Liverpool: EasyJet Route News & Base Updates

[Jerry]

I think CEO at the time Rod Hill, who negotiated with Easyjet to set up base at Liverpool when low cost airlines were a new idea. The man had a lot of foresight.

Yep he did!

 

[Silvercity]

For some reason looked at my mouse mat at work today and realized it must be a pretty old piece of Easyjet merchandise....' the webs favourite airline ' who was that having a dig at ?! Very few destinations too compared with today.

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[paully]

showing your age Carl 🤣

 

[TheLocalYokel]

For some reason looked at my mouse mat at work today and realized it must be a pretty old piece of Easyjet merchandise....' the webs favourite airline ' who was that having a dig at ?! Very few destinations too compared with today.

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This was the first episode of the second series Airline from the late 1990s (the first series featured Britannia Airways but subsequent ones followed easyJet).

The Boeing 737s have the same livery as your mouse mat and the second half of this episode features Liverpool Airport, easyJet's second base at that time.

 

[Silvercity]

This was the first episode of the second series Airline from the late 1990s (the first series featured Britannia Airways but subsequent ones followed easyJet).

The Boeing 737s have the same livery as your mouse mat and the second half of this episode features Liverpool Airport, easyJet's second base at that time.

! P

I completely forgot they were a B737 airline. I think their first route was LTN- EDI and it could have been on a 737-200 but not completely sure. Their first routes from Liverpool were to Amsterdam and Nice, with Geneva following fairly soon afterwards. Liverpool to Luton was also an early route.

 

[Silvercity]

showing your age Carl 🤣

Bus pass next !!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

! P

I completely forgot they were a B737 airline. I think their first route was LTN- EDI and it could have been on a 737-200 but not completely sure. Their first routes from Liverpool were to Amsterdam and Nice, with Geneva following fairly soon afterwards. Liverpool to Luton was also an early route.

I don't think they had any B737-200s. They began with the 300 series then began introducing the 700 series around 2000. I remember one of the early easyJet tv series episodes focused on the conversion training of pilots to the 700 from the 300.

 

[Seasider]

They leased 2 B737.204 from Britannia A/W for start up to EDI/GLA. I think I have a slide that I may have scanned. Watch this space ....

 

[Seasider]

I've found it, G-BECH at Luton July 1996.

 

[Silvercity]

All started pre internet too, you had to telephone them, then you received your confirmation ticket through the post.

 

[Silvercity]

When they we new at Liverpool I remember they had a promotion running in the Liverpool Echo, you had to collect coupons and received a discount. A group of us saved them up and all went to Barcelona for not a lot of money 🙂

 

[paully]

Brilliant concept, by Stelios, at the right time but sadly one of the few that has continued to work since.

 

[Silvercity]

G UZHL A320 neo arrived from BFS this evening

 

[paully]

G UZHL A320 neo arrived from BFS this evening

Visiting Carl or to be based?

 

[Silvercity]

Visiting Carl or to be based?

Based from 18 August Paul. So I understand !

 

[Silvercity]

New LPL -TFS service which began this week. Liverpool Twitter feed

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[TheLocalYokel]

New LPL -TFS service which began this week. Liverpool Twitter feed

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Have easyJet not flown from LPL to TFS before? If so, I'm very surprised.

 

[Jerry]

New LPL -TFS service which began this week. Liverpool Twitter feed

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Surprising that they haven't operated this before!

 

[Silvercity]

Surprising that they haven't operated this before!

I know....! Maybe they did.

 

[Silvercity]

Cou

Have easyJet not flown from LPL to TFS before? If so, I'm very surprised.
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Could very well have been a ' transferred ' route in the past !