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Two of those old sheds that simonchowder, talks about were the youngest B767 on the UK register when flyGlobespan went bust.
MON are not looking at more a/c at the moment as l understand it.
MON are not looking at more a/c at the moment as l understand it.
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As far as im aware currently there is no planned based MON A321 for EDI
If the answer is "yes I would love to", then Monarch has vacancies for you at Birmingham, London Luton, London Gatwick, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin Airports.
CC. Can I ask you "What do you have against EDI?".
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I dont think he/she has anything against EDI but he/she stating the facts that the A/C will probably be part shared with DUB. DUB is having 1 x A321 & 1 x A320 so its sounds very like last year.
Last year one of the DUB 321's would go straight up to EDI on sunday evening to operate Monday, Tuesday & wednesday if my memory is correct.
Last year one of the DUB 321's would go straight up to EDI on sunday evening to operate Monday, Tuesday & wednesday if my memory is correct.
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Indeed. Facts are facts. The whole charter operation is up for change at EDI since collapse of GSM. A large part of Thomson prgrams are not operated by MON ( instead by FlyBe, Iberworld and TOM on W patterns and even BA if youd care to check)
Problem with EDI.....????
Problem with EDI.....????
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Monarch will base an aircraft from Monday to Thursday which will operate:
Monday - Corfu and Dalaman
Tuesday - Palma (W Leg with Aberdeen)
Wednesday - Paphos
Thursday - Palma (W Leg with Aberdeen)
All of the above flights are operated on behalf of Thomson!
Monday - Corfu and Dalaman
Tuesday - Palma (W Leg with Aberdeen)
Wednesday - Paphos
Thursday - Palma (W Leg with Aberdeen)
A large part of Thomson prgrams are not operated by MON ( instead by FlyBe, Iberworld and TOM on W patterns and even BA if youd care to check)
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Any infomation on the Summer plan for DUB??
Is it going to the usual thursday to Sunday work with W patterns into ORK,NOC & SNN??
I hear its an A320 & A321 this year compared to 3 A321's for S09.
Is it going to the usual thursday to Sunday work with W patterns into ORK,NOC & SNN??
I hear its an A320 & A321 this year compared to 3 A321's for S09.
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Indeed. Facts are facts. The whole charter operation is up for change at EDI since collapse of GSM. A large part of Thomson prgrams are not operated by MON ( instead by FlyBe, Iberworld and TOM on W patterns and even BA if youd care to check)
The flights are
Balkan - Bourgas
Monarch - Corfu. Palma (x2), Paphos, Dalaman
Flybe - Ibiza, Palma (peak)
Thomas Cook - Palma (peak)
Thomson - Tenerife, Sharm
The Thomas Cook schedule has been decimated by the demise of Flyglobespan. and now have just three flights.
The sole BA flight is to Cagliari (via MAN) on behalf of Sardatur.
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Hold on a second, I'm not fully understanding this. Thomson have an airline of their own which is currently in the process of laying off pilots, and yet they're contracting Monarch and others to operate flights on their behalf?
Forgive my ignorance but am I missing something?
UPDATE - answered by exasperated on the next page.
Forgive my ignorance but am I missing something?
UPDATE - answered by exasperated on the next page.
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Hold on a second, I'm not fully understanding this. Thomson have an airline of their own which is currently in the process of laying off pilots, and yet they're contracting Monarch and others to operate flights on their behalf?
Forgive my ignorance but am I missing something? Hold on a second, I'm not fully understanding this. Thomson have an airline of their own which is currently in the process of laying off pilots, and yet they're contracting Monarch and others to operate flights on their behalf?
Forgive my ignorance but am I missing something?
Forgive my ignorance but am I missing something? Hold on a second, I'm not fully understanding this. Thomson have an airline of their own which is currently in the process of laying off pilots, and yet they're contracting Monarch and others to operate flights on their behalf?
Forgive my ignorance but am I missing something?
What Thomson try to do is balance the utilisation over the entire year and top up peak demand by subbing in additional capacity.
This has been done for many years by ALL the major Tour Operators.
Using EDI as an example, Airtours had a summer presence via Monarch for a number of years until 2010 when it was dropped in favour of buying capacity on Flyglopespan and we all know what happened there
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Thomson thankfully have a good balance on how they operate their schedule.
The summer/winter season in the UK and Ireland have a huge capacity difference so alot of operators sub of some work otherwise they would have aircraft laying around for months in the winter.
XL had a good system were they would send several 737's to Sunwing Airlines in Canada for the winter season which is their busy season. And they registered the aircraft in Canada so they could use the sunwing pilots in the summer and a mix of sunwing & XL cabin crew. This reduced costs in the winter but its a complicated system and as we all know it didn't exactly save XL.
Does anyone know the date when G-DIMB leaves the fleet??
The summer/winter season in the UK and Ireland have a huge capacity difference so alot of operators sub of some work otherwise they would have aircraft laying around for months in the winter.
XL had a good system were they would send several 737's to Sunwing Airlines in Canada for the winter season which is their busy season. And they registered the aircraft in Canada so they could use the sunwing pilots in the summer and a mix of sunwing & XL cabin crew. This reduced costs in the winter but its a complicated system and as we all know it didn't exactly save XL.
Does anyone know the date when G-DIMB leaves the fleet??