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Lee Baker Street 9th Nov 2017 17:03


Originally Posted by southside bobby (Post 9950527)
October.
An increase is an increase...however the loss of MON is readily apparent in the figures now & if the repatriation flights are stripped out would be in negative territory.
A clearer picture this month.

You are wrong southside!

Whilst those slots remain suspended, this winter period at LTN consists of 21 weeks or 147 days. For this whole period Monarch offered 254,187 seats, which equates to an average 9 movements a day but with possibly only 65% of seats per flight being sold.

I estimate that for November through to March 2018 approximately 27000-28000 passenger growth will be achieved each consecutive month.

Once the issue of slots has been dealt with and new flights are generated then the 2.8 or 2.9 % growth per month can only increase to that of handling an extra 70,000 to 80,000 pax per month!

AirportPlanner1 9th Nov 2017 17:09

How many of the LTN slots are actually valuable though? I would imagine big interest in the first wave of departures (and of course some overnight stands to go with them) but beyond that weren't most of Monarchs arrivals and departures sort of early-mid afternoon and late evening when things are a bit leaner anyway?

compton3bravo 9th Nov 2017 17:17

They had four early morning slots outbound plus a number in the afternoon and some late evening in the high season (July-September). The early morning 6-9 am - slots would be the ones most valuable I would suggest.
Got to disagree with you Southside regarding the negative figures for November. Monarch always flew less in the winter than most airlines, but happy to say I was wrong when the November figures are published. Stockholm was not going to be operated over the winter as well as Palma and the service to Gibraltar was reduced.

boeing_eng 10th Nov 2017 18:21

As far as I'm aware no slots at LTN have been sold as such. Biz jets etc continue to use them on a tactical basis. As previously mentioned, the first wave morning departures will be the most sought after. Obviously, for a non-based carrier this involves crews in hotels and overnight maintenance etc so is not necessarily an easy move.

Buster the Bear 10th Nov 2017 20:05

First wave morning departure slots are incredibly valuable to the airline that gets them considering how scare a commodity they are at London's 5 airports.

planedrive 11th Nov 2017 12:51

New 08 taxiway should open on the 7th of December.

Lee Baker Street 12th Nov 2017 12:45

Compton3bravo, you mention the Gibraltar service which to me is an important service that needs to be reinstated by another airline. No current operator at LTN covers this route.

planedrive 12th Nov 2017 15:13

Expect EZY to operate GIB next summer. New route announcements usually around the 12/13th December for Summer.

compton3bravo 12th Nov 2017 18:45

Yes some days there are just two scheduled flights, Easy to Gatwick and BA to Heathrow plus the odd executive aircraft. Of course the RAF are there but what I have seen of the Typhoon it looks more like a gate guardian! The Gibraltar Tourist Board are crossing there fingers and everything else hoping the service to Luton is reinstated asap.

Lee J 12th Nov 2017 20:06

As someone who lives in Gibraltar and flies to the UK 2 or 3 times a month for work, I'm not hearing that Luton is an important service, at least from this direction - although I'd be surprised if Easy don't pick it up.

London has the choice of 2 airports every day yet for destinations any further up North there are only 2 flights a WEEK - down from 8 flights from Manchester.

Lee Baker Street 13th Nov 2017 03:24

Gibraltar
 
LTN was handling up to 7000 pax in a good month, admittedly not huge, but suggests there is a market worth continuing.

Buster the Bear 13th Nov 2017 11:48

Travel Trade confirming recent route/airline announcements.

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articl...narch-collapse

MKY661 13th Nov 2017 13:02

I indeed do expect EZY to step in with the LTN-GIB route, especially since Monarch operated more rotations on the LTN-GIB route than the MAN-GIB route (and this was the same even before EZY started MAN-GIB).

compton3bravo 13th Nov 2017 19:49

I see one of the announcements in the Travel Weekly article is an extra El Al Tel Aviv on a Sunday until the end of March.

LGS6753 16th Nov 2017 14:56

Confirmation of the three new routes by SunExpress from Airlineroute:

Antalya – London Luton 15JUN18 – 28SEP18 2 weekly
Ankara – London Luton 17JUN18 – 30SEP18 2 weekly
Gaziantep – London Luton 20JUN18 – 26SEP18 1 weekly

Falcon666 19th Nov 2017 13:39

Latest NOTAM indicates that WIP for 08 Taxiway now finishes on the 27th Nov , a week earlier than previous.
Presumably work has progressed well overnight with minimal weather disruption!

Powerjet1 20th Nov 2017 06:11

BBC Look East stating that Wizz Air will initially base 5 aircraft at Luton by next June. Also announced new routes to Larnaca, Tallinn & Tirana.

wallp 20th Nov 2017 07:11

Interesting new routes. Tirana and Tallinn are obvious omissions from Wizz’s Eastern European myriad of routes. Presumably Larnaca will pick up some of the slack from the demise of Monarch. I wonder if they’ll target other ex Monarch routes?

Powerjet1 20th Nov 2017 07:35

Bratislava & the previously operated route to Lviv, also appear in the booking engine re Wizz. Several other existing routes seem to get increases also.

planedrive 20th Nov 2017 08:10

Will these 5 A/C be operated under WizzAir UK (i.e.: G-reg aircraft) or include the two that night stopped this summer from other wizzair bases?


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