Thomas Cook

[User0001]

Thomas Cook will have 5 based A330 next summer.

Routes:

Las Vegas: Tue, Wed, Fri Sun
Cancun: Wed, Fri, Sun
Cayo Coco: Wed
Holguin: Mon
Miami: Fri, Sun
New York: Mon, Thu, Sat
Montego Bay: Mon
Orlando Intl: Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat
Punta Cana: Sat
Varadero: Fri

Aircraft needed:

Mon: 4 (1 A330 ops to Dalaman)
Tue: 3 (1 A330 ops PMI)
Wed: 4
Thu: 3 (1 A330 ops DLM)
Fri: 4
Sat: 4 (1 A330 ops DLM)
Sun: 4

Current slack to operate new routes: 9

Not Bookable but in booking list: Los Angeles, Providence (Boston), Barbados and Antigua.

Rumoured new routes: Tobago (due to Monarch pulling long haul and UK capacity being way way down. Was originally planned then pulled again.

 

[thunderchild]

How many A330s will TCX have next summer? Will the 76Ws be back or are they going to Condor permanently?

 

[User0001]

There will be 6 A330's in the fleet next summer.

G-MDBD/MLJL/OMYT/CHTZ, OY-VKF and G-VYGG.

OY-VFK will be exclusively MAN based, and G-VYGG will only operate on MAN-USA routes due to the military nature of the aircraft.

The B767's will now alternate between Condor in the winter and Thomas Cook in the summer.

 

[thunderchild]

With 5/6 frames based at MAN it will be very tight running the other long hauls from LGW, GLA and STN in the peak weeks; personally I don't see how they could fit any more long hauls in without extra aircraft.

 

[User0001]

5 frames will be based at MAN, 1 will be LGW/GLA based. The STN flights only run when the GLA programme is wound down after their holiday period.

Even with 5 frames at MAN, the new routes to LAX/PVD/BGI/ANU/TAB only require 6 slots, and with 9 slots available, and 3 more if they stop using the A330 on short haul, there is more than enough slack to operate the long haul programme that is proposed/rumoured.

 

[User0001]

Thomas Cook are now building a cracking little network out of Manchester.

From March 29th 2016, it has now been confirmed via their website that a 2 weekly link from MAN to Los Angeles will begin, flying on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Im absalutely thrilled that MAN now has a direct west coast USA link.

From April, there will be a 2 weekly link to Boston, on Mondays and Thursdays.

Lastly, from the same date, New York JFK goes to 4 weekly, with a Friday flight added (Im particularly impressed with this news, as I though AA upgrading to a B767 and Delta adding JFK, Thomas Cook would struggle, but, obviously not).

MAN recently stated they would soon be announcing a new long haul route 'currently only available from Heathrow'. Now, LAX is served by DY at Gatwick, the Hainan news is imminent (but have been open about Beijing in the past so why go cryptic now?), but, could the route be the Boston?

 

[User0001]

Las Vegas an Orlando are running into the winter, which hasn't happened for years.

 

[User0001]

Thomas Cook have now aquired an ex-Avianca A330-200 and is painted in the full new livery.

Also, a Chiese investment firm has aquired 5% of the TCX group, and will apparently use TCX to run charters between MAN and China. No other details given on that however.

 

[User0001]

Thomas Cook have confirmed via Twitter that MAN-LAX is still happening in 2016.

Flights will be on sale in a couple of weeks, and will be 2 weekly on Mondays and Saturdays from March 29th.

Great news!

 

[User0001]

From 1st May 2016, Thomas Cook will increase MAN-JFK to 6 weekly, with just Wednesday having no flight.

I will be the first to admit that I thought TCX wouldn't last on the MAN-NYC market, but, it seems they are more than holding their own now they have doubled frequency. Not bad considering they have to fill a high density A330 too.

Other increases/new routes for 2016 will be Boston on Wed/Sun, Los Angeles on Mon/Sat, Las Vegas goes 6 weekly peak summer and Varadero goes 2 weekly.

Im told Barbados/St. Lucia/Antigua will also make it to summer routes and the 2nd Orlando on Tuesdays will route to Tampa instead, but, these are not showing on any platform yet, so remains to be seen if those additions are true or not.

The new flights should be announced on Thursday, barring Boston which will be announced at a later date.

Im very impressed at the way Thomas Cook have built up this network from MAN. Now, being greedy I would love to see TCX add the condor roues of Cape Town, Rio De Janeiro and Male from Manchester.

 

[User0001]

Its worth noting that Orlando on Saturdays sees TCX472 and TCX166 both depart at 1015.

It will be interesting to see if one of these flights ends up being the new 1 weekly Tampa flight, as I cant see TCX running 2 A330's to MCO at exactly the same time.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... os-9183745

I think this is confirmation of user001's recent posts.

Thomas Cook will have six A 330s based at MAN in summer 2016 with the various increases on existing long haul routes and the new routes all mentioned in the linked newspaper article.

 

[User001]

Thomas Cook have announced 1 weekly Tobago from November 2016.

 

[User001]

One or two changes being made to the Thomas Cook long haul schedules in winter 2016/17.

Goa increases from 2 weekly to 3 weekly.

Miami runs for the full winter, barring a 2 week break over Christmas.

New York runs over winter barring Jan/Feb.

Tobago is. New route at 1 weekly.

Los Angeles looks to continue through the winter at 2 weekly.

Orlando and Las Vegas also now seem to be year round routes.

Boston is definitely seasonal as it ends in September.

 

[Dobbo]

Hi User

Am I right in thinking that this represents a decrease from the summer schedule but an increase from this winter?

 

[User001]

It does indeed.

There is always a decrease in winter, but, the decreases are getting less and less each year.

 

[User001]

The Thomas Cook juggernaut brings more dividends for MAN

2017 confirmed increases:

New York increases to 9 weekly
Miami increases to 3 weekly (Tu/Fr/Su
Los Angeles increases to 3 weekly (Mo/We/Sa)

New route to San Fransisco every Thu and Sun.

I think we can safely say we now have west coast USA covered!

 

[Dobbo]

Excellent news! Do they have any plans to increase the fleet? I assume the plan is to use the A330s?

It looks like LAX must be doing okay to increase to 3x weekly. However, it is still seasonal and I wouldn't count any chickens just yet. Very positive news overall. Just CPT to go for the expected new routes...

 

[Dobbo]

P.s. Any timing of the second daily JFK flight?

 

[User001]

1255 every day and then Tue/Fri sees a 1745 departure (at the moment, it's a over a year out yet so things could change).