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Primera Air today (20JUL17) announced new service launch to the US in 2018, with its new Airbus A321neo aircraft, intensifying low-fare carrier’s competition on Trans-Atlantic routes. From Europe, the airline will operate service from Birmingham, London Stansted and Paris CDG, while points in the US include Boston and Newark initially. Configuration of the A321neo is C16Y182.
London Stansted – Newark eff 19APR18 1 daily

Birmingham – Boston eff 22JUN18 4 weekly
PF053 BHX1715 – 2015BOS 32B x246
PF054 BOS2145 – 0930+1BHX 32B x246

Birmingham – Newark eff 18MAY18 1 daily
PF051 BHX1745 – 2100EWR 32B D
PF052 EWR2230 – 1030+1BHX 32B D

London Stansted – Boston eff 18MAY18 4 weekly
PF043 STN1700 – 2010BOS 32B x246
PF044 BOS2140 – 0930+1STN 32B x246

PF041 STN1755 – 2120EWR 32B D
PF042 EWR2250 – 1100+1STN 32B D

Paris CDG – Boston eff 21JUN18 3 weekly
PF023 CDG1730 – 2005BOS 32B 246
PF024 BOS2135 – 1045+1CDG 32B 246

Paris CDG – Newark eff 18MAY18 1 daily
PF021 CDG1850 – 2140EWR 32B D
PF022 EWR2310 – 1235+1CDG 32B D
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Tutti che si danno all'Atlantico

Sulla Boston Parigi AA, rotta storica ma stagionale, ha già LF imbarazzanti.
Adesso con l'arrivo pure di Norwegian e Primera mi sa lasceranno prevedibilmente.
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Primera Air è una compagnia charter svedese che da poco ha aperto ai voli di linea. Fuori dalla Svezia praticamente non li conosce nessuno, dovranno fare una maxi campagna di lancio per avere qualche possibilita
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Cesare.Caldi ha detto:
Primera Air è una compagnia charter svedese che da poco ha aperto ai voli di linea. Fuori dalla Svezia praticamente non li conosce nessuno, dovranno fare una maxi campagna di lancio per avere qualche possibilita
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Cesare mi permetto di correggerti, Primera è Danese. Comunque sempre li in zona insomma...
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Analisi di anna.aero con relativi dubbi.


Primera Air gears up to join the low-cost transatlantic market – anna.aero analyses the demand behind the carrier’s new venture

Primera Air is to premier in the low-cost long-haul market in 2018, preparing to enter the intensifying battle of the transatlantic market with flights from Birmingham, London Stansted and Paris CDG to New York Newark and Boston.​
Primera Air has recently confirmed its intention to begin flights over the Atlantic to Boston and New York Newark, starting initially with flights to both destinations from Birmingham, London Stansted and Paris CDG, with routes scheduled to begin in April and May next year. All routes will be flown by A321neos, of which the carrier currently has an order for eight, plus two A321LRs, with deliveries expected in Q1 2018. It should be noted that the carrier also has a firm order for eight 737 MAX 9s. Flights to Newark will be flown daily from all three airports, with Boston being served four times weekly from the UK airports, and three times weekly from the French capital. With the news of the carrier’s transatlantic venture, Primera Air will join the list of airlines including Norwegian, LEVEL, Eurowings, WestJet and WOW air in offering low-cost long-haul flights to North America from Europe.

One of Europe’s most seasonal airlines?

Based in Scandinavia, Primera Air was initially launched to operate charters for major Scandinavian tour operators, but gradually it started selling tickets on some of its fixed charters in 2013. The continued success allowed Primera Air to increase both the number of routes and flight frequency, resulting in a mixed charter/scheduled carrier business model. Today the majority of Primera Air flights are scheduled, although some flights combine charter and scheduled passengers, and separate full charter flights are also operated. Currently the carrier has a fleet of nine aircraft; two 737-700s and seven 737-800s.

This year Primera Air will increase its annual seat capacity by close to 15% when referring to OAG schedules, with the airline expected to operate 1.24 million seats in 2017. However, what is very clear is the seasonality of the carrier, with its peak month of July in 2017 seeing 187% more seats than the carrier’s lowest month this year, December.
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Source: OAG Schedules Analyser data.​

While the carrier has increased its seat capacity this year, the airline has done it sustainably, with it not increasing its seasonality profile. Instead it has grown capacity throughout the year, with all months except three (March, June and October) seeing double-digit growth in seat capacity.

Going to be tough to crack CDG

Now while services from both Birmingham and Stansted will not see direct competition, flights from CDG will go head-to-head with a number of airlines. United Airlines (twice-daily), La Compagnie (nine times weekly) and Delta Air Lines (daily) already link CDG to Newark, while Boston is served by Air France (13 times weekly), American Airlines (daily) and Delta (daily) this summer. There are also 60 weekly flights in summer between CDG and New York JFK, a route that is flown by LCC Norwegian four times weekly on 787-8s. So while Birmingham and Stansted are monopoly markets for Primera Air over the Atlantic, it will have a tough job cracking the market from the French capital, particularly with there already being LCC competition from Norwegian, which also links CDG to Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles. The carrier will also in S18 serve Boston and Newark from CDG, along with routes to Denver, Oakland and Orlando.

What also makes it harder for Primera Air is that it does not have brand awareness in France or the UK, so strong marketing is going to have to be done if the venture is going to be successful. Currently the airline’s biggest market is Denmark, with Billund (14% of weekly departing seats) and Copenhagen (13%) being the carrier’s largest bases this summer.

Boston might be best as seasonal

The first route that anna.aero is keen to get a further grasp of is the connections from Birmingham and Stansted to Boston, services that have never been flown before and that Primera Air has stated it will operate year-round. While these services will also be launched from CDG, the market is already well defined, with Primera Air just trying to get a market share of what is already there, so anna.aero is focusing on just the routes from the UK in this analysis.

To get an idea of what the Boston market is like from the UK, we have looked back at the past monthly data to January 2015 to see how the destination has matured in recent history. What is evident is that the traffic between the UK and Boston, apart from Norwegian’s link from London Gatwick, is seasonal. The high month of travel from Heathrow to Boston (August) for instance sees 83% more traffic than the lowest month (February). Primera Air has stated that the new connections to Boston will be year-round, so with that it could be expected that the route reduces frequency in winter due to demand, or like Norwegian, it could stimulate winter traffic with its low fares.
Primaera-Air-BOS.png

Source: UK CAA.​

Looking at the statistics for January to May this year, traffic between the UK and Boston is up 17% when compared to the first five months of 2016. One factor helping this growth is Virgin Atlantic Airways joining Thomas Cook Airlines on the connection between Manchester and the US city in March, resulting in the seasonal route starting two months earlier than it did in 2016.

Of course Primera Air is not the first airline to enter the low-cost long-haul market to Boston from the UK, with Norwegian already connecting London Gatwick to the US city. Using a larger 787-8 on the route than Primera Air’s A321neos, Norwegian since its launch to Boston in March 2016 has averaged a monthly load factor of 89%, with it increasing from 84% in its first full month of operation to 94% in May this year when cross comparing CAA data with OAG schedules.

Now while there has not been a direct service between Birmingham and Boston before, when referring to OAG Traffic Analyser data, there is demand between the two cities. Around 8,700 passengers travelled indirectly between Birmingham and Boston from July 2016 to June 2017. Now while this only represents about 12 PDEW, what we need to consider is that this number does not take into account leakage to Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester, while Primera Air could also stimulate demand with its new service. Currently the top connecting airports between Birmingham and Boston are Dublin (41% of traffic) and Reykjavik/Keflavik (24%). Trying to determine the demand from Stansted for Boston flights is more tricky due to its close proximity to Heathrow and Gatwick, along with the airport not having service from feeder carriers which Birmingham does. However, demand between London and Boston grew by 4% last year to over 892,000 direct passengers, while an estimated 47,000 passengers also travelled indirectly between the two cities last year.

United Airlines ends Birmingham; can Primera Air capture demand?

One big benefit to Birmingham with the arrival of Primera Air is that it will take over from United Airlines on the route to Newark, a service which the Star Alliance member is ending after 20+ years of operation. The carrier had a monopoly on the city pair until American Airlines introduced services from JFK in May 2015. However, the introduction of the oneworld member did not dent United’s traffic flow too aggressively, with its average monthly passenger numbers dropping by just over 8% during the 21 months when American operated. Nonetheless, what the arrival of American did show is that there is a sizeable market between Birmingham and New York, with just under 150,000 passengers flying directly between the two cities last year (around 200 PDEW), up 6.1% on the total of 2015, and by a major 57% on 2014’s total of 94,000 direct passengers. One issue that Primera Air has is that it does not offer connections through Newark, unlike United.
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Source: UK CAA and OAG Traffic Analyser data.​

What is interesting to note about the demand between Birmingham and New York in recent years is that a sizeable proportion of the market still travels indirectly between the two cities. For the first five months of this year, on average 22% of monthly traffic has flown via another point when flying between the two cities, which is around 1,700 passengers per month. With this and the direct demand, there is roughly 224 PDEW between Birmingham and New York. Again like Boston, this demand also does not take into account the leakage to Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester from Birmingham’s catchment. It is harder to forecast the demand between Stansted and New York, however London’s third largest airport has had direct flights to the Big Apple before. Up until 2008, Eos Airlines and MaxJet served an all-business class product, while American between October 2007 and August 2008 operated a daily 767 service from Stansted to JFK. The low-cost market is already served by Norwegian between Gatwick and JFK, with it increasing its frequency on its route to twice-daily soon to meet demand for its service.

Two more routes to be announced from all three bases

Primera Air has stated that it will confirm two further routes from all three of its new European bases by the end of S17 according to its press release of the initial operation. With that, anna.aero has looked to see what would be the most likely destinations for Primera Air to open.

Now, the range of the A321neos that will be operating these routes is 6,850 kilometres according to Airbus. This means that from the UK and France, it could reach as far as Raleigh-Durham (6,502 kilometres from CDG) and Chicago O’Hare (6,661 kilometres from CDG), but these destinations could be a push in relation to fuel contingency and weather. Based on this, anna.aero has concluded that Primera Air is likely to launch flights to Toronto and Washington from the three airports. When analysing OAG Traffic statistics, Toronto Pearson is the second largest unserved market in North America from Birmingham (after Orlando), with nearly 12,000 indirect passengers between July 2016 and June this year. This is on top of Air Transat offering a weekly service in summer between the two airports, with the Canadian carrier in 2016 carrying 12,000 passengers on the route, representing an average load factor of 88% when cross comparing with OAG schedules. Following San Francisco (fourth largest unserved market from Birmingham), O’Hare (fifth) and Los Angeles (sixth), all of which have been excluded for operational reasons, the next largest unserved market is Washington, with around 6,000 annual indirect passengers currently. Again, these numbers do not take into account leakage to other UK airports.

http://www.anna.aero/2017/07/27/pri...ail&utm_term=0_ecdbf41674-15d05aba77-86828017
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Primera Air adds London – Washington service from Aug 2018

Primera Air yesterday (01FEB18) announced the launch of additional Trans-Atlantic route from London Stansted, as the airline opens booking for London Stansted – Washington Dulles route. Set to operate 5 times a week with Airbus A321neo, first flight is scheduled on 22AUG18.

PF047 STN1555 – 1950IAD 321 x57
PF048 IAD2120 – 0950+1STN 321 x57

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Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Segnalo che Primera Air sta offrendo i voli da STN verso NYC, BOS, YYZ e IAD a £99 o/w
Biglietti in vendita dalle 9:00 del 22 marzo.
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

I voli da BHX a EWR e YYZ sono stati tolti dalle vendite causa il ritardo nella consegna degli A321neo.

Primera Air cancels Birmingham summer 2018 transatlantic programme

Primera Air has been forced to temporarily suspend more of its new transatlantic programme due to further delays in delivery of its long-haul Airbus fleet.

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The low-cost carrier says prolonged delays to its new A321neo aircraft has left it no option but to suspend all flights between Birmingham and New York and Toronto for summer 2018.

Birmingham Airport said it was “disappointed” to confirm the suspension, with flights due to get under way in a little over two weeks time on June 21.

Primera made the announcement on Tuesday morning (June 6), stressing passengers flying before June 21 would not be affected.

The airline said its priority was now to ensure all affected passengers were compensated under EU261, adding those affected had been offered full refunds and alternative travel from Stansted.

Andri Már Ingólfsson, Primera Air chief executive, said: “The plans for the transatlantic routes have been in the making for over a year and both Primera Air and Birmingham Airport have put a lot of effort into promoting the new routes, which were welcomed by the region.

“Unfortunately, we did not anticipate such severe Airbus delays and the prolonged hold-up has forced us to make this difficult and disappointing decision.”

The airline has though vowed to resume long-haul operations from Birmingham in 2019 once its Airbus fleet is operational, adding its long-term transatlantic plans for Birmingham were unaffected.

Birmingham airport, in a statement, said: “Primera Air has confirmed it plans to reinstate transatlantic services next year once the aircraft is available and this announcement does not affect [its] short-haul services in operation from Birmingham.”

The airport added a 70% load factor on Primera’s initial New York flights reinforced the evident demand for flights between Birmingham and north America. TTG
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Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Primera apre tre nuove rotte da BRU per gli USA con 737 MAX 9.

Primera Air adds Brussels – US routes in S19

Primera Air in summer 2019 season is launching Trans-Atlantic service from Brussels, on board its new 189-seater (W16Y173) Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. Reservation for following new routes opened for booking on Tuesday.

Brussels – Boston eff 04JUN19 4 weekly
PF3521 BRU1920 – 2135BOS 7M9 x147
PF3522 BOS2305 – 1200+1BRU 7M9 x147

Brussels – Newark eff 09MAY19 1 daily
PF3509 BRU1820 – 2100EWR 7M9 D
PF3510 EWR2230 – 1145+1BRU 7M9 D

Brussels – Washington Dulles eff 02JUN19 3 weekly
PF3559 BRU1630 – 2020IAD 7M9 147
PF3560 IAD2150 – 1130+1BRU 7M9 147
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Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Primera Air apre anche TXL-JFK/BOS/YYZ con 737 MAX 9

Fonte: Airlineroute

Primera Air yesterday (30AUG18) Trans-Atlantic service from Berlin Tegel, on board Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. From June 2019, the airline will operate service to Boston, New York JFK and Toronto.

Berlin Tegel – Boston eff 09JUN19 4 weekly 737 MAX 9
PF3625 TXL1815 – 2105BOS 7M9 x146
PF3626 BOS2235 – 1205+1TXL 7M9 x146

Berlin Tegel – New York JFK eff 07JUN19 1 daily 737 MAX 9
PF3611 TXL1825 – 2140JFK 7M9 D
PF3612 JFK2310 – 1300+1TXL 7M9 D

Berlin Tegel – Toronto eff 10JUN19 3 weekly 737 MAX 9
PF3633 TXL1830 – 2145YYZ 7M9 146
PF3634 YYZ2315 – 1315+1TXL 7M9 146
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Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Non credevo che il 737 max 9 permettesse di volare sugli Usa addirittura da Berlino.
Qual è il suo limite di autonomia?
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Primera sbarca anche a FRA:

Primera Air adds Trans-Atlantic service from Frankfurt in S19

Primera Air yesterday (05SEP18) announced Trans-Atlantic service launch from Frankfurt, on board Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft in summer 2019 season. Planned service to the US and Canada as follows.

Frankfurt – Boston eff 17JUL19 4 weekly 737 MAX 9
PF3113 FRA1800 – 2035BOS 7M9 x246
PF3114 BOS2205 – 1120+1FRA 7M9 x246

Frankfurt – Montreal eff 16JUL19 3 weekly 737 MAX 9
PF3157 FRA1715 – 2010YUL 7M9 246
PF3158 YUL2140 – 1130+1FRA 7M9 246

Frankfurt – New York JFK eff 16JUN19 1 daily 737 MAX 9
PF3149 FRA1900 – 2200JFK 7M9 D
PF3150 JFK2330 – 1305+1FRA 7M9 D

Frankfurt – Toronto eff 21JUN19 1 daily 737 MAX 9
PF3135 FRA1840 – 2145YYZ 7M9 D
PF3136 YYZ2315 – 1305+1FRA 7M9 D

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Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Dopo Berlino, Bruxelles, e Francoforte faranno voli transatlantici anche da Madrid


Primera Air adds Trans-Atlantic service from Madrid in 3Q19

Primera Air this week continues to expand planned Trans-Atlantic service for summer 2019 season, as the airline schedules Boeing 737 MAX 9 service from Madrid, starting July 2019.

Madrid – Boston eff 17AUG19 3 weekly
PF3317 MAD1900 – 2105BOS 7M9 246
PF3318 BOS2235 – 1120+1MAD 7M9 246

Madrid – Newark eff 16JUL19 1 daily
PF3305 MAD1930 – 2200EWR 7M9 D
PF3306 EWR2330 – 1235+1MAD 7M9 D

Madrid – Toronto eff 16AUG19 4 weekly
PF3329 MAD1825 – 2215YYZ 7M9 x246
PF3330 YYZ2245 – 1210+1MAD 7M9 x246

The airline in the last few weeks announced Trans-Atlantic service from Berlin Tegel, Brussels and Frankfurt, with 737 MAX 9 aircraft.
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Stanno aprendo voli a raffica in tutta Europa, dite per potrebbero arrivare anche in Italia? L' autonomia lo consentirebbe?

Ho notato inoltre che praticamente tutti i loro voli Europa-USA sono operati in orario serale sarebbe interessante sapere i motivi di questa scelta.
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Primera da stasera è in bancarotta e cessa le operazioni
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Lettera del direttore delle operazioni...

“Dear colleagues,

It is with regret I am reaching out to you all this dark day. We have just been informed that both Primera Air Nordic and Primera Air Scandinavia will file for bankruptcy tomorrow October 2, 2018.

Currently flights are operating as normally and OCC, Crewing and Travel are working on arranging travel home for crews who happen to on outstations.

Reasons I am sure are many but very high cost for the aircrraft with corrosion last year as well as the delays of our new Airbuses lead to too high costs for wet lease and cancellations which in the end became too much for the airlines. Our owner was working on securing financing but was not able to in the end. This is what was stated during today’s staff meeting in the Riga office.

All the staff in the Riga office have been informed but official information will not be sent out until midnight by our owner. I understand it is difficult but please keep this to yourself if you can until after the official notification from the owner. In fact, I am not even authorized to send this email I think it is the right thing to do for all of you out there on the line. You deserve to know.”
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Certo che tutti hanno preso alla lettera l’invito alla riservatezza...:D
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Il loro sito già riporta la notizia.
 
Re: Primera Air inizia i voli negli USA nella S18

Ci sono gli ultimi 3 aerei in volo (così segnalava FR24 una mezz’oretta fa). Sarà interessante capire che fine faranno i 32X Neo che stava prendendo in consegna
 
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