It's the wrong kind of acorn for a secondary hub oak tree?

A tree is a tree, and better to have something in the hand than pure speculation and wishes.

It’s also worth noting that the Cityflyer routes at MAN are generating transfer passengers. Yes, we are not talking earth shattering numbers but considering the 1 weekly nature of the flights, shows that potential is there.

Oh those poor remainers. Gideon Osborne said this might happen!

According to another site easyJet have leased two BAe-146s from WDL - Is this true?


The airframes are D-AWBA and D-AMGL.

It's true.

https://twitter.com/AirportWebcams/status/951068800971149313

D-AWBA is scheduled to operate TXL ZRH daily for the rest of the month.

Thanks. Anyone know the reason? Shortage of 320 frames on the leasing market or they require a 146 sized aircraft?

It is for the new operation from TXL where they employ a dozen or so leased aircraft from WDL, Condor and SmartLynx for the next couple of weeks, ranging from 146s to 757-300.

The 146s are used on the routes from TXL to ZRH (a -300) and VIE (a -200) as these do not require more capacity a this point - remember, the whole TXL operation has started with a very short lead-in time and the loads at the moment are often very light.

I am travelling on the Monday flight from Bristol to Madeira next month with Easyjet. I have checked in and been allocated seats 30D and 30E. On the Easyjet website the seat map shows these seats as not existing. I rang Easyjet and they said not to worry as they are using a larger aircraft but I am not convinced.

I read the A319 has 156 seats and the A320 has two versions with 180 seats and 186 seats. Looks like only the A320 186 seat version has 30D and 30E seating. Is this correct? Can I find out the exact aircraft type in advance? Don’t want to be denied boarding due to an over booked flight. Thanks for any help.

The first three Monday flights of next month are A320, and the 26th is an A319.
I don't know which airframes are 180 and which are 186, sorry.

All A320s based at BRS at the moment are 186 Configured.

Thanks both, that’s extremely useful. I should be fine.

I don’t think the system would be allowed to allocate you seats unless they were available .... i.e I don’t think those seats would be allocated if it wasn’t the A320. Furthermore, I don’t believe denied boarded process at EZY works that way IF it is an A319.

If easyJet say there isn’t a problem then you should be reassured. Sometimes the problem with us that take an interest, is often we find problems that don’t exist as we look at the intricacies of things.

It does indeed look like that flight will be a 186 config aircraft with some planned Austrian registered aircraft for next month as things stand.....if that kind of thing interests you.

Thanks. I feel reassured now.

I had one occasion where a A320 was scheduled and due to a tech issue a A319 turned up on stand.

They asked for volunteers at the gate. When insufficient volunteers came forward they said that those who were in seats that no longer existed would be denied boarding.

Very much a last minute issue and probably the easiest. This would be a whole different can of worms LFC84.

Starting summer EZY will increase the following destinations by each one additional flight per day:
FRA & VIE (each 6 daily), STR (5 daily), CPH (3 daily with better flight schedule).

SXF-CPH will be maintained 3 daily as DY also ofers CPH-SXF.

This require 17 based aircaft at TXL for the current summer season schedule.

On the other side Eurowings won't start TXL-FRA on 25th March with 3 flights per day.

Don't DLH operate approx 13 flights a day currently, are these 3 extra or just moving from mainline?

Pabely, I belive that Eurowings does NOT open the FRA route. It was planned to open in March, but does not.

Do you actually mean 'will not' rather than 'does not'?

EZY Commercial Chief vacating position.
New CEO exerting influence?

Peter Duffy was one of the leading contenders for CEO - so maybe something happened there.

Eurowings was suppost to be in addition to Lufthansa (mainline). Up to now there are no Eurowings flights out of FRA.

Q1 figures
http://corporate.easyjet.com/~/media...1-fy18-ims.pdf

More routes being added from Berlin Tegel (TXL) at the minute on easyJets website.

I have spotted Jerez, Gothenburg, Graz, Oslo, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Ancona, Biarritz, Corfu

Good choice of new routes from TXL as most of them were missing (neither TXL or SXF) or were flown before by AB or do not see a real low cost competitor in TXL:

Alicante 2/7 June, 5/7 August
Ancona 2/7 August
Belgrade 3/7 August, 4/7 September
Biarritz 2/7 August
Brindisi 2/7 July, 3/7 August, 4/7 September
Cagliari 3/7 August
Cologne 33/7 June (EW several times a day from TXL; FR up to 5 daily from SXF)
Corfu 2/7 August
Faro 3/7 August
Genoa 2/7 August
Gothenborg daily August
Granada 2/7 September
Graz 3/7 August
Jerez 2/7 June
Kefalonia 2/7 August
Ljubljana 3/7 August
Menorca 1/7 August, 3/7 September
Montpellier 3/7 August
Naples daily August
Nice 2/7 July
Oslo daily August (DY double daily from SXF)
Paphos 1/7 March, 2/7 August
Pula 3/7 August

MUC increased to 9 daily on weekdays
PMI increased to 5 daily, on weekends 6 daily

TXL-CDG (double daily) cancelled + CTA (4 weekly) & TLV (3 weekly) to be reduced from each daily starting summer.

Does anyone know what time the Manchester press announcement is due to happen?

It’s happened about 5 minutes ago, but ended up just being the launch event for the A320 neo

thanks LAX no route news then or extra aircraft?

Not at the moment, they will be added, but it seems just not yet.

Are we talking about potentially new routes for S18 and additional frequencies?

Why would this be even news - let alone a press conference? :zzz:
Apparently I've been on a 'NEO' already - a Lufthansa example. Did I notice? No, it took an aviation enthusiast colleague to point it out to me. Did I care? No.
Does 99-9% of the population care? - I doubt it.

In the case of Easyjet, people will just give it a casual look:
2 wings - check
engine on each - check
set of wheels - check
orange ninja bandero colour scheme - check
Yup - that's our plane.

Only the geekiest of plane-spotters would even be able to tell the difference.

Whilst I agree in part, any news coverage will no doubt take the environmental credential angle and the fact that it’s is noticably quieter for passengers. The 787, despite its initial unconventional design in it’s concept stage, doesn’t look too radically different to the untrained eye and thanks to the Dreamliner tag, it enjoyed a lot of publicity.

But to be fair, many of your average passengers do take an interest and will ask what NEO stands for.

A bit of free promotion maybe but it’s the type of story that is covered week in week out by the local press.

Biggest non event of the year so far.
It's an A320 with a different engine - end of.
A320 NEOs have been flying in and out of MAN for months, if not longer. Almost as bad as Ryanair getting free publicity out of nothing.
A320 NEOs have been flying for over 2 years with Lufthansa.
Are we to have a press conference every time a new variant of an old design turns up?
The Dreamliner did indeed enjoy a lot of publicity- but not for it's environmental reasons.
A more newsworthy story would be the reason why so many "Dreamliners" are currently parked up engineless.
With EZY's current focus on the TXL takeover of Air Berlin routes it's not surprising UK expansion is limited. If there is expansion for S18 at MAN why would you not utilise the conference you just arranged? I suspect there is some backtracking going on at Orange HQ.

Why the negativity lets wait and see shall we, the Jet2 move won`t have just been done for the fun of it and if there was no major expansion in T1 they would have moved at all

Got it in one - no different to when EZY have had press announcements when 319's were upgauged to 320's at bases. Passengers like flying on shiny, new airplanes, so why not let them know that you've got the latest?

Considering the hype & razz ma tazz that goes on with the 'unveiling' of a new F1 car; and wow, it looks just like last years unless you are an anorak. Lots of free bubbly no-one cries about that. Now if easy jet had obtained the services of Eric Morecambe's son, whose father was steeped in Luton nostalgia, and presumably some foolhardiness, to rip off the dust cover of EJ's new livery a few months ago, then we really would have story. ;)

Mr A ‘Tis..... there’s no backtracking to the best of my knowledge. Friday was a pre planned stop on the EZY NEO roadshow. Next stop NCL.