Monarch stopped flying to MJV in W09-10 from MAN and in S09 from BHX/LGW. Not a problem with loads just the yields.

Monarch
 

i wish Monarch would operate more scheduled routes from Gatwick like Barcelona, Madrid and Nice

monarch to liverpool?
 

had lunch today with some family friends,one of who works at man.
i find this hard to belive myself, but he said he has heard strong rumours that monarch are looking at the possibilites of pulling out of man totally and moving the whole north west operations to liverpool! ?
anyone else heard this????

MON has technical hangarage ops at MAN which I highly doubt LPL could do and MAN has been a strong base for years, very doubtful it will be dropped by MON, VERY.

Do they really think that they could compete successfully on sunshine routes against easyjet and Ryanair ?. I think not.

like i say i find this hard to belive,but he said he'd heard they were "seriously looking at moveing all ops to l'pool to cut cost's on landing/handling fee's long term". my first thoughts were maybe its a (mol)kind of threat to see if they can get man to reduce cost's.(if it is true).
he also said that the ryanair expansion plans for the new ryanair terminal on t2 would see them move a lot of the l'pool flights to man.

When FR announce they MAN base soon, Liverpool will see a reduction from Ryanair. The reduction may not happon this winter but it wil graudally happon. Evenchallity Liverpool and Manchester will go like BHX ane EMA and Liverpool will be BHX and MAN will be EMA.

Would love to see MON at Liverpool if it happons but I don't think it will.

yep! and i'll have a pint of that aswell please landlord!:confused::):oh::yuk::eek::O:ok:

Where magic mushrooms on the lunch menu P/H by any chance?

Has there been a Monarch to Cardiff suggestion yet? :E:ouch::ugh:

Well considering Monarch have already announced that Manchester will see new routes to France, Italy, Spain and Portugal for 2012, as well as the mentioned Monarch hangar with the contract to look after theirs and Thomsons B787's, and the move to T2 in november, why would Monarch put all this planning in only to pull out?

:confused:

Question : Are Monarch closing their second biggest base in the UK to move into smaller facilities at an airport with fewer connections into the rail and motorway network?
Source Short Answer : Probably not

Second biggest base? I believe MAN is the biggest for MON ...

MAN is their biggest base, then i think its LGW, BHX, LTN & DUB (in that order)

I have heard though they are getting more aircraft so they might get a small base at LPL maybe. Heard also about BRS & CWL as well (on these forums)

I think that somewhere up north would be good like Newcastle or Edinburgh

My God-awful London blindness kicks in again! Apologies!

Will this still happen now that MAN Airport have allowed FR to come and play on 6 of MON's long established routes?

It may see a slight decline but i don't think it will have much effect. Of what I know the morning AGP flight (ZB654) is extremely popular and I would imagine ALC, TFS & FAO will be the same.

BCN, not sure but I do remember Jet2 starting it but then ceasing it due to lack of demand, and acording to Monarch's website they said that the monarch flights were much more popular, but now with 3 airlines doing it (Jet2 are restaring it for some reason) im not sure where this will go.

PMI would be good for ZB in the winter because it is seasonal for Ryanair.

IBZ, welll ZB don't really operate it very much but it is coping well so we will have to wait and see on this one.

Also in my opinion ZB have better flight times so maybe that will boost passengers.

New route - LGW - BCN

Starts Oct 21 - daily flights until 30 October then goes to 11 weekly

But there isnt no flights on sale for summer 2012 From LGW
-BCN!

It's a free market, can you imagine the furore if MAN decided to try and protect some if it's key customers and was then accused of keeping prices artificially high? MOL would then have a field day and what's worse, he'd be right.