erm, try again VirginB.

2 this week for LP doing a set of V.I.P Charters out of STN.

Any word on the 767-200? Cabincrew forum speculating wildly....

The 767 rumour is getting a bit old now.
It would be nice to have one, although im not MAN or LBA based so I wont be on it for a while i guess. IF it actually arrives
I would like to see us get one, but to me it looks like Flyglobespan have bitten off more than they can chew with their 767s, they already dropped BGI and LAS from GLA and have had to sub a 767 out to Air India.
I would rather Jet2 just stuck to 737/757, upgrade the -300 to -800s, maybe bring in Airbus A319/320 and expand and open bases in other countries like Murcia, Tenerife or even Amsterdam.

Just a point to note, the reason that the BGI and LAS routes were dropped was because of the Air India detachment. The money that GSM will make from the Air India agreement was just too good to pass up.

Nothing to do with biting of more than can be chewed. :O

EDI - MAN returning?
 

Was in EDI on Wed & there is still a sign in the departures lounge advertising Jet2 to Man £16 one-way. Is this service coming back or has no one been bothered to take it down?

I first heard the 767 rumour about four months ago, and it resurfaced again a couple of weeks ago. It's now made its way onto cabincrew.com (not that adds credibility per se....)

Jet2 offers entertainment systems to rent
 

From Cheapflights - couldn't find any other reference to this:
"Budget carrier Jet2 is introducing an entertainment system rental service on its flights.
The Mezzo Players will be available to rent from £5, including headphones, and will feature comedy, kids' TV, music videos, sport, drama and other programmes to keep passengers entertained during flights. For an additional £2 passengers can rent another headset so that two people can watch.
Example programmes on offer for adults include Little Britain, You Are What You Eat and Top Gear. For the kids, there are shows such as Postman Pat and Transformers and there is also a selection of music CDs to choose from.
"Select from over 50 programmes on the easy-to-navigate menu and you control what you watch and when – you can even pause, fast-forward or rewind, just in case you missed a bit," an airline spokesman said.
Passengers should ask cabin crew for a Mezzo Player when they board but are warned that there are only a limited number available."

Its under the news section on the Jet2 website
The crew had the chance to see these at the Duty Free promo shows held earlier in the year, they look pretty cool. Gonna be about a £5 for the flight, thats not bad to keep your kids entertained on a 4hr TFS

Does anyone know of a new base being announced in time for next summer?

Dart Group announced their interims this morning. Looks like it has been a successful summer. Here are the relevant extracts.

Dart Group PLC, the aviation and distribution group, announces its interim
results for the six months ended 30 September 2006

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

I am pleased to report on the Group's trading for the six months ended 30
September 2006. Profit before tax, goodwill amortisation and exceptional items amounted to £22.1m (2005 restated: £14.7m) whilst profit before tax but after goodwill amortisation and exceptional items was £24.0m (2005 restated: £18.1m). The usual pattern of seasonal profitability for the Group is likely to be repeated this year, with Jet2.com being profitable in the summer and loss making in the winter.

The Group has material exposures to both the US Dollar exchange rate and the price of aviation fuel. The Group's treasury operations manage the risks of
these exposures. In accordance with our current treasury policy, both of these exposures have been fully hedged for the current financial year. For the year ending 31 March 2008, 76% of the forecast US Dollar exposure has been hedged together with 57% of the jet fuel tonnage.

Jet2.com, the low-cost airline, has had an encouraging summer's business from its six Northern bases which, whilst serving separate catchment areas, have considerable synergies in terms of marketing and operations. Predominately a leisure-based airline, the company is benefiting from its customers' growing propensity to fly on flexible scheduled services rather than with traditional charter carriers for their leisure needs.

The owned aircraft fleet consists of 21 Boeing 737-300s and five Boeing
757-200s. Additional capacity is leased in as required. Six of the Boeing
737-300s are "Quick Change" versions enabling them to also operate night mail services for Royal Mail.

We plan to expand both fleets during the winter months in order to serve the
increased range of destinations the company has announced for next summer. These include seven new routes from Manchester, five each from Leeds-Bradford, Belfast and Newcastle, four from Blackpool and two from Edinburgh. Several of these are to existing destinations already served from other bases and their introduction will considerably increase the choice of city breaks and sun offered from each base and enhance the company's overall marketing presence. Full details can be found on the company's website,

Ancillary revenue from associated commercial services such as onboard sales and hotels, car hire, etc., booked through our sales website have shown good growth in spend per passenger during the year and major efforts are being made to build on these and to develop other revenue opportunities.

Our strategy continues to be to concentrate and grow Jet2.com's operations in the North, building familiarity with the brand and delivering an attractive,
low-cost service. This is a competitive market but, with innovation, we believe there are many future opportunities.

ENDS

No mention of a new base explicitly, but the extra destinationsthere announced thuis far don't require a massive fleet expansion - much of it being served by better utilisation and absorbing capacity from dropped routes (e.g. MAN-EDI). So a combination of fleet growth and hints at further growth in the North might be a clue that something is afoot.

Note also that as of today they have retimed the NCL-MJV sector for the summer which appears now to be from a NCL based machine rather than the previous times which were on a MJV nightstopping a/c.

Finally, aren't there only 4 new routes on offer from LBA next summer (LEI, VLC, TLS, KRK) and not the 5 mentioned above.

682

What a Dog
 

I've flown on LP and would be mighty disappointed if I'd paid VIP prices and wound up on this worn out shabby piece of..:mad: .erm Kit ! :} It's badly in need of TLC and a good clean!!

Back inside to Mr & Mrs Jet2.

Spotter.

682ftAMSL

Jet2 have been cheeky and counted ACE, which commenced at the end of October as the 5th New route.

So 3 more 757s - all ex China Southern machines, currently out of use (cn 24014/5/6) plus 2 additional RB211 engines. So 9 757s for S07.

Now, thus far, next year's Jet2 programme needs
LBA - 3 757s
MAN - 2 757s
BFS - 1 757
NCL - 1 757

So that's 7, thus 2 frames are spare at this stage.

Answers on a postcard!

As far as I know there's going to be 3 757's at MAN and 4 at LBA. I think there'll be less 737's than originally planned, mainly due to availability I imagine.

I am guessing that the 2 spare 757s will be used as cover and for the Charter ops.

Well the NCL 757 programme at the moment does require 2 757s, not sure if there is going to be some fine tuning but upto now PMI is daily on 757, 1 AGP is 757 and the murcia is now daily at 1300 with the 757. now im not that clever but the same 757 cant do 1030 pmi and 1300 murcia can it??

fingers x that newc gets 2x 757 2x 737
also heard the new lgw rotations to be done on 146

A300boy
 

Would anyone who knows or works for Mr Meeson ask him when we can have a Leeds to Gatwick service please ! My daughter lives next to Gatwick and I am sick of driving back and forth or catching a bus from Heathrow. I am prepared to purchase 12 return tickets per year up front. I Hope the Newcastle service is a success in the meantime. maybe I will have to move there !

Regarding leeds-gatwick please see link below and 23Nov PTH reply. Very useful info.


http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...=246541&page=6

BAA website, if correct, shows Edinburgh-Milan as B757.

Jet2 not having a lot of luck with the Krakow flights.
Last Tuesdays flight was diverted to Katowice because of fog.
Todays flight diverted to Prague because of fog at Krakow and Katowice and I assume fog at Warsaw also.