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be careful what you wish for. BA have zero serious commitment to anything at LGW
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TK increasing capacity in next few weeks, A333 replacing A321 on several dates starting from tomorrow. Inbound particularly busy with economy sold out on many dates.
TK increasing capacity in next few weeks, A333 replacing A321 on several dates starting from tomorrow. Inbound particularly busy with economy sold out on many dates.
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QR also continue to perform very strongly. Inbound and outbound in next few weeks is very solidly booked in both cabins. Edinburgh festival traffic I assume is a factor.
QR also continue to perform very strongly. Inbound and outbound in next few weeks is very solidly booked in both cabins. Edinburgh festival traffic I assume is a factor.
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it’s not until W23 until we see an increased capacity on 1 of 2 flights.
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biggest thing keeping this route at GLA is a daily connection onto BA’s Orlando flight. During the summer BA themselves can fill it and during the winter TUI take seats on it.
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2 x daily 788’s in both directions equates to approx 30,480 seats per month. With LF’s consistently 95% + for some time now, based on this LF, the route could realise a pax total in the region of 28,596 for July. A pretty impressive performance. 2 x daily 788’s in both directions appears to be about right capacity wise. With QR and TK enjoying bumper totals, aircraft availability allowing, surely it’s only a matter of time before EK make a return to EDI?
plus with some A380’s still stored and now additional repairs requiring them to fly to Toulouse for maintenance they don’t have their pre-covid fleet available but have above pre-covid demand - this isn’t conjecture EDI management have themselves said that EK don’t have the fleet and that their own goals of attracting them back have been missed.
when this is factored into a global airline decisions will need to be made about where to serve. With a daily A380 into GLA and a 777 into NCL and then QR at EDI it has slipped down the priority list.
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This morning by 9am Glasgow will have had 29 departures, by 0715 Edi will have had 29 departures.
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Virgin at EDI won’t like that then- though we are assured by commentators its rammed to the gunnels on a leisure config A351.
Often a route that weathers most storms mind you, so not sure I’d be rearranging any schedules around that. Think BA are now double daily MCO at LGW.
Often a route that weathers most storms mind you, so not sure I’d be rearranging any schedules around that. Think BA are now double daily MCO at LGW.
Virgin at EDI won’t like that then- though we are assured by commentators its rammed to the gunnels on a leisure config A351.
Often a route that weathers most storms mind you, so not sure I’d be rearranging any schedules around that. Think BA are now double daily MCO at LGW.
Often a route that weathers most storms mind you, so not sure I’d be rearranging any schedules around that. Think BA are now double daily MCO at LGW.
Yes, BA double daily from LGW (772) at present and Norse (789) now daily also.
Fortunately for Florida Tourism, the UK tour operators and airlines there are plenty of Brits with no sense!
Nobody with any sense goes to Florida between July and mid November.
We've been at that time of year before and as long as you know what to expect and plan that there might be a big storm mid/late afternoon every day (which there was on all but 1 day of the 14 we were there!), it's fine and we still had a great holiday.
The wider context that it's only once daily (down from 3/4) and they dropped LGW-ABZ/EDI/NCL/JER and INV in the last few years. Every other LGW short haul route is going to be operated by BA EUROFLYER, this is a single BA mainline LGW service on a W rotation from LHR, so yeah, "demand" isn't quite the zinger you thought.