Excellent news - thanks for sharing! This needs more publicity.

Had a walk around EMA this morning and SmartLynx YL-LDU was being moved into hanger. Is this frame the muted summer based A320 for TUI?

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Newcastle to Montego Bay diversion
 

Does anyone know the reason for todays Newcastle to Montego Bay diverting to Melbourne, Florida please?

Share price
 

Anyone know what’s going on with TUI share price today?

Would this have anything to do with the current raising of capital ? Existing shareholders lose out, but the debt to the German Govt is paid off, corporate debt is reduced, balance sheet will be more robust and the company as a whole should be in a better place

Yes, you are right - new shares issued, which has meant a devaluation/dilution of the existing shares.

Take on fuel, was originally planned to fly to Shannon for fuel uplift.

Didn’t see that coming! Should’ve stuck to Jet2. You live and learn.....

TUI 787 bases UK
 

Would anyone know the winter and summer bases for the TUI 787's please?

TIA.

Also last year Matt995 kindly had and posted a plog for the whole summer TUI Flight TT - do you have one for this year yet >?

Cheers

sorry not got around to working on the TUI flights in full yet, I do have the Birmingham timetable for the summer, the base is 1 B789, 2 B788s, 3 B7M8s, 3 B738s, & also 2 Sunwing B738's. 1 of the B788 will position to Bristol to operate their Orlando & Cancun flights on Wednesdays & Thursdays.

Looks like similar to last summer at least 2 aircraft will be operating Gatwick flights on behalf of TUI from South Terminal. Seat maps show A320, is this likely to be Avion or Titan again?

Smartlynx possibly

Gatwick is showing at least 2 Avion Express Malta A320's and 1 Titan A320 operating from South Terminal for the summer

Why is it not possible to add advanced passenger information via the TUI app?
Their website is so slowwwwwww!!

Jet2 is the answer. Use Aer Lingus for all your Barbados and Disney needs.

I am currently looking into the different airlines for trying to get aboard- obviously aware of the MPL assessment underway for TUI and that this may well be their in route from now on but worth doing the research anyway- I am based in Northern Ireland and although by no means fixed to this location, I was wondering if anyone working for TUI could let me know is there a base in Belfast? From the research I have done online sometimes this says that it is seasonal- what does that mean? Are there pilots based there during this time and then based elsewhere the rest of the year? Or is the Belfast base just covered on a roster from other bases?

I have also read in a number of different places that pilots are required to live 60 minutes away from their base? Can anyone confirm if this is the case also?

TUI website/app badly needs attention and updating. I booked seats and special meal in premium only to find the next time I checked they had disappeared and booked by someone else.
Then booking to Madeira no indication flight was EZY until after payment made. Customer services refused to believe me even when I had screenshots of booking screen.
Not sure they will do anything until they get some decent competition on Gatwick holidays.

The Belfast base being seasonal means it is summer only, and usally consists of aircraft and crew brought in on lease - from Canada in recent years

BFS is Sunwing aircraft and pilots crewed seasonally by TUI crew for about 12 weeks. It's difficult to get to work in I understand. Emerald, easyJet and Ryanair have all been recruiting locally to my knowledge for crew and I'm sure Jet2 will soon enough if not already.