In addition to the above questions can anyone tell me whats happening with the Monarch Malaga flights? From another website it seems on several occasions the inbound from Malaga has come from BHX and it also appears the other day it didnt fly back to Malaga(nightstop???) and the following day there was no mention of a service at all. Would be interested to know if this is a fault with the a/c or an issue of lack of pax - surely it cant be the latter as flights were said to be pretty full.

Don't quote me, but I've been told it may have something to do with issues between Monarch and Newquay airport. Can anyone elaborate further?

Monarch flights to Malaga are operating 4 x weekly for summer 06 on Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun arr BLK 20:20 dep BLK 21:20.
Also it seems the evening Ryanair service to Stansted has been dropped with only the morning service operating 6 x weekly, no STN flight at all on Sun.
I thought these flights were always pretty much full, certainly the flights that I have seen/travelled on. Yields must have been poor.
Very dissapointing, many business pax will be lost as a day return is obviously now no longer possible.
Dublin & Gerona flights not yet on sale, hope they are still operating!

Regards

I travelled up to Blackpool on Saturday from Stansted. No one was allowed to occupy the first 6 rows (36 seats). The remaining seating was around half to 2/3rds full. I monitored the seat price after I booked my seat which was around 2 months ago. The price started at 1p plus £10 charges and taxes. Around 3 weeks before departure the fare was 1p plus £15 charges and taxes. With two weeks to go the price dropped to 1p plus £5 charges and taxes. Only in the last week did the price increase to around £35. Can’t see the airline making any money on that flight.

the fact the eve flt is up against the closure wont help either

LTNman or anyone, why do the charges and taxes change ? I know that understanding taxes and charges makes rocket science look simple, but really - this looks blatantly inconsistent......

the charges dont change but i think the carriers change what they charge the punter as initially these are paid to the carrier who in turn pays the respective airport charges.

It’s all a big con, Ryanair vary taxes and charges as a way to keep the headline price at 1p while increasing or decreasing revenue. I paid £10.39 for my flight including a debit card handling charge and £16 for the return rail journey. When I booked the trip the cheapest single rail ticket to Blackpool was £45 even though I could book the trip back for £16.

This was the first time I had used this service even though I go to Blackpool around 4 times a year. While the flight was only 40 minutes it was a 4am start from my home in Luton to get to Stansted allowing enough time to check in without panicking about check-in closing before I got there.

Got to say that the train remains my first choice even though I have to get a lift to Watford or Milton Keynes as I can leave home at a reasonable hour.

I think possibly Flybe along the lines of a 2 x daily Q400 into LGW or VLM with a F50 into LCY would be the ideal operators to take over London flights ex BLK as I seriously do not see the FR STN service lasting beyond next Summer at 1x daily due to the reasons I stated in my previous post. I think a 738 with 189 seats is too large an a/c to operate profitably on a London service ex BLK, whereas I certainly think a Q400 or an F50 with 70 & 50 seats respectively would be.

What are other people's thoughts on this?

Regards

FR are now operating the evening STN service after all, 6x weekly except Sun as before. It just seems strange that they were only selling the morning flights earlier on in the week.
Also, the morning flight is to operate on Sun next summer.

Regards

Glad to see those Stansted flights are still on.

What about BPL - ABZ , isn't that being canned or reduced anytime now , will that be back next year ?

If Monarch are reducing to only 4 flights per week , thats some
reduction isn't it from the current number of flights ?

A local source has noted that it appears to be chaos in the Terminal at the moment due to refurbishment work , why oh why
do they not have the builders in during the night ? Okay it might cost more but at least you dont get dust all over your passengers or their highly priced sandwiches from the Cafe , and if it still gets finished on time whats the problem ??

See post 'Monarch Schedules Summer 06' on this forum

hurd today about vlm possibly doing blk-lcy.any offers

VLM to LCY awell as FR to STN?? Could BLK sutstain both routes?

Not complaining mind you!

Hi

Jet2 have announced there 4th destination from it's Blackpool Airport base as an early christmas Present.

From April 2006 the airline will commence a Twice weekly Blackpool - Alicante service. Flights will operate on Mondays and Fridays. The Airline has just uploaded the flights into their website. Prices start from as low as £29 in May 2006. Well thats whats on the Low Fare Finder

Timetable is as follows:

Blackpool - Alicante
11:30 - 15:20 LS739 1---5--
Alicante - Blackpool
16:05 - 18:00 LS740 1---5--

this has really made my xmas! - wonder where the other destinations might be - i wish they'd do reus..............

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Hi

Blackpool has today been given an New Years present by Jet2.com

As from the Winter 2006/07 season they will launch their 5th route from Blackpool Airport to Tenerife. Flights will be operating 2 times weekly. Looks by the timeings that the new Leeds based Boeing 757-200's will be w-legging these new flights as it leaves Tenerife in the morning inbound to Blackpool and then returns to Tenerife in the afternoon.

Though this may change as the actul times are not listed as yet.

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Looks like a new holiday hotspot for dada then! :p

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Wonder if the TFS charter will be withdrawn? There cant be that much demand from BLK to TFS?

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Your kidding aren't you Airhumberside? Log onto the CAA and check out how many passengers are on MAN-TFS every year. Its 1 million - e.g. twice as many passengers as use HUY in total.

Do you seriously think they all come from Manchester?

loco