V-Flyer

According to airline route on twitter, from march 2014 Thomas cook will fly into international rather than Sanford. Could make immigration interesting!

It was announced a while ago, their flight is due to arrive at 14:00 so well ahead of the VS ones, and shouldn't therefore affect immigration really.

I wish VS would tweak the times of either the VS27 from LGW or the VS75 from MAN flights to MCO a bit though as they often land at the same time. Their scheduled arrival time is only 5 mins apart.

But will provide some more competition so should help to keep fares sharp.

This will be interesting as the earlier landing could prove more passengers choosing time and cost over anything else.

benchsmith wrote:This will be interesting as the earlier landing could prove more passengers choosing time and cost over anything else.

I'm not really a fan if the earlier arrival time, it means an even early get up for check in plus having to stay awake even longer, so a very long first day.

Also the return flight home departs before 18:00 and arrives very early back in to the UK, which is not good for helping the jet lag.

I suppose a good point there, there could be option to book two separate tickets if you were one who wanted the earlier arrival there but also wanted the later departure back but I think it's something I will consider although it is going to take something for me to switch from the VS product.

benchsmith wrote:This will be interesting as the earlier landing could prove more passengers choosing time and cost over anything else.

While the timings might be interesting - the extras they charge might prove not so tempting:

Luggage:

20kg - £56.00
30kg - £136.00

Meals

£22.00

Add these charges on for a family and it soon racks up. Also, the lack of a premium offering could work against them, iirc the A330's they have (assuming they will be using them on this route) do have a premium cabin, but they dont market it due to higher APD charges.

Will be interesting to see how they do.

AmexVflyer wrote:

benchsmith wrote:This will be interesting as the earlier landing could prove more passengers choosing time and cost over anything else.

While the timings might be interesting - the extras they charge might prove not so tempting:

Luggage:

20kg - £56.00
30kg - £136.00

Meals

£22.00

Add these charges on for a family and it soon racks up. Also, the lack of a premium offering could work against them, iirc the A330's they have (assuming they will be using them on this route) do have a premium cabin, but they dont market it due to higher APD charges.

Will be interesting to see how they do.

Good point never booked with them before as those costs rack up yeah maybe not many changes depends really I spose will be interesting.