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Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

6th Oct 2014, 12:25

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Virgin Atlantic

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Posted By Cyrano

Virgin to shut down Little Red

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic ends Little Red domestic service - Telegraph...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

8th Sep 2014, 09:03

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

Are you suggesting this on the basis that EI is...

Are you suggesting this on the basis that EI is the wet-lease operator or on the basis that EI was also in the bidding for the slots themselves originally?

I'd have thought (though I am open to...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

5th Feb 2014, 08:30

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

I don't think it's "even more reasons" at all. VS...

I don't think it's "even more reasons" at all. VS was an irrelevance in the UK-Australia market faced with the competition, especially the Gulf competition. How many successful ultra-long-range...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

8th Jan 2013, 13:00

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

After many years on PPRuNe, this unrelenting...

After many years on PPRuNe, this unrelenting torrent of parallel-universe non-sequiturs has finally driven me to use the ignore list (http://www.pprune.org/profile.php?do=ignorelist) function for the...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

19th Dec 2012, 09:24

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

Maybe a compromise can be found: St Richard, St...

Maybe a compromise can be found: St Richard, St Steve, St Julie,... ;)

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

12th Dec 2012, 10:59

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

That's interesting! I'm pretty sure Aer Lingus...

That's interesting! I'm pretty sure Aer Lingus had at least one slot leased from VS, so maybe that's where the three slots came from? 2 from CY and 1 from EI?

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

11th Dec 2012, 20:43

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

Not sure that I "very conveniently sidestepped"...

Not sure that I "very conveniently sidestepped" anything. :hmm: I don't work for Virgin and have no reason to defend them. You're quite right that they had to show they were using the MAN slots...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

11th Dec 2012, 08:51

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

The remedy slots were for EDI, ABZ, MOW, CAI, RUH...

The remedy slots were for EDI, ABZ, MOW, CAI, RUH and NCE, and 7 of them were limited to EDI/ABZ. No remedy slots to MAN were available so VS would have had to use their own slots for MAN anyway.
...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

10th Dec 2012, 09:16

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

From the EC judgement (PDF)...

From the EC judgement (PDF) (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m6447_20120330_20212_2452290_EN.pdf):

The "Utilisation Period" is defined as 6 IATA seasons (3 years). Once 3...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

9th Dec 2012, 20:02

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

In answer to your first question: no. CityJet has...

In answer to your first question: no. CityJet has the wrong fleet and in any event AF is moving forward rapidly on offloading them (short listed buyers already in the data room).

Second, if you...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

4th Dec 2012, 14:55

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

I understand that you have strong views about how...

I understand that you have strong views about how the airline world should be, and yet the world stubbornly continues to fail to align itself to your proposals.

I have not suggested that...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

4th Dec 2012, 13:12

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

Skyteam in general and AF in particular have eyed...

Skyteam in general and AF in particular have eyed up the UK market for many years - you'll recall for example the commercially disastrous AF LHR-LAX service which lasted a whole season back in 2007....

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

21st Nov 2012, 21:13

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

Sorry, but none of this stacks up or even comes...

Sorry, but none of this stacks up or even comes near to stacking up.

If US Airways buys AA, they will leave Star and join OneWorld. This is a pretty obvious move. That's not just my view, it's the...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

21st Aug 2012, 16:44

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

Who says they're actually going to operate this?...

Who says they're actually going to operate this? The closing date for the applications to the trustee for the IAG slots (for ABZ and EDI) is... oh, there's a coincidence, the day after tomorrow (see...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

12th Jul 2012, 18:55

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

There's a specific set of destinations for which...

There's a specific set of destinations for which the slots are intended, corresponding to the routes where BA and bmi previously competed. While the focus has been more on EDI/ABZ/MAN, Moscow (and...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

19th Aug 2011, 11:36

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

Er... would the real JSCL care to make...

Er... would the real JSCL care to make himself/herself known? Are you some sort of collective login? Are you just debating yourself in public? Or did you accidentally leave yourself logged in and...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

25th Feb 2011, 22:44

Replies: 926

Virgin Atlantic

Views: 407,324

Posted By Cyrano

Although in fairness (I was there, as perhaps...

Although in fairness (I was there, as perhaps were you), I thought the specific target of his disparaging comments was easyJet/Stelios rather than Virgin/Branson.

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