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Atlantic Explorer
I suspect that these leases were signed before covid came along and now they are committed to them. Quite what there going to do with a small fleet of 170/190s along with the 145s they’ve still got is beyond me.
The last time the 170s were at the company, it was just a money pit with them sat around most of the time doing nothing with crew/ contractors being paid daily rate sat around in hotels. I suspect this venture won’t be too much different other than the crew will probably be on salary.
wont be long before even more of the boss’s money needs to get pumped in to keep things afloat. Any other company would have been gone years ago.
Agreed, very odd move. It’s not a good plane for Sun routes, it’s too small. I suspect this is linked to that lunatic mayor at Teeside who somehow has a pot of money to blow on making Teeside a viable airport, which is never going to happen. Didn’t someone mention that he wanted sun routes to be introduced? I suspect he is bankrolling this jet.