What a horrible reply in your first paragraph

Standard PPRuNe response. Everyone on here seems to have an attitude.

Keep asking these, don’t be put off! I really enjoy reading through the different questions and answers to this stuff.:ok:

What makes it hilarious is that despite the insult the info was wrong anyway!

Always find that Jethro comes up trumps with info GOBYF Boeing B767 304ER-W 28208 / 705 TUITrans to TUIfly Nordic as SERNC 20 Mar 19
Restored 26 Apr 21
To be WFU end Oct 23
GOBYK Boeing B767 38AER-W 29617 / 741 TUI
Trans to TUIfly Nordic as SERFR 09 Apr 19
Re-regd 12 May 21
MAN - Arlanda - Taiwan 04/05 Nov 21
MX
Taiwan - Dubai - MAN 10/11 Dec 21
Rtn to svc 13 Dec 21
To be WFU end Oct 23
taken from Jethrow website

I see the 763's are still getting quite a bit of use to Cape Verde, Tenerife and even Alicante in the Winter schedule. The latter surprises me.

Yes, it was incorrect. the 763s are on the seat maps for S23 right up to October. Mainly Cape Verde and some Mid / short haul.

Retiring after Summer 23 has ended.

flipping hell I have searched multiple times

787's
 

Is it the norm to have nearly 40% of the fleet (5) out at one time or are there some mandatory urgent mods or checks?

Currently two in Luton, one in Amman, one in Abu Dhabi and another en route to AUH which I assume is bringing the other one back and in the meantime Air Tanker on BHX-MBJ and two Wamos on Gatwick flights. I assume they have had to go with the flow re hangar time availability?

Pete

I think there are two off to Adu Dhabi now. With the local airline being very busy with an event currently I sure they have cheap capacity for accepting any engineering work.
With one 787 still in storage in US desert sunshine, this should some up current demand.
The 787 does still demand alot of work to keep airworthy.
Can't confirm though whether these are short term or planned leases.

No it's not the norm, I've never known so many long haul subcharters esp in November which is traditionally a quiet month. But at present lots of mros are very very busy and there are issues everywhere with manpower availability. I suspect that they've had to take the hangar slots than they can get rather than ones they'd choose. It would always usually be 1 in 1 out.

Covid messed up maintenance planning, which is based on hours and cycles. Some aircraft didn’t fly for a year, now most aircraft are due C-checks at the same time. Prolonged storage also resulted in issues such as corrosion, which extended hangar time during overhauls and further disrupted the maintenance schedule.

Better to do it October and November when there are gaps in the schedule, than mid-Summer or December onwards when entire lines of flying would need to be cancelled or subbed out. Some aircraft were done in May/June.

Airlines like BA were able to absorb the majority of the maintenance bottleneck because the resumption of all of their routes has been staggered, so there’s been natural gaps in the schedule. However I believe even they have at least two 777s in “storage” awaiting hangar slots.

Hi,

Have TUI flights booked for Xmas, have booked extra legroom seats on 737 in row 17, 4 of us in party so prefer to be in single row. Rows 3,4,5 only have legroom one side so cant all be on same row.

I have read that 737-800 doesn't have extra legroom on rows 17/18 (only 3,4,5) but 737Max does. Flight is TOM6620, anyway of checking which type it is? If we've paid for legroom but end up on 737-800 with std seats do we get a refund of legroom charge?

Taken from flightmapper.net:-
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3fc73f2f42.png

No B737-8 Max's are currently based at Exeter

Rows 17 and 18 are extra legroom seats across both the MAX and -800 fleets.

If for some reason you don’t get the extra legroom seat you booked of course you are entitled to a refund. Mention it to the cabin crew and they can often sort the refund on the spot.

I can confirm that row 17/18 across ALL 737s have extra leg room! 👍🏼

Last year a kind member posted the S22 Schedule for TUI. Is there a similar for S23? Mainly interested on 767/787 doing Short Haul.

Indeed. That was a really useful post. Be great to see that for S23.

BHX Summer 2023
 

Only checked the BHX base for summer 2023 so far

currently BHX base is showing 11 aircraft, 1 B789, 2 B788's, 3 B737 Maxs, 3 B738's, 2 A320's

1 B788 does go to Bristol Wednesday-Thursday, to operate their CUN & MLB Flights, but the 787 flights are as follows:-

Monday:... MEL (long haul 789), DLM x2, AYT & ACE
Tuesday:... MBL (long haul 789), PUJ (long haul), PMI, SID
Wednesday:... CUN (long haul 789), PMI, PFO
Thursday:... MEL (long haul 789), DLM, PFO
Friday:... PUJ (long haul 788), AYT (789), BOJ (789), TFS, DLM
Saturday:... MBJ (long haul 789), CUN (long haul 788), PMI, SID
Sunday:... CUN (long haul 789), MEL (long haul 788), AGP, LCA

The 2 based A320's are show as SmartLynx Estonia aircraft.

However still early days, TUI will almost certainly update their summer timetables between now and May.