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Cheers guys for the information on FCA and the flight out of BRS.
I have to be honest, I had never heard of Halkadiki. I thought it was an Island, until I looked at my atlas! Regards, Chris |
BRS is FCA's biggest regional base behind MAN and LGW it handles more than BHX, GLA, EMA, STN, BFS, DUB, LTN and of course CWL, but it does remain a mystery not just to outsiders but crew and other company workers as to why FCA think that they cannot get the business to base CWL all year.:confused:
as well as operate the EXT winter prog, in my humble opinion there is more than enough business to operate year round BRS/EXT/CWL programmes alongside each other, theres probley enough to increase in BRS during winter aswell, XLA and KM will be picking up that business now though |
Could FirstChoice not use two more A321's around. EMA seems to be getting more popular, base one there, and the other CWL, EXT rotations.
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That is what i was wondering, the EXT charters are nearly always full according to my source, and FCA could prob base a 757 there all year round and operate full flights everyday. If EXT can fill a A310 to YYZ (altho it is split with BHX it still carries 100+ pax per week) surely EXT could have some more longer haul services, to stop south-west pax going to LGW/LHR/BHX?
FCA if your reading this then get some a/c based at EXT!!! |
First Choice most punctual charter airline; Flyjet worst
According to the latest statistics at Flightontime.info.
So far this summer, the ranking is: 1. First Choice Airways (17.1 mins av. delay) 2. Thomsonfly (17.5 mins av. delay) 3. MyTravel Airways (27.8 mins av. delay) 4. Thomas Cook Airlines (27.9 mins av. delay) 5. Monarch Airlines (30.5 mins av. delay) 6. Excel Airways (36.2 mins av. delay) 7. Astraeus (44.6 mins av. delay) 8. Flyjet (56.4 mins av. delay) Shame to see delays up for all carriers compared with last summer (except for MyTravel). Biggest increase in average delay was for Thomas Cook (up by 80% from last year). |
I would think that with all this bad weather other side of the Atlantic
in last few days it`s going to add quite a lot to to the averages for some of the airlines G-I-B |
The transatlantic routes flown by these airlines actually make up quite a small proportion of the overall operation so I doubt any significant effect would be seen.
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1ST (AVG DELAY MINS) 2ND (WITHIN 15MINS) 3RD (1HOUR+) 4TH (3HOURS +) 5TH ( TOTAL FLIGHTS)
1 (2) First Choice Airways(15.13) (77.94) (5.42) (1.28) (8,833) 2 (1) Thomsonfly * (12.82) (83.12) (4.55) (0.91) (10,526) 3 (7) MyTravel Airways (28.15) (67.84) (11.52) (3.04) (8,586) 4 (3) Thomas Cook Airlines (15.52) (79.91) (6.46) (1.57) (8,603) 5 (6) Monarch Airlines (26.46) (66.38) (10.14) (2.67) (4,574) 6 (4) Excel Airways (21.68) (72.95) (7.65) (2.34) (5,049) 7 (5) Astraeus (24.39) (68.63) (8.87) (3.08) (1,849) 8 (8) Flyjet (36.69) (44.97) (16.14) (2.65) (378) FIRST CHOICE AVG DELAY 15MINS THOMSONFLY 12MINS MYTRAVEL 28MINS THOMAS COOK 15MINS MONARCH AIRLINES 26MINS EXCEL 21 MINS ASTRAEUS 24MINS FLYJET 36MINS +3HOURS DELAY HIGHEST % 1ST ASTRAEUS MYTRAVEL MONARCH FLYJET EXCEL THOMAS COOK FIRSTCHOICE THOMSONFLY |
Those figures and ranking are for last year (i.e. for the comparable period Apr-Jul 2004). The Apr-Jul 2005 figures are in my post.
See http://www.flightontime.info/charter/charter.html |
First Choice Dropping Shorthaul @LGW
Can anybody confirm or deny that First Choice are dropping Shorthaul Flying from LGW Summer'06 and concentrating Longhaul flying?
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Looking at the S06 commercial plot most definately a false rumour.......not wanting to stop a good rumour though - I'm sure many would enjoy longhaul only.....but sadly not going to happen.
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First Choice top for punctuality (Summer '05)
First Choice lived up to their name last summer, with the delay league table announced today.
Sad to see we are back to the days of 1 in 10 UK charter flights on average running over an hour late though. Some airlines really have some work to do. http://www.flightontime.info http://www.flightontime.info/charter05.jpg |
Re: First Choice top for punctuality (Summer '05)
They may have come top in the table, but the figure that l would say is more important, is how often you dept within 15 minutes of your departure time.
My Travel came first in that one, with Thomsonfly second and First Choice third. |
Re: First Choice top for punctuality (Summer '05)
The one thing that I learnt when doing my BSc was that you can make averages and statistics mean anything you want to, depending on which side your personal bias leans.
If you we're to equalise the flights to the minimum random sample eg, around the 1600 mark, then it would be interesting to see how the positions change. Obviously, this would be hard to do due to the size of each airline and it's operations. But then you have to ask, is it really fair to compare FlyJet's 1166 flights with Thomsonfly's 18224? If you took a random sample of just 1166 Thomsonfly flights at any particular point in time, they may fair much worse or even better than they do in this table. And where are their bases of operation? An airline that mainly works out of Gatwick or Manchester, compared to one that uses much quieter regional hubs could be considered unfair aswell. I'm not picking, just an observation to promote debate. I personally take these tables all with a pinch of salt. I am trying to be impartial here. I work for TCX, so that's where my loyalty sits. Hopefully we'll do better this summer! Anyone care to offer a different view on this? ACA |
Re: First Choice top for punctuality (Summer '05)
The one thing that I learnt when doing my BSc was that you can make averages and statistics mean anything you want to, depending on which side your personal bias leans. If you we're to equalise the flights to the minimum random sample eg, around the 1600 mark, then it would be interesting to see how the positions change. Obviously, this would be hard to do due to the size of each airline and it's operations. But then you have to ask, is it really fair to compare FlyJet's 1166 flights with Thomsonfly's 18224? If you took a random sample of just 1166 Thomsonfly flights at any particular point in time, they may fair much worse or even better than they do in this table. And where are their bases of operation? An airline that mainly works out of Gatwick or Manchester, compared to one that uses much quieter regional hubs could be considered unfair aswell. I'm not picking, just an observation to promote debate. I personally take these tables all with a pinch of salt. I am trying to be impartial here. I work for TCX, so that's where my loyalty sits. Hopefully we'll do better this summer! Anyone care to offer a different view on this? ACA |
Re: First Choice top for punctuality (Summer '05)
Originally Posted by Mr @ Spotty M
They may have come top in the table, but the figure that l would say is more important, is how often you dept within 15 minutes of your departure time.
My Travel came first in that one, with Thomsonfly second and First Choice third. |
Re: First Choice top for punctuality (Summer '05)
And LTE came on top overall
Volar Airlines / 14.33 / 72.35 / 5.46 / 1.02 / 586 Channel Express / 15.73 / 75.47 / 7.23 / 1.26 / 318 Hello / 16.57 / 76.24 / 4.62 / 1.98 / 303 First Choice / 16.90 / 72.71 / 5.87 / 1.16 / 16,516 Thomsonfly / 17.96 / 76.65 / 6.47 / 1.63 / 18,224 Iberworld / 20.22 / 75.68 / 7.72 / 2.70 / 259 Air Europa / 21.65 / 61.54 / 8.44 / 0.74 / 403 BA CitiExpress / 23.29 / 58.22 / 10.45 / 0.86 / 584 MyTravel / 23.84 / 77.71 / 8.57 / 2.94 / 10,996 Air Malta / 24.05 / 65.85 / 10.82 / 2.71 / 776 Pegasus / 24.61 / 67.70 / 8.31 / 2.14 / 421 BH Air / 26.60 / 57.13 / 13.05 / 1.71 / 996 Thomas Cook / 29.24 / 69.83 / 11.90 / 3.64 / 15,607 Futura / 31.47 / 52.57 / 15.33 / 2.75 / 835 bmi / 32.99 / 49.35 / 11.92 / 2.09 / 1,149 Monarch / 33.60 / 58.20 / 13.00 / 3.33 / 7,648 Onur Air / 37.66 / 48.42 / 20.93 / 3.17 / 884 Astraeus / 38.94 / 56.75 / 16.57 / 4.36 / 2,890 Spanair / 39.83 / 41.89 / 20.95 / 3.38 / 444 Excel / 40.23 / 61.62 / 14.38 / 4.45 / 10,881 Eurocypria / 46.65 / 45.72 / 17.51 / 2.54 / 748 European Air Charter / 55.84 / 43.35 / 27.58 / 8.23 / 1,008 Flyjet / 59.94 / 38.85 / 30.36 / 6.60 / 1,166 Air Atlanta Europe / 83.95 / 28.18 / 34.60 / 9.43 / 1,029 |
Who cares what time you depart ? Surely arriving on schedule is more important ? It is amazing how people whinge about 20 mins delay , but forget to appreciate arriving on time.
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767 first choice hydraulic problem MAN
Anybody know anymore about this.....inbound fc 767 this morning approx 08.00 landed with some sort of hydraulic problem..........
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