FlyingV

A clutch of new UK-France routes announced this morning.

http://www.rte.ie/business/2006/0302/aerarann.html

FougaMagister

How about recruiting to be able to operate all these new routes then?

840

It looks like a number of the routes have been dropped. All the Liege ones are gone as is Luton-Angers.

So, is it a lack of personnel as you suggest, a lack of aircraft or because they were commercially unviable?

I doubt it's the last, because Cork-Angers and Manchester-Angers remain and I would have expected the Luton route to be the most profitable.

ryanair1

i like this airline. they have worked hard

perhaps we should team up with them? how's about it Padreigh?

GBALU53

Will there be more developments between Aer Arann and othe airline out of Cardiff.

They have a tie up with Thomson by operating to Jersey from the 25th of May on the old Air Wales service could things there be more???

MarkD

Arann are restarting DUB-NOC from end of May.

JC Novelli

Have just posted something similar on DUBLIN thread. Do any of you RE bods know how this affects the PSO. Is there not a certain amount that goes to starting a route up. Will BA/Logie give that to RE. Was the PSO publicly offered again? Why RE. Is is just once a day as before?

Questions Questions.

MarkD

JCN

When Euroceltic went under RE renegotiated the PSO IIRC - as they did the time before when they went to DoT and said "gis more or we're offski".

Flame

I understand Irish regional carrier Aer Arann may be announcing tomorrow a large fleet order, rumour is its ATR72-500's, has anyone any info on this or where the expansion will take the company

jethro15

Ten a/c. First due mid 2007

jethro
UK and Ireland Airline Fleet Listings
http://www.jethros.i12.com

jethro15

As I said earlier:
http://www.rte.ie/business/2006/0515/aerarann.html

Oshkosh George

Fleet to be 20 aircraft,so presumably means all the -42s will be departing,and 2 more secondhand -72s added?

840

Oshkosh George
Would they not need to hang on to some of the 42s because of runway restrictions? I'm thinking particularly of Sligo, but to a lesser extent of Galway and Waterford.

FlyingV

A little bit more detail in the BreakingNews report

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/05/15/story258838.html

Jobear

Barry K drop me a PM

Joe H

Am I Bovered

Jeesus isn't it great to see that paper never refuses ink all the same! and that that dreadful, dreary, "doyen" of the School of modern BS Paddy O'C is still full it and still pumping out the hot air!! Let us all say in common prayer and as one for our beloved leader " Oh Dear God don't let the "AU" turn around and decide to take another look at the "PSO Sponge" presently alive and well and living in Dub & places West and rejoicing in the name POC and may our beloved leader continue to seek solace from the crumbs thrown from "Mental Mickey's" table of greed Amen!!

PS I see The Beloved One has been rambling about AA going "unlimited" - how does that work then??? ho, ho when the BS was being given out Our Beloved Leader hopped in right up to his bleedin oxters!!

EI-WAT

I doubt there would be any restriction out of waterford at all as i believe there is none at present using the current 72's

StephenM_SMC

Why is there a problem with SXL? I've seen the ATR72 landing in front of me while sitting in a C152/C172 or holding to let it land.

840

StephenM_SMC

I would have thought that with the length of runway at Sligo that an ATR72 would be range restricted. Since they only fly to Dublin from Sligo, it possibly wouldn't be a problem, but it would be a problem if they had any intention of increasing services from Sligo.

The Flying Cokeman

EI-WAT,

There are restrictions for the 72 in WAT when taking off from 03 and sometimes for 21 as well. A fully booked 72 to LTN and especially LRT can cause quite some problems weight wise when 03 is in use .
As for SXL both the 42 and 72 are restricted for takeoff but it's no problem for the 72 as it is rarely full when flying to DUB plus you don't need much fuel to fly back to DUB.
Tfcm