HLX - TUIFLY Flights!
 

Hi,

Does anyone have any info about locost TUIFLY (formally HLX), ceasing the Man to HAJ Hannover flight next year and or all flights?

Easy Manager
 

Pwalhx - I agree there is a distinct lack of posts from ' easy manager' re '' other easy news'' ;)

Grolsch30
 

Always amazes me that questions are sometimes asked without the poster having attempted to look at the relevant website.

I honestly don't know the full answer to your question, however if you look at hlx.com you will see that flights are loaded for the entire summer for Koln and Stuttgart. Hanover does look as if it is being dropped.

Hope that helps.

TUIFLY (formerley HLX)
 

Grolsch30

Confirmed the Hanover is ceasing. Koln & Stuttgart are staying but with a revised schedule - Mon & tues mornings, other days except Sat in the evening.
Info is freely avaiable on their website.

Flybe Summer 08 expansion
 

Their expansion at MAN for next summer is hardly going to set the place on fire..... INV-MAN route now confirmed from May 08 and thats it!

Surprised they don't want to look at the summer Croatia market from MAN. In my opinion the Dubrovnik and Split routes would suit the E195. Having said that there are other routes that I'm surprised they don't want to touch too.

Wasnt it MAN who origionaly didnt want Easyjet? Anyway beside the point i think there is a huge market to tap in Manchester for EZY flights, would that dent the lpl operations at all?

I cant now see any reason they wouldnt go to MAN, the reason they started at LPL was because they discovered the huge potential of the area with the cheaper less busy airport! They were the brains behind the LPL expansion not Peel!

BE
 

BE aren't expanding they are doing the reverse. They have added INV but dropped Limoges and Bergerac. Small increase to NWI but otherwise some reductions and downgrading. A number of flights to FRA BRU CDG and elsewhere are DH4 the only E195 I can see is MXP as well as a couple of none based to BFS and SOU

As BE have added INV I would think Eastern will withdraw.

Poor show really but not to be unexpected as I don't believe BE have any committment to MAN.

It`s obvious that not all the routes can be operated by EMB-195 as there just are not enough of them ( 8 to cover all UK bases some of which have flights of quite a long stage length ) so with EMB-145 gradually going the larger if a little slower Dash 8 is left to most flights of upto 1 1/2 flights

Our first based EMB-195 arrives in about an hour and is I am now told it will night stop so Milan a good chance morning

edited to amend re Manchester 1st EMB-195 at 19:18


Ian

I'm not so sure that BE don't have a commitment to MAN. They've been busy turning round old BACON routes at MAN and BHX.

Be Man
 

195 will op the BRU tomorrow morning, then i think the MXP later in the day. 146 is now on bhd/edi.

Completely agree - to say that Flybe have no commitment to MAN is simply crazy. They've spent a fortune since the BACon acquisition getting things back on an even keel. Next year is about consolodation and given the current state of the industry, I don't blame them.

Remember that the majority of aircraft delivered over the coming 18mths will be one for one swaps with E145's that leave the fleet. As the majority of these 145's are operating full schedules it leaves very few aircraft with which to expand. It's not gonna set the world alight but look at Jet2, a mass of expansion a couple of years ago and now re-trenching.

Sustainable growth is a much better way forward.

bmi baby
 

Some more summer 08 flights are avialable via their booking engine.
No new ones but Bordeaux and Perpignan showing as 3x week also Prague onlt 4x week ,May & June anyway have not had time to check all way through although nothing is loaded into the timetable section yet.

Andrew:(

Ringway Handling restructure @ MAN
 

Employees at Manchester Airports handling company RHL have been give 90 days notice. If the restructure is successful there will be a reduction in posts totalling 188 from 327 employees.

These 188 employees will either be redeployed within the airport group or made redundant.

For the remaining employees their T & C's will be even worse then they are now.

They will be required to work a 41 hr week plus 4 hrs contractural overtime paid at flat rate = a 45hr week before overtime payments.
No extra payments for working a bank holiday.
No sick pay for the first 3 days of sickness.
Sick pay for industrial injury 3 months full and 3 months half after 1 years service.
If you leave the company within 6 months of joining will have the cost of their uniform and training deducted at £400.00

Looks like the fat cats are screwing the workers again!!

Extracts from the MAG Goals and Values

To be a good employer-ensuring that each individual understands what is expected and is treated with respect !!!!!

Cost: Spending money on things that really matter

(obviously their employees don't come under this catorgary)

Ringway Handling@Manchester
 

Dongle78
Is Ringway Handling part of the Penauille Servisair Group?
Sorry to hear your bad news.

Dongle78

Welcome to the REAL world!!

MM

No. It is a subsiduary of Manchester Airport Plc

bmibaby Manchester summer 08
 

When the summer season kicks off properly for bmibaby on 16th June all destinations will be daily, except PGF which will be 6 times a week (no op Tuesday) and Manchester will be back up to four aircraft.

Also there are gaps in the schedule each day in which to place the "exciting new routes" that are coming for Manchester.

Jet2 retrenchment at MAN
 

I believe the only reason this is happening is because Jet2 haven't made as much money as they expected from the MAN base in 2007.

There was alot of leased-in capacity (at MAN to keep the schedule) and one suspects their yields fell to prop-up the load factors.

Hence Summer 2008 is looking thin from MAN - a surprise? No! Loads of competition in the North-West (from LPL) have made times tough for Jet2 there whereas at LBA they can sustain routes a plenty.

However it ain't just Jet2 feeling the pinch; Flybe to Bergerac and Limoges gone from MAN as a result of RYR from Speke....discuss!

Easyjet & Manchester
 

What about the six flights operated by GB Airways from Manchester - when easyjet take over in March will the flights be transferred to Gatwick or Liverpool ? or will BA keep the routes from Manchester.

Concerned about this as we have flights booked from Manchester to Cyprus and travelling with two small children so taking off from another airport is not an option for us.

:rolleyes:

Re GBAirways, the timetable will operate to October 2008 as scheduled.