Maybe one key factor, Thomas Cook don’t have a based a/c at LBA, i know alot of people who have been or are going with Thomas Cook this summer.
LBA gets far too overlooked by people, and more needs to be done to promote the airport. Fine JET2 are doing fantasitc, but on charter side of things, LBA really hasn’t progressed over the years.

Well one of my simple responses from someone who lived in York who went to Tenerife is “I did’nt know you can fly from Leeds to Tenerife”. Problem LBA has is people always refear to Manchester when booking a holiday.
90% of people i know go from Manchester, very rarely i know someone going from LBA.

Jet2’s LBA customers obviously aren’t bothered by facilities or road access otherwise Jet2 wouldn’t have 10 or 11 aircraft, including 757s, based there.
Or are you saying that road access and airport facilities are more important for customers on charter flights than scheduled flights? If you are, I’m fascinated to know why.

Rob

People on charter flights tend to be less upper class than those on scheduled flights. Ask the average Club 18-30 Thomas Cook Airlines passenger about flying from Leeds, they probably think its just an airfield.

Taba and Banjul maybe but not sure about those Greece destinations. Just look at what goes from NCL this summer.

4 757s a week going from NCL to Rhodes
3 757s, 1 A320 and 1 737 a week going NCL to Heraklion
2 757s and 1 A320 NCL going NCL to Zakynthos

All this to serve what, 2m people something like that. How many people live in West Yorkshire alone? 2.3m + North Yorkshire so hard to believe LBA would struggle to fill a single 757.

Rob

Mainly because when i ask people where they are flying from they always say “Manchester”, and when i ask why they say “Because its easier to get to” or “its a bigger airport with more facilities”. People are still ignorent to think Leeds is toy town international.

Wheres G-BNWH these days, surely it doesnt take 9 months for a re-fit.