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BA may have beat jet2 on the LGW run, however since Jet2 started AMS FCO PSA NCE to name a few, BA have pulled off the route!
It makes sense to move the flight to NCL where there is little compition, especially with no other carriers to LGW

The Gatwick slots held by Jet2 were redeployed to a new LGW - NCL service. The move was announced (very) shortly after BA announced it was withdrawing from the route. Hence, Jet2 has a monopoly on LGW - NCL but faced stiff competition on LGW-MAN. Sadly for MAN, the Newcastle run simply offered a more lucrative financial opportunity.

Baggage charge
 

Have seen on J2 website ,that from november , they are starting to charge £3 per bag that gets checked in, a brighter noteis that they have up the allowance fro 18kg to 20kg, still think it stinks a bit due to fact if ur goin on hols then ur going to be checking in baggage, still at least its not as expensive as ryanair,

They'd better be bringing in this charge to pay for our pay rise that we haven,t heard anything about yet!!!!:ugh:

It's more of a case of 'monkey see, monkey do'

They see Ryanair do somthing and they simply follow. As Woody would say in Toy Story 'That's not flying, it's just falling with style'.

Well this isn't management, it's just copying.

Since the introduction of dual basing and the B scale contracts we are doing exactly that, falling with style.

As happens so often, those at the coalface can see the obvious failings before those with the authority to fix things do. Have they been listening?

Isn't LS more of an EZY than LS?

EZY&LS: BCN
FR: GRO/REU

EZY&LS: AMS
FR: EIN

EZY and LS seem to serve the 'bigger' airports and base alot of their UK flights around the Spanish and Portugese sun-spots (AGP, ALC, FAO etc) whereas FR tend to use sun-spots such as Seville and Granada.

This is why we see a price difference:

EZY&LS: 20.99 GBP single (inc. taxes)
FR: 5 GBP (inc. taxes)

Jet 2 Winter schedules
 

We are now in april the Summer season and LS have not released there winter 07 flights, when will these flights go on sale from LBA ...
Or are they waiting until the new owners of LBA are announced .I believe there is still a secret bidder .All will be released sortly after 10 pm this evening<:ok:

Hardly any airlines have released their winter flights yet. Expect them to come over the next couple of months. Jet 2 recently put MAN-Malaga/Murcia on sale for winter and next summer

LS have now announced more MAN routes for this winter and next summer:

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ALC: Winter - Ranges from twice weekly to six times weekly
Summer - Daily

AGP: Winter - Ranges from twice weekly to six times weekly
Summer - Daily

MJV: Winter - Ranges from three times weekly to daily
Summer - 11 times weekly

PMI: Winter - No operations
Summer - Daily

I'm sure most of these orutes will be editted in the coming months, as all but the PMI flight nearly changes schedule every week! Will probably be like this until they can firm the amount of planes they will be having for W07/8 and S08.

Have Prague and Amsterdam flights from Blackpool been canned , tried to book for later in the year and they both finish in June 2007 (3rd).

Anbody in the know like to update:uhoh:

jet2 hols from blackpool
 

Has anybody noticed that J2 are advertising holidays to the Costa Almeria from blackpool? Its showing prices but no flights:ugh: :ugh: , , did think it was a computer error ,but its been on for nearly a month, just wondered if their looking to do a short summer season from blackpool, which may explain the amsterdam/prague flights ending in june:uhoh: :confused: .Still just me putting 2+2 =5!!:} :} . Any thoughts guys and gals?

Well, when most of the AMS flights depart, they are usually the same a/c as the arriving from PRG 30 minutes earlier. This means that the a/c will be sat on the ground after arriving from PMI at 11:50 most days.

This means that the a/c still has about 12 hours to fill...Almeria, Nice? Just think, the summer season may have started, but the REAL summer season (July-August) is still 3 months away!

Surely these flights would be in the jet2 website by now tho with only 3 months left to go

Well the Almeria holidays are still on the website departing blackpool.Its not as if the prices match another airport, so as it would be a computer mistake.They do look like genuine worked out prices:confused: :confused: . On another not ,still can book prague or amsterdam after 3 june:( .

LS website saying that full winter 07/08 schedule to be released soon.

We'll then find out new routes, and hopefully more will be added during the remaining summer months!:D

Prague from blk
 

Report on front of local paper tonight, saying prague flights have been axed due to operational reasons(poor pax numbers!). Wonder if this is the same reason that you can't book Amsterdam after 4 June? If you can't make these flights work from blackpool, what other destinations other than the bucket and spade spanish ones already covered would work, pity now Jet2 havent got the Tenerife flight running through summer, but guess thats down to shortage of planes. Maybe the airport should be looking at another operator besides J2, although i'm sure they are, be nice to get some more destinations...........:)

Maybe the honeymoon of LS at BLK is coming to an end, and the airport is now feeling the rath of poor support from the public.

Looking at the February results, the flights had mid 60% load factors. For a first summer season, this isn't bad for AMS and PRG when most holiday makers are looking at Spain, Portugal etc. I'm confident they will be back for the winter season though, after all, they must have had good enough loads last winter for them to carry on!

Lets hope for new routes at all the bases, and maybe some spanish routes will carry on through this winter, unlike last!

If there is a shortage of capacity elsewhere it would make commercial sense to suspend a couple of marginal routes and use the aircraft where they can make more £££. It is a calculated risk that noone else will step in and operate BLK-PRG, but probably one worth taking.

More routes are needed. Las Palmas, Larnaca, Corfu, Lisbon, Naples etc

Madrid and Athens?