Monarch - 3

[macuser]

A300-600

I remember flying LGW - alps maybe Chambery? - on the big a300 in the early 90s . First wide body I had been on. Flight was short enough not to need the lav --- plus was sitting near the front....! Good flight, don't know how they were doing at the back.G-MONS I think........

[OltonPete]

G-OZBY & aircraft type per base

G-OZBY

Now 11 days since the 7700 squawk in to Manchester and it has still not flown, is it fair to say that it is more than a routine tech problem?

Aircraft per base

Is the split known between the A320 and A321's for this summer for each base? I have seen the posts stating the sharklets will be at Leeds and the ex CY 321's are for East Mids but what about BHX, MAN, LGW and LTN. The seat map for BHX seemed to indicate 5 x 321's and 4 x 320.

Also is the ex Vueling A320 G-ZBAH confirmed and is this to be an operational spare?

Retrofit Sharklets for the 321's

If or when this is offered will Monarch consider this as I am sure it might help on the SSH services especially in winter.

Pete

[Mr @ Spotty M]

The ex Vueling A320 has not been confirmed, as the contract has yet to be signed, however l am confident it will be shortly.
The Sharklets will be fitted to the new A321s this coming winter.
G-OZBY will be back flying by the weekend.
As for the ex Cyprus A321s, yes they are to be based at EMA, however the seating config has yet to be confirmed.

[MKY661]

The Sharklets will be fitted to the new A321s this coming winter.

So I assume no Sharklets will be retrofitted on the A320/A321 which have been with Monarch since 2012 or before?

Also where will the A321's direct from Boeing be based this summer or will these aircraft act like most of the rest of the fleet - they move around the bases?

[Say again s l o w l y]

You cannot just fit sharklets to any old 320/321, the difference in the aircraft structure to accomodate them is very large, so I certainly don't see any chance of a retrofit program for a/c not designed for them originally.

[OltonPete]

Various

Mr @ Spotty M

Thank you for the information.

Good job the April flying schedule was quite light with BY out for over 2 weeks.

If AH is taken and is a spare then that is reassuring especially for me, as I am considering booking my summer hols with said airline and the BHX nine have very little slack in the schedule during high-summer.

I am sure the 321 sharklets will be appreciated by pax and ZB alike if it prevents the VCE tech-stops on the way back from SSH. I only noticed two or three of the BHX services stop last winter but the schedule is increasing in frequency from May and it contiues through the winter months.

[Mr @ Spotty M]

The new A321s should be deployed as per existing fleet.
Now as for SSH, l believe both a/c are not being delivered with ACT's fitted.
The extra A320 may or may not be a spare a/c.

PS, the new A321's are from Airbus not Boeing, MKY661.

[MKY661]

PS, the new A321's are from Airbus not Boeing, MKY661.

Did I put Boeing? If I did I am very sorry and it should have said Airbus. I think it was me just not paying attention to what I was writing haha. Oops

[TCX69]

D-AVZH, soon to be G-ZBAD. Yet another one with the .co.uk still!

[MKY661]

TCX69

The reason why it still has it is shown in the Livery Thread

[BasilFawlty]

Is the split known between the A320 and A321's for this summer for each base?

I would like to know that as well. By looking at the planned fleet and schedules it should be something like this:

BHX: 5x A320, 4x A321
EMA: 2x A321
LBA: 2x A320
LTN: 2x A320, 2x A321
LGW: 1x A300, 1x A320, 7x A321, 1x A330, 2x 757
MAN: 2x A300, 6x A321, 1x A330, 1x 757

Any corrections?

[Matt995]

Not certain about the placement of the LGW/BHX A320/A321's on that list. It might be 6 A321's, and 2 A320's at LGW, and 5 A321's and 4 A320's at BHX

Monarch's seat plan for Wednesday flights seams to be showing 6 A321's and 2 A320's at LGW and this might indicate that the BHX fleet could be 5 A321's and 4 A320's, on checking BHX's weekend schedule it seams to be showing as 5 A321's and 4 A320's? I would have thought Monarch must by now have the correct seating planing showing on their website for these flights?

does anyone have official confirmation on Monarch's fleet allocation for the summer?

[CEJM]

BHX: 4x A321, 5x A320
LGW: 6x A321, 1x A320, 1x A300, 2x 757, 1x A330
MAN: 6x A321, 2x A300, 1x 757, 1x A330
LTN: 2x A321, 2x A320
LBA: 2x A320
EMA: 2x A321

In total 38 aircraft: 10x A320, 20x A321, 3x A300, 3x 757 & 2 A330.

[Alex321]

Sounds about right although there are due to be 21 A321's.

[CEJM]

It's not a case of sounds about right, it is right!
Trawl through Sabre and see for yourself.

The reason that the other A321 isn't mentioned is because that is our standby aircraft and no decision has been made where that will be based.

[MKY661]

So that means that Monarch will be getting The A320 off Vueling then? I count only 9 A320's without that aircraft

[Alex321]

Sabre

Dont fancy trawling through the timetables to work it out!

[im going in]

CEJM

If you trawl through Sabre, yr be able to work out where the standby aircraft is based.

[CEJM]

Fully aware that the jet does a DLM rotation once a week. However as with the A330, it doesn't mean that it is actually based at this particular airport as it always can be positioned in to do this flight.

In the end of the day it is our standby aircraft and it will operate from the base where it is needed at that time.

[Vauban]

Could anyone kindly advise me how I find out exactly which airplane Monarch used to fly me from Sharm to Gatwick last year on the 8th April (actually it turned out to be the 9th in the end)? Flightstats doesn't have the information, and I'd quite like to know a bit more about the specific plane - including its age.