Does Edinburgh ever see any TUI activity? They only appear on W rotations at Leeds Bradford during the summer - haven't based here for years.

EDI is now just W flights using NCL a/c, plus BACF, Freebird and Alba Star, as is ABZ also W's with GLA a/c.
There is also some flying by British Airways Cityflyer charters for TUI Holidays from other Northern and Scottish airports.

LTN (Luton was once the holy grail BY/TOM great main base) has just one based 737 there now!
STN and BOH have 2.
EXT has 1.
NWI, I have just read, has lost its TUI 737, and could now be an ACMI a/c.

Nothing based at LBA for years now, as you say.
All just W's using MAN EMA and BHX and FHY a/c.

NWI has never had a based TUI aircraft, always been a acmi operator for the summer base, Germania, then Sunwings and now Air Explore

TUI Summer 2024 LBA - All TUI flights are w-legs from either the MAN or BHX bases

TUI B738
​​​​​PMI (Tue, Wed & Sat)
DBV (Thu)
CFU (Fri)

TUI B7M8
PMI (Sun)

Freebird A320
DLM (Mon & Thu)

Sun Express (B7M8) scheduled
AYT (Wed, Fri & Sun)

It seems as if Luton is little more than a maintenance base for TUI these days. I hope LBA can regain TUI full time once the terminal has been improved. It's high time Jet2 had some firm competition. May not happen if Doncaster is reborn...

On Saturday during winter there's also Chambery which is a W from Glasgow and Innsbruck which is a W from Newcastle

TUI use EZY for the bulk of the LTN program these days. Due to increasing poor passenger feedback several years ago, TUI started reducing based aircraft at LTN and sold slots to Wizz.

Out of interest does anybody know when FR flights will be added to their website

They're already there if booking a holiday. Once again, they are not operating for TUI Airways, but just an option for TUI holiday packes as a tour operator... so you will only see them when booking certain length holidays on certain dates from certain airports, just like with easyJet and BA etc that they already offer.

I just had a quick search for holidays ex Stansted (being FR’s largest base for frequencies/destinations) and nothing on FR comes up. Tried looking at Malta, Faro & Alicante ex Norwich, none of which are even an option. Certainly not on the app anyway.

Wasn’t this strategy more for travel agents than Joe Public?

Exactly ! Back to my point of people really misunderstanding the whole thing. TUI travel agents can book freely using the correct Ryanair booking process. There will be the odd package out there though... Someone can keep looking....

G-TUIF back in service having had its door fixed. Currently flying BHX-SIN.

Is anyone able to tell me the 787 shorthaul schedule for this Summer @ MAN, or direct me to where I can find it please?

TOM71 from Melbourne to Gatwick yesterday (Wednesday 3rd) appears as cancelled. Has G-TUIB gone tech over in Florida?

Has G-TUIB gone tech at Melbourne? Return flight back to Gatwick (TOM71) was cancelled yesterday and is now advertised to depart this afternoon from Melbourne.

TUIA flies to the USA tommorrow for a repaint. Scheduled to take 2 weeks, it will be followed by TUIC, then TUIB.
The remainder of the 787-8s will be for next winter.
At last, they get a paint job!!

I flew in TUIJ (a 787-9) not so long ago and I'd say that needs a visit to the paintshop aswell - the wing upper surfaces were like a patchwork quilt.

Guessing its FTW as PH-TFK has been there for 14 days

Looks like TUIA is operating to SID today.

Perhaps one of the others is going first, although nothing showing on FR24.