Are G-TUIC and G-TUID in full economy seatfit for summer short flights. I will be travelling to Antalya on BY286 from Gatwick. If so what is the seating plan is it similar to 767, trying to work out where is the best place to sit. Many thanks for any answers.

I asked the same question over ar Passengers and SLF a couple of weeks ago and was told no but looking at their last weeks sectors both only did short hauls at the moment, if you book through to reserve your seats on the TUI website you will be able to tell as the premium cabin will be 2-3-2 if they are not in full economy mode.

Looking at the Sunwing operation with the 4 aircraft based here for the summer,most try to get back to Leeds where the maintenance is carried out every few weeks,and the change over occurs down route , think Palma being one place, for example Norwich based flies in, followed by the Leeds one or vice versa, within minutes of each other and crew swop aircraft
assume duty free stock etc and take the Leeds one to Norwich , whilst the Norwich one goes to Leeds and on

I would guess EDI got good ground crew so basic repairs can be worked on

mark

Aruba & St Lucia
 

J93102
Nope, not a week, it's 1 night in AUA, position to MIA for 1 night, then position to UVF for 1 night to operate back to the UK. Far from being a nice layover, trust me, it's pretty knackering.

Dmouse88
So far, the 787-8 are staying in the 300 config and the 787-9 in the 345 config, ie their respective standard long haul seating layout. The reason for this is that TUI were caught out a few times last year when a short haul 787(325) was replaced with a long haul 787(300), meaning that 25 pax would not be carried. This way, the -9 could easily replace a broken -8,or any other -8 sitting around.

They might reconfigure 2 of the -8s for the peak summer season (Jul-Aug) to 325 config

Delayed maintenance we have been told!

FYI, Sunwing maintenance at LBA is performed by Monarch. It is nice that Monarch is still with us, albeit in Engineering form only. Incidentally, Monarch retained their LBA Maintenance base from the time of the airline ceasing operations and throughout the winter, providing ad-hoc support to Enter Air, among others. I don't know who looks after Sunwing at Norwich, Dublin and Belfast.

KLM engineering at NWI I do believe

Being Ex military and used to how slip crews were positioned, I will give you the possible scenario of Birmingham crews on their schedules. Day 1 BHX-CAN, crew reposition to PUJ to fly Tues flt PUJ-BHX, inbound reposition to MBJ to fly Wed flt MBJ-BHX, inbound reposition to SFB to fly Thu flt SFB-BHX, inbound reposition CAN for Fri flt CAN-BHX, inbound reposition to PUJ to fly Sat flt PUJ-BHX, inbound reposition MBJ for Sun flt MBJ-BHX, inbound reposition to CAN for Mon flt Can-BHX. This is my type of usage pattern ensuring all BHX crews arrive back at BHX without road transport between UK bases. This system would be used between say LGW-LIB mon, go to UVF for Tue flt, go to PUJ for Wed flt, stay for Thur flt, go to PVR for Fri flt, go to SFB for Sat flt and so on and so forth this system allows for One crew at home base resting, one operating out/rest and one operating in/rest. Not knowing what crewing TUI are operating this is for guidance only in how some airlines not operating daily flights might operate. I hope that this has been of help regarding your query.

FYI TUIC & D now in 325 summer s/haul config

Looking at flights to Naples for S19 from LGW and noticed a massive increase in capacity vs. this year. Looks like 3 flights a week in peak, all operated by 787 Dreamliner (Mon/Weds/Fri). Now I know that its early days and its subject to change but it seems like a massive boost in capacity. Anyone know any reason for this?

(as an aside, me and my elderly parents flew this route a couple of years ago when TUI were operating the 787 on the Friday morning departure. My parents thoroughly enjoyed the flight as we had upgraded to premium so really enjoyed the extra space)

They have a cruise ship operating from there from next summer.

Is the only standby aircraft a B789?

Standby aircraft
 

There is usually a 757 at BHX but the last two days it has been covering for one of the EMA 738's.

Also at the end of May the 757 was often on one the BHX 738 schedules, whether this was covering for tech, crew or ATC delays, I can't be sure.

I have noticed TUI tend to position the aircraft to wherever the problem is whereas often Thomas Cook bus the passengers wherever the spare is, if it is fairly close or logistically possible of course (crew hours etc)

Pete

C-FEAK
 

Is there any reason why this one has not operated from NWI whilst enjoying the British Summer
last year she spend in total about 2 days at NWI due to Tech aircraft and other incidents but never swopped to base here for a period unlike the other 3
so far this year not made
only reason ask is need to photo it
cheers
mark