Foreign IT's S2008
 

Balkan Holidays - Sat Varna (BHG5535/6), Sat Burgas (BGH 5537/8), Fri Burgas (BGH5545/6)

Eurocypria - Sun Larnaca (ECA910/1)

Spanair - Fri Ibiza (JKK3193/4)

Koral Blue - Thu SSH (KBR4488/9), Fri HRG (KBR5486/7, Sun SSH (KBR7488/9)

LTE - Fri Tenerife (LTE7542/3)

Onur Air - Up to eight flights perweek

BHX5DME

MAN Diversions
 

Just the three :-

PK701 - AP-BHV
BA1394 - G-CPEM
NE190 - OM-NGA

BHX5DME

Centre Cities - T2 Xmas Day
 

If opening T2 on Xmas Day was that easy why have LX/KL/AF had to operate from T1 every year since they moved?

Summer 2008
 

On the subject of the based charter fleet does anybody know if the BD A320 will be based at weekends again?

Does KTHY return?

Also a lot of the charter destinations on the BHX online timetable include an XLA number, is this just an error?

XLA
 

Revo

The XLA seem to be for Libra and when you go on their site the days
don't match, in fact most of theirs are on the KM. I would say it is
almost certainly a mistake or recent change.

BD weekend flights have been chopped but so were EMA's but they
have a peak period base per a post on the EMA thread but they are
supposed to be extra Thomas Cook flights.

I have not heard of any similar thing happening at BHX.

KTHY - 19/5 recommencement date????

Pete

The XLA flights are being operated for Excel by Air Malta this season. Same is happening at NCL as well I believe.

Previous poster correct in saying most of these operating for Libra Holidays.

Charter based A/C summer 2008+ Holocaust flight
 

firstforfirstchoice

All your information is correct regarding BHX based charter fleet for summer 2008.

BHXDMT

Holocaust flight is Thomsonfly B757 on 30th April ?

revo

KTHY recommences services on 19.5.08 arrive 11.30 depart 13.00 using B737-800.:ok:

Ryanair to Terminal 2
 

Ryanair are now confirmed as transferring all their BHX flights to Terminal 2 on June 17th 2008.

Charter aircraft based this Summer 2008
 

Nice one. Thanks to all who replied :).

Was just unsure about the Thomsonfly aircraft, as they seem to have an ever growing fleet of B737's and wondered if they were subbing one of their B757's for one, as most airports seem to have a B737 of some sort based this Summer.

Also nice to hear that Monarch will have a B757 charter this Summer :ok:.

Cheers.

LH - Different to BA
 

Ringwayman,

Interesting observation. Germany is a very diffferent animal to the UK, and LH a different business model to BA.

As a federal country, Germany does not suffer a Frankfurt or Berlin "centric" system. Germany has a hat full of cities of pretty well equal importance - Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin, Stuttgart to name but six. Each is the main city in their repective Bundeslaender (states which have considerably more power and influence than, for example British counties, or French departements - in some respects more power than even the Welsh or Scottish administrations have). LH has historically served longhaul points direct from many of these and offers a good range of European services from these and many other German airports because power, influence, and money is not concentrated in one city, or area of the country it is probably more viable to do so.

Conversely, the British (and French) systems revolve arround the respective capitals - with the result that the respective national airlines have little interest or incentive to serve other cities with Long Haul services - though I recall their are leisure services to the French Caribbean from Marseilles and Lyon.

If Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle, for example were capital cities of a federal UK then, I think, over time, BA and other UK based carriers might have to think more broadly about the airports they serve with meaningful bases.

Just my thoughts.

Extra Dublin flights due to Gold cup
 

Arrivals
14:05 EI2266 320 10TH MARCH
14:25 EI2268 320 10TH MARCH
15:05 EI274 321 10TH MARCH (aircraft change)
18:25 EI276 321 10TH MARCH (aircraft change)
21:30 EI2278 321 10TH MARCH
21:50 EI2278 320 14TH MARCH
22:55 EI2282 320 14TH MARCH

There is also various time changes with Aer Lingus.

Is Aer Lingus the only airline adding flights for the Cheltinem gold cup?

There won't be regular ops on the 737 out of birmingham for some time. No cabin crew there is trained on it. Just 757/767 so the 1 or 2 weekly 737 flights(if they even have them this year!!) will be done as a W pattern out of another 737 base such as DSA/EMA/MAN etc...


E.g.
(EMA-AGP-BHX-AGP-EMA)

only way to tell is if you leave before you arrived the previous week or you leave after double the flight time the previous week.

I heard.....
 

KTHY flights will resume, no BD weekend unit and TOM/FCA was only 3 B757 and B767 Not 4 B757 / 1 B767 which you would expect from the merger ?

elmdonlad

Thanks for the information.

KTHY at BHX
 

Conirfmed as :-

YK1063/4 Mondays 11.30-13.00 from 19.05.08-20.10.08 with B737-800

BHX5DME

TOM/FCA Summer 2008
 

TOM/FCA will base 4 757s two in TOM livery two in FCA livery and a 767-300 in TOM livery.
Daza

Any news on the Emirates 330 that had a heavy landing last night at BHX?

tickerdboo
 

tickerdboo prob the buisness model is low cost carrier out of T2 and never mind anybody else in T1 if you no what i mean?.

EK
 

It was on the 40's when I went to work this mornings and the 80's
when I was drove past this evening.

Per another forum it is being worked by engineers at the moment.

Pete

Several recent ground handling posts moved to the ground handling forum:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=315710