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New Multistorey Carpark
Planning a two week holiday in January, so I thought I'd see what the cost would be to park the car in the new multistorey carpark. Surprise! You can't book for that long a period. Why not?
I'm quite prepared to pay over the odds in order to avoid the scrummage to get on the bus, but that doesn't appear to be possible. Does STN only want 2 or 3 day pax to use the new car park?
I'm quite prepared to pay over the odds in order to avoid the scrummage to get on the bus, but that doesn't appear to be possible. Does STN only want 2 or 3 day pax to use the new car park?
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Planning a two week holiday in January, so I thought I'd see what the cost would be to park the car in the new multistorey carpark. Surprise! You can't book for that long a period. Why not?
I'm quite prepared to pay over the odds in order to avoid the scrummage to get on the bus, but that doesn't appear to be possible. Does STN only want 2 or 3 day pax to use the new car park?
I'm quite prepared to pay over the odds in order to avoid the scrummage to get on the bus, but that doesn't appear to be possible. Does STN only want 2 or 3 day pax to use the new car park?
In all fairness 2 weeks isn’t short stay, so that’s probably why it’s not offered to pre-book.
A pity, as one if the reasons that I have not used STN in recent years has been the need to use a bus connection to the car parks. The valet car parking the last time I used it was a complete fiasco, so I am reluctant to use it again.
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I don't know if its has been mentionned (sorry in advance if it s the case) but THOMAS COOK is going to reduce his capacity in STN
9 routes are going to be closed between August and November
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Enfidha
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Lanzarote
Menorca
Palma
reus
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9 routes are going to be closed between August and November
Bodrum
Enfidha
Gran Canaria
Lanzarote
Menorca
Palma
reus
rhodes
Tenerife South
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I don't know if its has been mentionned (sorry in advance if it s the case) but THOMAS COOK is going to reduce his capacity in STN
9 routes are going to be closed between August and November
Bodrum
Enfidha
Gran Canaria
Lanzarote
Menorca
Palma
reus
rhodes
Tenerife South
9 routes are going to be closed between August and November
Bodrum
Enfidha
Gran Canaria
Lanzarote
Menorca
Palma
reus
rhodes
Tenerife South
August doesn’t make sense as it’s peak season and most holidays in August should have been sold.
November is when the base base closes annually (MT has been a summer only base for a few years now).
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Thomas Cook actually shut their STN crew base I believe end of Summer 2017. Since then they've been using wholly third party operators, with 2x aircraft from Smartlynx, as a summer only operation.
They bring in a third aircraft to support the summer peak but this is only a temporary relocation from the Glasgow base.
For Summer 2020 it looks to reduce to just a single A320 from Smartlynx all season, only flying around six or seven routes.
They bring in a third aircraft to support the summer peak but this is only a temporary relocation from the Glasgow base.
For Summer 2020 it looks to reduce to just a single A320 from Smartlynx all season, only flying around six or seven routes.
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Thomas Cook
So on closer investigation it looks like some of these routes were planned to end at the end of August, which is still the case.
It also looks like Thomas Cook are using just one aircraft at Stansted for Summer 2020. No Canaries flight, no Balearic flights. Greece/Turkey heavy schedule by the looks of things.
Probably a mix of MT cost cutting and the ‘Jet2 effect’.
It also looks like Thomas Cook are using just one aircraft at Stansted for Summer 2020. No Canaries flight, no Balearic flights. Greece/Turkey heavy schedule by the looks of things.
Probably a mix of MT cost cutting and the ‘Jet2 effect’.
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Thomas Cook actually shut their STN crew base I believe end of Summer 2017. Since then they've been using wholly third party operators, with 2x aircraft from Smartlynx, as a summer only operation.
They bring in a third aircraft to support the summer peak but this is only a temporary relocation from the Glasgow base.
For Summer 2020 it looks to reduce to just a single A320 from Smartlynx all season, only flying around six or seven routes.
They bring in a third aircraft to support the summer peak but this is only a temporary relocation from the Glasgow base.
For Summer 2020 it looks to reduce to just a single A320 from Smartlynx all season, only flying around six or seven routes.
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Thomas Cook Flights for Next Year:
https://www.thomascookairlines.com/e...able_S2020.pdf
A massive drop with only two or three daily flights in peak summer.
https://www.thomascookairlines.com/e...able_S2020.pdf
A massive drop with only two or three daily flights in peak summer.
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Goven that STN last year was already in striking distance of MAN for the #3 spot on the list of the UK's busiest airports (only 300.000 pax or a little over 1 per cent shy of the MAN fgure), how have things developed? Will STN be the UK's #3 in 2019 behind LHR and LGW? Based on the growth figures for 2018, it should, by now, have made that move.
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Flights to LDY are switching to SEN from 27th October.
https://www.derryjournal.com/news/tr...hend-1-9046184
https://www.derryjournal.com/news/tr...hend-1-9046184
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G-SMLA just made an emergency landing at Stansted, all flights holding or stopped on the ground, hope everyone is ok as it went off radar just before landing and on squawk 7700.
Edit: flights resumed at 07:50 about 5 minutes later.
Edit: flights resumed at 07:50 about 5 minutes later.
