Jet2....MD82
Whats the story with Jet2 flying a TF reg all white MD82 out of Leeds whilst half a dozen 737's are parked up at Leeds?
I find it hard to believe that this can be down to crew shortages, the Summer season is just days away. Cheers Burt |
It's supposed to be covering for maintenance on the 737s. I was kinda hoping they would use it to launch a TFS service but alas no.
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Are you a month in front. The summer doesnt kick in until May 1st.
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Windshear
If the main Summer flying program doesn't kick off until May, then i cannot understand why they would need a wet lease aircraft at Leeds with lots of 73's parked up?
Cheers Burt |
Are you a month in front. The summer doesnt kick in until May 1st. Scheduled airlines tend to start about March 27th/28th and go until October 27th/28th. |
They are using it for extra capacity until end of June.
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It's only going to stay until the end of May actually. Will be operating a planned programme of 2 x daily LBA-AMS and 1 x daily LBA-PMI during May before disappearing on 31st.
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Flightrider,
Is it due to be operating the AMS schedules during April too? I ask as I'm travelling on this route on 13/04 and would be thrilled to get the MD-80! |
how many aircraft are actually based at LBA now?
would i be right in thinking LG has just moved bases to Manchester. If so that would make 7.. would it not? please correct me! |
i cannot understand why they would need a wet lease aircraft at Leeds with lots of 73's parked up? |
As of today the following frequency increases come into play on Jet2's LBA operation.
AGP - double daily ALC - double daily PMI - daily NCE - daily MJV - double daily on SAT/SUN plus of course the MAN operation has been ramped over the last week or so with the commencement of services to VLC, FAO, NCE etc. The a/c requirement for the Leeds base fluctuates between 7 and 9 based a/c depending on day of week / low/high season. 682 |
And of course, later in the season Malaga goes triple daily, Faro goes daily, Murcia goes twice daily even on weekdays, and the 4x weekly Ibiza starts.
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With the summer season just starting for Jet2.com! those 73's will not be sitting on the ramp at LBA for much longer.
Anyway there isn't enough room on the ramp for what Jet2.com would really like to do!!! SL:cool: |
LBA a/c
The following A/c will be at LBA this summer LA,LB,LC, LD,LE,LS
LU,LV & LX |
TF-JXA,TF-JXB are both doing flybe flights out of bourmouth and southampton, while flybe await the delivery of there two new 733 a/cs. The best thing bout the md-80's they have
1.larger capacity 2. they do much faster turn arounds 3.they are cheap wet lease. This is why often at night they park up at airports like southend and southampton, to keep their operating costs down. Jet2 has not got the marget for the winter period out of leeds and bradford, where as at Manchester they atre turning around every hour on the hour to several places, included in Jet2's routes. Surely jet2 would be best operating these parked up spare a/cs into Manchester,Gatwick and Edinburgh. Jet2 need to be more effiecient now as they will soon recieve some competition with the up and coming fly globespan, and their new 737-800s. All that I have heard is the main lessors of the 2 current mds hope to increase the lease to four of them very soon. It is also rumoured that a JetX, TF-JXC is in operation for someone else on the ski flights out of paris CDG. |
I dont understand alot of that post.....
As far as I know TF-JXA is operating out of LBA until May. You say LBA doesent have the market for winter? (I think).... Thats not true, doesent matter now anyway, we are now in summer! 3x Daily Malaga 2x Daily Alicante 2x Daily Murcia 2x Daily Belfast 2x Daily Amsterdam 2x Daily Palma Daily Faro Daily Prague Daily Nice Daily Pairs 4x weekly Venice 4x Weekly Ibiza At least 1x daily Geneva during the winter (2x daily at weekends). No market? Oh - and how will Jet2 be affected by FlyGlobespan? They only operate out of GLA and EDI. What a nonesence post... (The bits I can understand anyway!) |
Of more interest is where on earth are the public finding such vast amounts of monies to be flying with such frequency to so many destinations. Expect loads to be higher as well for the wedding / election with more people trying to escape the media frenzy.
With such ease of access by TF registered a/c can we expect to see more services operated by outsiders. TF is not even in the EEC. |
HZ123 what are you on about?
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TF/Iceland is in the EEC. They are just not in the EU.
How very strange... |
Jet2impress the EEC became the EU, do you mean with EEA which is a completely different thing.
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