The marketing works well for the London market, but even here brand awareness for Med routes is low not helped by the fact that non are yet released for summer 18 by which time Jet2 will no doubt have summer 19 on sale.

The US ops on the max seems to have settled down nicely, gather new routes to be announced within the next few weeks.

Barcelona and Tenerife are loaded from EDI. And Malaga from LGW. Which suggests that is all.

4-5 short haul routes are being axed from Gatwick to provide slots to increase long haul for summer 18.

Buster - what short haul routes are Norwegian cutting from Gatwick ? I've had a look at Norwegian's website - it seems as if for June 2018 while Gatwick-Nordics has been published, almost nothing between Gatwick and southern Europe has gone on sale yet

It's mainly the southern Europe services which are being cut - if not a complete withdrawal, then a hugely reduced service. I think for example Tenerife is going from 6x per week to 3.

I read it on the news wires, but didn't really take a lot of notice apart from that they will hardly be competing with easyJet now there is a feeder agreement in place.

If their current offering is to be the final program for 2018, it looks like going down to around 4-5 aircraft at Gatwick, down from 10. The two lines of flying for TUI have gone too.

Quite a reduction, especially given that they've just offered most of their LGW-based cabin crew permanent contracts.

It would also suggest a lot of slots have suddenly become available for lease/purchase in addition to the Monarch slots.
I doubt Norwegian will be happy to surrender Gatwick slots for free

Me thinks you are getting ahead of youselves on this re next summer.

With the planned aircraft deliveries for 2018 and pilot recruitment plans announced internally added to permanent contract to this years summer cabin crew and new pilots allocated LGW, then I think there is a lot more to come, Norwegian are seeking more slots, not giving them up, the route portfolio will change not retract is the word and the planning.

davidjohnson6
 

Your figure of 10 aircraft is that for the B737 short-haul fleet?

Quick question................. flying from CPH-LGW in 2 weeks time after spending a few days in Sweden and training it to CPH for a few days.

When does online checkin open for this as slightly confusing.

Cheers and try as i might I couldn't find it :ugh:

Spotty M, it was my figure and yes that's for short haul based at Gatwick. This number includes one operating for NUK (G-NRWY), one spare and three aircraft that nightstop in OSL/ARN/CPH every night except Saturday, operated by LGW crew. Next Summer, from what I can see, is currently down to just CPH, ARN, OSL, TRD and AAL, plus AGP operated by AGP crew. The rest is DY.

I hope there's more to come

Vokes55
 

Thanks for that info, l make it 15 a/c are currently operating as based in LGW which includes all the various Norwegian operations of short and long-haul.

My thought is that if we assume Norwegian's short haul network at Gatwick to southern Europe really is being slashed then a lot of slots suddenly become available for alternate use

Why? It makes far more sense for them to use the slots to fly to places the world and his uncle don't fly to!

Huge costs in opening a new short haul market, delayed revenue stream, associated marketing budget and no guarantee of profits if niche.

DavidJohnson6 - The slots will be used to aid LH expansion. Lots of increases to daily and 2x daily JFK retained - I think LAX, OAK, BOS, JFK will all be at least daily.

Norwegian closes BHX

New blow for Birmingham as Norwegian scraps all flights from the city to Spain

I have never seen this kind of thing, closing routes 4 days before departure alluding to poor performance ???