oh ok
any more answers?

thomson winter 06/07
 

just been on thomson website looking for tenerife this winter and its not showing any flights from blackpool same for first choice and airtours. does this mean no charter from blackpool anymore..? mark (newbie to this forum):)

I hear that Pool Aviation has shut up shop and bits are up for sale, another small operator to bite the dust, who will be next BNWA?.

Sad to see these companies go, what with Emerald going last month.

Pool Aviation
 

A shame.

Any idea what bits are up for sale?

BNWA no. Next to go will be Manx2, wrong place to base an outfit on an island.

The airport website lists only Jersey and a series of one-off special departure holidays in its charter section. So no TFS charters any more (of ALC charters for that matter)

Silverhawk, I hear that the hanger and engineering bites are on the market, but this is second hand info, as for Manx2 operation it looks well set up, the web site is good and much better than BNWA's site, this is the shop front when people book, they say they are linking with Jet2 for Blackpool and Leeds flights to europe so on the face of it it looks good as well, but only time will tell and how the Let410 goes down with the Pax and CAA, but having said that Euromanx operated the 1900 for 3 years and the CAA don't like them either.

No charters to TFS or ALC, only a regular scheduled service. Is that why some airlines have pulled off some routes?

I'm told there is no tie-up between Manx2 and Jet2, except that Manx2 obviously chose their name to suggest there is a link and have tried to look like a feeder. Any 12 year old can design you a website.

Yes web site can be done by an 11 years old, it's the use of AirKiosk for the res system is not a cheep system to use, so looks like a lot of money has been spent and they mean business.

Only time will tell,

As I was in Blackpool last weekend I decided to have a look around the new improved Blackpool Airport terminal. Nice tent! I guess there are not too many terminals in the world where the walls shimmer in the breeze!:sad:

I guess it brings a whole new meaning when describing a low cost airport

The charter section on the Blackpool Airport website refers to the summer charters, as we are I beleive in the summer season.

Thomson will operate an ALC charter over the winter but the TFS has been dropped.

The new terminal at BLK has I beleive received a lot of positive and very little negative feedback from passengers. The arrivals hall is indeed a temporary structure and so what? You are in for all of what 5 - 10 mins to collect your bags - of course the airport could have spent £1m on the arrivals facility alone, but ultimately who pays for it .... £9.99 to Belfast or a nice shiny new arrivals building, which do you prefer?

Good to see there will be an ALC charter still

Whatever hapenned to the Bourgas flights?

I hope BLK haven't put all the proverbial eggs in one basket with Jet2. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that they're doing so many routes out of Blackpool. Just wonder if any of the other operators or any new operators will be announcing routes in the future. I've got a feeling more are on the cards.

Wonkavater

have looked on thomson website and they are only showing blackpool as flights to alc no tfs , always thooght tenerife was popular from blackpool not every1 wants just a flight surely thomson cant be scared off by the thought of jet2 flyin from there, bit off a disapointment not that i like the reps of the tour companies but nice to be able to bag a cheapie from your local airport, back to man/lpl it seems now, shame

Ref ryanair. dunno how their gro service is still doing (now ithe market has been potentially been diluted by monarch and jet 2) but i'd have thought it a good idea to do reu (for bcn) say 3 times a week (reu serves salou and the great port aventura theme park and is just as close to bcn as gro) and reduce the gro to say 4 times a week.

dada

Malaga, Murcia and Alicante are many many miles away fron Gerona, what is ur point?

I do not see any market dilution...only grabbing back (thankfully) from Manchester and Liverpool

dada

BLACKPOOL to GIRONA

Girona does drop to four per week from the start of the winter schedules, the aircraft does a return to/from Doncaster/Sheffield on the other three days.

My point seems borne out by the fact that gro is dropping to 4 a week. they could maybe sustain 7 days a week if tehy served another destination (REU - for the resorts of salou)

again....and what is that to do with Malaga, Alicante and Murcia?
Jet2 Barcelona 3x weekly?......maybe....wait and see....

Bombudeer - chill out.
it's got to do with the fact that when ryanair was the only choice folks who weren't that fusst about where they went and only wanted to use blk would go to gro - now there's alc, mjv, agp, fao etc etc.
comprendez?

Cant help noiticing that earlier in this thread someone posted Jet2 announced 3x weekly PRG from BLK and people replied with WELL DONE BLACKPOOL. Can someone please point out what BLK actually did that was so great that they deserve a WELL DONE? it wasnt actually BLK airport that decided to launch BLK-PRG was it? it was the airline. so really, instead of saying well done BLK shouldnt we be saying THANK YOU JET2?
I just find it funny that an airline annouces a new route and the airport gets a well done, its not as if the route was awared to them is it? lol :}