding Marrakech service, has this been operating for the whole of the Winter season (timetable shows a Monday & Friday service from both Manchester and Gatwick commencing on 23/11/09, ACARS seems to report all services apart from the TOM 732 on Monday from Manchester)

[sam1993]

For anybody interested, here is the provisional version of Summer 2010 bases:

Belfast - 1 x 320
Birmingham - 1 x 738, 2 x 752, 2 x 75W
Bournemouth - 1 x 738
Bristol - 1 x 752, 1 x 75W
Cardiff - 1 x 738, 1 x 75W
Doncaster - 2 x 733, 1 x 738
Dublin - 1 x 320
East Midlands - 2 x 738, 1 x 75W
Exeter - 1 x 320
Glasgow - 2 x 75W
London Gatwick - 1 x 733, 1 x 738, 1 x 321, 5 x 752, 2 x 75W, 4 x 76W (5 Saturday - Tuesday)
London Luton - 2 x 738, 1 x 752
Manchester - 1 x 733, 2 x 738, 1 x 320, 1 x 321, 2 x 752, 2 x 75W, 5 x76W
Newcastle - 1 x 738, 1 x 752, 1 x 75W

Boeing 767's are based part week at Bristol, Birmingham, East Midlands, Glasgow and Newcastle.

This is still subject to minor changes!

Sam

[Stanstedeye]

2010

Any sign of STN?

[OliWW]

EMA is expected to be 1x B73H and 2x B752
LGW will have 2x B73H and 1 Less B752 somewhere
STN will have 1x A320 and 1x B73H

[sam1993]

Sorry...yes Stansted will be 1 A320 and 1 738, however the information I have is that EMA will be 2 738 and 1 75W as above!

[Keyvon]

I hope that in the next few months TOM (or TCX) could consider to base some additional 737s in airports such as EDI, MME, ABZ or HUY to fill the gap left by GSM or the present void to holiday spots like Balearics Islands, Canaries, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt and Greek Islands...