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With Matt's help, August 2024 is around 800-1000 seats per week down (depends if it is a mix of the 300/325 seat 788) on August 23 but TUI could counter that by saying they have taken a significant amount of seats on the Sun Express Dalaman and Antalya and it would be difficult to dispute as DLM appears to have increased from 3 to 10 per week and AYT from 8 o 12 per week.
Do we really think the BHX aircraft is going to operate BHX-NBE-BFS-NBE-BHX? That will take some convoluted crew sorting.
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Do we really think the BHX aircraft is going to operate BHX-NBE-BFS-NBE-BHX? That will take some convoluted crew sorting.
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Is it just one 788 that is in short-haul cabin configuration? Does anyone know if the 788s are having major overhauls this winter. I presume this is going to be done in Jordan and not in Luton?
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3 this summer G-TUIB/D/F but they have regularly had to be subbed onto long haul routes due to different issues. There should be one each at MAN/BHX/LGW but again, regularly this has not been the case.
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A 789 at LGW operates short haul twice a week RHO and AYT/DLM and similar with the based 789 at BHX operating AYT/DLM.
Manchester seems to have a 789 almost permanently operating short haul.
Manchester seems to have a 789 almost permanently operating short haul.
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TUI 787 Schedule August
see attached pdf showing the 787 schedule for August.
I compiled this information around May, so it might be slightly out to date with flight times, and maybe 788/789 aircraft swaps, but should give you an idea on LH v SH flights.
I compiled this information around May, so it might be slightly out to date with flight times, and maybe 788/789 aircraft swaps, but should give you an idea on LH v SH flights.
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The issue with the 767s is that the fleet is now now so small in numbers that they have become inefficient to crew. With the leases planned to come to an end over the next few months or so, it probably makes sense at this point to take the opportunity to unify the fleet types and thus crewing efficiency.
They have provided great additional capacity this summer and throughout their time in the airline, being so easily adaptable from shorthaul into longhaul, especially in the past. This will be hugely missed next summer in particular, but with plenty of pre-planning, I believe TUI will have the right mix going forward.
The best thing for TUI to do in terms of the 787-8s next summer, is to not convert a sub-fleet of them into a Y325 layout. It just adds unnecessary complexity and disappointment. Especially with their poor reliability and the need for swapping aircraft around. The premium cabins can simply just be sold as extra space seats on short-haul flights.
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There's an engineering base Zaventem, Belgium. No idea how significant it is but it sees 737s and 787s. There was the main TUI engineering base in Germany somewhere along with ops HQ but I think that closed and got transferred to Luton when the airlines all became TUI
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