G-ZAPX Now doing NCL - KGS which means only 1 A321 used today

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If everything runs normal then this wouldn't happen but in the real world thinks break and everything is done to a budget!!

I believe that that the flight sim near gatwick was out of action for around 2 weeks earlier in the year so that lead to delays in retraining the crews from 757 to airbus.

Its a simple case of costs and it looks like tcx tried to start training late in the winter rather than end of last summer.

Hopefully for glasgow next year they will start the training end of summer and not wait until 2015 to start.

Their leasing total will be a nice amount by the end of the summer

Just reading a post thair about staff is the a321confirmed for.2016for gla to be a airbus base

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Summer 15will be 752 as im booked on this

Anyone know 2016 ?

Scandic - China for freighter conversion for onwards to Blue Dart Airlines of India (DHL) :\

Everything is done on a budget these days and that's understandable especially with the financial troubles TCX have had over the last few years.

But surely, if you're saying it's a simple issue of costs, this is costing them dearly. I would take a good educated guess that this will be costing them a lot more than not training them as scheduled. Having brand new A321s on the ground, leased aircraft coming into operate these routes and having long, long delays (especially at BRS) cannot be coming cheap! Could they not have accessed other training sources whilst this was out of order or does training need to be done via "approved" sources so to speak?

Let's hope it all gets sorted with summer coming into full swing. I'm really happy to see these new A321s at NCL but it's not good seeing them on the Tarmac for quite long periods.

According to Jethros, all 3 TCX 767-300 to transfer permanantly to Condor so will leave the TCX fleet. Can anyone confirm or indeed whether they will be still Manchester based for 2015 operating as Condor?

I guess if they pick up a couple for A330's it makes more sense for TCX to be all A330 for widebody's and for DE to be all 767.

Same as the last few winters, the 767's go to Condor for the Winter and back to TCX UK for the summer.

So I assume then the 767's will be German registered for summer 2015 then, but still operate flights out the UK? :)

Do or rather did all the 767's leave the fleet in the winter as for the past five or six years I have been on one when I travel to Gambia?

767-300 will be G Reg for the winter and summer as per the last couple of years.

According to the post on jethros, the 767-300 will be permanantly transferred to Condor from the end of Summer 2014 and NOT return to TCX for 2015 as has happened on previous winters.

Not the case, as above, they will remain on G reg and back in the UK for summer as planned to operate some UK long haul as well the short haul program.

Will there be any upgrades to the 767's if they are being used for longhaul as anything other than a last resort/backup? 328 seats in 8 abreast and no ife cannot be a pleasant place to be for 9 hours+, especially when compared to both their own A330's and the Thomson 787's.

Does anyone know the reason for this mornings Thomas Cook flight to Cancun returning to Gatwick?

Can only think it was medical as it wasn't on the ground long before it took off again ! :ok:

TCX leasing an Air Tanker A332 from 1st May 2015 for 3 years announced this morning