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Thomas Cook are to cease selling package hoildays/charter flights from 30 April. Still trading but online and to customers. Majority of passengers on charters were this party bookings.
Will be a loss but EI and fr will pick up the slack.
Will be a loss but EI and fr will pick up the slack.
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It will impact on what little sole charter traffic that operates from DUB such as QS and other oddities that were in last sunmer. A long way from all the MON flights operared for Directholidays.
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Don't expect EI to be picking up the slack from Thomas Cook in any significant shape or form. The business plan is now heavily focussed on growing ACMI. The benefits are that its low risk and provides guaranteed revenue. Leasing new aircraft to serve additional routes would mean someone is putting their neck on the line. Should there be demand on any overlapping Thomas Cook routes and larger aircraft be available then they could conceivably be switched to free up additional seats. Like most airlines the summer has the aircaft and crews maxed out just servicing the existing schedule.
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EI already have increased flights on lots of the same TCX routes. They are looking for specific aircraft for such routes long before this news. There may be nothing major out of it but EI and travel agents work well together and if there is demand from then EI will serve there needs where possible.
Capacity to Turkey is all but restored except a flight to AYT, Wings Abroad will increase flights. Only a matter of time before EI add AYT or even another service considering the success Izmir is for them.
A little surprised at the YYZ move, clearly bookings are good!
EI already have increased flights on lots of the same TCX routes. They are looking for specific aircraft for such routes long before this news. There may be nothing major out of it but EI and travel agents work well together and if there is demand from then EI will serve there needs where possible.
Capacity to Turkey is all but restored except a flight to AYT, Wings Abroad will increase flights. Only a matter of time before EI add AYT or even another service considering the success Izmir is for them.
A little surprised at the YYZ move, clearly bookings are good!
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Some more figures about EK at DUB
Emirates Doubles its Dublin Service :: Routesonline
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EI already have increased flights on lots of the same TCX routes.
The other thing to bear in mind is that the charter pax are notoriously price sensitive and fickle. Not the target market the current business plan is focusing on.
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A lot of people know TCX ending was coming, its being know since the review a year ago, they have a very very bad summer last year compared to Thomson who had a great one and current trends for 14 suggest the same, Sunway see double digit growth in bookings before TCX closure announced. They hadn't even launched there summer brochure for this year and people knew it was not good. EI are the main winners as TCX website using only EI scheduled flights for future bookings.
Faro see the A332/3 twice weekly, Corfu gains extra weekly, Izmir increased capacity, Lanzarote extra weekly. Thomson add Ibiza while Ryanair move into Crete. They were getting it from all sides. There is always room within current capacity levels to fill more so the above extra will help and overall capacity for 2014 will be up with FR adding other bits.
EI are watching for a few extra aircraft to work with tour operators and benefit themselves. There is some room in current schedules for extra's to be added.
I'm wouldn't be surprised if they add a Turkish route if Wings Abroad and Sunway can't get operator to fill BJV and AYT. TCX picked the worst time to announce this and it shows poor management, they knew well before last week of the closure.
There won't be anything major but there will be small things.
Faro see the A332/3 twice weekly, Corfu gains extra weekly, Izmir increased capacity, Lanzarote extra weekly. Thomson add Ibiza while Ryanair move into Crete. They were getting it from all sides. There is always room within current capacity levels to fill more so the above extra will help and overall capacity for 2014 will be up with FR adding other bits.
EI are watching for a few extra aircraft to work with tour operators and benefit themselves. There is some room in current schedules for extra's to be added.
I'm wouldn't be surprised if they add a Turkish route if Wings Abroad and Sunway can't get operator to fill BJV and AYT. TCX picked the worst time to announce this and it shows poor management, they knew well before last week of the closure.
There won't be anything major but there will be small things.
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Tarom increasing capacity by 50% for the summer, started last summer 3 weekly flights increased to 4 in October and increasing to 6 weekly in March.
Not sure how long it will last with Ryanair starting 4 weekly service and there is Blue Air's 3 weekly service to.
Not sure how long it will last with Ryanair starting 4 weekly service and there is Blue Air's 3 weekly service to.
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Will do very well as back door way into uk via dub up the road to belfast in
the uk job done
the uk job done