Monarch Airlines

[Ray Finkle]

Tel Aviv is being evaluated, whether it materialises we'll have to wait and see.

A quick looks shows that Madrid returns next summer, still 3x weekly.

 

[Ray Finkle]

S17 as it stands:

Alicante 10x weekly (double daily on Mon, Wed, Thur)

Barcelona 6x weekly

Dalaman 6x weekly

Dubrovnik 3x weekly

Faro 11x weekly (double daily Mon, Tue, Thur, Sun)

Fuerteventura Not currently bookable

Funchal 2x weekly

Gibraltar 4x weekly

Gran Canaria 4x weekly

Heraklion 2x weekly

Ibiza 3x weekly

Lanzarote 5x weekly

Larnaca 5x weekly

Lisbon 4x weekly

Madrid 3x weekly

Palma 12x weekly (double daily Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun)

Malaga 14x weekly (double daily with 1 on Thur and 3 on Fri)

Menorca 3x weekly

Nice 4x weekly

Paphos 3x weekly

Preveza Lefkas weekly

Rome Daily

Sharm El Sheikh 2x weekly

Tenerife 9x weekly (double daily Tue and Sat)

Venice 5x weekly

 

[Paulsstrange]

Good schedule Ray. Looks like a few increases to me but not 100% sure..

 

[thunderchild]

Thanks for that Ray - I simply don't have the patience to sit through schedules and timetables!

Rome going daily stands out - have they gotten wind of someone else muscling in I wonder?

 

[Ray Finkle]

I simply don't have the patience to sit through schedules and timetables!

I had about half an hour of peace until Mrs Finkle arrived home with her two noisy children. Fairy 'nuff they're mine too but you get the point

There are one or two increases but it's still early days so I'd expect further changes, especially with more routes to be added. It's been said that flights to Sharm will resume this winter but I guess that's subject to change and we don't know how recent events will impact on Turkey, if at all.

I'm surprised to see Madrid back, with all the competition on the route I honestly thought it would be a one season wonder. Good to see it's done well enough to return.

 

[Brum X]

Great to see S17 on sale and makes it feel abit more like normal times.

 

[Ray Finkle]

The school half term prices are not exactly tempting.

Two adults and two children Birmingham to Tenerife, flight only, for a week.

Sat 27th May with Monarch £1654.

Fri 26th May with Norwegian £983.40.

October half term is even worse with flight only on the 21st a whopping £2774.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Monarch have 20 departures tomorrow (Sun 10th) which must be a record?

06:00 Tenerife
06:00 Dalaman
06:10 Faro
06:10 Lanzarote
06:25 Larnaca
07:00 Malaga
07:05 Alicante
07:25 Preveza
08:50 Nice
14:20 Palma
14:50 Faro
15:00 Madrid
15:05 Lisbon
16:30 Gibralter
16:30 Malaga
16:45 Barcelona
17:30 Rome
18:00 Venice
21:30 Palma
22:55 Ibiza

Today had 18 departures.

06:00 Dubrovnik
06:15 Palma
06:35 Tenerife
06:40 Barcelona
06:50 Rome
07:00 Malaga
07:00 Venice
07:05 Alicante
07:45 Nice
13:50 Faro
14:05 Paphos
14:15 Fuerteventura
14:20 Las Palmas
14:30 Lanzarote
14:30 Dalaman
15:00 Tenerife
17:35 Malaga
23:00 Palma

 

[Ray Finkle]

Some updates to S17.

Fuerteventura is now bookable at 2x weekly.

Gran Canaria and Lanzarote both have extra flights added for Easter as does Lisbon which goes 5x weekly for three weeks (extra Sat flight added).

Sharm is bookable at 2x weekly but only from Feb until April.

The bad news is that Nice has been taken off sale past October '16.

 

[Brum X]

Maybe Nice has seen a sharp fall in bookings since the horrible act of terrorism that took place last month ?? If that is the case, maybe a future route for Jet 2 ??

 

[jfy1999]

Maybe Nice has seen a sharp fall in bookings since the horrible act of terrorism that took place last month ?? If that is the case, maybe a future route for Jet 2 ??

We have a crumb of hope in that there are still flights to be loaded for S17 but the terrorist attack may indeed have killed this route

 

[nwoody2001]

well we just have to hoe that's not the case. The impacts of terrorism are often very temporary, hopefully it will be added again!

 

[Ray Finkle]

Did Flybe used to operate to Nice or did I just dream it?

Still early days yet and I'm sure that they're looking at the situation closely. If it doesn't return then there may well be an opportunity elsewhere?

 

[Brum X]

Did Flybe used to operate to Nice or did I just dream it?

Still early days yet and I'm sure that they're looking at the situation closely. If it doesn't return then there may well be an opportunity elsewhere?

To my knowledge, i think it was BA in the 90s

 

[IanFarquharson]

It was BMIBaby who operated BHX - NCE

 

[jfy1999]

Going by a conversation on the dried plum, Monarch seem to have a history of releasing one or two destinations at the eleventh hour. Larnaca was so late being released for W16/17 that it looked a "dead cert" for the axe, but it was eventually released.

Now, this may just be an amendment to the timetable which could be related to the current non-appearance of NCE for S17, but the three based 738s which were due for 2017 are no longer showing in the schedule.

Were the 738s intended to replace A320s or A321s? If the latter, then this could be Jet2 related as I don't think Monarch would want to move a considerable percentage of routes to smaller aircraft just as competition came on the scene.

 

[Ray Finkle]

It was BMIBaby who operated BHX - NCE

That's the one, my memory is getting worse.

 

[Aviador]

That's the one, my memory is getting worse.

Can't be as bad as mine.

 

[Ray Finkle]

What can't?

 

[Aviador]

eh! What you on about...?