Gibraltar
 

Last Monarch Manchester Gibraltar service: 19th July.

The time table does not show Luton Gibraltar, but company claims still operating.

E Mail the company to express your support to keep service operational.

Bumz

Does anybody know how the new Monarch Scheduled base at BHX is doing now that it's almost a year old? How many aircraft are now based there, and following the recent addition of LEI, MAH, PMI & MJV is anyone aware of new routes?

thomsonfly

Three 321's based as of this week (the first day saw a FCA A320 subbing).

The Malaga last summer competed with Baby, Flybe & Lite and it was
impossible to get a breakdown of the numbers. Tenerife averages
between 130 (winter) to 180 (summer) per flight but it was rumoured
that yields were poor.

As I posted on the Birmingham thread earlier the queues at the
Monarch Murcia and Tenerife looked good today when I popped
in at lunchtime. The winter loads on the 321 were quite bad but
quickly improved mid Feb onwards.

As for forward bookings I have no idea.

For the family holiday both last year and this year I viewed the
prices from the day they were released for a couple of months,
including ZB Malaga. I would say that they are competitively priced
especially this years late Malaga. The others such as MJV, ALC
MAH & LEI seem quite expensive and hopefully will make money.
I do only monitor school holiday dates in the main.

OltonPete

I don't know if Monarch have more flights on certain days but FCA 757 are doing another sub for Monarch tomorrow!

flyBHXuk
Short of aircraft at the moment, B757 late off "C" Check and the ex BMI A321 is late starting it's lease, still in Shannon.:ok:

New Monarch Route??
 

I work for them...and its news to me:ok:

You need real player, and its about 4.40 into the bulletin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/rea...ws/kentupd.ram

BETTER NOT BE A NEW SOUTHAMPTON LOW-COST ROUTE

they will be better placed to serve Bournemouth as they won't have any payload penalties or stand issues.

That link comes up with an error message. What is this new route?

Manston Kent UK - Norfolk Virginia US.

http://www.kent-online.co.uk/news/de...ticle_id=27422

MONARCH BLACKPOOL
 

anybody know why Monarch have pulled out of Blackpool? always been virtually full flights on tiimes ive been on it, guess plane needed elsewhere and fact jet2 are starting malaga flights

ZB Delays into MAN
 

Does anyone know the reason for so many delayed ZB flights into Manchester today. The delays range from 6 to 18 hours and are not confined to a specific aircraft type. MON flights do not seem to be affected.

Just curious as I use ZB quite a lot.

Yesterday monring before the early departures (23rd July), one of the MON 321's got smacked by a set of steps at BHX leaving a lovely dent at the rear end. Aircraft positioned out to LTN in the afternoon to be replaced by another from LTN in the early evening. BHX schedule suffered severe disruption into today.

This could of had an influence on MAN services or just LTN and BHX ops?

Son's other half flew back from MAN yesterday afternoon on ZB.
She told me her flight was the only Monarch flight departing on time.
Apparently a lot of unhappy Monarch pax at MAN, especially for Faro flight.

Seem to have sorted out the ZBs overnight though.

A leading industry figure has warned of an autumn “cull” of routes after pulling his airline out of Blackpool.

Monarch Scheduled managing director Tim Jeans said airlines would be axing poorly performing routes when their hedged deals on fuel ran out towards the end of the year.

Jeans was speaking after Monarch Scheduled scrapped its four weekly flights from Blackpool to Malaga, admitting passenger numbers had not met expectations.

The airline had hoped to achieve load factors approaching 90% on the route, but only managed to reach the low 80s. The flights will end on October 27, and the aircraft redeployed to Manchester. Monarch Scheduled said it was not planning to return to Blackpool.

The carrier pulled out of Newquay in April, and Jeans said it now planned to focus on its core airports of Manchester, Gatwick, Luton and Birmingham. Aberdeen will remain its only small regional airport.

The carrier’s withdrawal from Blackpool follows GB Airways’ announcement last month that it was scrapping flights from Manchester to Marrakesh, Malta, Malaga and Las Palmas.

Jeans claimed airlines would be forced to scrap less profitable routes and raise prices in the autumn when their hedging arrangements came up for renewal. The conflict in the Middle East has forced up oil prices, alarming airline bosses. “Routes that are likely to be less than profitable in winter will be culled,” added Jeans. However, Jet2 has said it will start a flight from Blackpool to Malaga next March to fill the space left by Monarch Scheduled.
It claimed it would keep prices low, despite the removal of an alternative service.

Jeans also claimed heavy late discounting on packages by big operators risked “undoing the good work” of no-frills airlines, which had made customers become used to paying more for flights booked near to departure.
He said he had seen Thomson packages to Austria for £169 in August and Thomas Cook holidays in Rhodes for £189.

HOI, BUSTER!

Less of the small...;)

in repley to buster

maybe if monarch hadnt of had such naff flights times from blackpool during the summer then maybe more people would have booked seem strange that only a couple of months previous if u look on themonarch website they were hailing blackpool a sucess!!!! that might of had something to do witht he fact the times they were flying last winter/spring were times that people wanted to fly on, given the fact that the first 3 months they were flying was sold out might suggest that they got it wrong for the summer.. what would you prefer flying out at 7.30/8am or 9/20pm at night ? Not saying thats the reason but it will be one that they wouldnt admit to.

Sold out my a%*e...using the CAA stats I reckon that the ZB load factors for Nov - Jan were 60% / 52% / 60%...no doubt prompting the double-dropping through NQY and subsequent change for the summer. Hardly surprising that they chose to drop it. Let's see what the Jet2 winter schedule looks like (assuming they choose to op at all in the winter). Looking at what they do on the rest of their routes for winter ops they are extremely risk-averse.

Small CWL fact
 

Just to intervene!!

Aviance at CWL lost the handling for MON due to the fact that when they announced to leave the station, yet decided to stay, Aviance contract workers 'forgot' to tell MON of the situation!!! So automatically, the contract went to Servisair......

Bloody office workers!! They've no idea of the impact they have!!!!

Peoples jobs are on the line here.... Take more care!!!!

Rant over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monarch to buy Md11s
 

Rumour has it that Monarch are to acquire 4 ex Varig MD 11s as a stop gap until new aircraft can be delivered. Boeing have provided them at a bargain price to ensure the B787 order.

:p noooooo not another DC10 replacement:}