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That’s more than I thought, I don’t recognise AlbaStar, Travel Service or Freebird as part of a regular programme but I could well be wrong. I see Air Europa are operating a Palma flight this morning, is that a weekly service?
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The AlabaStar, Freebiird and TravelSaervice are regular weekly flights throughout the summer for tour operators. The AirEuropa is a split with Inverness i.e. Palma-Inverness-Luton-Palma but only a couple of flights I think. On Wednesday there were two charters from Inverness operated by Jota 146 and an ASL Airlines B737 which routed CHG empty to Inverness then to Luton then positioned empty back to Charles de Gaulle!
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Nouvelair will be operating a weekly Enfidha flight on behalf of Thomas Cook for S19
Will remain to be seen if Alba, Freebird etc return next year as they were operating on behalf of Tui and rumour is the third Based Tui will reappear for S19.
Anybody know what the latest is with the old Monarch HQ?
See LTN had a LCY Alitalia E195 divert last night , seems strange it didn't go to either SEN or STN
Will remain to be seen if Alba, Freebird etc return next year as they were operating on behalf of Tui and rumour is the third Based Tui will reappear for S19.
Anybody know what the latest is with the old Monarch HQ?
See LTN had a LCY Alitalia E195 divert last night , seems strange it didn't go to either SEN or STN
Luton seems to have been hit particularly badly by the weather today, many cancellations and apparently the airfield is now full so all arrivals are diverting. Expensive day for everyone involved!
It is indeed - a complete airstop earlier. London airspace completely full so delays all over the place. I’m currently stuck on stand 20 (I think) waiting for a bus. Got onto finals before diverted into a hold for about 5-10 mins. Got on the ground held at B5 for about 5 mins also due to a med emergency. No Marshaller, nor airside vehicles available. Stands completely full, and really quite lucky to get in considering what backlog there seems to be. I wouldn’t want to be arriving around 11-12 as you probably wouldn’t be! One of those days really - can’t be helped!
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The mini shelters that cover just the entrances to the terminal were used in anger today as the first heavy rain fell on them. As can be seen passengers were so impressed that they were reluctant to leave them as maybe they didn't want a good soaking if they took 10 paces.
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I commented on Wizz Air dropping flights to Tel Aviv, Larnaca and Athens, however this was a mistake.
When you check the flights by a month at a time, to find the cheapest flights it showed no flights after either end of October or Mid November. However when you go through the normal booking process flights are showing..
I commented on Wizz Air dropping flights to Tel Aviv, Larnaca and Athens, however this was a mistake.
When you check the flights by a month at a time, to find the cheapest flights it showed no flights after either end of October or Mid November. However when you go through the normal booking process flights are showing..
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i just tried a dummy booking on all three routes for December and they are all fine Judging by the prices I don't think they are being dropped.
Perhaps it was just an update?
i just tried a dummy booking on all three routes for December and they are all fine Judging by the prices I don't think they are being dropped.
Perhaps it was just an update?
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I wondered up to the multistory today at 09:50 and stayed until 10:10. LLAL talks about maximizing the runway use by doubling passenger numbers yet when I arrived the queue of departing aircraft was 8 and by the time I left it was 10 despite only witnessing one arrival with no aircraft back tracking. The queue extended all the way back to the south stands with aircraft also queuing on Delta. Seen nothing like this before at Luton. Noted there were times when there were delays between departures so maybe the issue was getting the aircraft out of Luton airspace.
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The prices are always high from Luton and many are fully booked days ahead( I know I've tried)so the demand is there.
Also Kharkiv is in the booking engine as a new route pending approval.
3x wkly from November
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I wondered up to the multistory today at 09:50 and stayed until 10:10. LLAL talks about maximizing the runway use by doubling passenger numbers yet when I arrived the queue of departing aircraft was 8 and by the time I left it was 10 despite only witnessing one arrival with no aircraft back tracking. The queue extended all the way back to the south stands with aircraft also queuing on Delta. Seen nothing like this before at Luton. Noted there were times when there were delays between departures so maybe the issue was getting the aircraft out of Luton airspace.
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Appeared poor weather front to the East over Norfolk.
Several Wizz had to fly north up to around Kings Lynn area and then down past Bedford, others held over the North Sea and came in further south.
Thats how it looked on FR24.
presumably the departures got hit as a result of missing slots but that's just a guess
Several Wizz had to fly north up to around Kings Lynn area and then down past Bedford, others held over the North Sea and came in further south.
Thats how it looked on FR24.
presumably the departures got hit as a result of missing slots but that's just a guess
Appeared poor weather front to the East over Norfolk.
Several Wizz had to fly north up to around Kings Lynn area and then down past Bedford, others held over the North Sea and came in further south.
Thats how it looked on FR24.
presumably the departures got hit as a result of missing slots but that's just a guess