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Where is there anything written about Gatwick “throwing Wizz Air a deal”?
Looks like Wizz acknowledge that BA and Virgin won’t sell their slots, I’m inclined to believe the judgement of an airline CEO over a spotter who’s been posting negativity about any airport except Heathrow across a number of forum platforms for as long as I can remember.
Looks like Wizz acknowledge that BA and Virgin won’t sell their slots, I’m inclined to believe the judgement of an airline CEO over a spotter who’s been posting negativity about any airport except Heathrow across a number of forum platforms for as long as I can remember.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52566030
I’m not Mystic Meg, and yes I am a dour Scottish pessimist, so am not a fanboy. I support LHR as a national asset rather than a local airport like say SOU/BOU or LTN/STN, NCL/MME, MAN/LPL, PIK/GLA/EDI. Look at the overlap, that duplication won’t survive this downturn, this is the biggest recession anyone has alive has seen. I truly find it bonkers that somehow Wizz Air taking on BA at LGW is even registering?
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No mention of SEN and Carlisle! I agree with much of SOF's observations. I have said before IAG can still rise from the ashes at LGW in Level, Vueling and Iberia Express. Clearly BA will remove the Beach/Island routes to LHR, but only if there sustainable. I think the IAG plan is all about the future not the present nor the past. Like it or not the company will take whatever action is needed to survive and it will upset many more people than have so far been mentioned.
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Are you for real? You think the CEO of a major airline can’t see an airport desperate for a lifeline and knows he has them by the balls? I am also a marketing analyst who would say that the UK has had too much airport capacity in a fragmented state devoid of strategy for decades. Well guess what, the bubble just burst.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52566030
I’m not Mystic Meg, and yes I am a dour Scottish pessimist, so am not a fanboy. I support LHR as a national asset rather than a local airport like say SOU/BOU or LTN/STN, NCL/MME, MAN/LPL, PIK/GLA/EDI. Look at the overlap, that duplication won’t survive this downturn, this is the biggest recession anyone has alive has seen. I truly find it bonkers that somehow Wizz Air taking on BA at LGW is even registering?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52566030
I’m not Mystic Meg, and yes I am a dour Scottish pessimist, so am not a fanboy. I support LHR as a national asset rather than a local airport like say SOU/BOU or LTN/STN, NCL/MME, MAN/LPL, PIK/GLA/EDI. Look at the overlap, that duplication won’t survive this downturn, this is the biggest recession anyone has alive has seen. I truly find it bonkers that somehow Wizz Air taking on BA at LGW is even registering?
If you scroll down the very same news article that you posted, you’ll also see that after the “biggest recession anyone alive has ever seen”, they’re forecasting a 15% growth next year. The CEO of BA himself has said that demand will be at 2019 levels by 2023 (quite where he got his crystal ball from I don’t know, but given that everything he says will be the most extreme case in order to justify has mass culling of staff, it’ll probably be sooner). How does he expect to meet that demand in three years if he’s given all the LGW slots to easyJet?
Use some common sense. Virgin and Norwegian have made it clear they’re not giving up their slots and BA would sooner fly an A319 from Gatwick to Heathrow and back 10x per day to protect their slots than allow them to be swallowed up by easyJet. And anyone who believes they wouldn’t has a short memory.
BBC NEWS | UK | Green anger at 'ghost flights'
Wizz Air are not taking on BA. Wizz will more than likely continue along their path of expanding services at LGW with flights at times when slots are readily available, and remember there are slots readily available at Gatwick. It’s only the morning departures and the late evening arrivals where the airport is largely restricted.
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Why?
Slots for S20 are irrelevant as there is no requirement to ‘use them or lose them’. Their plan is to restart in March 2021 or earlier if demand allows them to. The key scandi-UK routes will almost certainly be back before the end of the year, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see one or two TATL routes before Christmas either.
Slots for S20 are irrelevant as there is no requirement to ‘use them or lose them’. Their plan is to restart in March 2021 or earlier if demand allows them to. The key scandi-UK routes will almost certainly be back before the end of the year, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see one or two TATL routes before Christmas either.
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Slots for S20 are irrelevant as there is no requirement to ‘use them or lose them’. Their plan is to restart in March 2021 or earlier if demand allows them to. The key scandi-UK routes will almost certainly be back before the end of the year, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see one or two TATL routes before Christmas either.
Slots for S20 are irrelevant as there is no requirement to ‘use them or lose them’. Their plan is to restart in March 2021 or earlier if demand allows them to. The key scandi-UK routes will almost certainly be back before the end of the year, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see one or two TATL routes before Christmas either.
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Interesting article here : credit SimplyFlying.
https://simpleflying.com/will-gatwic...rgin-atlantic/
But takes no acount of undoubted contraction that will appear at Heathrow ?
As soon as slots appear there airlines will transfer flight over in a heartbeat IMO.
https://simpleflying.com/will-gatwic...rgin-atlantic/
But takes no acount of undoubted contraction that will appear at Heathrow ?
As soon as slots appear there airlines will transfer flight over in a heartbeat IMO.
Interesting article here : credit SimplyFlying.
https://simpleflying.com/will-gatwic...rgin-atlantic/
But takes no acount of undoubted contraction that will appear at Heathrow ?
As soon as slots appear there airlines will transfer flight over in a heartbeat IMO.
https://simpleflying.com/will-gatwic...rgin-atlantic/
But takes no acount of undoubted contraction that will appear at Heathrow ?
As soon as slots appear there airlines will transfer flight over in a heartbeat IMO.
I can see why the publication calls itself Simple Flying ...
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DR yes I thought the headline was to say the least somewhat understated.
I suspect they will miss BA and NOR as well
Just a minor observation when 3 of your largest customers pull out.
I suspect they will miss BA and NOR as well
Just a minor observation when 3 of your largest customers pull out.
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BA have said, albeit after the VS announcement, that they wouldn’t be completely leaving Gatwick
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Bit of a strange one, not sure what LGW brings to the party. For the purposes of essential travel Southampton surely meets that purpose for London as well as serving the wider south. If they’d gone to LTN or STN it would have at least given more of a reach stretching into the Midlands and East.
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Its also worth remembering the amount of daily flights BA and Easyjet had serving Jersey prior the crisis, Essential workers come in all forms and with Jerseys two main industries being Finance and Farming a London connection makes sense. No doubt the Government of Jersey has some idea of what they're doing.
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Its also worth remembering the amount of daily flights BA and Easyjet had serving Jersey prior the crisis, Essential workers come in all forms and with Jerseys two main industries being Finance and Farming a London connection makes sense. No doubt the Government of Jersey has some idea of what they're doing.
As a Jersey resident & an aviation professional for 37 years, I can assure you that the residents would put a Gatwick link way out on its own against a link to one to a further north airport. As for the States of Jersey “knowing what it is doing’; I have serious doubts about that !