Route Development & Rumours

[Matt995]

Titan Airways should be operating a series of santa lapland flights to Ivalo in December :-




possibly a few more to come, I'm guessing the aircraft type will be A320's, replacing the former Thomas Cook santa flights.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Probably a good choice for Red Sea Holidays as they still offer Thursday departures to Hurghada using the TUi flights.

 

[Coathanger16]

Icelandic start-up budget carrier Play plans A321 fleet

Play is aiming to operate services initially to Europe, it says.

It plans to open routes to a number of North American destinations in spring 2020 and bring its fledgling fleet up to six aircraft for the summer season.

Icelandic start-up budget carrier Play plans A321 fleet

Icelandic investors have unveiled a new low-cost airline, branded Play, which intends to use a fleet of Airbus A321s. Play is aiming to operate services initially to Europe, it says. It plans to open routes to a number of North American destinations in spring 2020 and bring its fledgling fleet ...

www.flightglobal.com

Maybe one for BHX in the near future...?

 

[RichL]

I hope not.

 

[Brum X]

I hope not.

Why ?

 

[KJAY 786]

It would be nice to see such a Beautiful Airline called PLAY serve Birmingham - Iceland and USA /CANADA - I hope Birmingham welcomes them. Make me happy come on Babby FLY BHX x x x x love you BHX x x x x

 

[jfy1999]

I hope not.

Why ?

Maybe the worry is that they will go the same way as Air Atlanta, Iceland Express, and WOW. Historically Iceland has been unable to support two airlines.

 

[RichL]

Yep, sorry, I should have put more in my reply than 'hope not' but that is pretty much nail=head.

Don't want another Primera debacle, don't really need a start up airline offering £199 return flights to the USA.

How old will their aircraft be? What will their tech contingency be with 6 aircraft and 'a number of North American destinations' on offer?

How old was that 757 that was being used with Primera? 29 years old?

 

[Brum X]

Maybe the worry is that they will go the same way as Air Atlanta, Iceland Express, and WOW. Historically Iceland has been unable to support two airlines.

And at the end of the day forum beggars can't be choosers.

IMO a direct service to Keflavik will be most welcome and I don't care who operates it.

 

[Brum X]

How old was that 757 that was being used with Primera? 29 years old?

But probably the same age as the United 757 and the AA 757 and now we have Zilch

 

[rutamkrd]

Why ?

Because its a bum business model yet to be successful isn’t it ?

WOW Primera even Norwegian hasn‘t worked out how to actually make money with the Max/321 over the ocean !

Aer Lingus and TAP on the other hand have gone with a balanced approach with a fair amount of premium capacity increasing yield potential with measured and lower all up weights improving performance at the same time.

 

[Brum X]

Because its a bum business model yet to be successful isn’t it ?

WOW Primera even Nowegian hasn‘t worked out how to actually make money with the Max/321 over the ocean !

Aer Lingus and TAP on the other hand have gone with a balanced approach with a fair amount of premium capacity increasing yield potential with measured and lower all up weights improving performance at the same time.

I'm not interested in the TATL offer, I am more interested in BHX having a direct service to KEF maybe x 3 weekly which airlines such as Easyjet offer from other regional airports.

And at the moment I can't see lots of other airlines queuing up to offer this service.

 

[rutamkrd]

Easyjet may well be a far better option (if they remember where Birmingham is) or even dare i say TUi twice a week, for the smells of sulphur, ice and snow, a chance to see Bjork or Lay Low and all whilst having your pocket fleeced experience .

 

[Brum X]

Easyjet may well be a far better option (if they remember where Birmingham is) or even dare i say TUi twice a week, for the smells of sulphur, ice and snow, a chance to see Bjork or Lay Low and all whilst having your pocket fleeced experience .

Each to there own and all that rutamkrd, its what makes us all different.

Imagine if everybody was like you

 

[rutamkrd]

Been there done that already

 

[RichL]

We had Iceland Air didn't we? How did that pan out?

 

[rollo]

We had Iceland Air didn't we? How did that pan out?

They pulled out at short notice around the same time as American and United just before Primera sort of turned up but we've had that discussion on here before.

 

[Brum X]

We had Iceland Air didn't we? How did that pan out?

You kinda answered your own question, We had Icelandair

 

[Ray Finkle]

Was the door shut or just pulled to?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Icelandair seemed to leave in a hurry. Was this because they were upset with BHX for some reason? Their monthly pax figures had been falling but the planned introduction of the 737MAX (yes, I know - that's another story) would have been ideal and possibly allowed for a more frequent service.
I would like to see them back due to their convenient links to the USA.

Kevin