Yes the aircraft will be branded in Olympic colours and keeping the G reg. I heard 2 of the aircraft are flying directly to ATH from Canada. As for the other 2, who knows. However the wet lease starts in Aug so it will be soon.
Possibly some of the more troublesome Q400s in the BE fleet (tech wise) will be moved out to ATH to improve on time performance and mx back in the UK.
Wouldn't that be extremely foolish to do? I am sure the contract with OA stipulates some performance guarantees - exactly to make sure that Flybe does not dump its scrap on an airline customer who is forking out a lot of money for Flybe's services?
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Good news about the greek contract. Its good to see Mr French and his team continuing to buck the trend and not lie down and accept the recession.
We have matt le tissier,george best and kevin keegan on our aircraft!
Can we petition for stavross flatley to go on one of the greek aircraft!!!
Not sure but I have also heard that rumour! About JF and Southampton I guess he knows Le Tissier as he is/was a "communities officer" for flybe in the channel islands..........we'll see I guess
Interesting PR spin to quote "extension of the brand" as a justification for wet-leasing to Olympic...when it is a wet-lease with all branding "Olympic".
Sounds far more like Flybe's growth has stalled and these a/c are not wanted!
Interesting theory........many airlines will likely find themselves with too many aircraft this winter as demand for flights gets weaker over the winter period anyway. Even if Flybe are slowing expansion and they need to get rid of aircraft this is a far better solution compared to leaving them on the ground parked up.
I think its a classic example of good business sense, something which many airline managers seem to be missing. The thing you have to remember is this is only until Sept 10 and they will then return to the fleet so I reckon if it was a case of getting rid of aircraft because they dont want them they would put them up for sale.
To clarify a few things that are incorrect on this topic, the aircraft will operate in Flybe colours. This is the current intentions - nothing to say it will not change but at the moment it is definately Flybe colours with staff in BE uniform. Does not seem to bother Olympic so it is very much a case of extending the BE brand even if its not actually BE operated services.
Yes thats correct Aer Arann did do some wet lease work for Flybe. I believe Bombardier footed the bill or at least some of it due to late arrival of new airframes. So maybe they seen the invoices and thought show me the money
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