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TOM 767/787 ops on Fri to MTB Sat to CUN and Sun to SFB.
MON operate mainly scheduled flights with just a handful of MON charters CFU & ZTH are a couple they have operated for Olympic and Cosmos or many years. According to brochures they may also operate EFL on Sunday in 2014.
MON operate mainly scheduled flights with just a handful of MON charters CFU & ZTH are a couple they have operated for Olympic and Cosmos or many years. According to brochures they may also operate EFL on Sunday in 2014.
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Biman DC10 - Enthusiast Flights
9 is the maximum amount of flights that they will operate, however I am confident they will sell all the seats available with only window seats and the adjacent aisle seats being on sale, so A,B and J,K will be on sale, which is about 140 seats per flight. IIRC window seats are £150 and aisle £100.
But still, that means there's + / - 1200 seats potentially on offer, which seams a heck of a lot. How many enthusiasts are there in UK (and I suppose further afield on the continent) and of that total, how many will be able to afford the price of the fares, plus getting to and from BHX?
That said, great news that this project still still on track. Should provide some positive national, and potentially worldwide, good publicity for BHX, and indeed, Birmingham.
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Chinapattern;
Re Chinese Railway investment perhaps the most interesting part is that apart from a proposed extra rail line;
"We write to express our formal interest in making long-term investments in the region, including the development and enhancement of Birmingham Airport"
Would love to know what they mean by that ?
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Re Chinese Railway investment perhaps the most interesting part is that apart from a proposed extra rail line;
"We write to express our formal interest in making long-term investments in the region, including the development and enhancement of Birmingham Airport"
Would love to know what they mean by that ?
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"We write to express our formal interest in making long-term investments in the region, including the development and enhancement of Birmingham Airport"
Would love to know what they mean by that ?
The report on Midlands Today was sadly rather vague but at least it appeared to indicate that the Chinese are looking at BHX in some form or another rather than the other way round.
Air Transat
The usual up-gauge/down-gauge between the A310 and A330 continues but it appears we will see more of the A330 this summer.
"We write to express our formal interest in making long-term investments in the region, including the development and enhancement of Birmingham Airport"
Would love to know what they mean by that ?
The report on Midlands Today was sadly rather vague but at least it appeared to indicate that the Chinese are looking at BHX in some form or another rather than the other way round.
Air Transat
The usual up-gauge/down-gauge between the A310 and A330 continues but it appears we will see more of the A330 this summer.
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Chinapattern,
Yes agree newspaper and TV concentrated on the new rail line proposal and didn't cover the airport bit.
As for TS ..the latest brochure through my door now shows A330s all summer. Yet their online brochure shows A310s till end of June then a mix of 332/333 from July till end of Sept..not checked Amedeus.
Did I read somewhere the 333s were going..hmm ?
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Yes agree newspaper and TV concentrated on the new rail line proposal and didn't cover the airport bit.
As for TS ..the latest brochure through my door now shows A330s all summer. Yet their online brochure shows A310s till end of June then a mix of 332/333 from July till end of Sept..not checked Amedeus.
Did I read somewhere the 333s were going..hmm ?
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I've seen a few conflicting reports; the original plan was an all A310 operation. But from what I understand a bit of tweaking is going on up the road for some of the YYZ flights in light of AC Rouge arriving so perhaps this has freed up an A330 for BHX?
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I know it probably doesn't stand for much but I'm going down to BHX to fly on it, I have a friend in Abu Dhabi who is, in one way or another, taking a flight (either DAC-BHX or BHX-BHX) and then he said that he has a couple of guys he knows coming over too because we're all meeting in Birmingham,so either way it should be a really good few days. I think the 15:00 flight on Monday will sell out stupidly fast because it's THE last flight, or at least thats what BG and Ian Allan are selling it as. And that is one of the only ones, if not the ony one that Ian Allan are selling tickets for. It appears that BHX-SEA will not be sold. Wondering if BG will be tempted to open up all 314 seats on the last flight on the monday?
I shouldn't think 1200-1500 will be that difficult for BG on this occasion. I think there will be A LOT of people interested. And it'll be a nice little money making scheme for them and hopefully inspire KLM to do the same for the MD11. Air Koryo and Biman Bangladesh know what they're doing with us enthusiasts
I know it probably doesn't stand for much but I'm going down to BHX to fly on it, I have a friend in Abu Dhabi who is, in one way or another, taking a flight (either DAC-BHX or BHX-BHX) and then he said that he has a couple of guys he knows coming over too because we're all meeting in Birmingham,so either way it should be a really good few days. I think the 15:00 flight on Monday will sell out stupidly fast because it's THE last flight, or at least thats what BG and Ian Allan are selling it as. And that is one of the only ones, if not the ony one that Ian Allan are selling tickets for. It appears that BHX-SEA will not be sold. Wondering if BG will be tempted to open up all 314 seats on the last flight on the monday?
I shouldn't think 1200-1500 will be that difficult for BG on this occasion. I think there will be A LOT of people interested. And it'll be a nice little money making scheme for them and hopefully inspire KLM to do the same for the MD11. Air Koryo and Biman Bangladesh know what they're doing with us enthusiasts
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Since the BHX-BHX flights appear to be going on sale publicly on the Biman website as some sort of quasi-scheduled or scheduled charter flights...as daft as it may sound, I assume formally speaking Biman must apply for domestic cabotage traffic rights from the UK DfT, which also requires non-objection from UK carriers?
I'm not saying that I don't want to see hear flights operate (quite the opposite) but one wonders whether the DfT would require traffic permits requirements to be followed to the letter (remember the Thai Business Air debacle in LBA?!)
I'm not saying that I don't want to see hear flights operate (quite the opposite) but one wonders whether the DfT would require traffic permits requirements to be followed to the letter (remember the Thai Business Air debacle in LBA?!)
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Interesting point globetrotter, however, Ian Allan Travel are selling 50% of tickets... May Biman have found a very clever loophole do you think?
It will be interesting to see how it goes though. It would be nice if something could work for Biman haha, lets hope there aren't any technical problems.
It will be interesting to see how it goes though. It would be nice if something could work for Biman haha, lets hope there aren't any technical problems.
Back on topic. Have the flight path issues been sorted yet? as I believe there are still grumbles in the Hampton area about potentially more noise due to the extension. What happened to the new flight path trials that took place earlier on?
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Nothing from Turkish airlines yet about the increase to double daily so far. They have made increases to LGW/EDI & DUB for 2014 I would hope to see it announced soon for a summer 2014 start...