Wizz air Doncaster Base

[GKirk]

They have applied for 4 x A321 bases at EDI and MAN, so I'd be surprised if they announced aGLA base. Could all be a smokescreen of course

[Ekally1]

Interestingly the Cardiff base is exclusively outbound leisure to bucket and spade destinations. It will be interesting to see what the plans for EDI and MAN are given that both already have heavy competition on bucket and spade routes.

At edi with LS , EZY, FR fighting on same markets , goingbto be a blood bath .. which will only affect GLA in a negative manner .. cheap seats in the east

[Gla1]

I can’t help but feel like i’m watching another Norwegian here!

[Ekally1]

Interestingly the Cardiff base is exclusively outbound leisure to bucket and spade destinations. It will be interesting to see what the plans for EDI and MAN are given that both already have heavy competition on bucket and spade routes.

At edi with LS , EZY, FR fighting on same markets , goingbto be a blood bath .. which will only affect GLA in a negative manner .. cheap seats in the east

That has been the case for years.

Thanks for pointing the obvious , but clearly going in intensifie

[PiperOne]

They have applied for 4 x A321 bases at EDI and MAN, so I'd be surprised if they announced aGLA base. Could all be a smokescreen of course

Which would suggest minimum 16-sector days at both bases, so daily 3840 seats. I'm not sure bucket & spade will need that number of extra seats, so I could see some seat-only traffic moving away from Jet2, Tui, or even Easyjet. Ryanair will probably go into a price war with Wizz to protect their market, further squeezing the operators who do packages as well as seat only.

[Bearsden]

I posed the question How will the Central Scotland 'cake' be divided over the next few years? on another thread

[Clive]

I posed the question How will the Central Scotland 'cake' be divided over the next few years? on another thread

Hopefully more realistically.

[atuk]

[quote=Bearsden post_id=2538 time=<a href="tel:1607014094">1607014094</a> user_id=72]
I posed the question How will the Central Scotland 'cake' be divided over the next few years? on another thread

Hopefully more realistically.
[/quote]

Yes CWL-SSH without being aligned to any tour operator. Seat only to Egypt? Don’t make me laugh.

Why don’t they just open a base in every single U.K. airport? After all they’ll need toto deploy all these new aircraft on order. U.K., UAE, Norway, former Soviet republics, and so it goes on. Air Europe (airlines of Europe) Swissair, Air Berlin and Etihad all spring to mind.

I can see the headlines of the future...” When magenta turned to red,”.

[dav3]

hopefully they will have learned something from the way norwegian did it and therefore try something different.they have had a base at luton for a while and it seemed to be working before the virus hit. we holiday every year in the south of france(in a rented mobile home)and come third in the list of airlines flying over behind easyjet and ryanair..great area to spot by the way.100+ flyovers a day and airliners and bizjets descending into Nice..missed it this year

[atuk]

hopefully they will have learned something from the way norwegian did it and therefore try something different.they have had a base at luton for a while and it seemed to be working before the virus hit. we holiday every year in the south of france(in a rented mobile home)and come third in the list of airlines flying over behind easyjet and ryanair..great area to spot by the way.100+ flyovers a day and airliners and bizjets descending into Nice..missed it this year

But that’s the whole point of my post. Airlines which are good at what they do in their niche markets and make money from it. Then they get too big for their boots. It’s like they think they can take on anything, at any cost and the profits will flow in. Laker moving from profitable charters to the US to Skytrain at any cheap price, BCal the second force; which quickly became a spent force, Air Europe conquering charts and European schedules found the running costs of schedules drained its profit flow, Swissair which sought to dominate Europe and found that being everything to everyone didn’t work, Air Berlin whose holy grail was acquisition which would bring profits - it didn’t it simply increased the debt mountain.

I know I’m sounding negative but many, many airlines don’t learn from the lessons of the past. This current business model which Wizz has adopted spells future trouble.

As I said the headlines will read “how magenta turned red”.