EASTERN AIRWAYS
 

Eastern Airways have announced an expansion of its NCL - ABZ route with an increase from 4 to 5 daily (on weekdays) from 1st October.

EMB 145 aircraft will be used on peak services. This will give an increase of 1,700 seats a month on the route

Saturdays NQY flight diverted into BHX after in-flight engine shutdown.

sorry...info taken from Flybe thread

Lufthansa timetable for summer 2013 shows the Dusseldorf route remaining at the reduced frequency of 1 daily midday flight albeit operated by a CRJ 900 a/c.

Anyone know why the Dalaman flight due in tonight has been diverted? I have family on it, two of whom need to get connecting flights first thing tomorrow back home.

TCX6567 23:35 DALAMAN FLIGHT DIVERTED MANCHESTER

They've diverted the plane 3 hours before it's due at it's destination, my bet is they need the plane to operate a flight out of Manchester...

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north...2703-29996921/

Interesting to see if they're told any fibs!

Further to that it does seem that Thomas Cook are having problems at Manchester this evening, take your pick at which flight it's going to operate...

T1 TCX2074 14:10 Naples Estimated Sat 15 Sep 00:15
T1 TCX2464 19:50 Heraklion Departing Sat 15 Sep 00:55
T1 TCX2436 22:35 Corfu Estimated Sat 15 Sep 00:30

Aircraft in question is G-FCLJ, interesting to see where it is at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning!

Cheers for that.... lets just hope they get back to the north east before the check in for the EZY flight to Malaga tommorrow

At 06.20 G-FCLJ is climbing out of Heraklion.

One of these NCL delays must be knock on effect.

TCX
 

...and the other due to one of our based 320's positioning to LGW this morning

August provisional figures:
Gatwick -14%
Heathrow +2%
Brussels -16%
Paris CDG +18%
Dusseldorf +9%
Dublin +4%
Amsterdam +4%
Stavanger +14%
Dubai +1%

Transavia B738 brought in to op the IBZ. Not sure whats operating the Palma however

PMI was operated by 757 GWJAN. ALC is been operated by MD83 of Medallion Air.

The Emirates Effect

The Emirates Effect - The Economic Impact of Air Services :: Routesonline

Although I understand it's sold as a high-density route, most of the first couple of weeks flights have actually been low-density configured a/c (i.e. more high value seats) - no idea if this is a good or bad thing, permanent or temporary!

Also, being a pedant, haven't Corsair using their high density B.747's carried 500+ on football charters?

Emirates
 

Quite surprised that only three 428/442 seat aircraft thus far for NCL although BHX has suffered the same but on a smaller scale with about 3 out of 32 flights this month downgraded (seat wise).

Dublin on the other hand has seen at least four two class aircraft this month and it seems that as ever EK are being flexible with their fleet.

September traditionally has been a good month for Emirates and I was a little surprised at the BHX downgrades and even more so at NCL but it is early days and I remember BHX's second flight having some terrible figures although it did start it the low season (like Glasgow's) which did seem odd at the time but I am sure they had their reasons.

Early days and hopefully it will all turn out okay.

Pete

My only surprise was that they proceeded with upgrade to 777 in the first place. Was doing just OK with the smaller A330.

AUGUST SCHEDULED STATS
 

A few changes in the top 10 positions for August scheduled routes, with Dublin overtaking Bristol. (July position shown in brackets)

HEATHROW.....41,067 (1)
AMSTERDAM...24,242 (2)
ALICANTE.......21,969 (4)
PALMA...........21,887 (3)
MALAGA.........17,921 (5)
BELFAST(INT).16,459 (7)
PARIS(CDG)....16,356 (6)
FARO.............15,382 (8)
DUBLIN...........14,271 (-)
DUBAI............13,207 (10)


Stats courtesy of CAA

Just back after a week away. Can someone tell me why they spent money on moving the xray machines from East-West to North-South and still only have 3 out of 6 working? The queue when I went out zig-zagged back to where the boarding cards get checked.
What is the point? Really, what is the point???