lbaspotterTommy was actully right for once here guys.
Back in December 2009 the Leeds Bradford Airport launched the Project America campaign in association with the British American Business Council to the region’s business and leisure industry leaders.
No airlines were mentioned but they did go on to say that they were talking to US airlines regarding a New York route.
Here’s the full press artical that was posted in the local paper at the time.
Leeds-Bradford Airport bosses launch campaign for link to New York
Ambitious plans to provide direct daily flights between Leeds-Bradford International Airport and New York have been unveiled.
Airport chiefs have issued businesses with a call to arms to support their campaign to persuade a leading US operator to provide regular direct flights from Yorkshire – the only UK region without such a link.
Tony Hallwood, LBIA commercial director, who established daily US flights from Bristol airport when working there, said LBIA was currently “punching below its weight” by not having transatlantic services.
He revealed that outline talks had already taken place with four of the five top US airlines but warned people not to expect quick results.
“This is a long haul journey which we hope will result in direct daily flights between Leeds-Bradford and New York within the next decade,” he said.
Mr Hallwood launched the Project America campaign in association with the British American Business Council to the region’s business and leisure industry leaders.
A daily scheduled service to New York would allow a wide range of onward connections to cities throughout North America.
Mr Hallwood said the economic benefits to Yorkshire of such a service would be enormous, boosting inward investment, job creation and tourism adding that the US was Yorkshire’s largest trading partner.
More than 2,000 regional companies traded with the US and exports were worth £2 billion – 15 per cent of the region’s international trade In 2007 125,000 Americans visited Yorkshire with an estimated spend of £40 million. Feedback from local passengers showed that the US was the most requested unserved long-haul destination from LBIA.
Sandy Needham, chief executive of Bradford Chamber of Commerce, said : “We can’t regard ourselves as a proper region until we have direct flights between LBIA and the US.”
To register support e-mail [email]projectamerica@leedsbradfordairport.co.uk[/email]
lbaspotterHi.
The bmi regional operated LBA-BRU route dose show up on the Brussels Airlines and Star Alliance websites with the following codeshare flights numbers which are bookable.
LBA-BRU BMR1611 = SN5270
BRU-LBA BMR1612 = SN5269
LBA-BRU BMR1613 = SN5272
BRU-LBA BMR1614 = SN5271
LBA-BRU BMR1615 = SN5274
BRU-LBA BMR1616 = SN5273
lbaspotterSN Brussels do codeshare on the LBA-BRU service but thats all the do along with Lufthansa and Air Malta.
The service operates as a full bmi regional service with bmi regional, Embrear 135’S, along with bmi flight numbers, Callsign and crews as LBArules has previously mentioned on here.
lbaspotterRussian plane crash lands in forest near Moscow
Hi
BBC has just reported that an Russian TU204 Jet has crashed into a Forest near Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport..
lbaspotterHere are my flights
Britannia, Boeing 737-200 = MAN-AGP-MAN
Airtours, McDonnell Douglas MD-83 = MAN-GRO-MAN
Monarch, Airbus A320 = LBA-TFS-LBA
Flying Colours, Boeing 757-200 = MAN-PMI-MAN
Air Europa, Boeing 737-800 = HUY-TFS-HUY
Airtours Int’l, Douglas DC10 = MAN-PMI-MAN
My Travel (Sky Service), Airbus 320 = LBA-ALC-LBA
Ryanair.com, Boeing 737-200 = LBA-DUB-LBA
Monarch, Airbus 321 = MAN-ALC
Monarch, Airbus 320 = ALC-MAN
Ryanair.com, Boeing 737-200 = LBA-DUB-LBA
Jet2.com, Boeing 737-300 = LBA-BFS-LBA
Bmi british midland, Airbus 320 = LHR-LBA
Ryanair.com Boeing 737-800 = LBA-DUB-LBA
Jet2.com, Boeing 737-300 = LBA-PRG-LBA
First Choice, Airbus 320 = EMA-ACE-EMA
Ryanair.com Boeing 737-800 = LBA-DUB-LBA
Jet2.com, Boeing 737-300 = LBA-BFS
Flightline, BAe 146-300 = BHD-LBA (Was suppose to be Flybe, Dash 8-Q400.)
Thomsonfly.com, Boeing 767-300/ER = MAN-POP-MAN
My Next flights which is when i go on holiday, January 31st
Thomas Cook Airbus, 330 = MAN-POP-MAN
lbaspotterDose anyone know if Futura Int’l managed to take there aircraft back into the skies again today??
lbaspotterHi
Heres an update from the Spanish Press.
Looks like Futura will be back flying from Tomorrow. The plan is to drop half of its current 23 aircraft fleet now and it will also mean laying off 600 of its workforce of 1,211 employees. While in the winter season its looking to operate only about 5 Aircraft.
Palma, Sept. 8 (EFE) .- The president of the charter airline Futura, Roman Pané, has advanced the feasibility of the plan will lead the company to cut half its workforce-about 600 of its 1,211 employees, and reduction “drastic” of its fleet of high season, from 22 aircraft to 12 or 13 aircraft.
Pané has offered a press conference in which he explained that the presentation today of a contest voluntary creditors and the critical economic situation of the company should be so crucial to the “bestial and” speculative “rise in oil prices.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, as insured, Futura will progressively resume the activity of its flights, and on Friday before Civil Aviation must submit a plan for viability, which wants to agree with unions.
After meeting this morning for about three hours, the management and employee representatives, PAN has appeared before the media.As explained above, cutting the workforce does not have much to do with the situation of the company with how the situation facing the aviation sector, which must make a “major effort to adapt to an environment that will never be what it was in the past. “
The airline has been in the past eighteen years, recalled, a “reference” for the sector in management, profitability and safety of their flights, but “unfortunately” the company is experiencing today by economic problems caused by a “plenty of reasons”, as the drop in demand and, most importantly, for both crude.
Payment of the oil that has faced Futura in July and August “has destroyed” the results of summer the company, whose principal activity is recorded in the summer months.During the winter, Future plans to maintain 5 flights, but is forced to reduce its fleet during the high season, has been clarified.
The viability plan, as has commented Pané, supposed to reach agreement with staff of the company and creditors, and “perhaps” alienate any of the assets of the company.The “reason” in which the direction of Future yesterday decided to discontinue its aerial activity for 24 hours was “planning for how the operation should be done when it comes to air traffic”, has maintained the president.
“Yesterday we were scared, but today at least we have an illusion as a company and fight for it,” he asserted Pané, who has been clarified that the 1,211 employees, 800 are fixed and about 600 work in Spain.In addition to the decrease in staffing, has realized the president, should also be a “major effort” in terms of salaries of workers and “achieve imaginative ways to make the enterprise viable” as they agree that both address as employees, as he said.
Pané has not quantified the debt of Futura, but it has realized that the cancellation of the company’s operations for 24 hours has affected some 8,000 passengers.
Moreover, the works council of the airline acknowledged that the situation of the company will mean cutting its workforce.This is explained by the works council member Alejandro Juarez (CCO), has said that trade unions aspire to “preserve” jobs and the continuity of the company.
The leader of CCO has pointed out that unions are “very critical” with the decision “unilateral” of the company today paralyze the airline business for 24 hours.
The template Future “it feels like a huge nerves,” he acknowledged Juarez, who has announced that unions will “pose anything to keep jobs.”
lbaspotterHi
PIA are to commence there twice weekly Dircet flights from Leeds/Bradford to Islamabad with an Airbus A310-300 aircraft by late next month or early July.
All Shaheen Air’s forward flight bookings have also been transfered over to the PIA new route or have been offered MAN flights througout June.
lbaspotterHi
PIA have today announced in the a Pakistan news that they are to replace the Shaheen Air flights to Leeds/Bradford later this year.
No dates or the scheduled have been announced though.
lbaspotterHi
I’ve just heard that the 2 new Boeing 767-200’s G-BYAA/B that Silverjet were set to aquire have been sent back and put into service with Thomsonfly.com.
By all acounts one of the said birds has been operating for Monarch.
Dose anyone know if this true??
lbaspotterHi
Jet2holidays are selling most of the LBA-New York flights as a 3-night charter package from £699 per person. Which includes return flights with an in-flight meal provided, 3 nights accommodation and all tax and charges. A Seat only option is available from Jet2.com’s own website as well. Flight prices starting from £237.99p one-way.
The route is to be operated direct by one of Jet2s own 230 seated Boeing 757-200’s. The Newly acquired G-LSAJ has been mentioned as the aircraft involved in this new operation, as it is already E-TOPS approved. (This is Tui’s ex G-CDUP). She is due for delivery to LBA on Sunday May 11th from Norwich were she is currently under going a re-spray.
LBA-EWR Flight details.
Outbound flight LS4001 will depart LBA at 09:00 and arrive Newark at 12:20 on Thursdays November 6th, November 13th, December 4th & December 11th.
The Returning LS4002 will depart EWR at 21:00 on Sundays November 9th, November 16th, December 7th & December 14th arriving back LBA early the next day (Monday) at 09:10.
lbaspotterThanks LBARULES for the update regarding the Saturday morning Ibiza service.
I didn’t realise that Thomson Holidays had changed it again. It was originally to be operated by Air Europa but was change to Thomsonfly in January. Now after just checking your info it looks like you right that Thommos have yet again changed the operator to a second Saturday visiting Spanair.
I’ll change the above info, to show the spanair service.
lbaspotterHi
For anyone thats intrested here is the full prgramme of charter services that will operate from Leeds/Bradford this coming summer 2008 season.
Mondays
Reus = 09:15 TCX148K – 12:45 TCX148L = Thomas Cook A320
Dalaman = 10:00 OHY7336 – 09:00 OHY7335 = Onur Air A321
Dalaman = 15:50 TCX411K – 01:20* TCX411L = Thomas Cook A320
Bourgas = 19:10 BGH5572 – 18:10 BGH5571 = Balkan Holidays Air A320
Bodrum = 20:45 OHY2612 – 19:45 OHY2611 = Onur Air A321
Tuesdays
Palma = 06:35 TCX629K – 12:45 TCX629L = Thomas Cook A320
Bodrum = 10:00 OHY—- – 09:00 OHY—- = Onur Air A321
Dalaman = 10:00 OHY—- = 09:00 OHY—- = Onur Air A321
Heraklion = 15:25 TCX651K – 00:45* TCX651L = Thomas Cook A320
Malta = 20:15 KMC5209 – 19:30 KMC5208 = Air Malta A320
Wednesdays
Fuerteventura = 07:00 TCX612K – 16:45 TCX612L = Thomas Cook A320
Antalya = 10:00 OHY—- 09:00 OHY—- = Onur Air A320
Verona = 12:00 LS2024 – 17:50 LS2025 = Jet2 Charter B737-300
Rhodes = 17:45 TCX876K – 03:30* TCX876L = Thomas Cook A320
Thursdays
Faro = 05:50 TCX853K – 12:30 TCX853L = Thomas Cook A320
Arrecife = 13:10 IWD3460 – 12:10 IWD3459 = Iberworld A320
Zakynthos = 13:35 TCX487K – 22:00 TCX487L = Thomas Cook A320
Palma = 14:20 TOM1893 – 12:50 TOM1894 = Thomsonfly.com B737-800
Faro = 15:45 FCA2411 – 13:50 FCA2412 = First Choice Airways A320
Fridays
Ibiza = 05:35 TCX652K – 12:00 TCX652L = Thomas Cook A320
Tenerife = 12:25 AEA208 – 11:25 AEA207 = Air Europa B737-800
Mahon = 13:00 TCX673K – 19:05 TCX673L = Thomas Cook A320
Corfu = 15:15 TOM2673 – 13:55 TOM2674 = Thomsonfly.com B737-800
Dalaman = 20:05 TCX152K – 05:35* TCX152L = Thomas Cook A320
Saturdays
Palma = 07:00 TCX486K – 12:50 TCX486L = Thomas Cook A320
Reus = 12:40 TOM1527 – 11:50 TOM1528 = Thomsonfly.com B737-300
Innsbruck 13:15 OS3274 – 12:35 OS3273 – Austrian Arrows CRJ200L
Alicante = 13:50 TCX674K – 20:15 TCX674L = Thomas Cook A320
Palma = 15:20 JKK3004 – 14:25 JKK3003 = Spanair MD83
Ibiza = 16:30 JKK3298– 15:35 JKK3297 = Spanair MD83/A320
Las Palmas = 21:15 TCX862K – 07:00* TCX862L = Thomas Cook A320
Sundays
Malaga = 08:55 TCX483K – 15:40 TCX483L = Thomas Cook A320
Larnaca = 16:40 TCX654K – 03:30* TCX654L = Thomas Cook A320
Palma = 18:20 FUA1356 – 17:20 FUA1355 = Futura International B737-800
Varna = 19:10 BGH5544 – 18:10 BGH5543 = Balkan Holidays Air A320
lbaspotterHi
He is the official press release from Ryanair’s website regarding the website shut down.
If you have not done you on-line web check-in its alright. As you will be allowed to check-in at the Airports check-in desk for FREE.
Ryanair.com Flight Reservation System Down-22-25 Feb 08 inc.
From 22:00 hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008 the Ryanair internet and call centre booking system will be down because of the changeover to a new flight booking system.
Important Customer Information:
All flights between 22:00 hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008 will operate as normal
New Bookings cannot be made on Ryanair.com or via a Ryanair call centre between 22:00hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008
Flight Changes (date/time/route) cannot be made on Ryanair.com or via a Ryanair call centre between 22:00hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008 .
Review Existing Booking – passengers will not be able to review their existing booking details on Ryanair.com or via a Ryanair call centre between 22:00hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008.
Online Check-in – passengers will not be able to check-in online between 01:00hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008. Passengers traveling on the 23/24/25 February who are unable to check-in online can check-in at the airport and will not be charged the airport check-in fee.
lbaspotterHi
Here are the details of the new Shaheen Air International, Islamabad – Leeds/Bradford service.
Theses new twice weekly 7 Hour, 45 Minutes Direct flights will be operated every Thursday and Sundays by a leased Airbus A310-300 of Turkish Airline, Saga Airlines whom operate both TC-SGB and TC-SGC.
NL803 Departs Islamabad 17:00 – Arrives Leeds/Bradford 20:30
NL804 Departs Leeds/Bradford 22:00 – Arrives Islamabad 10:45*
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