With the airline fleet inside and out being shabby,it wonders if a color change is not so far away.

Voles55 - TUI have now taken the said Hotel off their website (I repeat the Hotels own website says opening until 8th December). Better late than never with only 3 days before first arrivals. The Hotel had no intention of opening ready for this weekend, according to their sister property down the road.

Which hotel was it?

Does anyone have a rundown of what the bases are looking like this winter?

TUI are quoting 62 destinations for the Summer 2022 programme from 16 UK airports, which go on sale November 5.

Cannot help that currently for Summer 2021, they serve up to 21 UK airports, of which 17 are base airports, and that's before the addition of Teesside for 2022.

I would hazard a guess the 16 figure is just the base airports, but that would still mean somebody gets the axe. Reports of flights/holidays for Summer 2022 have already been reported for ABZ, BRS, DSA, EDI, GLA, LGW, MAN, NCL, NWI, STN and the new addition of MME.

Or that two get the chop. MME is just a non based aircraft doing a once weekly Palma. If you include that in the 16 U.K. departure points then that leaves a maximum of 15 bases. That’s assuming that the 16 U.K. departure points don’t include any other non bases such as Southampton, Humberside or Leeds as an example.

If TUI are going to cut bases then surely it'll be the smaller single aircraft bases and the seasonal one.

Wasn't EDI scrapped as a base? Some of their schedules at least for S21 show a hybrid type base with lots of w patterns through NCL and they could even be third party flights.

Current S21/W21 schedules indicate that they plan to reopen the EDI base from April 2021, although a few of the summer flights are W-patterns to NCL. Perhaps NCL will only be getting 3 aircraft instead of 4, hence the need for the W-patterns? I haven’t checked NCL flights so may be wrong but that would make sense.

EDI has not been dropped as base as an earlier post suggested.

Anyone know why G-OBYH (767) operated the following flights today? I assume some sort of charter but curious as to what it could be.

STN-VIE-CPH-ARN-LGW-STN

TUI Current November Programme
 

According to TUI’s online timetable, the following flights are planned to operate in November. I assume the AGA flights are probably an error and will not operate. Obviously, all of these flights will be subject to removal depending on changing restrictions.

Aberdeen
Wed: ABZ-TFS-ABZ
Sun: ABZ-TFS-ABZ

Edinburgh
Tue: EDI-TFS-EDI
Fri: EDI-TFS-EDI

Glasgow
Mon: GLA-LPA-GLA
Tue: GLA-TFS-GLA
Thu: GLA-ACE-GLA
Fri: GLA-TFS-GLA

London Gatwick (from 16 Nov)
Mon: LGW-AGA-LGW

Manchester (from 16 Nov)
Mon: MAN-AGA-MAN

G-BYAY
 

WFU this morning currently on its way to Bangor from BHX

Will there be any 757 left for summer 21? I’ve got a holiday planned for June which is showing a 757 and that’s probably going to be my last chance to fly my favourite plane.

4 left, probally depend on the Max.

Out of interest, where is your flight “showing” as a 757? May be wrong but I don’t think seat maps are available this far in advance?

If you purchase a extra space or leg room seat you can select at the time of booking.

WOW, only four 75's left, I'd lost count. 4 757's and 2 767s. The end is neigh for both I fear :(

Technically 3x 767s. One of the Swedish reg’d aircraft is operating for the U.K. arm and will continue to do so through next Summer (subject to change, as always)

Santa Claus is cancelled this year
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-b1720289.html