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Thomas Cook LGW - YVR

Stampe is correct.All the fault of APD.Change the goal posts and the numbers don't work.

TUI just announced at Farnorough, if the APD changes go through they will not include Premium cabins on the 788. I believe only 2 of the legacy FCA 763 can't take the greater cabin floor loading, and they'd be the 2 going in 2012 that don't have winglets.

LO and LA are going in 2012 yes but all of them except AN have floor weight issue and premium wont be removed from the B763 only wont be put into the B788, saves money removing it

Any idea why the TCX15K seems to be operating from MAN today rather than GLA? Is this a planned operation or are there other issues resulting in this? I have a slightly vested interest considering I am flying on it with Mrs Dictator in two weeks time.

-HD-

Has LBA programme changed over to a 757-200 for End of July, August, First week September? I ask this because i was checking flight stats for one of their flight's and it was listed as a 757-200.I checked several and they were all listed as a 757-200.

Well it wasn't at the end of July, just the standard A320.

I believe that Thomas Cook buy seats on some routes from Jet2.
Could be the route you were looking at was one of these??

I am aware of Thomas cook buying seat's of jet2, and infact blamed it on that at first. (when we booked a flight to RHO, TCX were offering 2 daily to RHO, one LS and one TCX). Anyway, so i looked at today's AYT flight.
(TCX651). This according to flight stat's is a 757-200. There is no LS flight to AYT so is this an error with flight stat's which i have checked and is not wrong. (with BA flight's etc).

The TCX651K was operated by A320, GSUEW.....

If TCX have dropped premium why are Canadian Affair still offering it on flights next June please?

GROUNDHOG

My understanding is that TCX are not removing the actual seats, they are no longer offering the premium cabin service apart for the Canadian flight for Canadian Affair. Thomas Cook Tour Operations have dropped it for Summer 2011, due to the APD and tax implications.

I'm guessing they are leaving the seats until the Government makes its mind up on what it wants to do with APD reform.

Thanks Goldeneye.

May I ask, is it true that Thomas Cook are going to start to use numbers for flight codes, for example. Manchester - funcal WAS TCX680l/K now TCX680/7??? if so why.

Yeh its true most will be 4 numbers like TCX2310 and correspond to the airports the a/c has departed from

The flight numbers stay the same. The ATC flight callsign can vary, and is randomly generated. For example, TCX 4YE. All longhaul and some others (Turkey and Egypt) keep their ticketed callsigns, presumably because they are tied to specific overflight clearances.

The reason is to reduce callsign confusion.

Does anyone know what is actually happening with the Canadian Affair flying for Summer 11? I keep hearing rumours from quite a few different places that TCX won't be operating any of the Canadian routes next year, but Canadian Affair is still selling tickets using TCX flight numbers for the programme which has historically been operated. Both can't be right!!

Summer 11
 

The flights I was reffering to are for S11. When booking it has both TS and TCX flights available. They have been confirmed. Although you can book seats for TS flights (choose your specific seat) but for TCX it says, Seats unavailable for flight etc...

I sent an e mail to Canadian Affair asking whether they could confirm premium cabin was available with TCX next year and surprise surprise didn't get an answer.

premium cabin dropped on all longhaul routes from S11. tcx have lost canadian affair contract.