Jet2.com

[lbaspotter]

Full Press release now issued by Jet2.com in regards its expanded summer 2025 LBA schedule.

https://www.jet2.com/news/2024/11/Jet2_com_and_Jet2holidays_expand_Summer_25_programme_from_Leeds_Bradford_Airport_with_additional_flying_and_aircraft_

 

[alpha.alpha]

Basing a B737-800 into LTN when the base is A321 defies logic. They would keep the B737-800 in LBA or move it around the network to replace the extra A321.

It really doesn't matter anyway as I believe the A321 delivery schedule speeds up - So S26 could be very different for LTN and the rest of the bases.

I did mean if slots came up it would be an extra 321 to cover the flights. I know it wouldn't make sense to base a -800.

 

[Aviador]

I'm intrigued by this initiative by Jet2 as it uses valuable morning and evening/night slots while not utilising the daytime period effectively when there are no restrictions. Surely offering W rotations from an unrestricted base would offer both Jet2 and LBA more flexibility.

 

[White Heather]

I'm intrigued by this initiative by Jet2 as it uses valuable morning and evening/night slots while not utilising the daytime period effectively when there are no restrictions. Surely offering W rotations from an unrestricted base would offer both Jet2 and LBA more flexibility.

My thoughts exactly. It's a strange move especially given the distance between Leeds and Luton should crew need changing or things go wrong. You'd have thought any W legs would be from a nearby base, the obvious candidate being Stansted.

 

[Finger66]

Are the W legs on long sectors? Just thinking if it's the likes of PMI, IBZ etc. they can get 4 sectors in during the day say starting at 0700 and being done for 2200 - all things being equal?

That said from a crewing perspective I agree it seems strange to W from LBA because of the distance involvec

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

I'm intrigued by this initiative by Jet2 as it uses valuable morning and evening/night slots while not utilising the daytime period effectively when there are no restrictions. Surely offering W rotations from an unrestricted base would offer both Jet2 and LBA more flexibility.

The trouble is … there is no airport in the U.K. that is now unrestricted. The U.K. is anti aviation.

 

[Aviador]

The trouble is … there is no airport in the U.K. that is now unrestricted. The U.K. is anti aviation.

That might be the case but some more so than others. LBA must be one of the most restrictive in the UK.

 

[oldendays]

Way back when Britannia Airways operated W patterns through LBA and other regional airports (1970s and 1980s) almost all the aircraft and crews were based at Luton and were moved around by road. So, the concept isn't a new one but the main change now from 40-50 years ago is the increased road traffic. From this perspective, I agree it makes more sense for Stansted to 'service' Luton.

 

[Statto]

The trouble is … there is no airport in the U.K. that is now unrestricted. The U.K. is anti aviation.

It really isn’t

 

[ls27]

Brittania flew aircrews into Leeds on a light aircraft. I saw it many times whilst I was up 'on the hill' during my lunch break in the 70s

 

[LBAYORKIE]

The trouble is … there is no airport in the U.K. that is now unrestricted. The U.K. is anti aviation.

I thought EMA was unrestricted.

 

[White Heather]

I thought EMA was unrestricted.

Don't think NCL has any night movement restrictions either.

 

[oldendays]

Brittania flew aircrews into Leeds on a light aircraft. I saw it many times whilst I was up 'on the hill' during my lunch break in the 70s

Probably their Cessna 421, G-BRIT.

 

[mullion]

Yes a lot of A321neo in next few months, first 7 to replace the 757s plus expansion

 

[LBAYORKIE]

My thoughts exactly. It's a strange move especially given the distance between Leeds and Luton should crew need changing or things go wrong. You'd have thought any W legs would be from a nearby base, the obvious candidate being Stansted.

The other negative is that a based aircraft requires a stand, but in return provides the airport with only half the pax of an aircraft not operating W legs.

 

[Yorkieflyer]

Sorry, have I missed something here. Where has it been announced it will be an LBA based aircraft and crew operating the LTN W patterns?
Or is it just an assumption based on the announcement that there will be 15 based aircraft (2+2=5?)

 

[White Heather]

Sorry, have I missed something here. Where has it been announced it will be an LBA based aircraft and crew operating the LTN W patterns?
Or is it just an assumption based on the announcement that there will be 15 based aircraft (2+2=5?)

Suggest you look back at post #533 by pilot 737. I'm hoping the rumours he's heard at work are incorrect .

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Suggest you look back at post #533 by pilot 737. I'm hoping the rumours he's heard at work are incorrect .

But the W patterns are not every day. Just probably haven’t got the longer routings increased yet.

 

[pilot_737]

Suggest you look back at post #533 by pilot 737. I'm hoping the rumours he's heard at work are incorrect .

Yeh im hoping it’s incorrect too! Hate the M1!!

I’m sure if someone did some digging on the bookings website it would become obvious where the aircraft were based from!

 

[White Heather]

Yeh im hoping it’s incorrect too! Hate the M1!!

I’m sure if someone did some digging on the bookings website it would become obvious where the aircraft were based from!

If it's true, and LBA are lending LTN some of our mid afternoon rotations, it's likely as not our 737 300s that will do it, given they are deployed on the shorter Spanish routes, which LTN also gets. It would seem likely their A321NEOs will do their Canary Islands, Turkey and Greece routes leaving the Balearics and Spanish mainland, and possibly Faro , to the 'borrowed' W leg aircraft.
So, the seat map for a few of their shorter routes might tell a tale. If it's a 300 series with 148 seats, then LBA crews just drew the short straw!