LBA4EVER
Well-Known Member
Ryanair have pulled most their east European routes from LBA so lets get wizz on board at LBA. I guess DSA is a little close though?
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Wizz Air are firmly settled at Doncasater there would be no way of attracting themRyanair have pulled most their east European routes from LBA so lets get wizz on board at LBA. I guess DSA is a little close though?
Wizz Air are firmly settled at Doncasater there would be no way of attracting them
I fact yesterday Doncaster was Wizz Air City with them accepting diversions from Luton
I was thinking much the same - while the airport is rammed for part of the day some non based traffic stimulus would be most welcome from Continental carriers while the development is taking place. Carriers such as Wizz, EW, Vueling etc would be ideal and the benefit is it doesn't eat into the night flying quota although with the FR cuts there must be a few slots now up for grabs!I wouldn't necessarily discount Wizz at LBA if the new terminal is built. Remember they are the major airline at LTN, which is owned by our owners AMP Capital so there are deals to be done if they want to. I know for sure that LBA would very much like Wizz at LBA in the future in some capacity at least. If Ryanair continue to not operate some of the Eastern European routes that they did, then there is the demand to operate them from LBA without impacting on their DSA operation.
I have said that purely on the basis of what the CEO has told us - that being that LBA cannot attract airlines to LBA at present because the terminal is at capacity and doesn't offer new airlines 'the product' that they insist on. What exactly that product is I don't know but I presume they mean a combination of flexibility and customer experience. We were told that if we approached a certain major airline asking them to operate from LBA at present they would just laugh, but with the terminal, airlines would be queuing up. We all assume that such a queue would be relatively short but the picture being painted was that the terminal is key to new airlines coming to LBA - which sort of ties in given we haven't had a new airline start at LBA now for several years. Only Flybmi were prepared to give it a go and look what happened to them!Why is the terminal the key factor WH...if its good enough for Jet2 why isn’t it good enough for WIZZ...when you look at DSA most of their departures are after 6pm which would be ideal or is it a simple case of nowhere to park them?
You make a good point about passenger numbers post brexit.I think the game changer for all of this is actually the change in operating hours to allow for increased rotations. In terms of the existing terminal it didnt deter FR or Mon or BA when they started. And remember it didnt stop Easyjet operating to Geneva The terminal is the icing on the cake but the real attraction is increased flexibility with these increased operating hours and rotations.
It would also be fascinating to know how much impact the decrease in flights to Eastern European countries has impacted on pax numbers post Brexit, not just for LBA but also other UK airports with a local sizeable Eastern European population. i'm guessing it would outweigh business traffic at LBA.
Preparing for the max to begin service I guess this summer. Still puzzles me why they pulled two aircraft out of Leeds though and upped flights from other bases esp when apparently loads were good from Leeds? Guess it's because Leeds is smaller base,higher costs with pos weather issues? Maybe it's just a Ryanair thing!
That’s come over sarcastic. I meant it in a you’d guess, I’d guess etc.You would guess wouldn't you. This is very confusing too - but can only be surmised. MAN doesn't require as much investment from the revenue teams to start getting bums on seats etc, therefore a higher return.
Operationally maybe easier to cut from a smaller base then a larger base. Though thats quite contradictory if you look at this from more crew in MAN to go around a still a relatively large amount of aircraft. LBA however has one aircraft therefore not that many aircraft to the amount of crew.
The other reason could quite be simple. Ryanair have kept it no secret that they don't pay for C or D checks on aircraft. If the MX plan was to have aircraft out of Ryanair fleet replaced by MAX that of course is now not happening. So the fleet is downsized isn't it - unless they pay for the expensive checks. Or if its pay for the expensive checks these aircraft could be out until mid summer. Who knows.
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