Vueling

[superking]

Wonder if Vueling will respond to the Ryanair Faro route with a new destination of their own?

why should they. they have not stepped on vuelings toes YET.

 

[marsh.ger]

Vueling has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for 4 additional Airbus aircraft but no dates provided and nothing says Cardiff will benefit any of these.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

why should they. they have not stepped on vuelings toes YET.

I suppose Jerry might be suggesting that Vueling might want to 'get in first' with more rotations to ALC and AGP in particular in case Ryanair decides to dip its snout into some of them.

It's fairly common knowledge that airports, especially smaller ones, have to drive hard bargains with the likes of easyJet and Ryanair to get them on board, with the advertised landing charges etc going out the window. CWL has presumably done this with FAO which Flybe must realise. They'll have to be careful they don't put the airline's back up and the same applies with Vueling if Ryanair is interested in the likes of ALC and AGP (at BRS there was a falling out when easyJet trumped Flybe on some routes they were operating that never properly healed - Flybe left the airport and never really came back).

 

[superking]

I suppose Jerry might be suggesting that Vueling might want to 'get in first' with more rotations to ALC and AGP in particular in case Ryanair decides to dip its snout into some of them.

It's fairly common knowledge that airports, especially smaller ones, have to drive hard bargains with the likes of easyJet and Ryanair to get them on board, with the advertised landing charges etc going out the window. CWL has presumably done this with FAO which Flybe must realise. They'll have to be careful they don't put the airline's back up and the same applies with Vueling if Ryanair is interested in the likes of ALC and AGP (at BRS there was a falling out when easyJet trumped Flybe on some routes they were operating that never properly healed - Flybe left the airport and never really came back).

you are correct in what you say localyokel. I hope there is no blood bath cus I and you know who will win that one. perhaps be leave fao to fr and perhaps do a extra route into france.

 

[Jerry]

Vueling has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for 4 additional Airbus aircraft but no dates provided and nothing says Cardiff will benefit any of these.

I could see at some of them being based in the Canaries as it looks like to do Canaries to the UK they have to overnight aircraft.

 

[Jerry]

Vueling Winter 2016 1st November to 25th March

Alicante 3 weekly flights with the exception of 1 week in December when there is only 2 flights.
Tuesday and Friday (A flight is on Friday 23rd December instead of the 24th)
ALC-CWL 09.00-10.35 CWL-ALC 11.15-14.35
Tuesday 1st November only ALC-CWL 07.50-09.25 CWL-ALC 10.05-13.25

Malaga 3 weekly flights with the exception of a week in December and 3 in February where there is only 2 weekly flights and the Thursday rotation is dropped.
Tuesday 1st November AGP-CWL 06.45-08.15 CWL-AGP 09.00-12.30
All other Tuesdays AGP-CWL 11.25-12.55 CWL-AGP 13.40-17.10

Thursdays in November and March AGP-CWL 06.25-07.55 CWL-AGP 08.40-12.10
Thursdays in December AGP-CWL 09.45-11.15 CWL-AGP 12.00-15.30
Thursdays in January and February AGP-CWL 16.10-17.40 CWL-AGP 18.20-21.50

Paris Orly
Friday 17th March ORY-CWL 08.30-08.35 CWL-ORY 09.20-11.25

Sunday 19th March ORY-CWL 15.20-15.25 CWL-ORY 16.10-18.15

Rome FCO
Saturday 4th February CWL-FCO 10.10-14.00

Monday 6th February FCO-CWL 09.50-11.40

 

[Jerry]

The Rome flights i do not know why there isn't a full rotation on both days on sale, so if anyone has any info as to why please post it!

 

[superking]

might pay to look. pperhaps sport related on fco.. routes one way no good.

 

[superking]

when is the 6 nations rugby.??

 

[Jerry]

when is the 6 nations rugby.??

The Paris flights and FCO flights are on the Six nations weekends for the French and Italy game but with the Rome flights there is only those legs bookable on Vueling.com. Only thing I can think of is they are either chartering or sending an empty plane from either Amsterdam, Brussels or CDG/ORY.

 

[superking]

Rome FCO
Saturday 4th February CWL-FCO 10.10-14.00

Monday 6th February FCO-CWL 09.50-11.40
its sport related something,as its out Saturday back Monday.what ever it is it will give them a nice weekend break. the plane into cdf will be a position flight and the same from cdf,from which ever airport its operating from. is there nothing on the veuling site saying what it is. as to book something like that they would like to know why they going to fco.the time of year is not right for a standard city break. time will tell us.

 

[marsh.ger]

The Paris flights are being operated by a Paris based aircraft therefore it is suitable to sell both sectors.

The Rome flights are having the aircraft position from elsewhere. The last time it was Gatwick and departed back to Gatwick.

 

[superking]

Sad news from vueling today. They are shutting 3 bases at brussels,catania and Palermo.I just wonder if that will have any impact on cwl, as extra rotation on one of the routes already run,or they would look at a new route to cwl.I cant see them baseing at cwl,but something extra would be good.

 

[Jerry]

I just read about that. They focusing more strategically on France, Spain and Italy. It does depend on where the planes get based. On another forum a poster said they were going to 5 weekly on BCN in July, August and September but the Sunday flights aren't bookable. If CWL is to benefit then hopefully they'll introduce FCO or a canaries route. Hopefully the crews of those aircraft will find employment soon!

 

[Jerry]

Vueling July 2016 statistics.

Alicante 5787
Barcelona 5801
Malaga 5594
Palma de Mallorca 4963

 

[Jerry]

Vueling flights to Paris and Rome are now being advertised!

 

[superking]

Vueling flights to Paris and Rome are now being advertised!

rugby 6 nation flights.

 

[User001]

Seems Cardiff undergoing a bit of tweaking too, as I can't seem to book Barcelona or Palma flights in 2017. Guess they are being re-timed or something and will be re-added in time.

 

[Jerry]

rugby 6 nation flights.

Well hopefully they'll sell well and lead to extra flights if not by Vueling then maybe by Ryanair.

 

[Jerry]

Seems Cardiff undergoing a bit of tweaking too, as I can't seem to book Barcelona or Palma flights in 2017. Guess they are being re-timed or something and will be re-added in time.

On another site a poster said that BCN went up to 5 weekly during June July and August with the addition of a sunday flight but then it was dropped. Hopefully by the time Summer 17 comes round we'll have an increase though considering Flybe are doing FCO next year I don't think we'll get any new destinations from Vueling.