EasyJet 757

Where’s this taken then? MAN?

Stansted.

It looks quite nice at that angle.

Where’s this taken then? MAN?

G-ZAPX

Just saw G-ZAPX (I think) depart STN around 1400 in full Easy livery as EZY115W heading south.

Oh, this will end well! :rolleyes:

The 757 looks horrendous in easyJet’s livery! 😮

The 757 always looks horrendous:diablo:

This 757 was in DUB this morning in all its beauty, left around 8ish, anyone know why it was here?

If they think they can make a profit leasing a few extra aircraft this summer (or longer), maybe increasing schedules or maybe adding a few routes, then why not? As I said earlier, lease prices are probably rock bottom at the moment, but (I am led to believe) low cost holiday travel hasn’t taken a huge hit.

If ACMI prices are low right now, then it makes more sense. Otherwise, ACMI leasing isn’t normally a particularly low-cost way of operating flights. U2 typically generate above industry average profits and like you say, this is because of their low cost base which allows them to sell flights with decent margins despite low fares. Wet leasing is normally more expensive than operating your own flights unless you’re really inefficient, but you could be onto something if you’re right about ACMI’s being cheap right now..

It’s a nice idea, and believe me I would love to see it, but I don’t think they can be testing the water with 757s and 767s. They’re old aircraft now, and using them on a long term basis would be going completely against the low cost stratergy of rotating out aircraft more than a few years old.

Sure, I’m not expecting U2 to start operating 757s and 767s themselves! This certainly wouldn’t be good economically (high mx costs due age, lack of operational commonality with the Airbus fleet etc).. I meant ‘testing the water’ as in expanding their currently tiny A321 fleet. Selling the extra seats on the wet leased 757 will give a real world demonstration to the airline of the levels of yields that they can achieve on their route network with more seats on the inventory. This is something that Flybe did a few years ago when it wet leased some Astraeus 737s.

So if they are short of crews, why don’t they train up the new recruits that they’ve just hired and have on their “waiting list” so that they then don’t have to go to extra expense of leasing aircraft from other operators.

I think it’s more of a lack of flight crew (A320 family) rather than cabin crew, though they are short of those too, hence stripping seats to reduce the number required from 4 to 3 on some flights. I quite like the 757 in eJ colours, bring on the A380!:)

would be nice to see easyjet take up some of the spare Canada routes vacated by the like of Globespan and Zoom

Luke, you’d be surprised, they may have low fares, but they still turn over a pretty big profit on their flights, simply because their costs are low too.

If they think they can make a profit leasing a few extra aircraft this summer (or longer), maybe increasing schedules or maybe adding a few routes, then why not? As I said earlier, lease prices are probably rock bottom at the moment, but (I am led to believe) low cost holiday travel hasn’t taken a huge hit.

It’s a nice idea, and believe me I would love to see it, but I don’t think they can be testing the water with 757s and 767s. They’re old aircraft now, and using them on a long term basis would be going completely against the low cost stratergy of rotating out aircraft more than a few years old.

Are these ACMI leased aircraft going to be flying flights that have been already scheduled but for which easyJet don’t have crew capacity, or has the airline planned schedules for these aircraft after deciding to lease them?

If it’s the latter I don’t understand how the benefit of operating one or two extra aircraft can be worth it? Given easyJet’s vast fleet, how does an extra couple of aircraft generate any significant increase in profits? Especially given that ACMI leases are known to be expensive and eJ sales at relatively low-fares..

Clearly it is worth it or the management wouldn’t be doing it, but I’m having a hard time understanding how it can be.

If it’s a case of leasing the aircraft to avoid having to cancel flights with forward bookings, or to test the water with larger capacity aircraft (ie, “should we order more A321s?”) then it makes sense to me, but otherwise I could do with some help understanding this! 🙂

Thanks,

Luke

I don’t really like the EZ livery on that 757. But it’s clear all theyve done is use the same size and fonts they use for their A319/20s. If they had to hold onto it more permanantly, I’m sure they’d spend time making it look good, but I doubt that’ll ever happen anyway.

I don’t think it is as clear cut as that.
The fuselage decal/ paint looks about right proportion-wise.
To make it any bigger and fill the entire length of the fuselage as it does on the much shorter 737 and A319 would cause the lettering to be far too tall for the fuselage.

The tail is probably an economic re-paint, keeping any lettering away from the rudder so they don’t have to deal with sealing the gaps up or/and re-balancing the rudder.

They’re obviously keeping it for a little while, as they have even painted the flap canoes.

The Titan 757 was towed into Air Livery on Friday morning so could be getting the full orange treatment 🙂

That’s a nice looking jet

This could also have an impact on BA, as I have seen Air Finland 757s and Titan 757/767s operating for them as part of their “contingency” fleet that they are using whilst trying to break the union, so it will be interesting to see how they can cope if the aircraft they used the last time are not available the next time round?

Plenty more where they came from. Don’t forget that the industry is still in a situation of over-supply and under-demand. Imagine there must be hundreds of airlines with perfectly servicable aircraft sitting on the ground they’d more than happily lease to BA for a few days, and probably at a not too bad price either!

I don’t really like the EZ livery on that 757. But it’s clear all theyve done is use the same size and fonts they use for their A319/20s. If they had to hold onto it more permanantly, I’m sure they’d spend time making it look good, but I doubt that’ll ever happen anyway.

That aircraft nearly always looks good. I still think with the EZY colours it looks good, though the vertical stabilizer looks a bit….simple.

Cloud, maybe EZY are only short of flight crew at the moment?

Wet-leasing due to shortage of crews apparently.

Thats very strange because EZY only recently had a massive recruitment drive for new crews…my sister applied for cabin crew and was accepted, only to be told that she was on a “waiting list”, and still has not been told when she will actually start?

So if they are short of crews, why don’t they train up the new recruits that they’ve just hired and have on their “waiting list” so that they then don’t have to go to extra expense of leasing aircraft from other operators.

B757 looks horrible in EZY colours in my opinion, although it might be interesting to see it if it were to have blended winglets on it.

This could also have an impact on BA, as I have seen Air Finland 757s and Titan 757/767s operating for them as part of their “contingency” fleet that they are using whilst trying to break the union, so it will be interesting to see how they can cope if the aircraft they used the last time are not available the next time round?

It looks a lot better ‘in the flesh’, so to speak.

I have to Agree, It don’t sit well At all.

I heard that G-OJIB was going to be Leased to EZY and Painted in Full Livery

Rob
🙂