As I said, it shows as a valid route but no times/prices so no idea if it's a connecting one or not. Looks like LGW is going to get flights to FRA with BE though from the summer timetable.
Had a look at Flybes website today. Are the summer 09 flights from BHD - JER no longer direct as in previous years? All the dates I looked at including Saturdays showed connecting flights via other bases.
Isn't it a bit of a long expensive option to take 10.5 hours to get from EXT to GLA? If you look at the booking engine for travel say on 20/1 it gives the option of flying EXT to EDI, connect to Stornoway and then back down to GLA. All for £229.09.
Hmmm not sure about the website issue - dont think many people will be interested in that (unless they need to visit all 3 destinations in the same day that is!!)
The following application has been received:
GTB 28 Flybe Limited to vary the conditions of its licence to operate passenger and cargo flights between GUERNSEY and JERSEY
What are Flybe after & how will it affect Aurigny/Blue Islands? Is it a go at Blue Islands because of the ATR42 on SOU?
I doubt Flybe was thinking ooo lets have a go at Blue Islands. They are so small compared to some of their competitors I dont think Flybe give a monkeys what Blue Islands do to be honest.
Flybe have operated inter-island flights for a long time with pax being able to book between JER/GCI on the BE501 BHX service and BE312 Exeter services. The adjustment, the cargo element, is being looked in to at a number of Flybe destinations where there isn't already an agreement in place.
I doubt Flybe was thinking ooo lets have a go at Blue Islands
Cloud1, it would seem logical that Flybe should not give a monkeys as to what BlueIslands are doing and the same logic could be applied to airlines like AirSouthwest, Euromanx, Aurigny at one point or another but sadly they do seem to target smaller airlines. The recent application to operate Newquay Gatwick is doom for AirSouthwest and Flybe are prepared to take a loss for a while until AirSouthwest axe the route?
Flybe are great at going into to Bully small carriers and them seem to be fixated in controlling some of the smaller airports eg Exeter, Southampton, and Newquay is high on the list it would seem.
The airline industry is a large school playground and inevitably it's full of bullies. What I find bizarre is that some on here believe this only happens at one level.
Business is business and it's survival of the fittest. Never has this been more evident when you look at the highstreet! The online firms have bullied Woolworths on price and service, they couldn't compete and now they're gone! Given the state of the market, Flybe will seek to stregthen it's business in whatever way possible. Unfortunately when any business does this it will often be to the detriment of another, this is what competition does. If Flybe become complacent or don't deliver what they promise then the gap will exist for another carrier to form and come in underneath them, in the same way as Flybe will with AirSouthwest!
Did we all sit and complain about poor old BA when Easyjet started to kill them on the domestics? Did they do the same in Ireland when Ryanair did exactly the same to Aer Lingus? No, we celebrated these events in the interests of competition. You can't have it both ways! Will AirSouthwest, Eastern and others be around next year, maybe, maybe not but where one airline fails, it makes another stronger, and the world just keeps on turning!
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We also know the perils to the consumer of monopoly situations and it would appear that flybe is dangerously close to that status in the UK's domestic market. Despite Cloud 1's protestations to the contrary, history shows that flybe is a predatory company that has, in the past 2 years, built critical mass to overpower whoever it decides to set its sights upon. The anti-competition argument is, perhaps, the only recourse the small regional airlines will be able to use against flybe expansion/domination.
Flybe is setting a precident with this one, cuddling their nervous passengers in uncertain times - maybe signalling the return of some frills to low cost travellers;
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