TUI Airways

[a300boy]

Three flights a week is a lot for Tui !

 

[ls27]

Probably so they don't have to divert else where more than three times a week

 

[lbaspotter]

Tui Travel update after last nights NEW Government Advice, They will not be operating any holidays or flight departures until May 17th 2021.

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[lbaspotter]

TUI a have altered the summer 2021 schedule a little bit, all flights still showing operated by there own metal as follows.

Tuesdays
TOM3259 = PMI 10:35 - LBA 12:20 / TOM3258 = LBA 13:50 - PMI 17:30 = Starts May 18th
Fridays
TOM3551 = CFU 12:00 - LBA 13:30 / TOM3550 = LBA 14:30 - CFU 19:55 = Starts May 21st
Saturdays
TOM3619 = PMI 12:20 - LBA 14:05 / TOM3618 = LBA 15:05 - PMI 18:45 = Starts May 22nd

 

[LBA4EVER]

Can someone just explain to me what exactly this may 17th date for flying is? Far as im aware its 21st june but i believe that dates in question now.

 

[White Heather]

Can someone just explain to me what exactly this may 17th date for flying is? Far as im aware its 21st june but i believe that dates in question now.

It's the date the Government set as the earliest date from which going abroad might be allowed.

 

[LBA4EVER]

It's the date the Government set as the earliest date from which going abroad might be allowed.

Not a chance of that happening now, also i see there is no further info been announced whatsover on when the public can travel and what countries will be red, amber or green in this traffic light system, everything is essentially on hold, although the death of hrh prince phillip is going to over shadow the news for the next week or so now.

 

[airforced]

Not a chance of that happening now, also i see there is no further info been announced whatsover on when the public can travel and what countries will be red, amber or green in this traffic light system, everything is essentially on hold, although the death of hrh prince phillip is going to over shadow the news for the next week or so now.

You do really need to listen to the news/briefings/read newspapers as that would obviate the need to ask such questions. So as WH said keep your ears open on 17 May or more likely a few days before that if travel is to go ahead on 17th.

 

[airforced]

Just for LBA4EVER here is a link to a BBC 'explainer' re holidays, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52646738

 

[a300boy]

I noted 8 wide body aircraft inbound to Manchester last Wednesday or Thursday all from Islamabad.
I has been said lots of inbound passengers arriving before Pakistan becomes a red designated Covid region.
I am also told Birmingham and Stansted had multiple flights from the same airport..

 

[LBA4EVER]

You do really need to listen to the news/briefings/read newspapers as that would obviate the need to ask such questions. So as WH said keep your ears open on 17 May or more likely a few days before that if travel is to go ahead on 17th.

Excuse me, i do constantly listen to the news, in fact compared to most others i speak to im more aware of whats happening, im also aware of a hell of lot more that the media are not telling us regarding the current situation but we will leave that for another day. So that may 17th date is the earliest we may be able to travel? Who in their right mind is going to risk it and book from the 17th may, mad!
We still dont no which countries are to be red, amber or green yet though, im aware of a few red ones but thats it.
The hassle involved even to travel to a green country will put many off travelling, can you imagine those travelling to a med resort for say a long weekend or those flying to a European city for a few days, its just too much messing about and expense, you would end up needing another holiday after all the arsing about!

 

[Aviador]

@LBA4EVER You say anybody who books for the 17th May is mad. What about all those like me who had their holiday rebooked from last year, are they mad too? I was due to go away at the end of May but Jet2 have cancelled it due to the ongoing uncertainty from the government and I totally agree with Jet2's decision.

Pandemics don't last forever, even with new strains of disease, we will and must find away to live with it. There is absolutely no point in pretending we can hide from it. A sensible reopening of the industry to countries with a similar level of disease would be a start but instead the government choses to pander around as if the UK is protected with its borders half closed. It isn't. If anything it appears to be a political decision to do this, rather than a scientific viewpoint as the WHO repeatedly says you can't stop a virus by closing borders.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Pandemics don't last forever, even with new strains of disease, we will and must find away to live with it. There is absolutely no point in pretending we can hide from it. A sensible reopening of the industry to countries with a similar level of disease would be a start but instead the government choses to pander around as if the UK is protected with its borders half closed. It isn't. If anything it appears to be a political decision to do this, rather than a scientific viewpoint as the WHO repeatedly says you can't stop a virus by closing borders.

This. Absolutely hit the nail on the head. The media don't want you to know this, nor agree with this, similarly this government. But you have hit the nail not the head. The refusal to learn to live with this disease is doing so much more harm than the disease it's self. I don't want to cause offence here but there are 3 certainties in life - You are born, You live, You die.

It's all political. WHO has already said there should be no vaccination passports domestically or internationally. Which makes for stark contrast to what the demands are from people.

Personally I would be going if Jet2 hadn't cancelled my 23rd June flight. The list should be only going in one way and that's adding more Greens to it then adding more ambers/reds.

 

[countdacash]

I noted 8 wide body aircraft inbound to Manchester last Wednesday or Thursday all from Islamabad.
I has been said lots of inbound passengers arriving before Pakistan becomes a red designated Covid region.
I am also told Birmingham and Stansted had multiple flights from the same airport..

How many Covid and TB infections will be being imported via this route, yet the wider UK public can only meet in groups of 6 outdoors as anything else would be 'unsafe'. Once the decision had been taken to make the region red, then it should have been with immediate effect so there would be no time to organise all these 'CovidAir' flights.

 

[LBA4EVER]

@LBA4EVER You say anybody who books for the 17th May is mad. What about all those like me who had their holiday rebooked from last year, are they mad too? I was due to go away at the end of May but Jet2 have cancelled it due to the ongoing uncertainty from the government and I totally agree with Jet2's decision.

Pandemics don't last forever, even with new strains of disease, we will and must find away to live with it. There is absolutely no point in pretending we can hide from it. A sensible reopening of the industry to countries with a similar level of disease would be a start but instead the government choses to pander around as if the UK is protected with its borders half closed. It isn't. If anything it appears to be a political decision to do this, rather than a scientific viewpoint as the WHO repeatedly says you can't stop a virus by closing borders.

What im saying is that no way would i book a holiday if the period between 17th may and 21st june is under government review!
With traffic light systems, quarantines, pcr tests, virus rates going thru the roof in europe and parts of the world together with variant strains im gonna stick my neck out here and say the june 21st date is debatable, the government seem quiet and reluctant to give any postive signs on travel, truths known their probably worried sick of a 3rd virus wave back here. Anyway as i predicted back in jan travel is still a mess at the moment, but like many say on here we need to just get on and live with it instead of all this pratting about!!

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

What im saying is that no way would i book a holiday if the period between 17th may and 21st june is under government review!
With traffic light systems, quarantines, pcr tests, virus rates going thru the roof in europe and parts of the world together with variant strains im gonna stick my neck out here and say the june 21st date is debatable, the government seem quiet and reluctant to give any postive signs on travel, truths known their probably worried sick of a 3rd virus wave back here. Anyway as i predicted back in jan travel is still a mess at the moment, but like many say on here we need to just get on and live with it instead of all this pratting about!!

I think we need to move this again as this thread has sidetracked. However I will say this. We will always get Variants. Our, must be the only country in the world, obsession and paranoia with variants is ridiculous. Flu mutates and has differing variants every single year but does not stop us living our life. The vaccine is developed and is based on the Flu season in the Southern hemisphere. Sometimes they get it correct, other times we have a particularly bad year with the variant and it is reflected in number of deaths caused by the Flu.

We will not be getting a 3rd wave. We have a substantial amount of people with their first jab, a growing number fully vaccinated. There is no reason to get a 3rd wave. Doom Gloom and Boris have already been told there will not be a 3rd wave. In fact a close source inside No.10 released information that the 3rd wave was planted as a seed within the press so that they will run with the idea and scare the public into a) getting the vaccine and b) ensuring that they stick to the current guidelines. You could not make it up.

They are currently saying the 3rd wave predicted will not materialise now.

We do need to learn to live with it. But we will not do if we have ridiculous paranoia and obsession with variants.

 

[Aviador]

I get what you mean about moving the posts but Covid will inevitably leak back into the thread until flights have finally resumed, so for this reason I'm going to leave it to find it's own way back to TUI at LBA.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Fair enough.

Hopefully we can have a full base after this is all over. Winter included

 

[Aviador]

...when the terminals built.

 

[LBA4EVER]

ah good old Nicola Sturgeon, i dont mind her but she is off her head when it comes to independence, scotland belongs in the uk, end of, no ifs or buts, and if they do leave their f*****! anyway back to tui.