PSR777
 

Cheers anyway PSR777....finally got CA to fly me thru LGW with TSC.....they are sorting me a flight now from ABZ-LGW......not too happy at flying TSC after a previous flight with them.....I'll sleep!!!:eek:

Jethros is reporting that 4 A320's and 6 B757's are due to finish their lease before Summer 2010. Does anyone know if TCX are going to extend the leases or are they being returned.

I also read that, interesting that the A320s are a bit of a fleet oddity as they have V2500 motors and TCX seem to prefer CFM on the remainder. may be time to swap them out of the fleet....?

74 flights in a weekend from GLA last week......does the whole of glasgow emigrate at this time of year? why choose the october holiday over any other?

Have read that TCX are not operating for Canadian Affair next year and that they ( Canadian Affair) will be using Canjet? Now this was on a non aviation website so may be completely untrue but since I want to book for February 2010 anyone know whasson please?

feb 2010?

is it not normally a summer operation anyway that TCX operate?

and don't they have a contract for next summer to operate their flights already?

I thought they did....

Thanks Fernanjet

Should have checked, put it down to old age, tried a date in June LGW/YVR and there TCX is! I thought they flew more flights in the Winter than shown on Canadian Affair website but obviously not so it is back to BA for me then!

There have been some changes to the Canadian Affair programme for Summer 2010 which basically see Thomas Cook and Air Transat replaced on the Gatwick-Halifax and Fredericton routes with a Canjet 737-800. The regional departures from places like Newcastle and Exeter to Toronto have also been pulled. Other than that, it's pretty much status quo for 2010 - one or two route frequencies reduced but nothing else too drastic.

www.exeter-airport.co.uk suggests Toronto is back for 2010 with TS A310 as previous years

Flightrider. NCL - Toronto is still flying in Summer 2010 with Air Transat

Apologies - NCL + EXT must have been recent (re-) additions to the programme. They certainly were not on sale nor included in the first run Canadian Affair brochure.

NCL and EXT are operating on a reduced season, for Summer 2010, they are on the same TS aircraft as a double drop on an A310.

YHZ is being operated on an Canjet 737 but seems to be under a TS flight number. YFC seems to be off sale so not sure if it will indeed operated for Summer 2010.

TCX are operating all GLA, MAN and BHX flights for Canadian Affair. TCX are operaing LON along with TS and Canjet.

Tunisia from NWI in 2010
 

See link below. Nice to get a new IT destination from NWI if only for 6 weeks.

News - Norwich Airport

Colin

TCX Bases, W09/10 & Summer 2010
 

Hi, does anyone know the what will be based where for this coming winter season?
Also, Is there any information about what will be based where for next summer, and if not when?
Thanks

All i can say is for Glasgow- w09/10 2 757 and for S10 4 757 and 1 A330

All i can say is that BFS for Winter 09/10 1 A320 and for Summer 10 1 A320

EMA - 2 x A320 with a couple of 757 visits per week
BRS - 1 x A320
BHX - 2 x B752
STN - 1 x A321
LBA - Just a couple of A320 visits per week
LPL - 2 x A320 visits on 1st and 2nd DEC
LGW - 1 X B753, 2 x A330, 3 x B752 plus 1 or 2 A321 visits per week
MAN - 2 x A330, 2 x B752, 1 x B763, 1 x A320, 1 x A321
CWL - 4 x A320 flights and 1 x B752 flights per week

I think.......more or less correct!

Is MAN TCX's biggest base in the summer as well as the winter?

MAn and LGW are pretty much equal year round.....with regards to number

Newcastle?

NCL - 1 x B752

CWL:
A321 - x4 flights
A320 - x1 flight
752 - x1 flight

The correct weekly flt details are actually as follows:

Sundays: TCX302K 07:20CWLACEA320
Mondays:
TCX 891 K 09:05 CWL LPA A320
Tuesdays:
TCX 887 K 08:40 CWL TFS A320
Wednesdays: (not every week)
TCX 817 K 07:40 CWL FUE A320
Fridays:
TCX 477 K 08:15 CWL SSH B752

The A321 will operate on 20DEC and 14MAR only to MIR

TCX Winter
 

All on Sun-Wed are operated by A321 not A320, A320 only used on the MIR route.

May I ask where you are getting this info from????

it appears incorrect.

It is definately a based A320 at CWL again this winter (shared with LBA). Aircraft operates:

Sun - CWL-ACE-CWL
Mon - CWL-LPA-CWL
Tue - CWL-TFS-CWL
Wed - CWL-FUE-CWL*
Wed - Posn CWL-LBA
Thu - LBA-ACE-LBA
Fri - LBA-TFS-LBA
Sat - LBA-FUE-LBA*
Sat - Posn LBA-CWL

* - FUE does not operate every week.

The 757-200 positions in from NCL on Thu night, then operates on Friday to SSH and back, then positions to BRS Fri night.

The A321 operates MIR on Sundays 15/11, 22/11, 20/12, 03/01, 07/03, 14/03, 21/03.

TCX CWL
 

I have on my winter programme for Tcx:- A321 based here part week, and the A320 ops 1x flight per week, along with the 752 operating the SSH.

TBI

mis printed the A321 and A320 and got them the wrong way around by the looks.

Definately will be A320 part based in CWL

Surely that can't be correct for NCL in Summer 2010. There were 3 a/c this year and the programme seems to need 3 next summer.

It's 1 752 for NCL for the winter

Gatwick Summer 2010
 

Any ideas on what LGW will have based Summer 2010 ?

FERNANJET

EMA - 2 x A320 with a couple of 757 visits per week
BRS - 1 x A320
BHX - 2 x B752
STN - 1 x A321
LBA - Just a couple of A320 visits per week
LPL - 2 x A320 visits on 1st and 2nd DEC
LGW - 1 X B753, 2 x A330, 3 x B752 plus 1 or 2 A321 visits per week
MAN - 2 x A330, 2 x B752, 1 x B763, 1 x A320, 1 x A321
CWL - 4 x A320 flights and 1 x B752 flights per week

I think.......more or less correct! 24th October 2009 01:24

You are missing a 2nd B753 at LGW, and a 2nd B763 at MAN!

TCX Winter fleet
 

What's planned for the other A330's & 757's over the winter period? Are all remaining aircraft being leased out or parked up? According to Wikipedia the fleet consists of 44 aircraft?? Correct?

ADRH

I'm not......they share the programme of 1 B753 and 1 B763 between 2 of each during the winter.


The same as happens every year....some go to the Hadj....some to Canada....

I shall be pretty gutted if they don't go to Canada because I have booked at least three round trips between now and March! Kissed BA goodbye when they put the prices up by nearly 400% for premium economy on LHR/YVR!

Groundhog,

Going to Canada means going on lease to Skyservice and the like for the Canadian winter flying programe to the Caribbean, Mexico, Florida etc.

TCX are still flying through the winter from the UK to Canada.

What have you booked - i can look and let you know whats operating if you pm me the details

Fernanjet,

How can they share a programme of one of each, when on some days 2 x 763s arr flying ex MAN at the same time and 2 x 753s are flying ex LGW at the same time....
if the question is what a/c are based at which base, then the number of a/c base dat that base is the answer?

2 x 757-300s will be based at LGW for the winter, with 2 x 767-300s at Manchester.

Some days only one of the two at each base operate a flight, some days neither operate any flights, but broadly speaking they have their own flying lines and 4 aircraft are needed for the programme.

As flyboyTC says, there are many days in the season where 2 x B753s from LGW and 2 x B763s from MAN operate at almost exactly the same time, so all 4 aircraft are definately required.

As usual with the winter season, it really depends which week you look at.

Does anyone know what is going to replace the four Aircraft leaving next year? These being the three A320's (G-BYTH, G-GTDL & G-VCED) and also the B752 (G-JMCF). Thomson's A320's should be going soon, possibly they could go to Thomas Cook if they don't want to place a new order? For the 757 there could be the easyJet A321's and Thomson's A321's. Probably the ex GB A320's will be leaving soon too once the new batch has been delivered.

It would be nice to see an order put in for new A320's and A321's though :)