Thats the one. I had stupidly forgotten lol

TUII isn't in short haul config. The 3 this year will be TUIB/D/F. 1 ea at Man/Bhx/Lgw but none are completed yet, D currently in progress. According to the schedules no long haul is planned on any of them. All subject to change of course.

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i am due to fly to Alicante next Tuesday tom7292 from bhx, the flight is showing as a 757 but i thought tui no longer operated this aircraft type, does anyone know what this aircraft will be. cheers

BY7292 is scheduled as either a 738 or B38M. If you check FR24 the evening before you should see exactly which airframe you're flying on.

Where did you see it as a 757?

thanks for your reply xanda man, it is showing as a 757 on my e ticket and the seat plan indicates an aircraft with 37 rows of seats single aisle

Flight 7292 is shown on Flight mapper as a 737-800.

I have now had an email from tui informing me that the flight will now be operated by privilege style.

Could be a wet-leased A321

TOM7292 is meant to be a B738 all summer, however its possible that TUI might be using a Privilege Style B752 with 216 seats as cover, while they get all their aircraft back from Sunwing lease, or maintenance. Last year the Privilege 757 operated for them early summer season out of Manchester.

Jethro's showing a leased Privilege Style 757, based BHX.

Believe it's just a short term lease to cover for 1 B738 at BHX

TUI currently have 4 B738 aircraft under maintenance, G-TAWK, G-TAWO, G-TAWS, G-TAWV, also B789 G-TUIJ is in Abu Dhabi for maintenance, and 737 Max G-TUMA has just ferried to NCL to re-enter service tomorrow.

TUMA will position into BRS after today. Yesterdays LPA diverted back to NCL after one of the pilots took ill over Ireland. Hopefully he’s alright.

Does anyone know when the 788 is in high density configuration do they remove the seats with IFE and replace with standard seats ?

Also is it still rows 7,37 and 39 that do not have a window or does it change when in high density configuration

Summer 24 already off to a great start - a Privilege Style 757 has been based at BHX from last week as they are short of 737s and an Air Tanker A330 had to be drafted in yesterday as they had sent the short haul based 787 up to MAN.

And they seem to have a Norse B789 operating for them ex-MAN

And just the small five hour delay on Manchester-Espargos this evening!

All IFE remains and you can bring your own or purchase headsets onboard to use the system.

The short haul 787 only went from BHX to MAN this evening to cover one of the 767s which appears to have gone tech. It was idle at BHX for most of today so maybe this was down to a TUI 787 crew shortage? Another 787 is currently in LTN being converted to SH. According to a previous post, there will be three SH 787s this summer so presumably still another to be converted after that.

It doesn’t seem to be as bad as last year yet but they do seem to struggle in May as they have several aircraft out of action in maintenance or delayed coming back from Sunwing. They initially only bring in a couple of Sunwing aircraft (more will follow) but they still have some of their own aircraft yet to return to TUI service, leading to a few last minute charters over the past few days.

In all fairness, all the above mentioned sub-charters are pre-planned in the past few weeks and are not last minute rescues. There's planned maintenance on the 737-800 and 787 fleets that's running a few weeks behind and causing the issue of having to hire in this additional help. Hopefully by the end of May, things should be back on track.

How do you know that Summer 24 has got off to a bad start?
Can you see into the future? :ugh: