Thomas Cook

[Foxlimayankee]

They are 757-300s which are primarily based at MAN and LGW

 

[Severn]

In peak summer, these are the aircraft bases for TCX:

A320 - 6 Total
LGW - 2 (1 op by SmartLynx Airlines / 1 op by Titan Airways)
MAN - 1 (op by Avion Express)
BHX - 1 (op by SmartLynx Airlines)
NCL - 1 (op by Avion Express)
CWL - 1 (op by Avion Express)

A321 - 24 Total
MAN - 6 (5 + 1 stby) (2 op by Avion Express)
BHX - 3
STN - 3
LGW - 2 (1 op by SmartLynx Airlines)
NCL - 2
BRS - 2
EMA - 2
GLA - 2
BFS - 1

B757-300 - 6 Total
MAN - 3 (1 operated by Condor)
LGW - 3

A330-200 - 9 Total
MAN - 7 (1 op by AirTanker / 1 op by Thomas Cook Scandinavia)
STN - 1 (op by AirTanker)
LGW - 1

A330-300 - 1 Total
STN - 1 (op by Thomas Cook Scandinavia)

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MAN - 17 (16 + 1 Stby)
1x A320 - (op by Avion Express)
6x A321 (5 + 1 stby) - (2 op by Avion Express)
3x B757-300 - (1 operated by Condor)
7x A330-200 - (1 op by AirTanker / 1 op by Thomas Cook Scandinavia)

LGW - 8
2x A320 - (1 op by SmartLynx Airlines / 1 op by Titan Airways)
2x A321 - (1 op by SmartLynx Airlines)
3x B757-300
1x A330-200

STN - 5
3x A321
1x A330-200 - (op by AirTanker)
1x A330-300 - (op by Thomas Cook Scandinavia)

BHX - 4
1x A320 - (op by SmartLynx Airlines)
3x A321

NCL - 3
1x A320 - (op by Avion Express)
2x A321

BRS - 2
2x A321

EMA - 2
2x A321

GLA - 2
2x A321

BFS - 1
1x A321

CWL - 1
1x A320 - (op by Avion Express)

(Peak summer is around the English school holidays - outside of this time STN is only a 2x TCX A321 base and GLA is a 3x TCX A321 base. The Thomas Cook Scandinavia A330-300 operates out of primarily GLA, but also BFS and STN and the AirTanker A330-200 operates out of GLA)

 

[Jerry]

Thomas Cook's luxury travel brand Signature are now offering packages to Thailand from May 2018 using Qatar Airways flights.

 

[Aviador]

Thomas Cook's luxury travel brand Signature are now offering packages to Thailand from May 2018 using Qatar Airways flights.

A very posative spin off from getting the Qatar Airways flights.

 

[Jerry]

Yep it is. Hopefully they'll offer more in time. I checked the likes of Mauritius and Bali but they weren't offered. Hopefully if Qatar do the flights they will be in the future.

 

[CraigW92]

Interesting looking at Thomas cook for next year, a weekly Antalya seems to be added ( or should I say re added from previous seasons) on a W pattern which looking at the times could well be from a BRS based frame ? Good to see another destination return.

MT903 AYT 14:45 - CWL 17:25
MT902 CWL 18:25 - AYT 00:30

Flights operated every Friday from May to October on an A321 aircraft

 

[Jerry]

That's great news. It'll be nice to see a returned route and an A321 and Turkey has been doing well this year. Fingers crossed this means there might be more to come from TCX in the future!

 

[CraigW92]

More digging into the schedule always seems to reveal that Menorca (MAH) has been dropped next year, TFS changes slots on a Friday to 07:00 and a second DLM seems to have been added, seems a bit strange to me, Perhaps one for the Flybe charter opportunities that were being talked about

2017

06:00 Mahon (MAH)
13:10 Tenerife (TFS

2018

06:00 Tenerife (TFS)
16:40 Dalaman (DLM)

 

[TheLocalYokel]

As well as CWL, TCX have announced a number of other airports to be served to Antalya on W-patterns: LBA, EDI, EMA, BHX. There is also a post elsewhere that suggests that they will also serve Dalaman from Norwich on a W-pattern. It looks as though Turkey is regaining its popularity.

 

[Jerry]

Looking at the Thomas Cook holiday page and for Spain they only seem to be offering Majorca, Lanzarote and Tenerife. There is a big gap in Flybe's Saturday schedule for the E jet so it could fit there. Turkey seems to be a big target for them next year, i have a feeling there is more to come from TCX!

 

[Jerry]

At the moment this is what Thomas Cook summer 2018 looks like. Departure times are from CWL.

Monday
Zante/Zakynthos 06.40
Dalaman 15.50

Tuesday
Majorca 06.00
Tenerife 13.00

Wednesday
Majorca 06.15
Rhodes 14.55

Thursday
Zante/Zakynthos 05.45
Lanzarote 14.45

Friday
Tenerife 06.00
Dalaman 16.30
Antalya 18.25 W pattern A321 from BRS

Saturday
Majorca 07.10
Ibiza 13.50
Bourgas 20.40

Sunday
Reus 06.00
Larnaca 12.35

 

[Jerry]

Looking at Menorca and i've just checked BRS's capacity for 2018 and it's been cut from 2 A321 flights a week to 1 A320 and 1 A321 a week compared to 2 weekly A321s, so i'm wondering if Menorca isn't selling as well as they liked in the South West area so they dropped it from CWL and added Turkey which may be selling better.

 

[Foxlimayankee]

TCX are taking on an ex Thomas Cook Belgium A320 next summer. Hopefully this will be CWL based. However the aircraft is line number 1954 (OO-TCW) first flight in Feb 2003, with LYVEL being line number 1998, first flight in mar 2003 so is slightly younger.

 

[Jerry]

TCX are taking on an ex Thomas Cook Belgium A320 next summer. Hopefully this will be CWL based. However the aircraft is line number 1954 (OO-TCW) first flight in Feb 2003, with LYVEL being line number 1998, first flight in mar 2003 so is slightly younger.

Would be nice to have a TCX aircraft rather than a non TCX again, also if they do base a TCX aircraft then the chance of a year round base could get higher.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

But they have LBA ...

 

[Jerry]

But they have LBA ...

Yep there is that but they are also basing an A320 at BRS and is the new LBA base going to be year round?

 

[Jerry]

Looks like CWL can effectively forget about any hopes of an actual Thomas Cook A320 as the 3 left over from Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium will be going to be based in Mallorca and form part of Thomas Cook Airlines Balearics.
http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/thomas-cook-mallorca-101.html

 

[Jerry]

Just had a look at what Thomas Cook Holidays were offering for Winter 2018/19 and it's nothing yet, same with TUI.

 

[Jerry]

Thomas Cook has released it's Winter 2018/19 but nothing for Cardiff yet.

 

[Tinkerman]

TCX don’t do Winter from CWL ?