Originally Posted by
Albert Hall
It looks like one of the Embraer 135s is on the way back to the UK, heading north out of Nigeria via Spain at the moment. Is this for maintenance or has the Bristow thing in Nigeria all come to a dead stop?
Seems a bit strange that the 170 has sat in MME for several days with the ATR drafted in from Southampton to cover the Heathrow flights the 170 would normally be doing. Must be a fairly big issue if it's tech as the DTV Movements site suggests.
Looks to me like musical chairs with the fleet mix. Maybe a reduction in seat capacity, hence removal of E190 in to storage and the ATR72 taking over MME-LHR as SOU don't require x 2 ATR base at present. The ERJ35 coming back to the UK will again aid the reduction across the network (37 seats). I could be wrong of course but see this as a cost cutting exercise with the larger e-jets!