Have easyjet released their full winter 19/20 and summer 20 season yet? I use the Flybe MAN-TLS flight very often as do a lot of my airbus colleagues the load factor on these flights always seems high. As the route is being dropped from next month and therefore no other competition, I thought it would be ideal for Easy to pick up...? Although they already have a base at TLS as well so maybe using a TLS based aircraft...here's hoping anyway

BHX-EDI & Amsterdam
 

And the wait goes on? Anyone with ideas of the reason for the delay?

Also the initial Amsterdam summer slot application deadline was listed as 3rd October and did easyjet apply to use the Flybe BHX-AMS slots which are up for grabs?

Also is there any link between the two questions above other than the obvious?

Pete

As some will have noticed, Easyjet no longer charge an admin fee (was about £16) per booking
As far as I can recall, if one wanted to pay in a currency other than that of the originating airport (e.g. if you want to buy a ticket from Milan to Paris in GBP instead of EUR), then Easyjet used to apply interbank wholesale rates - and didn't charge a mark-up. It seems that Easyjet have changed the policy, and are now adopting that of Ryanair - i.e. charging extra (seems to be about 3.5 % commission) for paying in a currency other than the suggested one

Well spotted. My quick analysis indicates - always pay in the default currency for single sectors. The default currency is based upon the country of departure.

If booking a return with UK origin to the Euro zone, the return leg conversion to GBP is almost the same as the interbank rate (it's actually a fraction cheaper in my test than booking two singles - only pence cheaper).

Any updates on when Edinburgh to Birmingham goes on sale?

What I'm intrigued to find out is how they plan to operate this service as, I believe, the 8 based aircraft are fully utilised. The only way to free one up for the Birmingham route would be by switching another route to being operated from the other end, e-g either the first Stansted, Luton Gatwick or Belfast flights would be inbound to Edinburgh. Or, of course they could base a nineth aircraft and launch a swathe of new routes or increased frequencies.

Or they could of course cut existing routes and frequencies to make way for BHX.

In fairness, you do not need to be using peak slots on an EDI-based aircraft to fly an early morning departure to Krakow at 06:40 on Mon/Wed/Fri, Lisbon at 06:20 Tue/Thu, Seville on Monday mornings and Thursday afternoons (peak business travel times) or Copenhagen (a route bloodbath) on Monday at 07:15. Shovelling any or all of these services to off-peak times and perhaps relocating the Berlin and/or Geneva services off EDI aircraft onto TXL or GVA-based aircraft could easily create the gaps required for a business schedule on EDI-BHX within the existing eight aircraft. I would guess that the delay in announcing a schedule is due to awaiting confirmation of requested slot moves for other services to slot coordinated airports, which will only become apparent in the next few days as airlines receive the output of their slot requests for S20. I might be totally wrong, but that's the conclusion I get to.

Or they could open a base and originate the flight in BHX....and pigs might fly! 😁

One thing for sure, a wise move by EZY to enter the Scotland- BHX market as the future of the Flybe/Virgin Connect BHX base is far from certain in terms of routes that will continue in S20.

The base increases to 9x aircraft next summer, 4x A319s, and 5x A320s - an increase of 1x A319.
Looking at a Monday next summer, the EDI-based aircraft show as operating the same flights they operated this summer, although some there is some swapping from A319 to A320 and vice versa.
A new flight to VRN has been added during the middle of the day leaving BHX sized gaps morning and evening on an A320.

Verona is just twice a week? So it provides additional rotations to other destinations on the other days?

There's an extra Vienna rotation on a Thursday, which I assume is one of them.

VIE is currently unchanged on S19 at 3x weekly.

With the extra slot pairs expect an extra 6-8 based frames based at Gatwick!

Pabely - how does 12 summer slot pairs at Gatwick translate to 6-8 extra aircraft. Would have thought more likely to be no more than about 4 (or max 6) new aircraft if we assume that an aircraft does maybe 3 round trips per day

Easyjet planes typically leave their base in the morning then fly 4/5 legs around europe before returning to base in the evening, not the typical in/out, in/out from it's own base.

Is that generally the case? From EDI every rotation is out and back. Being further north, the legs are longer and each plane does no more than three rotations, I think, and some only two.

Do they? Since when? I fly from a large base and not one aircraft disappears for the day and comes back in the evening, it's either 2 sector days or 4 sector days, out back, out back. BRS & LGW are no different. 6 slot pairs for BRS will be a maximum 2 aircraft and for 12 slot pairs it's a maximum of 4 aircraft, infact, 1 aircraft can do 8 departures per day so it could even be 1 for BRS and 2 for LGW.

That's not correct at all.