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Aer southeast website will be live from tomorrow for bookings ( from €79) according to Waterford Airport.
6 x wkly . inaugural flight 24 July arr LTN 08.45
What's happened at LTN , flights diverting?
6 x wkly . inaugural flight 24 July arr LTN 08.45
What's happened at LTN , flights diverting?
Last edited by Falcon666; 19th Jun 2017 at 12:43.
They were doing some work on taxiway Bravo as you say, so that explains that. Having to use taxiway Charlie for lineup. However a hole appeared on the runway as well (had to avoid it as operating an aircraft this lunchtime)
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HA-LWV: SOF - TLV - SOF - LTN - SOF - LTN
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Wizzair runs one hell of a complex fleet network, but obviously works for them...
I flew Wizzair on Sunday to Split, with the flight departing around 2.15pm from LTN.
Was talking to a lovely crew member on the flight, and she was saying how she was Katowice based and the LTN-SPU route, was her first flight of the day. Having night stopped in Luton from the night before and only just come shift. After operating 3-4 flights the previous day.
She explained how that aircraft had flown Kaunas-Luton-Bourgas-Luton that morning with the previous crew and she was operating Luton-Split-Luton-Katowice.
She went on to explain there are usually 30-50 crew on night stop at Luton at any one time and the flights between 2-3pm is usually when they swap around.
As we were at boarding gate 10 and noticed 3-4 Wizzair aircraft nearby and crew were leaving the flight to swap other crew. Initially I thought it was just an aircraft swap.
For my my flight home it appears the aircraft starts the day from Vilnius and will end the day in Sofia.
All seems very complex!
At least usually with easyJet and Ryanair, the same aircraft seem to start and end in same location. With the occasional weekly swap out of aircraft.
When Wizzair start a Luton base, I think they are more referring to a crew base more than anything else. Are they recruiting locally with UK based crew?
I can imagine the eastern European crew will be paid a fair bit less than British based crew working for the likes of Ryanair and easyJet, down to cost of living etc...
It will be interesting to see how Wizzair play that one out, as it could cause resentment if British crew working for the same airline are paid more, and are doing the same job, and could imagine they would struggle to recruit UK staff, if they don't offer a comparable salary to other UK based airlines.
I flew Wizzair on Sunday to Split, with the flight departing around 2.15pm from LTN.
Was talking to a lovely crew member on the flight, and she was saying how she was Katowice based and the LTN-SPU route, was her first flight of the day. Having night stopped in Luton from the night before and only just come shift. After operating 3-4 flights the previous day.
She explained how that aircraft had flown Kaunas-Luton-Bourgas-Luton that morning with the previous crew and she was operating Luton-Split-Luton-Katowice.
She went on to explain there are usually 30-50 crew on night stop at Luton at any one time and the flights between 2-3pm is usually when they swap around.
As we were at boarding gate 10 and noticed 3-4 Wizzair aircraft nearby and crew were leaving the flight to swap other crew. Initially I thought it was just an aircraft swap.
For my my flight home it appears the aircraft starts the day from Vilnius and will end the day in Sofia.
All seems very complex!
At least usually with easyJet and Ryanair, the same aircraft seem to start and end in same location. With the occasional weekly swap out of aircraft.
When Wizzair start a Luton base, I think they are more referring to a crew base more than anything else. Are they recruiting locally with UK based crew?
I can imagine the eastern European crew will be paid a fair bit less than British based crew working for the likes of Ryanair and easyJet, down to cost of living etc...
It will be interesting to see how Wizzair play that one out, as it could cause resentment if British crew working for the same airline are paid more, and are doing the same job, and could imagine they would struggle to recruit UK staff, if they don't offer a comparable salary to other UK based airlines.
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Back in February Wizz announced it was opening its first base at Luton with one A320 that would create 36 direct jobs with the airline. What muddies the water is that the airline had based an aircraft at Luton from memory for at least the 2 previous years and this year there are already 2 night stopping here with a reported third due soon so why does 1=2 or 1=3?
On the Wizz job page they have vacancies for Luton based flight attendants with a recruitment day at Luton's seediest hotel in Luton town centre next month which is home to many of the towns homeless. The crews had been staying at the Holiday Inn but with more hotels opening up every year I would think discounts for block bookings would be rife for those night stoping.
On the Wizz job page they have vacancies for Luton based flight attendants with a recruitment day at Luton's seediest hotel in Luton town centre next month which is home to many of the towns homeless. The crews had been staying at the Holiday Inn but with more hotels opening up every year I would think discounts for block bookings would be rife for those night stoping.
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It's fairly simple isn't it? By definition, a base is an airport which has it's own aircraft and crew stationed there. Wizz may night-stop 2 or 3 aircraft at LTN but until now, Wizz have never had any crew actually based at LTN, it's all been night-stopping aircraft and crew from other bases.
Even EZY do it at a few locations around Europe mainly so they can fly early morning sectors into LGW. FR less so, if at all, yet less of a need to some degree since they already have 86 bases across Europe.
Why's the confusion? Is the "third" aircraft LTNman referring to not the based aircraft, alongside two other night-stoppers? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Even EZY do it at a few locations around Europe mainly so they can fly early morning sectors into LGW. FR less so, if at all, yet less of a need to some degree since they already have 86 bases across Europe.
Why's the confusion? Is the "third" aircraft LTNman referring to not the based aircraft, alongside two other night-stoppers? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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There was a time when I knew every schedule service route by ever airline using Luton but that was years ago when there were far fewer routes, now I haven't got a clue who flies where. At the moment their are 2 based aircraft at Luton but Mr @ Spotty M says that will be three. I take him at his word.
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