Thomas Cook

[a300boy]

Yes it was the B734 in those days Snowman !
Hope he is still with us a very nice guy.

 

[White Heather]

View attachment 7079 Since we are on the subject, here is their 737 400 Flagship St George G-UKLE, which was a regular out of LBA whilst Air UK Leisure operated. According to Internet sources, Air UK Leisure only ever operated the 737 200, 737 400 and 767 300. It was only after they were sold to Uniject in 1996 and became Leisure International that they replaced the 737 400s with the A320, but they never had A321s.

 

[Britannia94]

Noticed today as passing through security an advert has appeared promoting the routes with Thomas Cook to Turkey from the Airport. It’s nice to see the routes are being promoted in some form.

 

[Aviador]

Is this another YEP mess-up?

The following news story was published 2 hours ago.

The travel operator is being welcomed to the airport for the first time, and is expected help fill the void left by airline Monarch's collapse last autumn. They will operate 12 flights a week to seven destinations - Palma, Mahon, Tenerife, Larnaca, Dalaman, Antalya and Tunisia. Palma in Majorca and Mahon in Minorca will be joined by another flight to Tenerife - a route already available via Ryanair from Leeds Bradford - and journeys to Larnaca in Cyprus, Dalaman and Antalya in Turkey and the popular North African destination of Tunisia. Thomas Cook's arrival at Leeds Bradford will see an extra 115,000 seats become available

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...eds-bradford-airport-in-summer-2018-1-8982218

 

[airforced]

Is this another YEP mess-up?

Er - Is anything they print these days not a mess-up? In fact has it ever been any different?

Total load of codswallop.

 

[oldendays]

Look on the bright side. It's a plug for TC and the airport. The downsides are that the story is several months old and the inaccuracy re TC being new to the airport.

 

[White Heather]

I suspect they have just got around to publishing the news put out by the airport last October regarding Thomas Cook opening a new base. Come the summer they will probably publish the fact that the base was pulled again in December!

 

[Aviador]

This morning LBA Tweeted how it was working with Thomas Cook to sell new flights to Palma & Turkey. The YEP reporter must have read the Tweet and pulled the press release from the LBA website. They clearly don't venture away from Twitter and Facebook these days.

 

[lbaspotter]

YEP is always slow now-a-days at news reporting or catching up with rest of us Only 1 edition published each day and thats with news thats 24 hours old already. I don't know how they keep going to be honest with you....
Somebody needs a kick up the backside or they need to get a reporter whom is good with aviation business..

It sad really, As the YEP once a good newspaper to read.

 

[Seasider]

Come back Allan Rowley.

 

[Aviador]

Sign of the times I guess as places like this find the news before the reports these days.

 

[lbaspotter]

Anyone have the flight Number details for this summers planned Monday afternoon Air Europa charter from Palma for Thomas Cook yet?

 

[lbaspotter]

Thomas Cook Holidays Summer 2019 programme goes on sale later today, March 1st 2018

It will be very interesting to see if they have long term plans for LBA and if we will get a based aircraft. Especially seen as we lost a based aircraft and instead this summer we have a revised w-leg operation.

 

[Aviador]

Thomas Cook Holidays Summer 2019 programme goes on sale later today, March 1st 2018

It will be very interesting to see if they have long term plans for LBA and if we will get a based aircraft. Especially seen as we lost a based aircraft and instead this summer we have a revised w-leg operation.

Fingers crossed but I'm not holding my breath. We've been let down by them so many times.

 

[Bigman]

So, any word on the programme then?

 

[lbaspotter]

So, any word on the programme then?

Thought you would have been on Thomas Cook website and posted details mate.
If I get time I'll have a look later. OK?

 

[Britannia94]

Just done a dummy test and only Turkey and Palma are showing up for 2019 so far. Hopefully Ive either missed something or they are due to add more destinations later.

 

[SNOWMAN]

Just done a dummy test and only Turkey and Palma are showing up for 2019 so far. Hopefully Ive either missed something or they are due to add more destinations later.

lets hope theirs more to come,if not i wonder what there excuse will be this time!
regards
snowman

 

[White Heather]

I would be surprised if, in light of what happened this year, they committed to an LBA base so early. I would think that, unless they intend obtaining more Thomas Cook aircraft to base at LBA (and LTN?), the most likely scenario for any base would remain leased aircraft, and at this point perhaps they are unable to confirm such leases are available. I cannot imagine they would risk announcing a base only to pull the plug on it again.
I am clinging to the hope that they are currently just showing the same flights as they are doing in Summer 2018 and will later announce a base and more flights. Ever the optimist.

 

[lbaspotter]

Thomas Cook Holidays now selling a limited number of holidays to Tenerife during summer 2018 from Leeds/Bradford. It looks like they must have agreed to take a seat allocation Tui's Sunday service

Thomas Cook have announced they will be offering holidays from, Liverpool next summer 2019. But it looks like the joining forces to take seat allocations on Easyjet flights.,