Route Development & Rumours

[whateverg]

I think my guess is Air Baltic with their CS300s purely on the basis a few times it has now been mentioned that saying the aircraft type would give the airline away. I don't think there are many aircraft types that would do that and this is the main one that I can think of. Plus, they already have a decent number in their fleet (which might be surplus at this time if they keep some of their old fleet) and they would be a good size for a more frequent schedule than other low-cost operators may use.

 

[58terminus]

EWR 7/7
YYZ 3/7
BOS 4/7
Two based units (hopefully more to follow)

How far would a replacement aircraft have to come if one went tech?
I am presuming they would have a replacement.

 

[Jerry]

Plus, they already have a decent number in their fleet

They have 5 already and still have 15 to be delivered to replace to 6 737 300s and 5 737 500s which are supposed to be phased out by 2020. There Q400s won't be replaced by C Series aircraft. So they will have spare aircraft and maybe they have identified a niche market they can fill in the UK. If so they might look at other UK airports as well.

 

[Brum X]

Wizz Air A321 neo ? that my guess. They have a load on order.

Remember i mentioned Wizzair a few pages back, your not having that one.

I also added Vueling as well

 

[Matt995]

I have heard that this new airline to Birmingham, would be operating daily flights to New York Newark from May 2018, and 4 weekly to Boston and 3 weekly to Toronto from June 2018 with A321neo equipment.

The A321neo with sharklets has a range of 6,850km, BHX-EWR is 5,444km, BHX-BOS 5,123km, BHX-YYZ 5,582km approx!

so if this is true, which possible airline has A321neo's on order ready for May 2018, that doesn't already fly from Birmingham?

 

[lbaspotter]

Could possibly be Condor/Thomas Cook?

 

[Vile8er]

Could possibly be Condor/Thomas Cook?

Didn't think they had any A321 neo's or on order

 

[whateverg]

Etihad? Indigo? Nile Air? Pegasus? TAP?
My new guess is Etihad based on previous discussions of good reputation

 

[Brum X]

I think i have just been Tangoed

 

[ethanegcc]

After looking at the A321neo orderbook, I have no clue!

 

[User002]

Not long to wait now

 

[davecleaver777]

Easyjet Brum X

 

[Matt995]

these are the airlines that have not yet been ruled out that have A321neos on order :-

AirAsia
Air New Zealand
Kuwait Airways
All Nippon AW
ANA Holdings
Arkia Israel AL
Asiana AL
Avianca
Cebu Pacific AW
Etihad AW
Gulf Air
Indigo
Korean Air
LAN AL/LATAM
Lion Air
MEA-Middle East AL
Nile Air
Pegasus AL
Philippine AL
Spring AL
TAP Air Portugal
TransAsia AW
VietJet

but of course does not included any airlines that have aircraft on order from any of the leasing companies!

 

[User001]

In terms of there'll given Easyjet is not a new airline to BHX.......

Also, not TCX, deffo serve BHX and they serve Trans Atlantic.

Indigo, Nile Air and Etihad don't have 7th freedom rights for UK-US/Canada.

That should help deduct a few....l

 

[Jerry]

This may be a longshot and completely way off the mark but Qatar Airways has A321neos on order and considering they've lost a lot of routes due to what happening in the Middle East then it could be possible they may want to use those aircraft in Europe rather than sitting on the ground. I can't see them having a problem getting an UK AOC?

 

[Brum X]

In terms of there'll given Easyjet is not a new airline to BHX.......

Also, not TCX, deffo serve BHX and they serve Trans Atlantic.

Indigo, Nile Air and Etihad don't have 7th freedom rights for UK-US/Canada.

That should help deduct a few....l

Yeah and Easyjet fly from MAN, im not doing too good with this game. Damn

 

[Brum X]

This may be a longshot and completely way off the mark but Qatar Airways has A321neos on order and considering they've lost a lot of routes due to what happening in the Middle East then it could be possible they may want to use those aircraft in Europe rather than sitting on the ground. I can't see them having a problem getting an UK AOC?

Qatar would be awesome Jez

 

[Deleted member 8277]

I have heard that this new airline to Birmingham, would be operating daily flights to New York Newark from May 2018, and 4 weekly to Boston and 3 weekly to Toronto from June 2018 with A321neo equipment.

The A321neo with sharklets has a range of 6,850km, BHX-EWR is 5,444km, BHX-BOS 5,123km, BHX-YYZ 5,582km approx!

so if this is true, which possible airline has A321neo's on order ready for May 2018, that doesn't already fly from Birmingham?

WOW that's great news

 

[User001]

You need to methods to eliminate carriers:

-do they have the rights to serve UK-US/Canada on a 7th freedom basis (in other words, BHX-USA only, and not a AUH-BHX-USA as an example) Carriers like Etihad and Indigo do not have that.

-Does this carrier serve the UK at all? Let's not go round in circles, eliminate the 'no' pile and move on.

 

[Jerry]

Qatar would be awesome Jez

Though Qatar do fly from MAN but Meridiana don't so it could be them with Qatar aircraft and crews? I think i'm starting to over think this now! but a Qatar UK wouldn't technically be flying from MAN! Yeah definitely overthinking!