Maxjet
 

Maxjets first New York JFK to London Stansted flight arrived this morning at 06.55. The return flight will leave STN at 10.00. I hope this airline does extremely well on this route and will hopefully add more routes.

Ditto. However, this is a critical op with only one a/c at present and another competitor outfit starting soon. Was there a publicity news item on the start up.

A good article on BBC London Evening news about Maxjet's first flight to JFK from London today; it also featured eos.

Maxjet's cabin looks pretty airy and bright whilst eos looks slightly dull - but a very positive view of the 2 new STN-JFK start ups.

Well I much prefer the look of EOS's seating and their service, seems a lot more pampering!!

Ah, you have been flying on both to make such a laudeable comment, have you?

Well....I have not flown with either company, but a quick price comparison for

STN JFK 15JAN06
JFK STN 18JAN06

Gives:

EOS 2555.50GBP
MXJ 850.20GBP


Quite a difference ay!!

We have all looked at the cabin pictures and seating plans - are both carriers selling C class cabins officially?

I'd say that EOS is more comparable to VS Upper Class and MXJ to VS Premium economy.

What kind of load factors?

Me thinks this is the basic idea - it would be stupid to serve the same route with exactly the same product. EOS certainly targets a different clientele than MAXJet - the ones and the likes of those who used to fly Concorde one the one hand while Maxjet those who are fed up with the Eco experience but are not willing to pay legacy carriers' biz fares.

Understand that Maxjet are expected to announce a new route today from STN to Washington Dulles, starting late Feb 06.

this is all going to end in tears unless they can boost load factors and soon! they havent got limitless supplies of cash... can someone please advise of the load factors...

It will bw a shame for the community and North Londoners if this outfit fails.

Website confirms Washington Dulles - STN will start early in 2006, although a specific start date is not given. JFK-STN to increase from 6 to 7 weekly flights with the start of a saturday flight beginning mid-feb 06

What are their pax loads and will they support this?

This was taken from yesterdays press release

MAXjet is introducing the new services in response to consistently high load factors and customer demand.

Crickey!
Not even Gordon Brown could massage the figures to produce a statement like that :\
Is Eos doing just as well :{

Well I was suprised to read that they have three aircraft. One permantly based at STN incase any problems with the other aircraft! I certainly wouldnt want to leave that there rotting away.

Regarding load factors, saw this in the FT.

'Mr Rogliano said that Maxjet had recently been achieving a load factor - the share of available seats filled - of “well above 50 per cent on average.” The business model is based on achieving a break-even load factor of 70 per cent '.

Breakeven at 70%. Sacre Brie, how on earth did he raise money on those expectations?????:confused:

...plus I'd assume that yield was probably lower-than-average in the first couple of months (introductory offers, more availability at lower fares to tempt people to try the service, etc.), whereas the business plan breakeven percentage he quotes is likely to be a steady-state figure (i.e. once yield has reached its "normal" level). So in practice saying "our load factor is over 50%, our breakeven is 70%" is likely to be an apples-to-oranges comparison.

maxjet airways
 

maxjet airways is to launch a new route from las vagas to london stansted on 2 november, it woll be a twice weekly service on mondays and thursdays

las vagas
 

this is good news for stansted and maxjet
but with this route being not a daily service
I wonder which other route will be added
I think BOS,SFO or LAX will be next
a friend at stansted tells me maxjet are getting
5 more aircraft 2 very soon this year and
3 early 2007 :ok: :D :ok:

Since Maxjet is an all business service airline can non-dailys work for them. Or will lesuire passengers willing to pay more for a business service on their holiday.

If you manage to get lowest fare off their website
it costs £885 rtn inc tax/fees this price is not much
more than other carriers (y) class
not only that but virgin upper class for 02nov
rtn 05nov is £7,071.00 and maxjets available fare
for the same date is £1,053

just looked at flyglobespan and maxjet prices
GLA-las vegas feb 2007 £901.00 business class low cost airline
STN-las vegas feb 2007 £998.00 business class all business class aircraft

maxjet will use B767-200 on this route

This means that MAXjet will be offering the only evening non-stop service from Las Vegas to London.

I see todays MAXJET 101 to JFK is via IAD, is one of there a/c sick:yuk: .

Great news for Stansted. On certain days by the end of the year the airport will have up to 5 daily flights to America.

3 daily flights to New York with Eos (2) and Maxjet (1)
1 flight to Washington (Maxjet)
1 flight to Las Vegas (Maxjet)

Maxjet
 

Maxjet are coming up to one year of service and are offering fares to washington and las vegas for only £599 rtn inc tax/fees.
They are also waiting on new a/c to arrive in the next 4 months,
I wonder what routes will be next.

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY MAXJET :ok:

just booked round trip to las in feb half term for £599 all in. virgin wanted £1396 for economy.:ok:

Heard talk today that Maxjet are considering BOS and SFO for early 2007,
this would all add up as they are due to get at least two more a/c around the same time, this would be great new for Stansted.

can anyone add anymore ?

The New York flights always seem to be quite full but most days the Washington flight continually says 'Inquire Airline'. Is this due to low loads or any other factor?

Is this the beginning of the end??
 

With Maxjet now one year old and people not having too many bad things to say about it a few cracks are beginning to appear.

On wed 8th Nov, The inbound maxjet pulled onto stand and as the jutbridge was just put on someone decided to open the right hand side door but forgot to dissarm the door!! consequently the slide deployed to many peoples ammusement that saw it happen! However its been the knock on effect of this that has really given a poor image. They then had to wait for their other aircraft to arrive to put the mornings NY pax on that flight delaying them by some time to then delay the afternoon washington flight.........later on the engineers at STN said it could not be fixed here so had to fly it empty to Washinton to fix it, meaning that WASH flight was cancelled. However it does not end there, as it had to fly back to operate the morning flight to NY on 9/11/06 it delayed it by 7 hours. when the aircraft finnaly arrived the already delayed pax were told that it had gone tech and after waiting all day they were bussed off to a hotel. and i can only imagine how angry some of those people were.

Im not sure if this week has just been particularly bad but i do know similar incidents like this have occured before and can only imagine with word of mouth being a good seller to companies that the word amongst prospective maxjet passengers is not all that good. After all these passengers are all probably regular United, BA, business class travelers and have given the new kid on the block a go but i think for many of these people it will be thier first and last time as they are Business people and they need to be somewere promtly and the service delivery is not upto standard.
I think they really need to get a new aircraft in use as they are now serving 3 destinations with 2 aircraft of which one of them needs constant attention to it and is always going tech.

Only time will tell but seems as if EOS is coming up on top here. :hmm:

xxx5572

who opened the door?doh!!!!!!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...e27/maxjet.jpg

Maxjet's "new", B767 operated its first flight out of Stanted yesterday. N251MY is partially painted with a white fuselage and full markings on the tail.
Photo at
http://www.abpic.co.uk/results.php?=...atest&limit=10

The link in the earlier message didn't work, so try this one
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1025586/
Apologies
Phil

And as far as i know this so called 'new' aircraft was tech for a while. Had it on stand for a good few hours whilst it had some engine runs!! Really not good at all. :=

Should there be any concerns over Rogliano's departure, or has he just found more profitable "other ventures"?

Friday and Saturdays JFK-STN flights had 15 hour + delays, Sundays IAD flights were cancelled and todays STN-LAS flight is still on the ground more than 7 hours after scheduled departure (JFK was 3 hours late leaving).

So much for the arrival of the 3rd plane improving reliability. Anyone know what is going on at Maxjet? Their 767s seem to go sick after every flight:(

update - Monday's 1pm STN-LAS still has not left as at 11am Tuesday and Tuesdays STN-IAD is cancelled - again - for about the 3rd day running.

further update- the Monday LAS flight, having been rescheduled to Tuesday 7am, then 8am, then 11.15am has now been cancelled altogether. I guess they couldn't fix the plane -which was the latest addition to the MY fleet - N251MY I believe.
That's now 2 planes out of the 3 currently out of service. Oops.

N251......oh dear oh dear oh dear....feeling a little....GROUNDED!!!!!!

sat1

care to elaborate further? :)

Actually, they currently have 2 of their 3 planes out of service. Only the JFK flight has operated this week. LAS + 3 flights to IAD
have been cancelled.

I have a vested interest here, as I'm supposed to be flying with them next week to LAS taking my mother for her 70th birthday. Would be a shame having to spend it at STN, so if anyone has any knowledge of what's going on, it would be appreciated!

DMEster

if you know what you say you know then you also know about the issues surrounding '251'

so. the passengers on todays MY 711 to LAS were called for boarding at 12:35 today.

But good ol N251MY never left the gate and the flight was finally cancelled about 6pm. Since Sunday, all 5 IAD/LAS flights have failed to make it off the pier.

I've now rebooked the outbound for my trip to VS. Still coming back on MY - that's if it ever gets to LAS:rolleyes:

If Maxjet are making money on the Vegas route at £950 return, then I hope they are around for a long time. Speaking of which - anyone know why they are timetabled 2 hours longer outbound than return. Is there a refuelling westbound only?