Travel City Direct
Travel City Direct is a British holiday company specialising in holidays to the USA. The company is owned by the XL Leisure Group.
Travel City Direct has around 16 flights per week from its bases at Manchester Airport, London Gatwick Airport, Glasgow International Airport and Cardiff International Airport
Aircraft
Travel City Direct leased 3 aircraft that are crewed by XL Airways. These aircraft were purchased by Air Atlanta Icelandic from Corsair. This is still visible in the cabin as many signs are in both French and English with some Corsair images still on areas of the aircraft. They are operated in high density configuration seating 517. This is broken down into 470 seated in Economy, 25 in Premium and 22 in First*.
- TF-AME (Branded) (Based at Manchester Airport)
- TF-AMJ (Branded but carries an XL logo on the tail) (Based at London-Gatwick Airport)
- TF-AMK (Not Branded - All white)
- TF-ARU (Not Branded - All white)
AMK and ARU are mainly used by XL for a military flight contract out of Brize Norton that they have lost from October 07. This is a major reason why all aircraft will be returned to Air Atlanta when the leases expire.
The aircraft are leased from Air Atlanta Icelandic and will be returned to Air Atlanta on the 17th of November 07 on lease expiring. XL plan to use 767 equipment for the winter period on all Travel City Direct flights. Travel City Direct also plan to use a leased XL Airways France Airbus A330 whilst waiting for their own aircraft to arrive in 2008. This will remove the 3-class configuration of the aircraft, reducing it to 2-class only. It is also considerably cheaper to upgrade on A330 aircraft than B767.
- Source: XL Aviation
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TF-AMK at Orlando Sanford airport -
Typical row of seats on-board TF-AME -
Cabin shot of TF-AME , Economy (Seating 3x4x3) -
Travel City Direct's TF-AME seen at Manchester Airport
Forum
Travel City Direct has an online discussion forum on its website. The forum attracts a number of visitors. It currently has just over 2000 members , many are loyal TCD customers.
Travel City Direct discussion forum