Originally Posted by
Tagron
The potential benefits to Stobart from the BACF deal seem clear enough, but what is in it for BACF? They already have a large and expanding fleet of E190s (20+) so one might think it would be easy enough for them to lease extra E190s themselves from Nordic Aviation Capital and just operate them as part of the existing fleet. What can Stobart do better or cheaper than BACF itself ? One answer presumably is crew costs. Thin end of a wedge ?
A few weeks ago (and as recently as
last week), Stobart were recruiting E190 pilots to be based in Dublin. Right now, BACF has to overnight crew in Dublin to operate the early DUB-LCY (and has only one DUB->LCY departure before 0800, compared to two by CityJet/Aer Lingus). It could be that BACF wants to compete more effectively but doesn't want to base its own crew in Dublin?