SFB will be kept no doubt - very strong year-round route.

I have to comment on GSMs punctuality this winter. Although there are fewer routes this winter, GSM have kept their punctuality very well. Most flights coming in on time or early. SFB longhaul route is doing very well this winter too. Hardly any major delays!

Our newer A/C are more reliable, so getting rid of B733s/B736s is a great move. The 7 shorthaul A/C will cover the schedule for S09.

Expansion will be slow and steady now with extra routes added over each season. Turkey/Egypt will be very popular this summer.

Wonder what's in store for W09? Should be released fairly shortly. Usual ALC, AGP, PMI, FAO, GVA, TFS, SFB, PFO, ACE, LPA, HRG/SSH, etc.

The last of the B733 left the fleet today as GSM733P from GLA to BCM for C check and hand back

Oh well then end of an era in the history of GSM exit of 737 classics/older NG'S hello 737NG'S maybe in a few years to come. :ok:

The only doubts i have is that will GSM be able to fill a 763 W09 if no 752?

Anybody know why the 752 is leaving its a perfectly good a/c only about 12 years which is very young for a 752 compared to the likes of the 30 years of Jet2's. Is it just end of lease?

A good end of an era though - the B733s have served their purpose for GSM. The NG A/C are the way forward for the airline. We may even have a couple more A/C by S10.

The B752ER has not been confirmed that it is leaving the fleet. However, there is no requirement for this A/C S09. Either this A/C is being leased out or it is leaving the fleet.

quote Anybody know why the 752 is leaving its a perfectly good a/c only about 12 years which is very young for a 752 compared to the likes of the 30 years of Jet2's. Is it just end of lease?
what crap, jet2 757s are between 18 and 20 years old and a damn sight more reliable than the GSM 752! perhaps due to better maintenance?

GSMs engineering for Longhaul is Monarch and our A/C are very reliable, as I am sure LS A/C are well maintained. Don't really think it matters what age an A/C is as long as it is adequately maintained.

If the B752 is leaving the fleet, it's because there is no need for it this summer. There is an extra B763ER coming in Feb - all economy. This will allow GSM to sell more seats to YHM.

It's incredibly seasonal surely. Once a week tops in the winter and daily in the summer is not a strong year round performance. I doublt they will offer SFB on the 763 next winter, they will find something more productive for it to do.

We shall see.

Oh ok 757Flyer obviously hit a nerve there.

Yes well GSM being GSM i would have thought leasing off the 752 would have been more there thing for S09 its a great a/c to have over the Winter for SFB flights and extra capacity on European routes and to be fair its never had any major problems of its own doing.

However they may keep 1 for W09 for SFB and maybe a carribean route or somewere exsotic from maybe MAN, LGW or GLA, will have to wait and see.

How many 763's will there be operating S09 anyway?

Manchester?
 

Is Manchester goin to be used this year?
The Toroto's (YHM) seemed to do very well last year.

Yup. Canada.
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As regards the 757, it will go unless a good ACMI is found for it.
767s are far easier to ACMI, and neither crew nor pax want to tech stop to The States these days. All that should have stopped in the '90s!!
I hope the 75 goes as it's pointless having only one.

LJ

Will GSM be using 3 763's S09?

2 B767s can cover SFB/YHM/YYC/YVR flying based on published timetables

763 G-CDPT arrived in Glasgow yesterday as GY8805
is this the aircraft back after refurb supposedly due during winter 08 ?
what will it be doing now till the summer ?

I thought it went down to Paris CDG from Glasgow as the above flight number??????

Well MME gone, but who didn't already know that....
Airline confirms final departure from airport (From The Northern Echo)
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Think GSM will ever move back into the rest of the uk again for short-haul?

Well they've hacked off Stansted, Liverpool and now Teesside. I think easyJet, Monarch and Ryanair have most of the typical routes well sewn up.

There's always Prestwick....he he

G-CDPT had Gabon Airways titles applied to it earlier in the week....
Might explain the GY flight number.

B767
 

EDI-FCO seems no longer on sale and has also disappeared from the timetable page.

Ryanair taking its toll maybe?