Manchester: Vueling Route News & Schedule Updates

[User001]

It's taken a while but Vueling now has Tenerife bookable into the winter season.

Flight continues at 2 weekly, and so far, cannot be booked directly from the home page, you have to select an October date and then keep scrolling along the dates to get the bookable dates.

Malaga expected to follow soon at 3 weekly, I'm not sure what the issue is that causes MAN flights to be so slow in uploading, but, it all comes together in time.

So far confirmed, we have:

BCN 5 weekly
ALC 3 weekly
FCO 3 weekly
TFS 2 weekly

Total 13 weekly

Potential:

AGP 3 weekly

That will be 16 weekly.

Not bad from a little 2 weekly BCN at the start!

 

[Borneobob]

Will they start Seville any time soon or do they prefer people to change at BCN

 

[User001]

Currently have a Vueling that won't be going anywhere for a long time.

On pushback, the towbar snapped and the aircraft rolled into the tow truck, result, Vueling A320 now has a rather large hole punched into the forward fuselage.

Monarch engineering look after Vueling, so, no doubt will need a lengthy visit to the hangar.

 

[oldendays]

Do Monarch still have their Manchester hangar ? Obviously the building is still there but I'd heard it was being vacated.

 

[User001]

Another A321 on the Barcelona run today, with EC-MLD today.

 

[Dobbo]

Vueling base to open?

 

[User001]

Barcelona now goes daily from 10th April instead of 20th June next year, and so far, runs as daily until 28th Oct, which is as far as the booking engine goes. That's confirmed and bookable.

The other 3 routes are bookable at the S16 frequency but when selecting TFS and ALC do get error messages on some dates which suggests work in progress. It does seem like some extra BCN to make it 10 weekly, ALC at 4 weekly and TFS at 3 weekly (with all extra flights looking like a based aircraft), as well as looking like Lanzarote, Malaga and Palma having direct flights but not bookable, but, it's done this before and amounted to nothing so not taking too much notice for now.

The rumours for the base are still strong so one hopes that will appear at some point.

 

[ethanegcc]

I hope a base comes off. It is obviously in the interest of IAG to restore some more faith into the MAN leisure market, after the appalling performance of AA this summer.

 

[Jerry]

Considering Vueling have bases all over western europe then the UK would be the next logical step and MAN would be a good place to start and hopefully they'll expand to basing in other UK airports as well!

 

[Dobbo]

With the pound the way it is it suddenly becomes better value to base aircraft in the UK and operate them earning euros in the Eurozone (whilst you still can!) whilst paying your crew and fuel bills in pounds!

 

[Seasider]

With the pound the way it is it suddenly becomes better value to base aircraft in the UK and operate them earning euros in the Eurozone (whilst you still can!) whilst paying your crew and fuel bills in pounds!

The problem with that scenario is that exchange rates fluctuate and in the time taken to set up a base the pound can be strong again against the Euro.

 

[Dobbo]

Perhaps, but a short haul base can change over a 6-12minth period. They are much more flexible than Longhaul.

 

[User001]

The Rome flights have been altered so that they arrive and depart early morning,

Monday's sees the flight leave FCO at 0545 and departing MAN 0825, Friday's sees the flight depart FCO 0700 and depart MAN 0920.

 

[Land23R]

Does that suggest we won't see a 2 a/c base by Vueling? Or was it Norwegian rumoured for that?

 

[User001]

We will see a base, FCO was always planned to remain on away based aircraft. It does mean connection possibilities at FCO are much better.

 

[Land23R]

Many thanks for the reply User001.

 

[ethanegcc]

Will the base potentially see more adventurous or just more routes?

 

[User001]

Routes rumoured seem to be the bog standard usual ones so far. Lanzarote, Palma, Ibiza, Malaga etc.

Have heard about Seville, Florence and La Corunia but all routes remain rumours as I get told routes all the time but the plan then changes (for example I was told that Tenerife would categorically not happen, but, now served).

 

[ethanegcc]

Seville and Florence would be great. I know FLR has a rather big Vueling presence. If I am right, none of those airports are currently served from MAN, so it would be a great market to tap into.

To be honest I don't see why they insist on entering already crowded markets to AGP, TFS, PMI and ACE, when they could bring something new, but new routes are new routes. We should just hope for FLR and Seville.

 

[User001]

They serve the routes because they are money makers.