Cuts also at Blackpool
 

Very disappointed with the J2 offering from Blackpool for S08. Especially ALC down to 4 days - thought they were supposed to be doing exceptionally well on the S07 7 day service. Murcia 3 Days!

Will someone else step in with a summer Tenerife service?

Yes, it would be good to see a summer tenerife service from blk, but cant see it happening ,what with ryanair doing tenerife now frm liverpool, winter 07 has been cut to 1 a week some weeks, not really much better than what thomson were offering couple of years ago, still if once a week is whats required then how bout a weekly to another canary island:ok::ok:,

When are the remainder of the winter flights to be launched?

Seems weird that the S08 seats are onsale before all WO7, but that is what demand does - us Brits love our jollies!:}

Just goes to show what I've believed for a long time, some of our profits are being wasted on so called professional experts.

That is crap advertising. Just tell it like it is, we will not just cancel the flight, like Ryanair, just because it is late, we will accomodate you overnight if our kit is faulty, EZ and RY DO NOT, and we will have staff that speak English as a first language.

Not proud of the LCC culture, but glad to say that ours is the most morally responsible so far.

Thats because jet2 Aircraft are so old and run into the ground (especially this summer) that they would never get any business if they had the same policies has other LCC's who have much newer and more reliable aircraft.
But on that note, it is a credit to all at Jet2 that they can survive (so far) in the very competitive market of LCC's.

"we will not just cancel the flight, like Ryanair, just because it is late, we will accomodate you overnight if our kit is faulty"

They should put that in big letters on their homepage.

Nothing like building expectations.

They should do a 'reasons' ad campaign, like Morrisons did, until they started poisoning people with e-coli.

i dont see why Jet2 gets slated for having older aircraft, i think people forget that the airline is still young... when easy and ryanair started up they had older with the 737-200 and easyjet with the 737-300 also, ten years down the line and they have brand new, well jet2 still has another 6 years to go before getting to their level, however, there is two 737NGs coming online next summer to start replacing the 733s, think thy are -700s but not sure.
Its also nice to see most people on here slating Jet2 have never actually travelled with them! think ud get a pleasent suprise if you did, they are not the airline they are pictured to be on here!

Press release next week?
 

Is Jet 2 due to make a press release with in the next week on some new routes out of Leeds?:ok:

-10 Years ago EZY had 737-300's, 10 years "later" jet2 have 737-300's. I'd say jet2 have started with older than EZY by about 10 years.
-As for Ryanair they did not have that much competition out of Dublin when they started as a LCC in 1991. In 1994 they got there B737-200's (11 I think) and 4 years later they put in there first order for B737NG's. 7years from BAC1-11's to B737NG's

Both EZY and Ryanair were very quick to upgrade the fleets.

Mr.Brown, just to point out to you, Easyjet started with ex Britannia B737-204s which were also the first B737 that Ryanair operated.
So Jet2 started with a more modern type of B737.:mad:

Thanks for pointing that out. Point taken.
However, Easyjet started in 1995 (i think) and ordered their 737-700's by summer 1998.
Channel express was formed in 1983 with the Super Dart Herald, and managed to upgrade to electra's, F27's and A300B4's all before getting their hands on B737-300's.
2003 Jet2 started with the B737-300's.
As jet2.com, 4years with no indication of new aircraft and as a company, 24 years of operating a second hand fleet.
Something tells me they won't be looking at new aircraft in the near future.

Wasn't 737-300 ex G-MONG the first Easyjet a/c?

This is getting spotter-ish - the aircraft used by EZY to start ops on 10th Nov 1995 were indeed 737-200s G-BECG and G-BECH, operated for them by GB Airways. The first 737-300 G-EZYA was delivered on 29th May 1996, and was ex G-MONG with Monarch.

Two 737-700's on their way - I'm reliably informed..........................

Anyone's guess as to which will turn up first, NG's or 767's!!

I did hear from another source that the sim training is already booked for the NG's so guess those first?? :bored:

Just because Ryanair did one thing or EZY did another thing, does that mean that LS have to follow either one slavishly? The market has changed dramatically and continues to do so. There are pros and cons for any business model and the acid test is ultimately profitability and survival.

It would be good to see shiny NGs and wide-bodies but better to see LS still thriving in five years time, however that is achieved.

A couple of extracts from an article published on Travelmole

Jet2, which was established at Leeds Bradford Airport just over four years ago, is creating 200 new jobs. [The HR Director said] "We have some major airline expansion plans which will shortly be announced"

Wonder why SL and team have put Leeds - Hamburg on sale but haven't bothered with any advertising - it doesn't even make it onto the news page on the wesbite. Keeping the powder dry for bigger news perhaps?

No chance. Nonsense.

When you've got news, you fire your cannons straight away. I imagine they've advertised it, but you haven't seen it.

Flying to places is an airline's bread and butter, obviously. News about creating jobs is just PR.

Their marketing department have a priority to shout about their service above all else.

Jet2 Holidays are doing package holidays to Sharm El Sheike this winter from Manchester. The airline quoted as doing the flights is Jet2 so does this mean 76's or is that just wishfull thinking.

There's no reason why their 75's couldn't do sharm el sheikh. Certainly that's what my airline uses.

I have heard that Exel will be doing the SSH run for Jet2. It was advertised all over last weeks travel trade press. Anybody got any different news?

Jet2 are just taking a seat allocation on existing XL Tu and Su services. The article on travelmole quoted the general manager of Jet2holidays as saying this was the first of many new destinations that would be offered by the package holiday side of the business. Not clear whether this will be flying the routes themselves or buying more seats from existing operators (or a combination of the two)
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PS - there has been no press or advertising mention of the Hamburg route from what I've seen. Even the LBA people are determined not to mention it - they updated their pdf timetable a full week after the Hamburg route on sale and failed to include it. Very odd given the appetite for German services.

This just happened:

http://www.lbia.co.uk/newsandupdates...oryid=20070912

Not bad eh,
Madrid, Paphos, Heraklion, Avignon, La Rochelle, Olbia and Jersey and the already announced Lubeck.

PFO/HER on the 757 all others on the 737
Also on certain dates if anyone has access to air kisosk the OLB was down as a 737-7XX

The £28.99 Jersey fare ain't cheap, though.

I regularly fly to Jersey with Thomson from DSA and at least one of the legs is less than £12. I generally get the return flight for under £40, inc taxes.

Which dates is the Olbia down as a 73X? Need to see it with my own eyes! its bound to be leased in no doubt! LOL!

I reguarly fly to Jersey and so do my parents/gran parents but the very cheap DSA fares are only if you book way way in advance and they are very few and far between. From Leeds its 22.99 return fare so total of £51.98, to be honest that aint half bad :ok: especially considering the flight from DSA leaves 07.30 and LBA leaves 10.00/14.15 which is much better suited for the more mature traveller (Jersey has a fair few!) I don't want to sound anti DSA but I really hope this is a success as Leeds has really missed a JER flight and a lot of people are put off by such an early flight from DSA.

Interesting to see if there are any frequency changes on DSA-JER for S08 when they announce it!

Blackpool - Gran Canaria advertised on tv tonight , looked on the web and it can't be booked ( as yet ) , is this a gaff or just out of date marketing ???:ugh::uhoh:

Matches the rumours though.

When will we latch onto the potential of Blackpool- Munich? BAe charge £750 return on their internal service. Any departmental heads would save a fortune on their budgets if that was able to be reduced to say, £200.

Shurely not the old " Star Trek" version of the 737 rumour Silverhawk:ok:

Having operated the STN based 737 into Olbia last year for H/Options my crews know all about the performance issues, Titan are having the same fun this year with their classic!

Nice also to see the LBA crews getting some carrier landings into JER as well , perhaps they can be rostered to do some training on the old weekend newspaper run :D Better get some sim training in on 40 Kts of fog on the deck as well.

Good news I reckon, particularly in light of Globespans annoucements this week.

Good to see JER back at LBA but be interesting to see how they get on with the 7 times weekly service of TOM out of DSA (assuming thats what they offer again next summer). With similar prices but a bit more flexibility on TOM be an interesting fight.

blk 2 gran canaria flights are run by local co-op travel in november. pick up brochure few weeks ago... advertisted quite alot in local rags over last few months. nice to see a change of destination, guess if successful ther may be some more, cant remember whose doing the actual flight though, isnt jet2. think they maybe trying to pick some end of season buisness off the local hoteliers etc...

Jet2 to order larger a/c?
 

Rumor has it that Jet2 have applied for ETOPS and are taking delivery of larger A/C´s.

Any comments.

Regards.

The 'larger a/c for Jet2' rumour is one of the mainstays of Pprune, especially 767s (though some mischief-makers would have us believe that 777s and/or 747s are about to arrive at LBA).
It will definitely happen, or maybe not!

Machpointeightfour, there is a debate going on under the thread :

jet2 - 2

It'll save us going through all this again - although most rumors seem to have calmed down a little ........... at the moment!!

.................. I see the thread has been moved here then!!

Jet2 Expansion@lbia
 

Fantastic news for Leeds in the last week. Partcularly pleased about Paris. Sardinia is meant to be one gorgeous island too. Just looking forward to when the full summer LS schedules are out now - I make it an extra 33-36 peak summer landings per week by LS (depending on exactly what, if anything, is added to BFS, CDG on the weekend [or reduced on other routes]). About 5 extra landings per day.

While I couldn't praise LS enough I just hope that other airlines (including foreign) will be given a lot of encouragement/incentives too by the airport. I hope Flybe can really get their act together in the next 12 months - they could be so good at Leeds serving lower density routes to Europe - blanket advertising and low fares really attract pax in this region but you MUST be reliable. Any opinions?

By the way LS, I know you read this site, your destiations board is not showing the Leeds route to Avignon.

People of Yorkshire and surround support the Best low cost Airline in the World. :D:D

Regards,

Leeds App.

You Yorkshire folk support Monarch? :E:E:E :}:}:}

You woke me up with that!
 

The dry whit of the southerner.:D

mon don't fly scheduled to anywhere that Jet2 have just announced and it would be unfair to compare charter routes as LS have only just got started.

What is fact is that mon loose market share every day to an airline that is expanding fast (not quite hare and tortoise but definitely moped and rollerskates [going up hill]). They aim to fly 3.5million Yorkies et al in a little over two years from Leeds. In all seriousness mon better have some plans - think they thought about operating from Leeds but couldn't go through with it?

I have flown with mon to Cyprus but next year I wont have to - you could say I'm being environmentally friendly - a massive conurbation like this should never have had to drive (10 mile traffic jam) to another big conurbation for a simple holiday flight. Jet2 had the bottle. mon should grow their hubs at BLK and ABZ!

Not posted for a while before today so thought I'd reply once cos JET2 are absolutely loved over here and things have only just begun. In fairness gallows humour often is the best.:D

Best Regards,

Leeds App.

I am sure the 2 hours it took me to drive the 15 or so miles from Halifax to LBA last week was extremely environmentally friendly.