Archive Route Development & Rumours

[Jerry]

I honestly don't know. Could be any number of things.

 

[Scottie Dog]

3 updates for you to look for - see the separate threads:

Qatar - increase from 16 to 18 per week effective 18th September.

Turkish - 24 dates in July/August/September where there are changes from current A321 to either A330 or B777.

Loganair - effective 4th September the Norwich route drops from 3 to 2 per day.

 

[thunderchild]

28 weekly?!?!

 

[Scottie Dog]

I'm having a bad evening!! 18 per week. Sorry.

 

[jfy1999]

Biman are again making noises about a future MAN service once their 787s arrive.

 

[BlueManc]

A few on the 'if it happens' list now:
Thai - Bangkok
Air India - Delhi
Air China? - Shanghai
Hainan - Guangzhou
Jet Airways? - Bangalore
Biman - Dhaka

 

[Scottie Dog]

The summer solstice has now been enjoyed and, whilst we possibly suffer from hallucinations brought on by heatstroke, thoughts turn to the darker months (also known as the winter schedule).

According to sources I understand that the following may, or may not happen.:-

Cathay Pacific - increase capacity with an A350-1000 between December & February.

Corendon Airlines Europe - commence a weekly charter to Marrakech. This flight will be shared with Birmingham.

easyJet - based aircraft increase to 14.

Ethiopian Airlines - Addis Ababa 4 per week via Brussels.

Eurowings - up 1 per week on Cologne and Dusseldorf but down 2 on Hamburg.

Finnair - look to be increasing from E190 to A321.

Hainan Airlines - once again a rumour of Guangzhou but this has been heard before!

Jet Airways - already reported as 4 per week to Bombay.

KLM - can Amsterdam sustain an extra flight each day?

Primera Air - Malaga already reported as a non-based flight. How about trans-atlantic? Hopefully not but watch this thread....

Qatar Airways - already reported as increasing to 18 per week and maybe up to 21.

Ryanair - 8 based units.

Singapore Airlines - increase Singapore/Houston by 1 to 6 per week.

Spicejet - now that name rings a bell. Didn't we see it for the Summer schedules? Maybe a Delhi flight but do they have aircraft?

Various other bits and pieces including United possibly upgrading to B763.

Take this all with a pinch of salt and we'll see what materialised over the next few months.

 

[Philbky]

Cathay upgrade is definite I have 2 seats booked, confirmed with seat numbers in premium economy ex HKG on January15

 

[Jerry]

KLM - can Amsterdam sustain an extra flight each day?

With KLM it'll come down to slot availability at AMS. Other possibility is that they upgrade any Cityhopper flights to mainline to provide more seats.

 

[Scottie Dog]

According to my info they are increasing from 5 to 6 per day (on 5 days of the week).

 

[Scottie Dog]

New easyJet routes for this winter - courtesy of "dried-fruit":

Manchester - Barcelona (1 Dec) - 2x weekly
Manchester - Bordeaux (2 Nov) - 2x weekly
Manchester - Faro (2 Nov) - 4x weekly
Manchester - Innsbruck (9 Dec) - 1x weekly
Manchester - Lanzarote (7 Nov) - 2x weekly
Manchester - Lisbon (28 Oct) - 3x weekly

 

[Scottie Dog]

Apparently Primera were looking at starting Newark and Washington from Manchester for Winter 18/19. Fortunately, from my point of view, this has now been dropped.

 

[Deleted member 8862]

Oh dear, its not often that we don't want an airline is it?

 

[Scottie Dog]

I noticed that LAX_LHR has recently post the following on 'dried fruit':

"In other news, it looks like BA could be operating AGP/IBZ and PMI as a ‘BA Mainline’ flight next summer. Oneworld timetable currently showing these destinations as ‘British Airways operated by Titan Airways Limited’ similar to LGW. These flights have no correspondingly LCY sectors to which the MAN flights always start/end their weekend, so, looks to be either a W pattern with LGW or a MAN based aircraft (the latter could mean an all week base given it won’t be using an ‘otherwise idle’ Cityflyer machine)."

 

[Land23R]

In the same post LAX-LHR, in responding to a question, says it looks as if TG has been postponed again. I must be getting gullible because this time I was fairly confident it would happen, especially as TG had mentioned publicly I think that Manchester was being considered.

Still, I expect the ME3 will be happy to retain their transfer pax from MAN to Thailand. And we do have Jet and Ethiopian starting.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Courtesy of LAX-LHR on "dried fruit"

Thomas Cook increasing Seattle to 3 weekly, JFK to 8 weekly but LAX down to 2 weekly.

MCO goes 13 weekly with 3 flights on Sundays too

 

[AlanSinfield]

And the LAX isn't planned to start until 21 June for summer 19. San Francisco to 3 Weekly as well
Full Email re West Coast

Thomas Cook modifies Manchester – US West Coast service in S19
Posted 29 July 2018 01:00

Thomas Cook Airlines in summer 2019 season is adjusting Manchester – Los Angeles service, previously scheduled from 04MAY19 as 3 weekly flights. Recent update now sees the airline operates 2 weekly flights, from 21JUN19. Airbus A330-200 aircraft operates this route.

MT2622 MAN1155 – 1445LAX 332 2
MT2824 MAN1155 – 1445LAX 332 5

MT2623 LAX1645 – 1055+1MAN 332 2
MT2825 LAX1645 – 1055+1MAN 332 5

Separately, operational day changes for Manchester – San Francisco is also in effect when it resumes service in 2019. From 04MAY19, service operates on Day 146, instead of Day 246. On Manchester – Seattle service, the airline plans to offer 3rd weekly rotation when it begins summer seasonal route from 23JUN19.

MT2790 MAN1210 – 1340SEA 332 7
MT2684 MAN1210 – 1340SEA 332 13

MT2791 SEA1540 – 0845+1MAN 332 7
MT2685 SEA1540 – 0845+1MAN 332 13

 

[Scottie Dog]

With thanks to our 'Old Friend' on Dried Fruit for a link to Aviation24.be where it is stated that VLM are cancelling all scheduled services with the exception of LCY and ZRH. More details below:

VLM maintains scheduled flights to London City and Zurich and will expand charter activities
SHS Aviation B.V., the parent company of VLM, has decided to temporarily reduce its activities on the scheduled airline market and to focus on the flights from Antwerp to London City Airport and Zurich. In addition, VLM will also deploy its aircraft more for private, charter and ACMI flights. VLM will already place one aircraft with fixed crew in the market with The Aviation Factory, the market leader in the Benelux with customised air transport.

“The current aviation sector is so dynamic that it is common for destinations and flight frequencies to be constantly evaluated and adapted according to the season, the performance of existing routes and new opportunities that arise on the market. The performance of the routes is also continuously monitored at VLM. The available aircraft capacity is then deployed on routes and activities that are more in demand and that are profitable “, says Johan Maertens, CEO of VLM.

The connections to Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cologne-Bonn, Maribor, Munich and Rostock will therefore be stopped in the coming weeks and the planned routes from Antwerp and Ostend-Bruges to Manchester will be postponed. Passengers who have already booked for a flight after the termination dates will be informed personally as soon as possible and will receive a full refund of their ticket.

Johan Maertens adds: “At the same time, a fleet reduction will also be implemented. It is no secret that we have been busy preparing the replacement of the Fokker 50 aircraft for some time now. The expected commissioning of the new aircraft is planned for the second half of 2019. ”

 

[Scottie Dog]

Again courtesy of LAX_LHR:
easyJet to launch Manchester to Budapest twice weekly effective 5th November.

 

[Scottie Dog]

A few known changes for later this summer and then some winter updates:

Qatar - Upgrade from B788-8 (254seats) to A350-900 (283seats) from 1st October on both the morning and lunchtime services.

CANCELLATIONS

Pegasus -
Have now cancelled all slots to Sabiha Gokcen (SAW).


WINTER 2018 - (Planned Air Transport Movements are currently +18.2% and Seats 21.5% compared with W17 season actual).


ADDITIONAL FLIGHTS

Jet Airways (9W) – New BOM service increases (as previously reported) to 5 per week. Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun effective 28th October.

CHANGES

Qatar – As above A350 operates on morning and lunchtime services throughout W18.

Royal Air Maroc - change from from B737-800 to B737-700 (114seats).

CANCELLATIONS

KLM - previously reported increase to 6 flights has been cancelled. Flights will remain at 5 per day.