BHX to Palma (and MAN-PMI) are both regular charters this summer season. However you have kind of answered your own question really - they do not appear on the Flybe website as they are charter flights and can only be booked through the appropriate travel agent / tour operator
Not restricted to Manchester or Birmingham to Palma either by the look
of it with Q400 G-JECR operating Guernsey Palma today per acarsd.
Is this a bank holiday one-off or regular throughout the summer?
The aircraft operated BHX-ABZ-BHX-GCI-PMI-GCI-BHX - a fair days
work for a Saturday.
Some pretty good Q400 utilisation today out of BHX although there
was enough slack for one to position to Dublin this morning for a
Rugby charter to Edinburgh.
The ex Wideroe Q400 (G-ECOB) is still supporting it's Norwegian registration but in full flybe colours.
OltonPete is correct, BE have been operating GCI-PMI and JER-PMI, the latter operated by a mix of Q400 and E195. These are charters again although I have a feeling some of them are private charters
Usually flights BE8*** are private charters / football charters
BE9*** are IT flights for a tour operator
The Palma charter flights from Guernsey and Jersey have been operating during April and May on behalf of a local tour operator; they finish at the end of this month. BE9325/6 are the flight numbers for the Jersey flights I believe.
Flybe will again operate charter flights from Jersey to Palma between mid-July and mid-August during the summer holidays. I understand that Flybe will also operate down to Malaga from the islands during October.
Woud there ever be a possibility of flybe launching a once or twice weekly scheduled service from Guernsey and Jersey to Palma or Malaga, operating say GCI-JER-PMI-JER-GCI? They already operate a weekly summer service from Jersey to Nice.
Has anyone heard or got an update on rumour as follows: 4 Q400s to go to Athens with crew to operate with a Greek Airline. Andrew Strong (a Flybe boss) has apparenrly been out there several times to set up the deal?
only 1 145 seems to still flying for flybe, crewed by contractors out of man each day.
there are still 4 or so stored down in EXT waiting for a buyer. the problem with a wet lease is there is no more 145 crew. everyone is either q400 or 195 these days.
Atleast 3 E145's have joined the Greek register with Athens Airways over the last few months, as SX-CMA/B/C (former G-EMBH/K/L), so maybe that's part of the confusion here.
Also, as the 4 Q400's which have been with Wideroe (G-ECOB/C/E/F) return, presumably the 4 older ex-SAS ones (G-ECOV/W/Y/Z) become spare.
Maybe FlyBe see an opportunity to use them as a sub-fleet for lease, or some other opportunity. No point sending them back to SAS or Bombardier, if FlyBe can find a way to make money with them.
There was a plan to wet lease a 145 (JC I think) to Athens airways for 4 months using the remaining 145 senior captains, contract captains and flybe fo's, I know as i was 1 of those on the list to go after my 195 course was cancelled. Unfortunately RBS dragged its feet to the point where dash courses had to be allocated to the remaining 145 pilots so the plan was abandoned, whether or not its been revived with dash 8s I don't know. The intention was to find a use for either JA or JC as I have been reliably informed their leases run well into next year.
Flight International reporting that FlyBe are unhappy with BA who have reduced the value of their 15% holding to £30m by writing off £13m this year (against £6m last year).
Interesting that both Virgin Atlantic and FlyBe have trumpetted their profitability whereas the publically quoted part owners (Singapore and BA) who are obliged to use international (and thus different) accounting standards effectively say otherwise.
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