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And more.. Passengers travelling to Newcastle endure 17 hour delay as pilot catches up on his sleep - Chronicle Live
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Fed up of stories about Jet2 or stories about moaning passengers?
The problem with these stories is they grow legs, of course all airlines have tech issues, but having said that of late Jet2 is in the press for the wrong reasons and there is no getting away from the fact that older aircraft have more issues period, its a fact of engineering
The weakness of the 737 is its air systems
Given the compensation culture and the recent court case these delays are going to hurt in the pocket
The problem with these stories is they grow legs, of course all airlines have tech issues, but having said that of late Jet2 is in the press for the wrong reasons and there is no getting away from the fact that older aircraft have more issues period, its a fact of engineering
The weakness of the 737 is its air systems
Given the compensation culture and the recent court case these delays are going to hurt in the pocket
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And more.. Passengers travelling to Newcastle endure 17 hour delay as pilot catches up on his sleep - Chronicle Live
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Yes i'll have a standby Crew for every flight and contingency and the punters can pay twice / three times as much for the ticket price.
Maybe they can add that option when they pay for the ticket, cost of ticket £100 do you want a hire car, hotel, insurance, or an extra crew that's another £100 please select here. Punters we love them, just bad luck better a awake crew than a tired one for me
Maybe they can add that option when they pay for the ticket, cost of ticket £100 do you want a hire car, hotel, insurance, or an extra crew that's another £100 please select here. Punters we love them, just bad luck better a awake crew than a tired one for me
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Yes i'll have a standby Crew for every flight and contingency and the punters can pay twice / three times as much for the ticket price.
It is not a case of having a standby crew for every flight but a case of having a standby crew at least at one of their bases to cover such eventualities.
However, if it is a case that a standby crew were already covering another flight, then its tough luck - these things happen, not pleasant but these things do happen.
I guess we do not know the full story.
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I don't see why they would. They've been exclusively Boeing for many years. Any talk of going airbus would only be used as a bargaining chip against Boeing so any airbus rumour would only suggest to me that they're going to buy new jets direct from Boeing.
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They will buy what other carriers are getting rid off at the right price.... Rumours of bigger machines float about from time to time.
The jet2 business is very seasonal, older aircraft bought outright sitting around idle over winter is the way it works.
The jet2 business is very seasonal, older aircraft bought outright sitting around idle over winter is the way it works.
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Ooh an A330 out of BLK , now that would be interesting
We'll talk of airbus , monarch will have a few Vintage A320/1's for sale in near future , should they take those new 737s....
We'll talk of airbus , monarch will have a few Vintage A320/1's for sale in near future , should they take those new 737s....
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It's that time of year again. Maxed out crew start hallucinating and "hearing" news from above. Last year it was Titan and widebodies. This year it appears to be Airbus.
My prediction is another tranche of knackered 800s. Anyone want to bet against me?
My prediction is another tranche of knackered 800s. Anyone want to bet against me?
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Jet2 have no previous form in buying new aircraft, why would they change a policy that in general has served them well and as others have pointed out its a seasonal business, if that means they can park their owned fleet and crews over the winter and just use leased aircraft so be it, it seems to work.
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They only have about 6 leased aircraft and 44 they own outright according to their latest annual report.
Biggest challenge they have is to make it an all year round business, which probably means some longer haul type destination, which would mean something larger of A330 or 767 sort of size. Whether they are in a position to do that anytime soon is anyones guess..
Biggest challenge they have is to make it an all year round business, which probably means some longer haul type destination, which would mean something larger of A330 or 767 sort of size. Whether they are in a position to do that anytime soon is anyones guess..
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If Jet2 ever... Ever get widebodies, I think EK could be their people, EK's old A330's (and dare I say it, 2 class, non ER 772's) could be perfect for them, simply because they will be stupidly cheap and they could fill them on a few short haul routes. Even though Pakistan are unlikely to let them in, LS could break into LBA-ISB... It just seems like the kind of thing they would do, or that they might have done in the past in their more adventurous days.