Not seen anything offical and sites like planespotters.net & jethros still show them as outstanding orders. They are usually quite good at monitoring such things.

The two Westjet ones are still "on order" even though the company themselves have announced they're NTU. planespotters is the GOAT but not always 100%.

Tui do a lot of whole aircraft charters to/from the Carribean (mostly BGI) for P&O Cruises and there has been plenty of criticism on the related forums about the use of Wamos (no seat-back IFE, no premum seating - that sometimes people had paid extra for..etc etc)

which makes the fact they’ve got a brand new B789 sat in the desert even more questionable

Given that it’s sat in the desert due to Boeing’s year long delivery ban and subsequent need to get a year’s worth of 787s into service, I’m not entirely sure what’s “questionable”.

Wamos have been covering aircraft that had maintenance over run due to a worldwide shortage of spare parts, as well as an aircraft that was damaged (again) by a catering truck.

Ten Tom flights to and from Bridgetown over 20/21 this weekend, to Man, Gatwick, Bournemouth and Birmingham + two VS just to churn pax from one P&O ship Arvia. I was onboard VS 664 a charter to LHR is that odd a charter to LHR?

For those that don't know, Arvia (which is new and has just entered service with P&O) can carry over 5000 pax, so not surprising that many a/c are needed (and maybe more) to get everyone back to the UK. It was on it's maiden to the Carribean from the UK, so in this case they were only flying one way. P&O also have Britannia (which can accomodate around 4000) in the Carribean also currently, so this is big business for the Companies that they use to transport the pax back and forth every few weeks.

I'm doing a fly-cruise myself with them in a few months (fly to TFS, return from MLA) and these flights are again mostly whole a/c charters - the short-hauls are mainly done by Tui and Jet2. If those fill up, you'll be put on a suitable scheduled flight that meets the timescales to get you to and from the ship.

TRINITY 09L

Re charter flights from LHR....I went on a BA charter flight out of LHR to join a Cunard flycruise out of Venice a couple of years ago.

Any ideas who will be in the frame for wet leasing out of Aberdeen thus summer?

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Freebird possibly?

Good question. No Sunwing in the UK this summer right?

Sunwing are allegedly back this summer in the same basings as s22.

Interesting…I thought the current winter was the last of the regular swapping.

According to Jethros today, 5 Sunwing a/c leased to TUI UK for Summer 23. First arrivals at the end of April.

What about Dublin, who is doing TUI flights over the summer

Terrific news..... :rolleyes:

The delay on my TUI/Sunwings flight from Corfu to ABZ was caused by poor time keeping earlier in the day at EDI for whatever reason. The flight started off 10 minutes late out of ABZ at 0630 and landed 120 minutes late at ABZ the next morning.

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pretty woeful at NWI in S22 so my feelings also, looks like this partnership will continue for the foreseeable :ouch:

Got to be better than very old SmartLynx / Freebird frames?

I just hope that sunwing and their drivers have sorted out whatever industrial relations issues they had last year and they actually want to go flying this summer. Some of the goings on last year were shameful.