Leeds Bradford: Jet2 Flights, New Routes & Base Updates

gulftraveller said:

It’s strange. The route seems to have been doing well with a marked increase in passengers over 2025. TUI are also dropping La Palma from MAN. Can’t be coincidence.

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Maybe another eruption forecast?!

White Heather said:

Maybe another eruption forecast?!

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Beat me to it. What I was thinking but then again - would you cancel all that investment for a forecast.

Just for info

Jet2s B737-800 G-GDFD is operating its last flight IBZ-EMA before being retired from service and returned to its lessor. Likely to be scrapped.

CM. said:

Just for info

Jet2s B737-800 G-GDFD is operating its last flight IBZ-EMA before being retired from service and returned to its lessor. Likely to be scrapped.

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FD is 29.2 years old. So old in fact that it is the 2nd 737 800 prototype.

FD is the oldest 800 still flying! It would seem the first prototype was also destined for Jet2 at some stage but is shown as not being taken up. It was scrapped in 2019.

interesting company analysis on Jet2

"Climate change presents the biggest long-term risk. Flights are major emitters of greenhouse gases, and likely to come under increasing regulation to mitigate or neutralise the risk. The Mediterranean is also getting hotter. As yet, that does not seem to have diminished our appetite for holidays there, but it may"

Climate change is BS let's face it. I've said it once I'll repeat myself - it's a mechanism to raise tax hidden behind some very clever well thought out propaganda. All devised by the evil UN, the even more evil European Union and the useless puppets in government. It's a new cult. A mental illness.
Looking after the climate and doing all we can is a different matter to climate change BS.

And don't know about anyone but 30-35 degree in the med on a sunbed. Yes please. Away from this horrific sh*t hole of a country. I don't see appetite going away I see, as usual, changes to booking patterns happening. As is always case. Booking patterns change consistently.

Maybe the real threat isn't Climate Change but a useless socialist government after more tax of the working people, companies, aviation to subsidise it's every growing useless civll service wage bill and the largest welfare bill that is out of control and continuing ti grow.

you keep referring to this country as a sh*t hole, but have you ever lived abroad? I’ve lived in Norway, Germany, Austria, Spain and Portugal and spent significant amounts of time in Denmark. I’m pretty well travelled in the rest of the world, and the only other place I would consider living other than here and my native home in Norway would be Portugal.

Try working in 35 degrees, not just the odd day, but for months and trust me you will grow weary of it. Oh and “mañana” is painful and Teutonic efficiency is a myth.

HX3 said:

you keep referring to this country as a sh*t hole, but have you ever lived abroad? I’ve lived in Norway, Germany, Austria, Spain and Portugal and spent significant amounts of time in Denmark. I’m pretty well travelled in the rest of the world, and the only other place I would consider living other than here and my native home in Norway would be Portugal.

Try working in 35 degrees, not just the odd day, but for months and trust me you will grow weary of it. Oh and “mañana” is painful and Teutonic efficiency is a myth.

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Love Portugal and its people….got my residency there now and my wife and I are going to move there once our old Cockapoo passes.

I’m lucky as a Norwegian we have freedom of movement in the EU as we are part of the EEA and Schengen. I enjoyed living in Portugal, the people are lovely and if you speak the language, or make an attempt they really welcome you.

@HX3 that is a very valid point and any time my wife and I are abroad I always try to say some basics in the local lingo. Try to do my bit to help rid us Brits of a lazy language tag

For those old enough to remember: like the British policeman (Officer Crabtree) posing as a French policeman in ‘Allo, ‘Allo who did his best to speak French.
"I am disgeesed as poloceman so I am oble to move aboot with complate frodom."

Sherburnflyer92 said:

Flights are major emitters of greenhouse gases, and likely to come under increasing regulation to mitigate or neutralise the risk.

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I think aviation is 4% of human co2 emissions globally. Bare in mind co2 is already low at 0.04% of all air. Water vapour is also a greenhouse contributor and given we're on a 'blue' planet, its somewhat unavoidable that water will play a larger role than aviation and co2 generally.

I (we) have to be careful discussing the subject here, especially me, as my views are contrary to the so-called "consensus" and as we can't discuss this freely anywhere, therefore it isn't something I want here.

Sherburnflyer92 said:

Maybe the real threat isn't Climate Change but a useless socialist government after more tax of the working people

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Most if not all the climate change "BS" was implemented by the Conservatives.

Newcastle based Boeing 737-800,G-JZBE has gone tech down route in Palma.

Boeing 737-300, G-GDFO has just been launched from Leeds to Palma as EXS47A as its rescue.

lbaspotter said:

Newcastle based Boeing 737-800,G-JZBE has gone tech down route in Palma.

Boeing 737-300, G-GDFO has just been launched from Leeds to Palma as EXS47A as its rescue.

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GDFO! …..be lucky if it even gets there…..makes me laugh when Jet2 have to send one of the old birds on a rescue mission.

BCFC said:

GDFO! …..be lucky if it even gets there…..makes me laugh when Jet2 have to send one of the old birds on a rescue mission.

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G-GDFN has been sat idle all afternoon. They could have sent that instead. Obviously FO is trusted. I wonder if the rescue flight will 'divert' to Leeds for operational or weather reasons ? Current NCL weather is far worse than here.

White Heather said:

G-GDFN has been sat idle all afternoon. They could have sent that instead. Obviously FO is trusted. I wonder if the rescue flight will 'divert' to Leeds for operational or weather reasons ? Current NCL weather is far worse than here.

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Possibly just as bad by the time it returns.

Gusts up to 43 mph at LBA around the time of return, around the same at Newcastle but as the night/early morning wears on 60+ mph gusts in both places so not looking good if its return is delayed.

Len Fish said:

Gusts up to 43 mph at LBA around the time of return, around the same at Newcastle but as the night/early morning wears on 60+ mph gusts in both places so not looking good if its return is delayed.

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Which surely increases the risk it may divert here so its in the right place in the morning.

Also suggests the B738 f/t NCL wasn't full!!!!