I agree!

TCX are slowly pulling back into the program they had a few year back. They are easing into a permanent winter base. The program issued for W09/10 is the same as W08/09. But bare in mind its still W08/09! If this winter has been that much of a success for them, things could still change.

TOM have chopped and changed alot recently. CWL was seen as one of their low-cost bases, along side BOH/CVT/DSA.
So.... DSA lost 2 a/c and long haul, CVT lost everything and BOH has also been reduced. CWL has lost one a/c and long haul. In comparison thats not that too bad.
TOM are doing a lot of changes in other areas and are probably still finding their feet after the merger.
S09 is a busy schedule plan for TOM, just on the 2 a/c. 757's and 733's have been or will be leaving the fleet, and 738's are slowly being delivered, maybe its a/c availability for now until more -800's are delivered. In a couple of months the S10 schedule will be released and all will be revealed.

I highly doubt Aer lingus will base an a/c at CWL. If anything it will be Irish routes released (I.E DUB) This would be a good one, as it would offer onward connections from DUB, not many, but an alternative to the ever reliable KLM! EI recently started NCL and that has been a success. I think CWL (And Southwest) is the only place they dont serve now.
However, this could be just be a rumour as a result of them selling CWL-DUB for the rugby.

The only Aer Lingus that we are likely to see from CWL is a code share on the RE Dublin flights which would offer decent connection alternatives.

But I'd be pleased to be proved wrong.

MB

Following on to this. The schedule on the website doesnt show them as W patterns with dep/arr times. Also on a Sunday there's a requirement for 5 a/c during the evening.
Looks like 67 flights, with 2/3 extra during high season.
Does anyone know how many there were last summer?

BMI Baby Recruiting !!
 

Hi,

Had a call today from BMI Baby offering an interview for cabin crew. I applied like a year ago and never heard anything so was a little suprised they have called now. I thought with the way things they would be reducing crew etc or has a lot of crew left.

Applied for Cardiff so not sure if it is for that base or they try to get me to go to another.

Anyone know anything

Ta

bmibaby recruitment
 

Eleven new cabin crew on initials next week, for Cardiff base.

bmibaby recruitment
 

sounds positive - for a fourth based aircraft?

More breaking news on the CWL website - jobs fair!!
For BRS jobs perhaps?!

Interesting, wounder if we may be seeing baby expand at CWL and getting that deserved extra aircratf. Sounds good:)

brs
 

big plans for brs 4,000 jobs to be created in Bristol Airport expansion - WalesOnline

BMI Baby
 

Just looked at one week in June for Baby and it is a most unusual
schedule. A case of "glass half full" or "glass half empty" one thinks.

Glass half full - every weekday in the middle of the day five aircraft
required but only three in the morning and at night.

Glass half empty - chop Glasgow & Belfast and three based no problem

Cabin Crew recruitment - I assume they have offered the bhx cabin crew a choice of a move first or have they just left when the base was cut from eight to five aircraft?

It actually sounds quite promising for CWL as I doubt both BFS & GLA would be chopped. They could be re-timed until after the EDI each weekday & ALC (Mon), BCN (Wed), FAO (Thu) and there is a gap Friday.
That is unlikely as it would probably turn out like the BHX-BFS last summer at 2100 dep with half loads - not their brightest idea.

Pete

Given Baby have just reduced their fleet by three aircraft and made a load of cabin crew and pilots redundant I very much doubt there is going to be any expansion anywhere ! Any extra rotations probably W patterns from other bases.

bmi baby
 

CheekyVisual

Of course changing them to "W" patterns is another alternative although the booking engine is still selling the flights as Cardiff based at the moment.

Pete

I understand BMI Baby are making flight deck crew redundant today at other airports so I very much doubt that

Its probably more likely a case of having to offer Cardiff positions to those Cabin Crew who were made redundant at BHX before they could recruit externally. Now that process has finished, they probably have a few slots to fill by external recruitment.

And as mentioned before with 3 aircraft less and crew being made redundant there isn't going to be any expansion.

1 x A321 at CWL again this summer, 2 x A320 at BRS (no change).

A Metro III operating the highland route today. Possible new aircraft??

Luton route
 

There was talk of a CWL-LTN route some threads back, think the company was called Maxi-jet???
Any more news on this?
What is a "W" pattern also?
Thanks.

Presume the J31 went tech as the Metro positioned in this afternoon from Isle of Man. EC-ITP it was, one of the Euro Continental ones with Manx2.

W pattern
 

"W" pattern is a way to operate flights to airports which are not necessarily busy enough to support a based aircraft. So, for example, a company at say Luton will operate LTN-PMI (Palma) with Luton outbound passengers, then PMI-CWL with Cardiff inbound passengers, CWL-PMI with outbound Cardiff passengers and finally PMI-LTN with inbound Luton passengers. The point is then that the aircraft is back at home base, ready to operate a flight to another destination.

The crew are changed in CWL, the outbound crew probably stayed overnight in a hotel, while the inbound crew will probably travel straight back to their base or next airport.

It is a way for companies to offer lots of departure points without having a large number of outstation bases.

Maxiejet - not a hope I'm afraid on their original business plan

The metro was operating due to crew sickness on the J31.

ski flights
 

The CWL timetable shows a Sofia flight on a sunday - havent noticed it on the arrivals board...is it operating?

With out going into the BRS/CWL debacle again why is there such a poor choice from CWL for the winter ski flights-wouldnt Grenoble/Lyon/Turin work.
Know of loads of Welsh skiiers going across the bridge for these destinations.Has the airport tried these?