East Midlands: Jet2 Flights, New Routes & Base Updates

[Aviador]

Jet2.com have today 28 August 2009 announced that they are to open a new base at East Midlands Airport for summer 2010 serving destinations in Egypt and Turkey with a view to expand further over then next three years.

 

[lbaspotter]

Hi

Jet2 have today announced 2 new winter ski routes from its new base at East Midlands Airport.

The airline will operate winters ski service flights to Chambery and Geneva from December 2010 through till April 2011. Flights are now on sale at www.jet2.com

 

[Aviador]

[textarea]New Jet2 seats to cut fuel costs

Jet2 are to drive down the cost of fuel consumption on their flights with newly designed, light-weight seats on board their Boeing 757’s that have begun to arrive at East Midlands Airport. The launch of the new streamlined seats, which enhance customer comfort as well as save space due to an ergonomically designed shape, coincided with the arrival of Jet2.com’s planes at the airport.

The light-weight seats are will shave 500 kilos off an average flight for the 229-seat Boeing 757 which means greater savings for customers and less fuel consumption. They will also create more legroom, managing director Ian Doubtfire said.

This summer Jet2 is launching flights to 7 new destinations – Corfu, Dalaman, Heraklion, Lanzarote, Paphos, Sharm el Sheikh and Tenerife - starting from May 19. The expansion is expected to create 200 new jobs.

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[lbaspotter]

Hi

Jet2 open there new base at East Midlands Airport, Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 18th with an 09:30 departue going to Cyprus-Paphos.

The airlines Boeing 757-200WL, (G-LSAB) aircraft is to position down to East Midlands tonight from Leeds as LS15P at 23:35.

 

[backtrack]

Hi

Jet2 open there new base at East Midlands Airport, Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 18th with an 09:30 departue going to Cyprus-Paphos.

The airlines Boeing 757-200WL, (G-LSAB) aircraft is to position down to East Midlands tonight from Leeds as LS15P at 23:35.

Do we now loose G-LSAB, as one of our own 757's?

 

[pilot_737]

I'd imagine it will be changed every so often. It won't stay at the same airport the whole time.

They normally rotate them so that one plane isnt doing the same cycles every week.

 

[Aviador]

Does anyone know how the new base is doing?

 

[pilot_737]

Looking at the above schedule for summer 11, I wouldn't be surprised to see flight times changed on Monday, Tuesday and Weds so only 1 aircraft is needed, freeing up another for more flights elsewhere.

Unless they announce new routes...

 

[Aviador]

Likewise, I would say the same. Mon, Tue and Wednesday are traditionally the quietest days of the week at most airports.

 

[Aviador]

Jet2's free skis offer is back on for bookings made between the 15th and 30th November.

 

[tleeds]

I think that Jet2 has got great potential at EMA. With the dropping of SSH and their Tunisian Programme they are generally focussing on more Canary Island routes. For next summer, possibly winter as well I can see them chasing a Gran Canaria route, that serves NEW and MAN at the moment, especially in competition with TOM and TCX as well as FR and possibly some more city routes to utilise the 737 more....

 

[tleeds]

[textarea]Jet2.com New Routes
They have announced that they are commencing routes from EMA to Malaga and Murcia for Summer 2012.
Full Article: http://www.jet2.com/News/New_Jet2_com_R ... mmer_2012/[/textarea]

 

[Hull City Fan]

Looks like there will be another based unit then what with the new routes and the Increased capacity of routes to Palma, Faro and Tenerife.

Good news for the airport.

 

[lbaspotter]

The 3rd Jet2 based EMA aircaft will be a Boeing 737 either 300 or 800 (Variant TBC) adding to the already 2 based Boeing 757-200's.

 

[cazza]

The 3rd Jet2 based EMA aircaft will be a Boeing 737 either 300 or 800 (Variant TBC) adding to the already 2 based Boeing 757-200's.

It's currently 1x 752 and 1x 733.

 

[tleeds]

it will probably most likely be another 733 then.

 

[Hull City Fan]

East Midlands

Alicante – 5xWeek (Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun) - Increase from 3xWeek
Faro – 4xWeek (Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun) - Increase from 3xWeek
Lanzarote – 1xWeek (Thu) - No change
Palma – 5xWeek (Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun) - Increase from 4xWeek
Murcia - NEW - 3xWeek (Thurs, Sat, Sun)
Malaga - NEW - 5xWeek (Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun)
Tenerife – 3xWeek (Tues, Fri, Sat) Increase from 2xWeek

Not yet onsale: Bodrum, Corfu, Dalaman, Herklion, Paphos, Rhodes
Winter Only: Chambery, Geneva

 

[Hull City Fan]

it will probably most likely be another 733 then.

No it's not, it looks as though it will be a 757.

A simple flight search on a Friday morning using next year's flights show the following aircraft based at East Midland's Airport

07:10 - Palma is operated with a 757
07:30 Malaga is operated with a 737
08:30 -Tenerife is operated with a 757

 

[tleeds]

ohh, so are Jet2 likely to place more orders then for more 752's or will a base lose one?

 

[Hull City Fan]

Geneva and Chambery dropped for Winter 2011/12.

Could it be that bmibaby have knocked Jet2.com off these routes? - increased flights to Geneva and a new route to Chambery starting this Winter at EMA.