Route Development & Rumours

[A400]

Wizz air, for me, are not welcome at LBA.

They are for me. Plenty of routes they could serve from LBA that Ryanair and others don’t. Bucharest, Warsaw (the main one) Venice, Varna ect.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

They are for me. Plenty of routes they could serve from LBA that Ryanair and others don’t. Bucharest, Warsaw (the main one) Venice, Varna ect.

All of which could can be served by Ryanair. They aren’t currently due diluting they market with Wizz from Doncaster.

 

[Statto]

I have no doubt the airport management will see Wizz as a very attractive addition and will be keeping a close eye on developments at Doncaster.

 

[oldendays]

Better Wizz than IPS. At least Wizz are proven to exist whereas IPS...who knows ?

 

[A400]

All of which could can be served by Ryanair. They aren’t currently due diluting they market with Wizz from Doncaster.

This is true but surely abit of variety isn’t a bad thing. It doesn’t have to be one airline doing all the routes.

 

[White Heather]

Better Wizz than IPS. At least Wizz are proven to exist whereas IPS...who knows ?

Oh IPS exist. They are registered at Companies House and have a head office in London. They just have no aircraft, and apparently no UK operators licence based on earlier posts. That might yet change or it might not. Their copybook is well and truly blotted but they could yet make a come back. Whether LBA agree to a comeback here is for the future.

 

[lbaspotter]

Well Jet2 & Ryanair happily lived with Monarch & TUi bases at LBA for 2/3 years. So i'm sure they will again as I think the is room in the market for with Wizz Air at LBA.

Saying that, my preference would rather it be Easyjet base, but that option doesn't look like its on the table at moment. Well not until the terminal extension is built.

 

[A400]

I’ve seen that Wizz have launched a new route from Cardiff to Milan. If they did come to LBA Milan would be a route to consider. They have 3 major airports there yet we don’t have a single flight to one of them.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Monarch Ryanair and Jet2 lived in harmony because monarch literally served high volume selling routes from LBA. What it knew it could fill and get good revenue for. Monarch did not offer anything additional or new to the airport. Agree they offered competition, in fares and customer service, but that’s about all.

Wizz Air have just canned CWL to become summer seasonal. Wizz air to Milan? Again I’d rather see someone more reputable such as EasyJet or Ryanair serve it. EasyJet would be my preferred 3rd carrier at LBA over wizz air. Any day of the week.

 

[White Heather]

Monarch Ryanair and Jet2 lived in harmony because monarch literally served high volume selling routes from LBA. What it new it could fill and get good revenue for. Monarch did not offer anything additional or new to the airport. Agree they offered competition, in fares and customer service, but that’s about all.

Wizz Air have just canned CWL to become summer seasonal. Wizz air to Milan? Again I’d rather see someone more reputable such as EasyJet or Ryanair serve it. EasyJet would be my preferred 3rd carrier at LBA over wizz air. Any day of the week.

Not strictly true, as Monarch operated from LBA to Munich for a while, a new route for LBA at that time.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Not strictly true, as Monarch operated from LBA to Munich for a while, a new route for LBA at that time.

Didn't really do well though. Quickly and Quietly dropped. If my memory serves my correct.

 

[White Heather]

Didn't really do well though. Quickly and Quietly dropped. If my memory serves my correct.

It was. But at least it was something new.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Monarch were great when i used to fly them from LBA to ALC, same high levels of customer service as jet2 but from what i saw they did seem to attract a better clientele of pax, monarch crew were always extremely friendly. The airline tapped into a market that suited passengers from the area known as the golden triangle from the northern leeds suburbs.

 

[ls27]

Must include Baildon then!

 

[ls27]

According to CH-Aviation, UK IPS has postponed UK - Pakistan until 4Q22

 

[AirBingley]

I've seen reports Wizz are cutting services in Cardiff stopping services to destinations including Alicante, Corfu, Heraklion, Faro, Larnaca, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Sharm el-Sheikh, and Tenerife (Source: BBC). The staff are being offered roles at other bases. Its supposedly a winter only move and they are blaming the economy as opposed to staff availability or handling at airports. Whether that has any bearing on any discussions (or not!) with LBA - who knows?

 

[White Heather]

I've seen reports Wizz are cutting services in Cardiff stopping services to destinations including Alicante, Corfu, Heraklion, Faro, Larnaca, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Sharm el-Sheikh, and Tenerife (Source: BBC). The staff are being offered roles at other bases. Its supposedly a winter only move and they are blaming the economy as opposed to staff availability or handling at airports. Whether that has any bearing on any discussions (or not!) with LBA - who knows?

Well that's Wizz UK who recently quit DSA. Obviously not going well. In winter they only seem to be operating from LGW and LTN?

I would hope if there is any truth in the rumours about Wizz at LBA, it relates to Wizz Europe. We need more scheduled routes into Europe rather than yet more flights to the bucket and spade resorts.

 

[LBA4EVER]

I think the issue is when most brits book their bucket and spade hols the last airline they think of is wizz air, for most its ryanair, jet2 and tui.
Wizz are generally considered the eastern europe airline.

 

[tonysmith]

There’s a good article on the ips saga on simpleflying.com

 

[White Heather]

There’s a good article on the ips saga on simpleflying.com

It's not that good. It's a copy of the T&A article with extras, and it contains the same inaccuracies, such as claiming that the IPS flights would have been the first ever link from LBA to Pakistan, and that the East Midlands flights has been scrapped in favour of LBA only. They are still showing East Midlands as a destination on their website.

The writer freely admits the source was the T&A. Yet another lazy journalist who can't be bothered to do research or check facts so the same falsehoods just get recycled.

Apart from that it was ok!