Vueling

[White Heather]

Are we certain those fares are in Pounds Sterling? When I went on their website to price up LBA to Lisbon via BCN (for my boss at work) the fares quoted were in Euros and were around 175 Euros each way. Unfortunately it meant sitting in BCN airport for most of the day, so not a practical solution.

 

[Gray Ham]

Worth checking code share partners. For example sky scanner has LBA-BCN-LBA, out 8/4/16,rtn 11/4/16 for £156 rtn with Vueling but £93 for same flights with Iberia!

 

[airforced]

Just to clarify. Yes White Heather the fares on the Vueling website are quoted in Euros but, to compare like with like I used the paying in £ rather than Euros conversion figure they provided. And yes I am aware that it would be slightly cheaper if I paid by Debit Card and the Visa daily rate was used for the conversion. Not megabucks of a difference though. Today they are quoting approx £170 for a single fare whereas the Monarch fare for my date is showing as £138 with bags.

Gray Ham we only want a single fares as we will return to the UK by train and the cheapest single fare (including bags) is the Monarch one I've quoted above.

The point I was making in my original post was that Vueling, as a new entrant at LBA, ought to be competing, initially at least, with existing carriers to attract business, which they are not doing for some reason. Even BA via LHR are much cheaper (£124) than Vueling. My wife won't touch LHR with a bargepole however after the last time we flew through there was a disaster in terms of queues and lost baggage (BA again I'm afraid).

 

[airforced]

Forgot to mention that the Euro price quoted with bags was 229.99€ each and looking at Skytrax Vueling don't have much of a reputation anyway!

 

[lbaspotter]

Vueling 2x weekly MON-FRI service between Leeds-Bradford and Barcelona are now on sale up until end of October 2016. Originally when they announced the route flights were on sale up until September.

I wonder if they will go year round on this route?

 

[lbaspotter]

Sadly it's looking like Vueling's New Leeds/Bradford to Barcelona route is a summer only (March-October) service only. As it would seem almost all other Vueling winter 2016/17 flights are now on sale.

 

[lbaspotter]

Well Vueling's new Barcelona - Leeds/Bradford service starts this week. Dose anyone know how they are doing loads with advance bookings. I see basic lead in fares are now as low as €39.99 one-way compared to €100 one-way fares when they initially went on sale last year.
Its going to be a battle up aginst Jet2 and Monarch but I'm sure if Vueling do well this summer they might look into starting new routes next year along with IAG maybe adding Iberia Express..

 

[JakeS]

It will be interesting to see if the Vueling logo is instantly updated to the website departure boards. My experience is that it always seems to take a few weeks with the temporary generic LBA logo used at first which is unprofessional.

 

[tleeds]

Well Vueling's new Barcelona - Leeds/Bradford service starts this week. Dose anyone know how they are doing loads with advance bookings. I see basic lead in fares are now as low as €39.99 one-way compared to €100 one-way fares when they initially went on sale last year.
Its going to be a battle up aginst Jet2 and Monarch but I'm sure if Vueling do well this summer they might look into starting new routes next year along with IAG maybe adding Iberia Express..

I heard from a mate (who's intel can sometimes be mixed) saying that bookings had been mixed! He mentioned that in terms of bookings there seems to be a lot more inbound to LBA, as in Spanish pax as oppose to the other way round which you cannot complain about - Tourism into Leeds and further out is always a bonus. Then again I haven't seen any Vueling marketing around otherwise than on the actual LBA website and site of the airport..?

Has anyone else seen any advertising about in Leeds or further out? Newspapers etc?

My initial thought is that people from this area will no doubt just think of Jet2 and if they're too expensive look at Ryanair and then thirdly look elsewhere (MAN.. etc) as oppose to looking at new carriers..! Then again more and more people are using price comparison websites and scouting around and then Vuelings name will crop up!

 

[tleeds]

It will be interesting to see if the Vueling logo is instantly updated to the website departure boards. My experience is that it always seems to take a few weeks with the temporary generic LBA logo used at first which is unprofessional.

Lets hope the team up there are onto that

 

[yorkie40]

Stray fm been advertising for a good few weeks now not seen or heard nothing else

 

[lbaspotter]

It will be interesting to see if the Vueling logo is instantly updated to the website departure boards. My experience is that it always seems to take a few weeks with the temporary generic LBA logo used at first which is unprofessional.

You'll be pleased to know that the Vueling logo has this morning appeared on the Airport live arrivals and departure boards for Friday mornings first flight.

I've seen advertising for the new Vueling service on the Business Desk daily emails I receive a few times, The was loads in the airports arrivals hall when I came back from Lanzarote in January and just last week on the Travel Trade Gazzet website.

Also got to admit the airport arrival and departure boards are starting to look a bit healthier from tomorrow what with the extra Ryanair, Monarch and Jet2 services restarting for the summer.

 

[yorkie40]

It will be interesting to see if the Vueling logo is instantly updated to the website departure boards. My experience is that it always seems to take a few weeks with the temporary generic LBA logo used at first which is unprofessional.

The vueling logo on the arrivals n departures boards you be pleased to know! I must say it shocked me

 

[yorkie40]

There you go

 

[Aviador]

Your battery is running low yorkie40

 

[White Heather]

Lets hope the team up there are onto that

The logo is showing already for the first departure. Things are looking up!!

 

[SNOWMAN]

hi all
anyone out there know what the loads have been like??
regards
smi

 

[Seasider]

The flight for tomorrow morning is not showing on the LBA arrivals board. Has it been cancelled?

 

[lbaspotter]

The flight for tomorrow morning is not showing on the LBA arrivals board. Has it been cancelled?

The Vueling Barcelona service is definitely operating tomorrow, but it's gone unnoticed that the Monday flight has a rescheduled evening slot. ETA 20:05 - ETD 20:55

 

[Seasider]

The Vueling Barcelona service is definitely operating tomorrow, but it's gone unnoticed that the Monday flight has a rescheduled evening slot. ETA 20:05 - ETD 20:55

I've just checked the Veuling website and seen that they have changed the times to a late evening and is the same for the next few Mondays. The Friday flight is still early morning.
I don't think I will be using it to arrive after Midnight and leave at 6am (Mon - Fri)