No more 757-300's for Thomas Cook

Andries · Post by **Andries** » 23 Jul 2003, 01:21

Wegens een sterke daling van de vraag naar stoelen ziet Thomas Cook Airlines zich genoodzaakt om haar vloot drastisch in te krimpen. Acht Boeing 757-300’s, die voor Thomas Cook worden gevlogen door Condor, zullen verdwijnen. Daarnaast verdwijnen 3.200 banen bij de maatschappij als gevolg van een reorganisatie die bedoeld is om in 2 jaar tijd 676 miljoen euro te besparen.

Volgens woordvoerder Marcus Rüdiger zoekt de maatschappij mogelijkheden om de toestellen te verhuren aan andere maatschappijen.

Thomas Cook Airlines is een samenwerkingsverband van de Thomas Cook Group, een tour operator, en Condor Flugdienst GmbH, dat weer een dochter is van Lufthansa.

bron : www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl

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In english :
because of the low demand of seats, thomas cook will stop using the 8 757-300's operated by Condor. Also 3.200 jobs will get lost. This way the company hopes to save 676 million euro.Thomas cook would be looking at the possibility of leasing the aircraft to an other airline.

Earlier, I heard that 6 aircraft would have to leave, now it's 8 allready with the 757-300's leaving. Does anyone know if their will be planes leaving the Thomas Cook 'Belgium' fleet ???

Greetz,

EBOS

BBKing · Post by **BBKing** » 23 Jul 2003, 11:11

Sell B757-300's ????

Who wants them anyway ????

Post by **luchtzak** » 23 Jul 2003, 11:30

A search on Thomas Cook gave me the following results:

- Thomas Cook says 340 jobs, 5 jets could go: https://www.aviation24.be/modules.php?name ... e&sid=1141

- Thomas Cook's workforce to be reduced by 1,200 in 2003
https://www.aviation24.be/modules.php?name ... le&sid=747

I think that strange things are happening at Thomas Cook...

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 23 Jul 2003, 15:25

Yeah, apparently they're not doing very well.

Hope it won't affect the belgian staff

Post by **sn26567** » 23 Jul 2003, 15:57

Why would there be problems in Belgium, when TC Belgium must call in a reinforcement (757-200) from Germany (Condor) during the summer season?

The problems seem to be essentially located in Germany.