I think that unless EZY equally expands at LTN in 2018, they could find themselves falling behind Wizz!

In the last couple of days Indigo the owner of Wizz has just ordered a further 140 + Airbus A/C to expand W6.

I think 2018 is going to be a very interesting year at LTN with sustained growth and possibly U2 basing several more A/C.

Indigo divested itself of Wizzair shares last summer. https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/n...take-for-317mn

Wonder why turn offs onto H are prohibited unless authorised by ATC. Making aircraft roll out further isn’t going to increase runway flow:confused:

I always thought the 08 taxiway extension was done first to improve departures/congestion when 08 in use......

I was wondering that as well but it might just be a case of wait and see as there does not seem to be any logic in restricting access to Taxiway Hotel for arrivals.

Airbus still seems to think Wizz are part of the group LINK

Am I missing something but it looks like it's turn offs onto taxiway Charlie that needs ATC approval not taxiway Hotel.

During the summer on several occasions when 26 was in operation a/c were held at D1 and then told to backtrack via Charlie for departure due to congestion and missing a slot when alpha had four or five waiting for departure.

Maybe they don't want biz jets trying to get off at Charlie if an a/c is holding at D1.

Edit- when I first looked at the NOTAM I am sure it only stated Charlie , didn't notice Hotel had been added. hence the box added in the chart.
Now I am confused as it doesn't seem to make sense for Hotel.

Me too, why not just marked as HS Hotspots, surely taxiway lighting will not be illuminated unless authorized by ATC.

Wingtip clearance between an aircraft vacating and holding at HOTEL 1 must be very close to an aircraft holding inbound at BRAVO 5! The runway is effectively blocked if an aircraft holds inbound at CHARLIE 1 and cannot progress any further northbound.

The original plan saw the new taxiway extension require the removal of the current fire station, but you will notice that the BRAVO extension runs much closer to the runway than taxiway ALPHA does.

Unless I am missing something, Indigo not listed here. Shareholders Major WIZZ Wizz Air Holdings PLC including Fund and Institutional

Any aircraft coming off via Bravo would have to give way to any aircraft vacating at Hotel as Hotel 1 could not be used as a holding point from that direction without blocking the runway. I guess that would mean that every aircraft using Bravo would have to be told to hold before B5 just in case the next landing aircraft used Taxiway Hotel.

SunExpress
 

The airline have now added Bodrum- W flight from Antalya

Now makes 9 flights a week (2017)
Ankara - 2 weekly
Antalya - 2 weekly
Bodrum - 2 weekly
Gaziantep - 1 weekly
Izmir - 2 weekly (3 weekly)

More competition for flights going towards Turkey

Buster/Goldeneye -

Indigo Partners sold off 10.7 million ordinary shares in Wizz earlier this year but retain 44.8 million convertible shares. The recent Airbus order was promoted as an order by Indigo for their group of airlines, including Wizz.

Thanks LGS6753.

Titan to Chamberry
 

Does anyone know what aircraft will be used for the weekly flight?

I was also interested in knowing which type of aircraft but can’t find this detail anywhere, none of the booking sites give this information, if you were to go by last years ZT331/ZT332 schedule it will be a mixture of B757, B737 and A321 but I could of course be totally wrong.

The aircraft schedule is:

ZT331 departs Stansted at 08:10 arriving Chambéry at 11:00
ZT884 departs Chambéry at 12:10 arriving Luton at 13:00
ZT883 departs Luton at 14:40 arriving Chambéry at 17:30
ZT332 departs Chambéry ar 18:30 and arrives Stansted at 19:20

Hopefully someone else will have better luck !

Monarchs slots can now be sold, after winning at the court of appeal.
Bring on the bidding war...

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mo...-idUKKBN1DM1TM

Monarch’s administrators win airport slots battle

Just seen this...

What does this mean for Wizz Air's expansion?

Has Wizz used Monarch's old slots to aid this newly announced expansion or have they gained the slots from the expansion of the airport and the new taxiways being built, which allow for more take off and landing slots?

Be interesting to see who the slots are sold to and if Wizz can't obtain them.

Unless they have already agreed a deal in principle with the administrators to buy them, pending this decision from the courts.

The only additional information I have managed to find is that the company chartering the aircraft is called - wait for it - ski flights.com. Their website gives details of timings and flight numbers which we already know but no information on the type of aircraft.
Who would have thought some years ago slots at Luton would end up with a bidding war.

New Wizzair routes
 

As Larnaca and Bratislava are shown as 10.00/10.15 am departures, I suspect the later as this is outside the MON slots which were used previously.

If so, once the 4 slots are taken up and come on-line Luton stats will once again be pushing upwards more steeply.

The Wizz expansion is an additional 2 aircraft despite the claims taking the total to 5. Any spare capacity through the expansion of the airport from new stands and taxiway improvements would be the preferred method. Last resort would be to buy slots. What happens if no one wants to buy them? Could the administrators hold back Luton's growth?

Also remember Thomas Cook is basing an aircraft next summer as well.

Thomas cook based aircraft is filling in the empty slot from TUI.