Well I would have thought so too – hence David’s comment caught my eye.
Rob

Ryanair got where they are today by starting off with vinatge 737-200s and these were well over 20 years old when they retired them – and Ryanair were working these aircraft really hard. So Jet2 have a good few years life left in their 1986 – 1988 fleet especially as they are not working them that hard – even in the summer months.
Rob

MAN-LGW definitely axed as well.

Not surprised about WAW to be honest, it’s not exactly a ‘city break’ destination for the UK market in the same way as say Krakow. And with the Polish migrant workforce well served for getting back into the North West UK with an impressive low-cost selection out of LPL – I’m not really sure why Jet2 ever went for this.

LBA-WAW or NCL-WAW would be much better bets considering Yorks and the North East has only a 3 x weekly Wizzair to MME (and that doesn’t start until well into next year)

Rob

The measure of success of whether LBA is sold to the “right” bidder will be if Manchester Airport look at the new owners and think “oh ****, we’ve got a a bit of a bit of battle on our hands for the Yorkshire market now”. Remember, MAN needs a big flow of passengers from Yorks and Humberside to keep at current passenger numbers and to justify more investment and at the moment there must be as many people from Yorkshire using MAN as there are people using airports in Yorkshire. LBA with council owners, limited investment in facilities and no investment in access, has managed to get up to close to 3m passengers so you’d have to think it could start to recoup some more passengers form MAN under the right owners. Out of the confirmed bidders so far, I think BB are much more likely to get the MAG group a bit twitchy than MAR. In fact, if I was running Manchester, I’d be delighted if a low key operator like MAR came along. To stir things up in the North, it really needs a big established operator like Macquarie or Abertis to come along – then things would get interesting.

True Blue, congratulations for cutting and pasting your posts on PPrune on to this forum! Flybe are not alone in hyping up new routes just look at the trash press releases that both Easyjet and Ryanair and now Jet 2 issue – in fact, Jet 2 now have the audacity to call themselves “Belfast’s Low Cost Airline” when they don’t even operate from anywhere near Belfast!. When do you ever see any airline actively publicise dropping a route – the aforementioned airlines have all dropped routes without notice and seldom give a valid reason for doing so – remember the Jet2 fiasco over BFS – ORK and BOH a while back?

What is the problem with Flybe saying they will increase MAN frequencies? Would this not be a natural thing to do since BA Connect will be no more? I would say that WW would need to start worrying at BFS!

No, the natural thing to do is to cut capacity, increase fares and actually start making some money. There is massive over capacity between Northern Ireland and the North West of England. Something was always going to give and here we are. And what’s with the BHD vs BFS garbage? What next I wonder, people feuding over North Terminal vs South Terminal at Gatwick????

lukeylad, one fo the new a/c will be a 757 😉 For flights to TFS, PMI, AGP and others to be announced 😉

Looking at the NCL schedules for PMI and AGP, they are both in the air at the same time, so if a 757 is to be based, it cannot operate PMI and AGP.
Also, the PMI schedule is done by the MJV based aircraft so unless they are planning to base a 757 to run MJV-NCL-PMI-NCL-MJV it won’t be a 757 on PMI. There are 3 757s in the LBA schedule for the summer already and 2 at MAN, so Jet2 will need to buy another 757 to operate one out of NCL.

Rob

FlyMonarch – MAN-EDI was on sale until the end of October. It is now on sale only until the end of September. So this is nothing to do with them being late in loading the winter schedule.