TUI
 

September sees one TUI aircraft removed from the base after the first week believed to be related to an end of lease somewhere (Estonian or Olympus?),although also reported bookings are soft nationally.

The changes have resulted in 16 fewer flights a week than August and only 2 were originally planned.

The shocker is Porto Santo as this after FNC which went earlier the year. The other destinations have multiple frequencies and I assume just consolidated.

BHX is not alone with Manchester having around 23 fewer flights a week in September than August and Gatwick 35-40 (these are estimates and confirmation required) but what I don't know about these two bases is exactly how many were planned originally and how many aircraft involved but Manchester would seem to be 1 or 2 and maybe up to 3 at Gatwick. I am sure Scottie Dog will correct me or add some more specific information re Manchester.

October will see another aircraft removed from BHX but this was planned however the weekly flights dip from 110 (Aug) - 94 (Sept) to 60 odd in October and I am not convinced all these were planned but as it is end of season I didn't note the original schedule but not all 6 based are busy every day or at least appear not to be.

Winter 2019/20 has also seen cuts with TFS down from 4 to 3, LPA 3 to 2, ACE 3 to 2, Marsa which I am sure was bookable once has gone and the extra Hurghada has gone. Good news Agadir remains and although no longer 4 based all week on short-haul there are on Friday, Saturday and Sunday like last year.

Pete

I'm afraid I've not seen anything with regards to the TUI plans for Manchester, however should anything come through my "detector system" I'll try to let you know.

Scottie Dog

I would guess primarily routes to destinations that Wizz Air does not already have a base?... For example Tel Aviv, Athens, Lisbon, Split, Oslo, Reykjavik, Ohrid, etc They do however overlap some routes, for example a morning flight might be operated from there home base in Poland to Luton and then the afternoon flight will be operated to that destination my an LTN based Wizz UK aircraft.

Before the LTN base was ever established they night stopped one or two Wizz Aircraft at LTN and also quite a few routes were previously W routes. (eg, Budapest-Luton-Split-Luton-Budapest).

Being realistic though and not meaning to let your hopes fade, the Wizz operation at BHX is quite small and only of a similar size to that of at Liverpool, Doncaster and Bristol, where they have been operating for 5+ years. Most of these routes are operated several times a week, where Luton has had multiple daily routes to many of these major Eastern European cities with Wizz for numerous years before the base was even set up.

However when you look at their base at Vienna, they never had a presence there whatsoever before, and just stormed in opening up numerous routes and basing five aircraft. But until last year the airport only had a smattering of low-cost airline routes.

Thanks!! Good to know.

Wizz all but pulled out of Bristol a couple of years ago. They now only operate to Katowice at 2/3 x weekly, depending on season.

Pete, Is this to do with the 737 MAX problems or a supply and demand one? I can't see the MAX back in operation this side of Christmas.

TUI & June pax
 

Depends on who you believe but understandable if they have a chance to consolidate at the same time saving on leasing costs and the relying on compensation. I haven't been told which aircraft is leaving but I presume it will be the Estonian A320 but I don't know for sure.

June 2019 passenger figures

CAA provisional stats show BHX up 1.62% 1259647 up from June 2018 1239181.

Pete

2 New Routes albeit one is very brief
 

Jet2 Saturday Innsbruck from late December 2019 for the ski season.

The other one much sort after as a permanent route - alas one day only and subject to change.

Air India - Mumbai - BHX - Mumbai, AI130/1 B77W Monday 5th August only. It is the Heathrow flight for one day only but it is actually in GDS as bookable from BHX.

Air India are stopping the Friday Delhi - Copenhagen for winter - is this aircraft destined for the rumoured 4th Amritsar service?

Pete

Is this to do with the potential Heathrow strike due to take place on Monday 5th August?

Emirates may also be sending one their A388's to BHX on Mon / Tue if the LHR strike goes ahead

Industrial Action at LHR on Monday has been cancelled

June Route Analysis 2019
 

An excellent analysis. Thank you Pete for your continued hard work - definitely a labour of love!

Analysis & TUI
 

And of course they would not be there without your help with the formatting. It takes long enough using FR24 for rotations with the only alternative to wait for the punctuality stats to be released by the CAA to get the exact rotations but by the time they are out the FR24 data has gone in respect of the actual aircraft type operated, as I only have silver (3 months) and not gold. At least now I can upload in minutes rather than hours :)

TUI

Despite the 789 operating the morning Ibiza has just left estimating back 04.45 instead of 13.15. ZD went to Norwich to cover Sunwing and for some reason ZF operated only the Antalya this afternoon and nothing this morning - tech?

Ryanair

From other threads it mentions the Faro and Tenerife bases closing and BHX has 3 winter frequencies a week from Faro using their base and one Tenerife flight operated from the TFS base. The 3 based BHX aircraft this winter are busy other than Tuesday and wonder if these will be chopped or operated from the BHX base.

Pete

TUI Update 13-Aug-19

B763 EC-LZO is operating to Alicante before positioning out on 14th Aug, this is to cover for a B752 that is running very late to/from Bodrum

The main problem leading to the above is that the based Olympus A321 is grounded with brake issues