Midlands nil
 

easyJet have never had Scotland as a focus

I think you fair a little better than the midlands not one base we must use the wrong soap oh sorry we get a couple of ski routes in winter from bhx:ugh:

I don't actually think we are.

What we are and have been seeing is a retrenchment due to a sustained and long recession BUT the crucial thing is that they never last for ever, which is easy to say when a potential double dip is possible.

People stop spending money in a recession because of fear and a lack of confidence of what is around the corner added in with wholescale restructing across vast swathes of industry.

The key thing will be the airlines and companies that are ready for growth and which have capacity and flexibility to move quickly. These could be the big winners in the long term, the reason could is because if companies judge it too soon then potentially they will spend before people are ready for it.

People forget a vile recession in the 80's then years of growth, same in 90's and same now. Its just the time between last and now was longer which meant people forgot about it.

I think U2 and FR are well placed, I'm not convinced the legacies are because when thing are getting better you will have Unions demanding back what they gave up.

Racedo.... isn't that what I said? The strongest have survived.

Yes BUT I disagree that we have that we have reached maturity within the market place.

Speculation in the Sunday Times that Speedy Boarding is to be abandoned in favour of allocated seating, at a charge of course!

A rumour around the airline for months now and supported by a TTG article last week.

Confirmed by Customer Services yesterday, although they could not give any details.

First EDI-PFO flight tomorrow. Anyone know what a/c will be operating? Presumably will be a LGW based A320?

Why do you presume?

Edinburgh doesn't have a based A320 so it must be coming in from somewhere else so I'm guessing LGW or LTN.

Aircraft operates LGW-EDI-PFO-EDI then nightstops and operates EDI-LGW the next morning.

Thanks GoEDI.

Thought I'd read that somewhere. Hopefully loads (or yields) will be good and help justify a based A320 at EDI :ok:

What about those who have paid for Speedy Boarding Plus up front?

They have always had a bum deal.

The inaugural flight is very busy in both directions so proving popular already, hopefully that bodes well for the future as you say.

I suppose it will depend on timescales of the rollout of this rumoured change.

The obvious answer would be to offer a conversion to allocated seating for existing speeding boarding ticket holders.

Has Ezy stated any dates for this excellent move forward?

Nice to see the new boss making some sensible changes

At last we can 'scrap the scrum'

'oaks

I think you will see an announcement on the 16th of November.

20 min turn-round with allocated seating........not a chance

They haven't been 20 minute turns for a long time. Plus each turnaround is to be looked at and timed according to specific stations regardless of how boarding takes place.

Ensuring pax are at the gate can be done by closing the gate earlier than they do now.

As already said, chocks on to chocks off, the majority of easyJet turnarounds are scheduled for 30 minutes.

bmibaby and Jet2 have allocated seating and very easily achieve 25-30 minute turnarounds with similar sized aircraft. It usually helps when the gate agents tell the passengers which door to use for boarding when using steps. This helps congestion in the cabin thus speeding up passengers finding their seats. e.g passengers seated rows 1-12 will be asked to use the front steps and passengers 14-25 will be asked to use the back steps on a 733.It's as simple as that and really effective. It usually works much better at UK airports than most overseas from experience, but if easyJet were to ensure these simple checks were done then there would be very little problem. Infact I would say allocated seating would help speed up some turnarounds for boarding.

Another benefit of allocated seating on turnarounds is if using an airbridge you are able to board specific seat row numbers only so to help reduce cabin congestion. Something that on free seating flights most people crowd around the front of the cabin making a blockage, thus slowing down the boarding process for everyone behind.. this despite constant calls from the cabin crew asking passengers to move towards the back of the aircraft too.

I genuinely hope you're right and it works as i think it's the major negative for passengers.
If implemented correctly, with all infrastructure supporting then I guess it could over 30 min turn-rounds.
As you say, others do it so why not?
Once off piste though the turn-round default is still 20 mins and I can't see that. Hope to be proved wrong.