EasyJet - 4
 

Hey

I’ve started this new thread after easyJet 3 was closed. To pose my original question in thread 3: Can anybody tell me how many aircraft easyJet has based at each airport for the summer 2009 season? Also does anyone know if easyJet has designated spare aircraft? If so, how many and where are they based?

Thanks

ryland36

This is an interesting question, I know Belfast has 6 based 737s
Stansted about 10 319s (not 100% sure) & i think 1 spare is there
Luton has about 14/15 based aircraft all 319s i think
Liverpool 8 319s
Newcastle I think 5 (mix of 319 and 737)
Gatwick about 33 319s

I am 100% sure of BFS but the others quite sure but not 100%.

Will be interested so see the replies to this thread!

Manchester has 2 A320 at present with a 3rd due mid May

EI-BUD,

737's are stil the mainstay in Luton mixed with A319's.

Liverpool goes up to nine based in June.

Last summer Bristol had 11 based 319s which was increased to 12 for the main summer season (end July to early September).

At the moment, with a cutback in rotations, there seem to be ten 319s at Bristol (ten inbounds late last night, excluding the BFS and NCL that are operated by aircraft from those bases in the evening), which may have to be increased when the main summer season begins.

Gva & Bsl
 

GVA 8 A319s
BSL 4 A319s

3 New Routes!
 

Hey

Today (20/04/09) easyJet announced the Lunch of 3 new routes from London Luton.

Menorca (Mahon) - Mon, Wed, Fri Starts: 6th July
Montpellier - Tue, Thu, Sat Starts: 7th July
Milan Malpensa - Mon-Fri, Sun Starts: 6th July

Seats now on sale!

Greta to see easyJet adding more routes! Shame there can’t be any more form some of its other bases. I.e. STN!

Scottish Bases
 

GLA - 4 A319s
EDI - 4 A319s

Thanks for all your very helpful responses! I was under the impression STN is having 14 a/c this peak summer. Can someone confirm that for me? Also does easyJet base specific aircraft at each base or does it all change around? If it changes around how do aircraft switch between bases?

No, the aircraft frequently swap around the network (for reasons such as scheduled maintenance checks)

Usually they are swapped down route. For instance, a crew will fly one aircraft from say STN to ALC and then swap airframes with a crew from BRS or LGW.

The plan for MAN was five based units by 2010, is this still the case?

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Also does anyone know if easyJet work on a first in first out basis? I.e. first flight to land and park for the night will be the first departure in the morning?

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I don't think it quite that simple, I know some of the aircraft have a higher take off weight than others so are allocated the longer routes. Usually we've just finished towing them around overnight when a load of aircraft changes come through :*

cheers Bondy

For example we may move aircraft if it comes in on a domestic flight in the evening then goes out on an international flight the next day so needs to be moved from domestic gate to an intl one. Or we sometimes have a spare aircraft so we have to move it from its remote stand should another aircraft have a tech problem.

LTN-MXP is a replacement route of LTN-WAW last flight 5 July.

From MXP to London there are now 16x daily flights:

BA MXP-LHR 4x daily
LH MXP-LHR 6x daily (4x by LHI and 2x by BMI)
U2 MXP-LGW 4x daily
U2 MXP-LTN 2x daily

When you can fly from 99 euro return with Lufthansa MXP-LHR 6x daily or Easyjet MXP-LGW from 60 euro return 4x daily, the new MXP-LTN 2x daily is a no sense flight, also Ryanair has cut BGY-LTN from 2x daily to 4x week. LTN is probably the worst choice for central London.

LTN-MXP timetable:

LTN-MXP 07:20-10:15 12345 From 21 september
MXP-LTN 10:50-11:50 12345

LTN-MXP 12:00-14:55 6 From 21 september
MXP-LTN 15:30-16:30 6

LTN-MXP 17:25-20:20 123457 From 6 july
MXP-LTN 20:55-21:55 123457

On sale now, price from 23,99 euro one way

It makes perfect sense if you don't actually want to travel to, or through, London. Why should everyone from the Midlands and Home Counties and even further north (Luton is only 1hr 30min on the train from Yorkshire) have to contend with the hassle of crossing London to LGW, or navigate their way through the hell-on-earth that is LHR? There is more to life than what goes on within the M25! :p

Maybe Ryanair cut the route down because they can't compete with EZY... I do agree though that when you consider the city pair, 16 flights a day sounds excessive. The green movement would have a field day...

Luton-milan Flights
 

I would suggest that easy are looking at the large Italian and Italian-related communities in the Bedford and Peterborough areas ie north of the airport than expect people from the London area. Us old ones will remember regular charter flights to several Italian cities were operated by the likes of Altair, British Midland, Britannia, Middle East Airlines (yes) and the Scribe Air Boeing 707 commonly known as the roach coach!

Fairly true, however, the lack of direct train connection to LTN Airport for passenger originating from the Virgin West Coast Network (northern of the airport) makes things much more difficult.

Virgin Trains passenger are, in fact, routed via Milton Keynes Central and than coached to Luton Airport on a Virgin Train Shuttle calling at many places here in and there (many more than the sister service by Natexpress. Train tickets rarely offer a routing via Luton Apt P'way coming from the north.

I agree, in principle, that the service may be successful though. We'll see in the coming months!

Starbucks
 

As MXP is now easyJet's biggest base in Europe, and LTN is easyJet's HQ and main training facility, perhaps the route is so they can save on taxi fares between LTN and LGW every time a manager needs to go to MXP or italian crew need to go to LTN. And if they can pick up a few pax along the way, great!

NCL Base
 

Newcastle is currently 3 B73G's and 2 A319's, from 20th May this becomes 3 B73G's and 3 A319's or 4 B73G's and 2 A319's depending on which website you check :-).

Winter 09 reverts back to 5 A/C not sure of the B73G/A319 split at the moment...

What ex GB aircraft are easyjet keeping ?

And will they still operate from both LGW terminals or consolidate into one ?

MXP: 15 (+ night stop at FCO, 2 or 3 a/c?)
SXF: 8 (maybe 9 during summer)
MAD: 6
ORY: 6
CDG: 5
LYS: 2

All the facts about the UK bases are very interesting cause I'm not sure about it.

Just 2 questions: EMA still 3 and I thought LPL goes up to 8 (you're talking it goes up to 9)?

Gatwick will have 39 aircraft based!

LPL has had 8 a/c for some years now and will go up to 9 this summer...

Easyjet is the first airline at LGW? What is the market share?

LYS go to 3 based plane from winter 2010.

See: easyJet.com - Joyeux anniversaire ! Un an et 1 000 000 passagers pour easyJet à Lyon (in french)

Is possible for Easyjet to make a personalized booking engine? When I check the Italian website on the top of booking engine appears italian airports, with the English website on the top appears UK airports end so on... For me is a good idea..

Good question re.ezy LGW terminals, they seem to have moved some flights over to the north from the south and they seem to be in favour of the north? wonder how having a split operation hinders the airline (if at all)?

Cant see room in the north for the whole ezy operation and i cant see them giving up the north so i guess a split operation will be kept?

On 28th April U2 is celebrating its 5th anniversary of SXF base. Now there are 9 planes, SXF-CPH and SXF-BRU goes up from 1 daily to 2 daily from 25th October.
Also BSL-BCN goes up from 1 daily to 2 daily and BSL-BOD from 2/7 to 4/7 starting from winter.

Don't think there is enough room in either Terminal for the entire operation. Perhaps if they move BA out of the North Terminal?? * cough *

Given BA is showing cancellation of 6 routes out of LGW incl Atlanta / Brussels / Toulouse / Geneva / Zurich / Marrakech.....most I think previously announced.

?? ATL and TLS moved to LHR

GVA and ZRH(?) will be back for the winter

RAK wasn't a BA route and it went when GB went orange

BRU is a BA codeshare route operated by Brussels Airlines.

BA's LGW-Zurich is axed all year round

That's correct, Zurich won't be back. With the B737-300s and B737-500s going they don't have the correct capacity for some routes anymore. The series 400 is a little large as is the A319. Gatwick is coming full circle to be a leisure oriented BA base, with most of the Club heavy routes at Heathrow.

British Airtours anyone? I think easyJet have been very succesful in building up Gatwick but the South Terminal is, lets be honest crap. I bet they'd want the whole operation from the North Terminal but with BA still in situ for a few more years, I don't think the capacity is there alas.

Inverness Service
 

It looks like easyJet have dropped the Gatwick-Inverness route from the start of the winter timetable as it is not bookable from the end of October. The Luton service which was downgraded to a three times weekday and Saturday and Sunday service last winter has been upgraded to a daily rotation.

have you considered the possibility that no route ex Lgw is on sale yet? I think you will find that Lgw is not yet on sale for W09.

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