Albania!!!

It's all peer pressure and male bravado - I've seen groups of lads getting out of a minibus outside the airport at 4:30am, all with a can of beer in their hand all trying to 'prove themselves' as men to one another.

Oh dear that wont buff out.

More than likely now beyond economic repair.

at 29 years old i think AI has flew its last flight

No doubt to be broken as spares, will they fly it back to the uk unpressurised to one of the breakers yards?

Will 1 B757 less make a difference to their summer schedule? I know they had some standby, but may need to lease another aircraft for cover? Or source a replacement 757, or perhaps another 2nd hand B738?

Ladies and gents, I think all this speculation about the fate of Alpha India is premature. How about sitting tight and seeing what occurs ? I don't know about anyone else but I haven't seen any photographs of the damage to the aircraft, so on I'm in no position to come out with glib statements pertaining to buffing out, unpressurised flights to the breaker's yard and so on.

G-DRTA
 

Tango Alpha returned from Hurn today at Norwich graced in Jet 2 Holiday Livery entry into service must be soon
Anyone know where she be based

She flies into LBA tomorrow evening and appears to be staying for a couple of weeks at least. In other news, 'HY arrives from BFI at 0630 tomorrow.

I have seen photos and it wont buff out and it appears the pressure bulkhead is involved. I hope to be proved wrong, but when the value of the airframe versus the cost of repair is considered well who knows what the outcome will be?

Could be a job for Sycamore at MME then selling on the spare parts to Iceland Air.

Seems to have been delayed - no sign of it leaving Boeing Field.

Window seats Boeing 737-800
 

Does anyone know which rows do not have windows on the jet2 Boeing 737-800's? I'd be grateful for any advice!

Not sure on the LS ones specifically but there is only one windowless row on a 73H and that's around 11/12.

Row 11 is the windowless row on the 738 (Y189 config).

Thank you!
Is there a reason you have 2 missing windows on the left and one on the right but only one row is without windows?

Looking as if both the ALC and PMI bases will each have 2 aircraft for S18

So TA may enter service before HZ.

DRTA flew her first commercial service for Jet2 this morning. Leeds to Faro and back.

There are 2 aircon riser ducts on the left side, but only 1 on the right.

Yes, she had a slight technical issue that Boeing couldn't fix in time before the crew went out of hours. She arrived at LBA at 0600 yesterday.

Flew EMA - CDG on G-CELG on Friday and I must admit, I was very pleasantly surprised at just how immaculate the aircraft is both inside and out. Having asked the pilot, he actually told me that he feels the newer fleet (thus far) provided them more complications than the older 733's - It'll definitely be interesting to see how long they keep it in service given its condition and what a pleasure it was to fly on.

Edit: I meant CELG not CELO, sorry!

I didn't know Jet2 flew East Midlands to Paris. Leeds Bradford, yes, but EMA to CDG is a new one to me.

Pretty sure they've operated the route since 2014 ? Someone will correct me if not...

I believe it started after Flybe ended their EMA-CDG flights after themselves taking over the route from bmibaby.

Jet2 started EMA-CDG in Summer 2014 originally but was cancelled in 2015.

It returned again only a month ago and was originally scheduled to operate right through Summer 2017 but the last flight is now today actually (23 April)... was hardly worth bringing it back at all in the end.

Not 100% sure if it's the reason why but if so, that would explain why the flight was so empty - must've been about 50 pax at most.

Ed.

No idea why Jet2 brought it back unless there was a tie-in with holidays. EMA-CDG cannot be viable without good connections and through ticketing - especially to long haul - in Paris. Jet2's product and the terminal it uses at CDG cannot offer either. The glory days on the route are gone thanks to Eurostar's fairly competitive advance fares, not far off equivalent city-centre to city-centre journey times and same-station connections at St Pancras.

Summer 2018 New Routes
 

New Routes showing on the Flight Timetable For S18 from BHX and STN.

Birmingham
Almeria
Antalya
Kos
Larnaca
Malta
Naples
Rome Fiumicino
Split
Thessaloniki
Zante

London Stansted
Almeria
Bodrum
Kefalonia
Thessaloniki
Verona

I didn't see AI in Alicante today, has it been ferried somewhere?

Still there for the foreseeable future.

Eurodisney over Easter?

Talk is of a likely repair.:ok:

Summer 2018 New Routes
 

More new routes showing on the flight timetable for S18

Belfast-Intl
Almeria
Antalya
Crete (Heraklion)
Madeira (Funchal)
Malta
Naples
Paphos
Rhodes

Has the Holidays livery airframe gone from STN? Three J2 silver on the ramp the last couple of mornings but not the holidays one

Belfast to have it's first 737-800 based next summer.

Yes Whitelighter the Jet2 Holidays liveried airframe was swopped @ LPA on 22/23rd for a Jet2 silver machine...Regards...SS

The 4th machine looks like it's a 'Holidays' one. Due in this evening, with all 4 going onto 2 rotations per day.

JL:}

Either G-JZHL or G-JZHX will most likely position into STN from LBA later.

G-JZHZ is due delivery into LBA this Saturday from BFI.

Anyone know the fate of G-AI spares or repairs?