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One other positive today is it looks like there hasn't been anything else to add to our new "Route Undevelopment and Rumours" thread!

Let's look at the positives and negatives here starting with the latter: TUI: Perhaps lost their way generally, not just at LBA easyJet: Big changes coming network wide as part of the Castlelake takeover (proposed) Wizz: Losing faith with the UK market generally: Industry as a whole: In some...

Can we start a new thread called "Route Undevelopment and Rumours" because we seem to be suffering a bit just now

It's all quite interesting this. easyJet have made some very strange route announcements just recently which includes some cutting back at LBA (yes I am biased) but think the axing of GVA, AGP and PMI from LBA is not too much about whether they are profitable, but are they profitable enough...

Someone else's money? Aircraft availability? Aircraft location?

The UK domestic market isn't what it was and we know we suffer from being centrally located with a good train service from Leeds itself to various parts of the UK so we can forget most of the UK stuff - would say London, Newquay, Southampton (which nearly happened for this year) and Aberdeen...

Yes looks like they can faget it reopening as an airport!

The flip side of that is if good loads/yields happen at 1 weekly then frequency could increase. I know I sound like a stuck record but Jet2 rarely get things wrong. P s posting this is more interesting than watching England at the moment!

Coming fairly thick and fast just at the moment then

We equally don't like going on holiday for 7 nights, we prefer 10/11 so again that needs at least 2 flights a week. Flexibility is absolutely key these days

Thanks for putin that out there but agree with @White Heather that I won't be waving (at least not in the normal sense) either

Did you purposely post this being Fryday then @gcoabc1

LBA almost being a victim of Jet2's success. But as has already been said a base would ultimately have given better timings but we are where we are. It brings us back to "thank you Jet2 for believing in LBA in the first place" otherwise I don't know if we would be where we are today

There will become a point I guess where the number of A21Ns will far outweigh the B738s so it then becomes a matter for the LS bean counters to decide how long it's sensible to persist with a mixed fleet. Some 738s are as old as the 733s but the newer 738s are what say 10 years old so would...

Lots of suggestions elsewhere that these slot requests by Emerald are just using LBA as the destination to mask their true plans/destination(s). That said I agree @lbaspotter it would be good to know if there is anything in it for LBA although some commercial confidentiality will surely be at...

Once again, whilst the loss of 3 easyJet routes plus Sun Express and no interest from BA re a return is disappointing, and perhaps even frustrating, by putting a few things into context does mean things aren't as bad as they may initially seem: DSA - still closed with any potential reopening...

I think what drives everyone's frustrations is the fishing (and I don't mean phishing) posts asking the same repeat questions, or perhaps even guessing without foundation. That said, the enthusiasm shouldn't be discouraged as that enthusiasm remains a general valuable contribution to the forum

Thanks @White Heather for the usual fantastic update. Very disappointing overall on the airline/routes element, but I suppose nothing we didn't expect tbh. Hopefully bounce back occurs quickly

ACC meeting at 2pm today I believe so hopefully WH will be able to report soon after that has finished - time permitting for her of course

I believe it's because the hotter the weather the less lift is created, or something like that so they will be using the increased TODA that a 14 take off run provides. I am no technical expert though so happy to be corrected or for someone to give a more detailed technical explanation