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I seriously cannot see Ryanair launching BFS Glasgow. easyJet have been established on the route for years and fly 4 daily flights most of the time. I know there was strong speculation that Ryan would start Belfast Birmingham a while back when it looked like EZY were about to drop that service, but for Ryanair to come on a route like Glasgow which is central to easyJet's network and heavily served seems rather unlikely to me.
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Booked some very well priced flights to SWF, interesting to note Norwegian are selling 189 seats per flight, at 31 inch pitch, I'm assuming the MAX is slightly longer or less toilets, or thinner seats ?? in order to achieve this?
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I would say the seats are thinner, legislation for toilets per people are mandatory for airlines i think
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Yup I think you are right, I was well happy with what I paid I have to say, plenty of good value seats out there. Anyone any word on how sales are going now after the initial launch frenzy?
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Next flight schedule release for easyJet is Thursday 23rd March.
Will include: 29 October 2017 – 4 February 2018.
Flight schedule release dates | easyJet
Will include: 29 October 2017 – 4 February 2018.
Flight schedule release dates | easyJet
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189 seats at up-to-31-inch is possible in the old -800 cabin, it was actually Norwegian's original cabin layout. Constrained by the exit limitations* and payload-range performance on the -800, rather than seat thickness.
Thinner seats will give Ryanair 197 seats in the MAX-8 cabin, technically capable of 200, with two additional exits and no change of floor area.
* One of the reasons the -900 sold at all was that it had enough exits to permit the pitch to be reduced to 28 inches, so airlines had an extra bump in capacity beyond that suggested by the extra floor area.
Thinner seats will give Ryanair 197 seats in the MAX-8 cabin, technically capable of 200, with two additional exits and no change of floor area.
* One of the reasons the -900 sold at all was that it had enough exits to permit the pitch to be reduced to 28 inches, so airlines had an extra bump in capacity beyond that suggested by the extra floor area.
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189 seats at up-to-31-inch is possible in the old -800 cabin, it was actually Norwegian's original cabin layout. Constrained by the exit limitations* and payload-range performance on the -800, rather than seat thickness.
Thinner seats will give Ryanair 197 seats in the MAX-8 cabin, technically capable of 200, with two additional exits and no change of floor area.
* One of the reasons the -900 sold at all was that it had enough exits to permit the pitch to be reduced to 28 inches, so airlines had an extra bump in capacity beyond that suggested by the extra floor area.
Thinner seats will give Ryanair 197 seats in the MAX-8 cabin, technically capable of 200, with two additional exits and no change of floor area.
* One of the reasons the -900 sold at all was that it had enough exits to permit the pitch to be reduced to 28 inches, so airlines had an extra bump in capacity beyond that suggested by the extra floor area.
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Article from this morning press.....155,000 extra summer seats.
EasyJet adds 155,000 extra summer seats from Belfast - The Irish News
EasyJet adds 155,000 extra summer seats from Belfast - The Irish News
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Indeed - schedule looks pretty solid. A lot of UK domestic frequency across all core routes (hopefully Belfast will get the benefit of £ to £ on GB routes for visitors travelling over the Irish Sea from 'the Mainland') and nothing unexpectedly negative on the international routes, including the seasonal winter returns of Geneva, Lyon, Lanzarote and Reykjavik. They have grown Belfast seats a lot in the last year or so. Whilst a couple of shiny new routes, even on low weekly schedules is nice to see, it's good to see the growth which has been introduced being consolidated - and more likely new routes would be added in Spring I'd say. Other stations will no doubt have greater uncertainty over the next couple of years, given that the strong NI - GB links won't come under scrutiny - no matter what issues from brexit discussions. 
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I have just been having a quick look at the winter flights on Ezy. Have to say, some really strange timings on the likes of Ltn, Stn and Gla. Just further evidence for me that Ezy are slowly loosing the plot. They claim to be really interested in business pax yet on Gla, in November, the first flights to Gla on a Thursday and Friday are 2.00 pm. First flight on a Sunday out of Ltn is 7.05 am, on a Tuesday and Wednesday 12.40 pm! Ezy seem to be trying to squeeze more and more into Bfs without increasing number of based aircraft, resulting in some really stupid timings.
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TCX 2018
Going by TCX website Kos on the map for next year 2018
http://thomascookairlinesuk-newsroom.condor.com/en/int/news-article/17-new-routes-seven-new-own-brand-hotels-for-summer-2018-on-sale/
http://thomascookairlinesuk-newsroom.condor.com/en/int/news-article/17-new-routes-seven-new-own-brand-hotels-for-summer-2018-on-sale/
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Was looking on this website - https://www.amadeus.net/tools/timetables and was searching on the timetable for Malaga for Winter 2017/18 and Jet2 is appearing operating 2 weekly on Thursday and Sunday but the flights aren't bookable on Jet2s website. Is Jet2 planning to operate in W17/18 or is it a mistake?