ACL Birmingham Slot Allocation

[Matt995]

Start of Summer season 2019 slot allocation for Birmingham

 

[Brum X]

Thanks Matt

 

[Ianbutty]

Thanks Matt. Interesting reading. I am correct in reading that the potential capacity this season is 9 million? That would be good to achieve.

 

[Coathanger16]

Thanks Matt. Interesting reading. I am correct in reading that the potential capacity this season is 9 million? That would be good to achieve.

When does the 'season' run from and to? How does it compare to last year?

 

[mullion]

if you go on the site Matt has posted you can find all the details which are like for like compared to 2018

 

[Ray Finkle]

The season covers Sun 31st March to Sat 26th October which is 210 days (7 days less than the 2018 reporting period).

The total allocation for 2018 was 9,701,692 seats. For 2019 the allocation is 10,418,733 seats, an increase of 717,041 for the period.

The peak week allocation for 2018 was 344,168 seats. For 2019 it is 369,592 seats, an increase of 25,424.

Obviously there are many external factors that can affect the final numbers but it's good to get an idea of what direction things are heading in.

 

[Ianbutty]

The season covers Sun 31st March to Sat 26th October which is 210 days (7 days less than the 2018 reporting period).

The total allocation for 2018 was 9,701,692 seats. For 2019 the allocation is 10,418,733 seats, an increase of 717,041 for the period.

The peak week allocation for 2018 was 344,168 seats. For 2019 it is 369,592 seats, an increase of 25,424.

Obviously there are many external factors that can affect the final numbers but it's good to get an idea of what direction things are heading in.

Thanks for thw breakdown Ray. So pretty good news.

 

[Ray Finkle]

The W19 Initial Slot Co-ordination is now out, below is the summary from the ACL Report.

There is conformation that Air Arabia Maroc canx Agadir and TUi canx Goa. Thomas Cook had a service to Marrkech which never materialised and we know about new services from TUi (Agadir and Marsa Alam), Lauda (Vienna) and Wizz (Krakow). Air India still have slots for 6x weekly and Turkmenistan 5x weekly.

Obviously it is all very much subject to change.

Operator Category Description of change from W18 schedule to W19 schedule

Aer Lingus CHANGE Increase Cork service.
Air Arabia Maroc CANCELLED Agadir Almassira service.
Air France CHANGE Increase Paris Ch. De Gaulle service.
Brussels Airlines CHANGE Increase Brussels service.
EasyJet CHANGE Increase Geneva service.
Enter Air NEW Chambery service.
Eurowings CHANGE Increase Dusseldorf service.
Federal Express CANCELLED Belfast service.
Flybe CHANGE Increase Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Belfast City, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Guernsey, Glasgow, Hanover, Hamburg, Inverness, Isle of Man, Jersey, Lyon, Milan Malpensa & Stuttgart services.
Flybe CANCELLED Newquay & Nantes services.
Jet2.com NEW Budapest & Lleida Alguaire services.
Jet2.com CHANGE Increase Lanzarote, Faro, Las Palmas & Tenerife services.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines CHANGE Increase Amsterdam service.
Lauda Motion NEW Vienna service.
Lufthansa CHANGE Increase Frankfurt service.
Ryanair NEW Corfu, Chania, Porto, Perpignan & Reus services.
Ryanair CHANGE Increase Alicante, Krakow, Las Palmas, Madrid & Murcia services.
SAS Scandinavian CHANGE Increase Copenhagen service.
Thomas Cook (UK) NEW Marrakech service.
Thomas Cook (UK) CHANGE Lanzarote, Banjul & Fuerteventura services.
TUI Airways NEW Agadir & Marsa Alam services.
TUI Airways CHANGE Increase Hurghada service.
TUI Airways CANCELLED Goa & Orlando services.
Turkish Airlines CHANGE Increase Istanbul Ataturk service.
Turkmenistan Airlines CHANGE Increase Ashgabat service.
Vueling CHANGE Increase Barcelona service.
Wizz Air NEW Krakow service.
Wizz Air CHANGE Increase Budapest, Cluj-Napoca Romania, Warsaw & Wroclaw services.
Wizz Air CANCELLED Poznan service.

 

[Brum X]

On the other thread Ray, Ian F mentions some slots from Level or am I getting confused.com ?

 

[Brum X]

Just found out it is the same company who own Lauda so it must be the new Lauda BHX-=VIE

 

[Matt995]

Lauda Motion is connected to Ryanair, their flights are bookable on the Ryanair website, Level is part of the IAG group, and not connected to Lauda Motion at all!!

Wizzair cancel Poznan cant be right, flights are bookable in the winter period!, maybe the ACL report was issued before the flights were announced?

 

[Brum X]

Lauda Motion is connected to Ryanair, their flights are bookable on the Ryanair website, Level is part of the IAG group, and not connected to Lauda Motion at all!!

Wizzair cancel Poznan cant be right, flights are bookable in the winter period!, maybe the ACL report was issued before the flights were announced?

It mentions Anisec (Level) – 5,040 seats.

Level already interested in AMS/CDG

 

[jfy1999]

Seems to be a lot of seasonal Ryanair routes going year round? I think Porto was already reported but I wasn't expecting the likes of CHQ and CFU.

 

[User1007]

I wouldn't get too excited about Ryanair. They've also got massive increases in the reports for Stansted and Manchester, with some very unlikely year round routes.

 

[58terminus]

The W19 Initial Slot Co-ordination is now out, below is the summary from the ACL Report.

A lot showing increase.Anybody have more details?

 

[Matt995]

Copy of the report attached, Anisec (Level) is showing 28 sectors on a 180 seater A320, so are these just 14 ad-hoc flights perhaps during the festival season, or 1 flight a week for 14 weeks?

large increases by FlyBe, Aer Lingus, Brussels Airlines, Easyjet, KLM, Jet2, Ryanair, Wizzair, Thomas Cook & TUI.

 

[Ray Finkle]

This is just the initial slot request report and is usually very different to what the final schedules will look like.

Level could well have been a ski route or possibly an outside chance of a city route starting late Feb.

The Ryanair routes (Porto aside) are most likely ones that will encroach into the winter schedule by a week or two for the school holidays so will be shown as new if they didn't last year. The same could be said for TUi Orlando but in reverse.

Wizz Poznan must have been shown as cancelled when the report came out but as we know has since returned with a Wroclaw based aircraft.

There are bits and pieces elsewhere which I'll look at when I get home.

 

[mullion]

Don`t know if there is any connection but the Level flight out of Manchester is to SZG for ski programme
and very similar duration

 

[Ray Finkle]

large increases by FlyBe, Aer Lingus, Brussels Airlines, Easyjet, KLM, Jet2, Ryanair, Wizzair, Thomas Cook & TUI.

Flybe - No idea, maybe a wish list?

Aer Lingus - Increases to Cork over last year?

Easyjet - An extra Saturday Geneva added although still down on a couple of years ago.

KLM - Not sure, maybe slots requested but not taken?

I think the others have been covered on here.

 

[Brum X]

It looks like the Level flight is for the Dubrovnik Charters that were to be operated by Croatia Airlines.

Reported on the dried fruit