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I think the key though is something that boeing eng mentioned, since the collapse of certain Airlines and Tour Ops, many customers who were "self packaging" and as a result were often flying on a LOCO as part of their quest for cheaper cost suddenly felt a little exposed and as a result have decided to go back to a large Tour Op such as TUI, Tommy Cook and Monarch in order to feel more protected, this I think has played a big part in the resurgent "Old Fashioned" package holiday, and therefore as a result has increased load factors on the Airlines owned by those Travel giants over the past couple of years.
I am sure you are spot on with that summary. I hope it lasts.
19 hour delay at Glasgow
Anyone know more about the big delay on TOM215 inbound Glasgow from Antalya today? Scheduled at 0310 this morning, estimating 2238 tonight. Just tech or subcharter?
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Looked into reserving seats on my flight to Greece in late August, went on to the reservation system, and all the seats on the front 2/3's of the 733 where unavailable.
Seems strange as normally people would reserve seats in random locations and not uniformly. (I think the systems lying to scaremonger seat booking) Would anyone be able to tell me whether I should book seats for my partner and I or just wait to I get to the airport, I should be arriving early.
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Seems strange as normally people would reserve seats in random locations and not uniformly. (I think the systems lying to scaremonger seat booking) Would anyone be able to tell me whether I should book seats for my partner and I or just wait to I get to the airport, I should be arriving early.
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Seems strange as normally people would reserve seats in random locations and not uniformly. (I think the systems lying to scaremonger seat booking) Would anyone be able to tell me whether I should book seats for my partner and I or just wait to I get to the airport, I should be arriving early.
I personally would recommend pre-booking your seats, as if you prefer a window or an aisle seat you will not be able to request one at check-in unless your flight has lots of spare seats (very unlikely in August!), as almost all seats will be pre-assigned before the opening of check-in desks, to aid those passengers who have paid extra to sit together and avoid dissappointment to the majority of bookings.
Just out of interest regarding a/c, which airport will you be flying from?
Hope this helps
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Thanks for the indepth reply Cazza_fly! I'll stop being a Scrooge and cough up the extra thirty quid!
We're flying out of LGW. And I believe Thomson only have 3 733's in their fleet, ones an ex continental aircraft dating from '95 and another was with Buzz at some point and dates from '97/98. Don't know the details of the third.
We're flying out of LGW. And I believe Thomson only have 3 733's in their fleet, ones an ex continental aircraft dating from '95 and another was with Buzz at some point and dates from '97/98. Don't know the details of the third.
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We're flying out of LGW. And I believe Thomson only have 3 733's in their fleet, ones an ex continental aircraft dating from '95 and another was with Buzz at some point and dates from '97/98. Don't know the details of the third.
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Based Aircraft Summer 2012
Does anyone have info for summer 2012. DUB in particular.
DUB has to be 738 or bigger. Will it be leased from sunwing again. As for BFS, SSH not returning next year so will it be back to A320.
DUB has to be 738 or bigger. Will it be leased from sunwing again. As for BFS, SSH not returning next year so will it be back to A320.
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No problem. Yep there's now just two 733s in the fleet 1 @ DSA and 1 @ LGW, G-THOP (1998) and G-THOO (1999). The latter is the one probably in the best condition cabin wise if last year is anything to go by, though they are both looking very tired inside compared to TOMs 738 fleet. They both still do their job well though so have a good trip!
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Posted By BOAC4ME
The June pax figures for MAN makes interesting reading.
Total Terminal Pax - Up 4.15% on June 2010
Charter Pax June 2011 - Down 6.52% on June 2010
Charter Pax Rolling Year - Down 4.94% on previous year
Charter Pax Rolling Year - 29.04% of total pax.
It is difficult to argue that Charter is not unfortunately in decline.
In all fairness TSR2 as like all these things that involve stats, there are different ways to spin them and I should think that there would probably be certain trend areas that may well back up at least some of what you are saying.
Total Terminal Pax - Up 4.15% on June 2010
Charter Pax June 2011 - Down 6.52% on June 2010
Charter Pax Rolling Year - Down 4.94% on previous year
Charter Pax Rolling Year - 29.04% of total pax.
It is difficult to argue that Charter is not unfortunately in decline.