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Easyjet winter 2013/14

Any changes for us??

Never had a chance to look and work it out yet

EASYJET WINTER 2013/14

Compared to Winter 2012/13

2012/13 in brackets...WEEKLY FREQUENCIES

ALICANTE......5 (5)
AMSTERDAM...4 (5)
BARCELONA....3 (4)
BELFAST.......17 (17)
BRISTOL.......16 (16)
FARO.............2 (3)
GENEVA.........6 (7)
MALAGA.........4 (5)
MALTA...........2 (2)

These reductions could leave scope for a new destination(s)..a total reduction of 5 flights a week.

What Possible route could it do? Could they release it around the same time the announced AMS in late April/May so at the same time as the previous year?

The flybe guernsey flights are charters for a football team!

Thank you for the info, Hostie.

ships crew change I believe

Thanks for the information.

FLYBE LIMOGE.... SUMMER 2014

At least we know that Flybe will be operating this route in Summer 2014. It now appears in the timetable.

JAMESAIR

DUBAI..............14,065 + 6%

Ok lets do the maths here.

14065 divided by 28 (days in Feb) = 502.

How many seats on a 2 class UAE B77W?

Someone is telling lies.

Have you divided by 56 as its both was, not one way.

Oh not this again

Loadings 6% up on February 2012
More space for cargo and hopefully see these figures at some point
From what I've heard more business and first class seats sold year on year

Outcome - very good and making money!!

Lets all remember you don't need to fully fill an aircraft to make money!!

Since when were First Class seats sold on a 2 class aircraft comprising of Business and Economy only?

I was meaning business type pax is normally full.

Also how many 3 class aircraft have we had so far this year?

Captain_Adams

HH6702 is probably using the fact Newcastle get a sigificant amount three class 777's and in fact have not seen any 2 class versions this month at all and at least ten three class in March.

However BHX often sees the three class versions during low season and Ramadan and first is not sold.

The fact that three class versions are used is not a good sign but as it has been pointed out it does not mean that money is not being made.

Emirates at times give out conflicting information that some local loco's would be proud off, saying first is doing well in some markets quickly followed by an article stating it was not required on a lot of routes and after a couple of years of three class versions the majority of the new aircraft in the last six months have been two class.

As for the viability of the NCL route as a two class 428 seat 777 who knows, other than the EK beancounters

Pete

HH6702 - rough count about 30, so one third three class.

From today's Journal (my underlining):

Quote:

“I’m backing the region to haul itself out of recession,” said Mr Berryman, vice-president of Emirates UK. “We believe in the North East of England.” Launching a new, larger Boeing 777-300ER aircraft on the firm’s daily service to Dubai last September, Mr Berryman said he hoped the route, which in the last five years has helped increase trade between the North East and Australasia from less than £150m a year to more than £275m, might grow by around 15% this year.

But the latest figures suggest businesses and holidaymakers are capitalising on the increased capacity, with the number of flyers in March up by 30% compared to the same period a year ago. If such demand continued, that could mean an extra 24,000 people winging their way to and from the region in 2013, bringing millions of pounds into the local economy.

“March has been excellent, the best we’ve ever had out of Newcastle,” said Mr Berryman. “We carried over 200 tons of cargo from Newcastle for the first time. When you say it like that it doesn’t seem a lot but that’s 200,000kg out of Newcastle in 31 days. I think more and more companies are realising that rather than take products all the way to Heathrow it is much easier to fly from the regions."

“And Newcastle’s catchment area is growing. I’ve been talking to the drivers who bring our business-class passengers to the airport and more and more they are bringing people from the west, places like Carlisle; people are coming to Newcastle rather than heading down to Manchester.”

I wonder if the increased APD air passenger duty will harm passenger numbers on the Emirates flight?

Well I doubt there are many flights it's helping...
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Actually, by way of a tangential plug / opportunity, I have the said Mr Berryman at an event I organise on 17th April at Newcastle Falcons doing a keynote on the importance of the regions and customer service.

Nice bloke, PM me if anyone wants an invitation.

Thanks everyone for dealing with the query on my Emirates figures for February.

I'm waiting with great interest for the March figures (one fact that should have helped with the increase is that Easter fell in March this year and in April last year).

Jamesair

Can't wait to see these figures either... By the sounds of things they should be very good..

Pity we can't compare the cargo month by month !!

Sounds to me the flight is doing very well.

Maybe EK should make NCL a 3 class flight from now on maybe people can afford first class but not business so since first isn't offered and they can't afford business they travel economy class??