Interesting that, there was an article recently in the blackpool gazette about the amount of polish workers who now work in blackpool in all the seasonal jobs

Its the same in Wales, loads of Polish people now living there so would be a good route to operate, maybe not daily though.

Looks like the WHSmith in the terminal is now open. Nosh in there seems expensive but all in all looks pretty good for the amount of space made available to them, ie. not much. Heard on the grapevine Monarch are positioning an A320 from Manch tonight. Not sure what for, but there's probably gonna be standing room only on the apron!:ok:

Prague
 

I'd heard it's Prague they're looking at??

price of flights to tenerife.....
 

has anybody checked out how much its costin to get to tenerife from blk?
am looking for a week in nov06 so far jet2 want nearly 300quid, can do it for under 200 with BA of all airlines from the dreaded man, im big fan of blk and tell lots of locals its great airport to use , i have nothing to do with the airport or any airline, but with these prices as a starter...its pricing it self out the market, found same looking for malaga next march jet2 is far more expensive than monarch , certainly not knocking the airport, just trying to point out that people are more price orientated these days, certainly not knocking the airport as will use as first choice when poss but price/cost has to come in to things as well, just wondered what anyone elses thoughts are.

You can go from Liverpool from £112 return with its newly based airline.

re tenerife flights
 

appologies guuys meant to add the price was for 2 pax so maybe 300 quid aint so bad but just trying to point out that even with the cost of getting to man/lpl it still cheaper to fly from those airports than the one on your doorstep

Monarch will pull out of BLK from 27th October.

monarch
 

how come as have flew this route out of blk few times and was always full or not far off? not surprised though thort it would happen what with jet2 announcing that it was starting flights to malaga in march , i wonder if jet2 will start th flights earlier? shame , like monarch fliew with them a few times looks like ill be a resident at man again,

And £150 per person is unrealistically expensive for a 4-5 hour flight?? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Prague
 

fredtheanorak

I would be very much surprised if Ryanair's wish to connect Blackpool with an eastern European city resulted in a Prague service...

Ryanair have no plans to base an aircraft at Blackpool. They are however very close to launching their first Polish base.
Any new Ryanair eastern European route to Blackpool will more than likely be operated using an aircraft based in their new (as of yet unknown) eastern European base.

This other article also about the (eastern European) expansion of Ryanair at Blackpool mentions Poland around 10 times. Not a word about Prague.

http://www.blackpooltoday.co.uk/View...icleID=1629759
"Ryanair ... is in negotiations to expand its franchise to Poland within the next year."

Ryanair do not currently even fly to Prague, so it's very unlikely we'll see a Ryanair base there in the next few years...

However, stranger things have happened, Ryanair fell in love with Marseille overnight it would seem, and rumors are flying that Ryanair will launch a base in Madrid, an airport with which they have had no previous relationship at all.

Anyway, Jet2 already do Blackpool to Prague so it would be quite a pity if a new Ryanair route from Blackpool was just going to compete with an existing route.

my point being is that if u can fly cheaper with the likes of british airways by over £100 then who are you going to book with? Price is champion these days,in nearly all walks of life, certainly not knocking the airport guys flown many times from there, always been really good but just pointing out the price factor. rather the extra £100 in my pocket, jet2 advertise themselves as low cost just not always the case , albeit they were cheaper than monarch which is my favoured airline. and on a different point i hope the withdrawl of monarch from blackpool isnt the norm of things to come with the arrival of jet2, just as an outsider looking in that blk would be left with very little if they upped sticks as companies can and often do. any thats the way i look at it certainly no expert so feel free to shoot me down:ugh:

Monarch
 

According to the Monarch website flights are still bookable until March 07. Have you heard different from somewhere?

monarch
 

have tried booking for begining of march it say no flights available can book ofter october it seems

Yes. Passengers booked after this date will be offered refunds or transfers to Manchester services.

If this is the case, why don't Monarch make an announcement about the cessation of services instead of potentially giving its customers the hump by allowing them to book flights they know aren't going to exist. Forigive me for any ignorance if this is common practice. Just seems a little daft that's all.

Don't think the website will take bookings after the 27th.

The flight with Jet2 might be filling up. If its a busy flight the price will start to creep up. The BA flight might be empty, so the first few seats are going to go at a low price. All down to supply and demand Im afraid. You can't realistically expect Jet2 to make money on a 4-5 hour flight if every seat is sold at £59!! :ugh:

blackpool 2 malaga
 

anyone got any ideas who will want to step in and take the blk to agp flights now monarch are pulling out? jet2 arent starting till end of march, surely with good flights times somebody could make a go of it as monarch did when they first started flight out at 7am, its no wonder nobodys booking the flights now seeing as they changed it to 9.20pm .

Air Europa wont be operating the normal Tenerife charter following the announcement that Jet 2 are starting that route , thats what the locals say
anyway.

Air Europa might be interested but dont they normally operate IT services and not low cost type ops ??

Are Thomson back this winter with their IT stuff to Spain or have they also
pulled out ??? anybody know........:uhoh:

Or is it just going to be a lo co operation at Blackpool from now on ??:{