TUI Airways

[TheLocalYokel]

It has been mentioned over on that other forum that Florida has had a 50% plus rebooking rate and that many flights to Orlando for summer 2021 are already sold out. Coupled with the fact that Brs was originally selling as a twice weekly service it may well be plausible that the flights are operating weekly but are sold out. Who knows , they may bring back the second weekly flight of all goes well

I was just about to post the same thing.

The timetable is uneven from May onwards - it's not every two weeks. Departure dates:

May 8th and 29th
June 5th and 12th
July 17th
August 21st and 28th
September 18th and 25th
October 2nd, 9th and 23rd

I presume that this year they have returned to the procedure where the aircraft goes to Scotland from mid June to mid July as school holidays are earlier there.

Cancun is once weekly from the end of March and in April then 2 x weekly (Thurs and Sun) from May to October albeit the Sunday flight takes a break from mid June till mid July for Scotland.

The odd thing is though that all dates for Cancun are shown as available with none presumably sold out yet.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thursday 17 December 2020

Today's flight to Lanzarote, TOM 6464, at 0940 appears to have operated via Exeter according to the BRS website departures page.

 

[superking]

It makes sense to operate via where ever to fill aircraft up more. I would not think many to come back.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

According to a poster on the Dried Plum TUI will base 737MAX 8 aircraft at MAN, LGW, BHX and BRS this summer. I post this in good faith but have no way of confirming it.

 

[Severn]

Wed 3 March 2021
Another TUI aircraft arrived at BRS today. This will be "stored" alongside the other TUI aircraft until they're required for flying operations again.
The aircraft arriving today is B737-800 (G-TUKO) and had been in entry-to-service maintenance in Luton after transferring from TUI fly Germany (ex- D-ATYC) lat month.

This means the following aircraft are now at BRS:

B738 (4)

G-FDZD - stored since 08-Nov-20​

G-FDZU - stored since 04-Jan-21​

G-TUKM - stored since 21-Jan-21 (aircraft was previously with TUI fly Germany as D-ATYH and transferred to TUI UK on the 04-Jan-21)​

G-TUKO - arrived 03-Mar-21 (aircraft was previously with TUI fly Germany as D-ATYC and transferred to TUI UK on the 15-Feb-21)​

B788 (1)

G-TUIE - stored since 13-Nov-20​

 

[Marko1]

Google flights indicating that the 787 is scheduled to be used on weds pmi and fri dlm.

 

[Marko1]

So does Rhodes on a weds am

 

[Marko1]

Fri am pmi will also be on the 787

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Google flights indicating that the 787 is scheduled to be used on weds pmi and fri dlm.

So does Rhodes on a weds am

Fri am pmi will also be on the 787

I can't remember how this compares with the originally planned summer 2020 787 usage when a 787 was to be permanently based throughout the summer operating every day compared with 5 days a week in the summers before that.

Although the 5 days a week programme allowed some short-haul routes fitted in between the 4 x weekly transatlantic flights, the daily 787 for 2020 had increased the number of short-haul journeys it would operate between the transatlantic routes.

 

[alphagolf]

Just seen a post on Twitter about a TUI 737 MAX positioning in from Manchester tomorrow. Link below:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1372210574793322497

 

[Severn]

Thu 18 Mar 2021
Two more TUI aircraft should arrive in BRS today making 7x TUI aircraft on the ground (5xB738, 1x38M, 1xB788)

B38M (G-TUMA) should arrive from MAN this morning as TOM908P
B738 (G-TUKN) should arrive from LTN this morning as TOM907P (aircraft was previously with TUI fly Germany as D-ATUI and transferred to TUI UK on the 10-Feb-21)

 

[ROC10]

G-TUMA has now arrived at BRS from MAN, following a bit of a detour over Newcastle and Carlisle.

 

[Marko1]

Extra weekly fuerteventura being added for winter 21/22

 

[alphagolf]

Summer 2021

It is reported in the Express that Tui will only operate from 4 UK airports from May 17th until May 27th.

The airports are Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol.

For Bristol, Cancun will not operate this summer as Tui have cancelled all flights to Mexico until end of October.

Link to report below:-

Tui to Fly from Just four airports

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Summer 2021

It is reported in the Express that Tui will only operate from 4 UK airports from May 17th until May 27th.

The airports are Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol.

For Bristol, Cancun will not operate this summer as Tui have cancelled all flights to Mexico until end of October.

Link to report below:-

Tui to Fly from Just four airports

I believe that these are the four biggest UK TUI bases, although I stand to be corrected.

 

[superking]

Yes i did read back along that BRS was 1 of TUI biggest bases. There is talk of them expanding in BRS when this covid 19 settles down.

 

[Seasider]

To warn off Jet2?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

To warn off Jet2?

Possibly but TUI had instigated a big base increase for summer 2020 until the pandemic came along. Four narrow-bodies had been increased to six narrow-bodies and the part-based B787 (five days a week in previous summers) had become fulltime. This was largely in response to the disappearance of Thomas Cook that had three aircraft based at BRS.

Jet2 is also looked upon as a replacement for Thomas Cook to a large degree so there might be some jockeying for position in that respect.

 

[Marko1]

Faro going twice weekly this summer

 

[superking]

Suprised they have not announced FNC to operate 2x weekly as they have done at other TUI bases,but Faro is good.