Cardiff: TUi Airways Flights, New Routes & Base Updates

[Bcn_boy]

Holidays to Egypt are not back at the levels they were some years ago. People are still apprehensive about visiting such destinations.

 

[Jerry]

Just a thought. Could Hurghada be a casualty of the Doha route with people who would be more likely to book that route looking further afield to SE Asia?

 

[Cardiffbay]

TUI were unlikely to position an aircraft every week to fly one route. The cost of this doesn’t make sense like it did 20 years ago. The route is too long for a ‘W’ rotation so the only way it would work would have been by a third party airline. Maybe they were unable to find one. Come the summer things change though with the 3rd based aircraft.

 

[Jerry]

Do people think that TUI will remain a 1 aircraft base for winter 2019/20 as well because apart from increasing the Canary islands i can't see where they'd expand as I'd have thought any ski routes they'd want to do via a Flybe flight.

 

[aviatorconcorde]

Do people think that TUI will remain a 1 aircraft base for winter 2019/20 as well because apart from increasing the Canary islands i can't see where they'd expand as I'd have thought any ski routes they'd want to do via a Flybe flight.

I think it will. As we know CWL can perform brilliantly in the summer months given the opportunity. Winters however not so much...

I wouldn’t of thought they’d keep Naples or Dubrovnik for the winter. The 2 extra aircraft would probably make more money over with the Canadian Airlines in that time period.

 

[Jerry]

I can't see Dubrovnik and Naples carrying on into the winter as i believe they are connected to cruise ships being based there. It does make you wonder where any winter growth for CWL will come from on the charter front.

 

[Jerry]

TUI are now offering packages to the Far East from Cardiff and this what they are offering.
Bali 1 weekly on Sundays until October 2018.
Thailand has 3 offerings.
Khao Lak 2 weekly Sunday and Tuesday until April 2019.
Krabi 2 weekly Sunday and Tuesday until April 2019.
Phuket 2 weeky Sunday and Tuesday until April 2019.
Sri Lanka 4 weekly Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday until October 2018.
Maldives 1 weekly Sunday until October 2018 though with there isn't anything onsale.
Curiously the flights are down as British Airways flights operated by Qatar Airways.

 

[Jerry]

G-TAWS one of the based 737s is on its way to Aberdeen to it looks like operate their PMI departure from this morning as it looks like G-FDZX has gone tech.
The 14.30 Heraklion from Cardiff that it was supposed to operate will depart tomorrow at 11am.

 

[TOM100]

I would love to understand the logic behind that shocking decision (I don't have the detail so making assumptions that may be wrong). Golden rule in aviation is you keep disruption contained to one group of customers not spread it around - disrupting multiple groups of guests. There must be some logic behind it ?

Guess the 'hot' standby aircraft already in use or not available ?

Wonder how TOM plan to get the CWL programme back on track ?

Edit - note the ABZ is still 5+ hours late so don't understand the logic unless the same pax were disrupted at ABZ last week ?

 

[Sean123]

Hey guys what's this winter's tui schedule? apologies in advance if its already been posted

 

[Foxlimayankee]

BRS had an overnight delay to the HRG flight due in this evening, should've been in the early hours of this morning. I guess there were a number of issues throughout the network which puts pressure on the Operation. It seems to happen to all Airlines where an Airline will have one week or few days where everything goes wrong and screws the schedule. I've seen it happen many times. I do agree that it seems bizarre to disrupt the CWL schedule for a ABZ-PMI flight. Given that there's a lot more flights to/from PMI, it would make sense to reroute the ABZ pax somehow(Appreciate available seats may be limited given that it's August), or to delay that flight overnight and utilise an aircraft for 5 hours rather than a 9 hour Greek flight. Unless there's a specific reason pax on the ABZ flight need to be moved, possible allocation by another Tour Operator/Cruise flight.

 

[TOM100]

Cruise could be it.....

 

[TOM100]

Marella Dream (Tui) departs PMI so that could be the answer - again not sure why they would choose CWL to disrupt with limited options.....

 

[TheLocalYokel]

BRS had an overnight delay to the HRG flight due in this evening, should've been in the early hours of this morning. I guess there were a number of issues throughout the network which puts pressure on the Operation.

The flight from Hurghada was due BRS at 0235 today but was delayed for about 16 hours - it's since landed.

It is a B738-operated flight. Looking at BRS departures this morning the two based B738s seemed to depart more or less on time (to Kos and Girona) as did the two B757s (to Enfidha and Palma). TUI therefore must have found a B738 from somewhere as presumably the one due in from HRG was not available for the first group of BRS departures this morning.

 

[Jerry]

PMI is a big cruise departure point for Marella so i'd ahve thought it would take precedence over a Heraklion. The ABZ flight was also down to operate GLA as well it does ABZ-PMI-GLA-PMI-ABZ and considering the Cardiff crew were down for a pretty long flight to Heraklion and back i'd imagine that's why they were chosen. Thought i doubt it'll happen hopefully the extra aircraft tomorrow will be a 787 or 767!

 

[Foxlimayankee]

From looking at Twitter it seems like a Cyprus-NWI flight diverted to Bulgaria with a tech problem (Sunwing aircraft). There's a 20+ hour delay from BHX-ALC, a delay from NAP-MAN from yesterday, the ABZ delay and the HRG-BRS delay.

 

[Jerry]

Looks like G-TAWI was ferried down from ABZ early this morning and is operating IBZ which is ontime as is the mornings PMI! Will be interesting to see where the HER aircraft will come from!

 

[Foxlimayankee]

3 hour delay to PFO. Which is either down to crewing or they will be taking one of the 737s again elsewhere after lunch and bringing another in later.

 

[Jerry]

G-TAWI could be going back to BRS as that is where it came from before it flew in from ABZ.

 

[Jerry]

Well it looks like the Heraklion operated yesterday at 11.10 but was diverted to Chania and operated its return flight from there with G-FDZU.
Yesterdays Paphos flight departed late at 18.49 on G-TAWI. It looks like everything is back on track today.