Originally Posted by CMM
(Post 10689111)
Wamos 747 positioning to MAN from MAD at the moment. Anyone know what it’s covering?
On a similar note, there have been various ACMI airlines helping TUI this weekend: AirExplore B738 OM-KEX (working from BRS) Smartlynx A320 ES-SAK (working from STN and BRS) GetJet A320 LY-COB (working from MAN and BHX) Gowair A320 EC-MQH (working from DSA and BRS) Titan A321 G-POWU (working from LGW) and possibly others I may have missed. |
[QUOTE=Cazza_fly;10688829]Which essentially is a mirror image of TUI Airways operations, when compared to the rest of the airline group.[/QUOTE
TUI Airwats TUI Airways UK & TUI Nordic fall under the same Northern Region management board. However in terms of regulatory control TUI Nordic falls under Swedish auspices, hence any restrictions that G-Reg operations may face in terms of intra-EU flying will not apply to a Swedish registered aeroplane. Hence DUB based cabin crew attestations were transferred to the Swedish register at the end of last year in order to mitigate any disruption caused by a hard Brexit, as there was uncertainty at the time over whether G-Reg a/c would be able to operate the flying programme following a no-deal Brexit. |
[QUOTE=manchesterflyer;10689218]
Originally Posted by Cazza_fly
(Post 10688829)
Which essentially is a mirror image of TUI Airways operations, when compared to the rest of the airline group.[/QUOTE
TUI Airwats TUI Airways UK & TUI Nordic fall under the same Northern Region management board. However in terms of regulatory control TUI Nordic falls under Swedish auspices, hence any restrictions that G-Reg operations may face in terms of intra-EU flying will not apply to a Swedish registered aeroplane. Hence DUB based cabin crew attestations were transferred to the Swedish register at the end of last year in order to mitigate any disruption caused by a hard Brexit, as there was uncertainty at the time over whether G-Reg a/c would be able to operate the flying programme following a no-deal Brexit. |
[QUOTE=ROC10;10689412]
Originally Posted by manchesterflyer
(Post 10689218)
As mentioned above, the aircraft used for the DUB flights is a G-reg aircraft so this must not be the issue. The flights are operated by TUI fly Nordic on a TUI UK aircraft on behalf of TUI Ireland (no airline). |
TUI had a bit of a weekend at BRS
The Air Explore 738 that came in FRI night to operate the SAT GVA as they did not have a TUI 738, went Tech and a Gowair A320 was brought in to cover.... |
First flights to Sharm started yesterday since the ban was stopped.
looks like good Load Factors so far! |
SSH flights are now showing in TUI’s timetable from the following bases for S21:
BHX BRS CWL DSA EDI LGW LTN STN MAN NCL Strangely though, the majority of departures are currently showing as mid-late morning (i.e. between 10:00 and 12:00). Therefore, if this is correct, unless other flights are dropped (in most cases two flights would need to be dropped), an extra aircraft will be required at various bases on certain days through the week. The bases from which flights are not showing are: ABZ/BFS/BOH/EMA/EXT/GLA/NWI. There is still of course time for more flights to be added. For S20, flights are only available from LGW/MAN/BHX/BRS. |
TUI annoying EDI bound pax according to the Daily Record and other press.....(can't say I fancy this journey much).https://www-dailyrecord-co-uk.cdn.am...burgh-21548543
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Originally Posted by ROC10
(Post 10692189)
SSH flights are now showing in TUI’s timetable from the following bases for S21:
BHX BRS CWL DSA EDI LGW LTN STN MAN NCL Strangely though, the majority of departures are currently showing as mid-late morning (i.e. between 10:00 and 12:00). Therefore, if this is correct, unless other flights are dropped (in most cases two flights would need to be dropped), an extra aircraft will be required at various bases on certain days through the week. The bases from which flights are not showing are: ABZ/BFS/BOH/EMA/EXT/GLA/NWI. There is still of course time for more flights to be added. For S20, flights are only available from LGW/MAN/BHX/BRS. |
Originally Posted by nivsy
(Post 10693243)
TUI annoying EDI bound pax according to the Daily Record and other press.....(can't say I fancy this journey much).https://www-dailyrecord-co-uk.cdn.am...burgh-21548543
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Luton fleet
What is TUI's based fleet at LTN this summer?
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Originally Posted by wallp
(Post 10693605)
What is TUI's based fleet at LTN this summer?
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What is TUI's based fleet at LTN this summer? |
Originally Posted by ROC10
(Post 10693435)
This has got to be one of the worst examples I’ve seen recently. I completely understand the issues around crew hours but it does seem difficult to believe TUI wouldn’t have known this prior to departure yet failed to inform passengers until five minutes before landing (apparently even the onboard screens displayed LGW as the destination but crew did not mention this). The way they were treated on arrival to LGW is definitely the worst part though, especially after already being delayed by 4 hours. This particular case has attracted hundreds of angry comments across various social media sites.
Originally Posted by ROC10
(Post 10693435)
it does seem difficult to believe TUI wouldn’t have known this prior to departure
If they knew they were going to Gatwick before they departed, the company would've had an extra four hours to arrange onward travel for the moment they arrived |
Originally Posted by Vokes55
(Post 10693692)
So what exactly would you have done differently? Cancel the flight before it left Edinburgh like the majority of other carriers would have given the risk of not making it back within hours? Forced the crew to work beyond their legal flying limits? Left the passengers onboard or in the terminal until a standby crew could've been called out to fly them to Edinburgh (probably around 7am earliest)? Put all the passengers on the next available flights back to Edinburgh from Gatwick (on a half term Friday)? Genuinely interested in the armchair CEO solution.
Does it? I've had many flights that have gone within 10 minutes of max FDP. There was a French ATC strike on the same day, the flight took an Oceanic routing to avoid French airspace, and could've been subject to ATC slots (yes, even at that time of night). The crew would've tried to get back to Edinburgh, but the max FDP is a boundary that cannot be willingly crossed, even by a minute. Something as simple as a pushback delay due to ramp congestion, having to wait at the runway holding point for an arrival, avoiding weather en route, less favourable winds than forecast or having to reduce cruising speed due to turbulence could make or break the ability to legally get back to EDI or not. If they knew they were going to Gatwick before they departed, the company would've had an extra four hours to arrange onward travel for the moment they arrived |
Birmingham Summer 2020
latest update for summer 2020 now shows the following based aircraft at Birmingham :-
1 x B788, (+extra B788 for 2 days), 2 x B757, 4 x B738, 1 x A321, 2 x A320 so 2 leased in Airbus A320's and 1 A321, any ideas which airlines these will be coming from? |
Originally Posted by Vokes55
(Post 10693692)
So what exactly would you have done differently? Cancel the flight before it left Edinburgh like the majority of other carriers would have given the risk of not making it back within hours? Forced the crew to work beyond their legal flying limits? Left the passengers onboard or in the terminal until a standby crew could've been called out to fly them to Edinburgh (probably around 7am earliest)? Put all the passengers on the next available flights back to Edinburgh from Gatwick (on a half term Friday)? Genuinely interested in the armchair CEO solution.
Does it? I've had many flights that have gone within 10 minutes of max FDP. There was a French ATC strike on the same day, the flight took an Oceanic routing to avoid French airspace, and could've been subject to ATC slots (yes, even at that time of night). The crew would've tried to get back to Edinburgh, but the max FDP is a boundary that cannot be willingly crossed, even by a minute. Something as simple as a pushback delay due to ramp congestion, having to wait at the runway holding point for an arrival, avoiding weather en route, less favourable winds than forecast or having to reduce cruising speed due to turbulence could make or break the ability to legally get back to EDI or not. If they knew they were going to Gatwick before they departed, the company would've had an extra four hours to arrange onward travel for the moment they arrived Obviosuly I can’t say for sure whether or not they ever intended to go to EDI but a passenger has been quoted as saying the onboard screens displayed LGW as the flight’s destination. Whether the crew tried to ‘hide’ this and then only inform them five minutes before landing, I again don’t know (I am, of course, not suggesting the crew willingly did this but that it’s perhaps what the company asked them to do). As the other poster suggested, with so much uncertainty over whether they could make EDI, should they really have departed at all? I appreciate LGW is a bit closer but the flight still took around 4 hours. Again, don’t take this as questioning the crew’s abilities as I am absolutely not doing so but rather the company’s transparency with its customers. From experience, both personally and anecdotally, in this case and also in previous cases (with TUI), it doesn’t tend to be delay itself that bothers passengers so much, but rather, a lack of information and poor aftercare (certainly valid in this case). TUI often do well in dealing with delays (they seem to have done reasonably well with the LPA fiasco this evening, at least for cruise passengers anyway, but again, lack of information is a common theme) but one could argue this is expected of what is a holiday company and not just another budget airline. I would say Jet2 certainly have them beaten in this area. |
What we don't know is what was happening on the day - it's easy to say they should have done this and should have done that but sh*t happens.
These situations tend to be very dynamic - it's easy to say you need to be transparent but many a time I've said something and then something else goes wrong that makes you look like a liar... Never underestimate Murphy's law. |
I wonder how they got on yesterday with flights to the Canary Islands due to the sand storm that closed airports at TFS, TFN and LPA.
At least 30 flights were diverted to other airports, l have no idea if they had any flights into TFS or LPA. |
Diverting from TFS around 19.00 last night but fully operational today (Sunday) Still very windy but more or less straight down the runway so no crosswind component.
Correction to the above....windshear on 07 |
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