In case of disruption all the train operating companies recognise each others tickets

Correct - but they would need to buy a ticket from TUI like everyone else.

A bit different from ‘recognising each other’s tickets’ - those days of honour and trust between certain airlines has long gone.

Curiosity post, please delete if not allowed. Anyone know what's up with DRTB? Looks like it's tech in CFU following LS111 and DRTW was sent from BHX to pick to collect the GLA pax. Weird flight, cruised mainly at 25/28K all the way. Was tracking it as I'm due on it in coming weeks so curiosity got the better of me.

It had an intermittent autopilot issue on leaving Glasgow. They initially stopped their climb at FL250 to discuss with engineering whether to turn back or not. Autopilot started working again so they continued to Corfu. In the mean time, a replacement aircraft was dispatched to pick up the inbound passengers.

Thanks for the info. Curiosity satisfied.

Yes - in far gone by days of charter airlines and tour operators we once had a very nice arrangement at the airports called ''mutual aid''
Here in the case of Tech problems ATC or strikes, or passengers needing to go home early for instance - if there were empty seats then each of us would accept (usually without any fee) the other carriers or operators ticket - In those days if you had a charter ticket from Gatwick to Palma you could basically go on and ask anyone if there were problems and get a seat on them if one was free.

We had 2 very tech Tristars one Friday night sitting at Gatwick both going to Athens - both full 400 pax each and both delayed for 12 hours.
we found loads of seats on all the other airlines going out that night (Friday night ATH was very popular back then) KT DA AE BIA AMBER BY MON AMM and even BA had two scheduled night flights a 737 and a 757 that were not full and the BA Duty Officer she was superb in filling up every seat for us...She even held the 757 for a while to get everyone checked in
We got away as many pax as we could (about 200 or more) many who were due to get on 0700 Ferries out of Piraeus to the Cyclades saving them a days wait at ATH (and us having to get Hotac for them)

That is how the Mutual Aid system worked - which it did very well....

G-LSAN will be returning to MAN shortly.. Bird Strike over Heald Green a few moments ago.

Wasn’t a bird strike - problem with engine. No passengers onboard as it was a test flight

Given the reduced number of destinations available, I'm surprised services to places like Mykonos haven't been stepped up. J2 only fly from MAN twice a week with hefty fares. Santorini only 3 times a week. Are these places slot constrained ?
Mykonos has lost the MAN-JMK twice weekly from BA Cityflyer & also no Thomas Cook- so Would of thought Greek Islands are if anything, underserved this year?

^ Aren't Mykonos and Santorini a bit shed like?

Do you mean the airports?

I'm hearing Jet2 are about to drop 100 pilots

The constraint is far more likely to be accommodation - or at least affordable accommodation - as neither JMK or JTR have endless bed stock. I'd be surprised if slot constraints prevented more flights, not least because the aircraft aren't working as hard as in a normal summer so there would likely be flex in the schedule to accept whatever slots were on offer if you had to.

Correct.

102 Jet2 pilots to be made redundant

That’s old news from June.

Article date; Saturday 15 August 2020 14:46, UK

Yes, but it's the same 102 pilots announced in June. It's not another 102 pilots in August.

They are recycling the same story but its been updated after BALPA have tried their best with Jet2.

Well done Jet2. They are being honest with the travelling public, although judging from the replies to their posting some people are clearly in denial as to the gravity of the situation in Spain, including the Balearics.

I dont tweet or make any other kind of bird noises. It says Tweet Unavailable.
Enlightenment please.

Also - anyone know why todays NCL - Faro flight stopped off at Dublin en route??

Seems the original Tweet was deleted but updated my post with the new Tweet

Medical emergency diversion.

Many thanks. Hope the passenger was OK.

Jet2 A321
 

Morning guys, just curious, since jet2 cancelled their previous orders of airbus aircraft, could we expect to see a return of them in the near future, ppjn says 1x a321 in the fleet and 1x a321 on order. Cheers


Halil

I was under the impression that they were going to take 2 (YF/YG) of the planned 7 A321s, but so far only one (YF) has been operational. I don’t have any insider knowledge though so may well be completely wrong, but this is backed up by Planespotters, Jethros, FR24.

I would expect that at the moment nobody is looking to take on new a/c, unless they are already contractually commited, and the cost of cancellation exceeds what it would cost to take them on.

YF is busy. Spares and service support for what is a single Airbus amidst an otherwise Boeing fleet can't come cheap. It must have seemed, and probably was, a good idea at the time..
Gaining operational experience though.

There will be 2 for next summer.

With probably more after that to replace the B757.

fleet
 

Jet2 still want a heavily denominated boeing fleet, with 68x 737-800 on order until corona virus hit not sure whether they're brand new or used, hopefully the airbus see a return, cheers chaps!

The -800s can’t be brand new for obvious reasons...

But they have, over recent years, acquired many of the last brand new -800s and I believe they cancelled the acquisition of a couple of older ones.

1 is in service, the other is on the books and is going through it’s entry into service checks.

thanks for the clarification I appreciate it!

68 737-800 on order??? Where did you get that gem from?
 

can’t quite see where you get 68 orders for 737-800 from. Please clarify.

On PPJN under orders:

68x 737 and 1×A321 though PPJN was updated and the 737 orders were removed and was left with the single airbus order! So I wouldn't take it for gospel.

Guys, the 737-800 is no longer in production...

If you’re referring to second-hand acquisitions, then I believe they had a few more planned and cancelled those. I never heard of it being anywhere near 68 though? Maybe that was the total figure including all those delivered over the last few years?

They're taking older ones from other airlines who are swapping to the neo of course :ok:

Halil

Its beginning to look like the adding of flights and holidays to Portugal is going to be short lived.
Increase in the last week above the 7 day rate of 20 cases per 100,000, which the UK Gov considers triggering quarantine conditions.
My guess is that Greece will be not far behind after last weeks cases in Zante.

I wouldn't worry about Greece just yet. The figures for Greece are around 14-15 average for the past few weeks. Below is the daily figures for 31 August. Greece is actually down from a high of 14.9 3 days prior. The geography of Greece and the way the local authorities clamp down immediately helps to keep the numbers in check. They do local lockdowns like the UK but the restrictions are harsher and work.....
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