FAO Softland – MME and LBA Mytravel Update

Thanks for the info guys; please keep me up to date on how the flights will be affected at Teesside this summer.:)

Originally posted by Matthew Murray
If MYT says no services are to be affected, what’s the big deal? Aircraft and still going to be coming and going? And crews are being offered relocation?

yes they may be offered reloaction – the LBA cabin crews have been offered BHX or STN as bases – not quite so simple mate!

Thats true, but it is nice to have a based a/c as you know the routes are guranteed and they might even expand. I wouldnt be surprised if MYT dropped some routes from MME like they have from LBA. (Rhodes and 1 Malta)

yep – i sense a lot more spanish carriers in to cover for MYT – btw BAL aren’t starting a base in the winter – just re-opening one – it shut two years ago for the winter.

Just read on Pprune the MME flights are going to be flown by a foreign company with reduced capacity… Could this be someone like Hola?
EGNM- Hopefully well see some interesting visitors covering for the loss of capacity or maybe they wont replace it?
Good thing is though MYT no longer winter base Britannia starting next year as a base 🙂 I dont think well really miss MYT as a winter base as they only had 1xTFS 1xLPA 1XACE and on certain periods 1x AGP,ALC and FUE. They will surely be able to get another airlines a/c to cover for the flights that make money. (I imagine TFS,ACE and LPA the best money makers?)

Well it is a huge capacity cut then if its just the one SSV A320 based – unless they fancy put 2 machines in for a few days of the week i suspect we may see a lot of Subbing – 45 seats a sector lost – so if they flew 3x Palmas in a B752, that equats to roughlt 4x A320 flights to acheieve the same demand – but then again the LCCs such as Jet2 at LBA and bmibaby may have taken a big passenger cut from MYT.

Thats really bad news for MME. One positive thing is if all those flights are been replaced with W patterns you could be seeing some interesting visitors.
Bad news about LBA in the winter, but im really relievd to see its staying as a base in the summer (Albeit as a SSV 320 🙁 )

Well to sum this up i have a contract to fly out of LBA for the summer and when the winter comes i have a couple of choices:

1.Relocate to either STN or BHX.
2.Take six months off and come back to fly next summer at LBA.

To be honest though not happy with either option so i might have to start looking elsewhere as im sure the other 45 crew up at LBA are too.

Also i am puzzeled how closing MME will not affect things ? Ill put that question to the company and let you know the reply.

I agree Preston, from a MYT point of view, I don’t doubt its the right thing to do. I’m speaking though from the point of view of the tourist, the teessider & the enthusiast.

But if its 100% clear that this will have no effect on schedules (which I’m struggling with), then we really won’t know the difference.

Pembo it does look bad fromthe outset, but what makes more sense for the company?

Fingers crossed that in a couple of years when things start to look better things may change, and MYT may return there commitment to such outstations. However on the Leeds front it has to be said that some days the aircraft did only do 1 trip to the caneries.

Sad news

Oh No! 😮

How can MYT’s summer Teesside schedule not be affected when all the brochures show a based aircraft? Surely, they can’t perform all of those routes on ‘w’ operations? There must be 15-20 MYT flights a week from Teesside; can these all really be replaced on a ‘w’ pattern?

This is devastating news for Teesside airport.

Clearly not good news for LBA either, but at least you guys are in a better situation than us.

How does this affect your personally Lyndon?

Following a review of its smaller operating bases, MyTravel Airways is implementing a restructuring at two of these. The airline will be withdrawing its operations at Teesside Airport from April, while Leeds Bradford Airport will become a summer-only base.

These changes have been made so that the airline’s operations better match customer demand in terms of departure points. They will also help improve the airline’s profitability.

As far as employees at both bases are concerned, MyTravel Airways is committed to a full programme of voluntary redeployment. There are a number of opportunities elsewhere within the airline, and within MyTravel as a whole. This means that no affected employee at Teesside or Leeds Bradford need face the prospect of losing employment.

It should be emphasised that neither of these changes will affect the tour operators’ programmes, nor will there be any impact on customers.