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The KLM Fokker 100 positions in every Saturday morning from AMS, then positions back to AMS after the return from Verona.
Seems like a very expensive way of doing things, especially when more often than not, there is a spare Jet 2 B733 sitting around all day.
Also re marketing " are they still patting themselves on the back for securing the MASSIVE increase of charter flights for next Summer...well Zante anyway."
That's about right really. The winter program is dire, 20 odd Transun flights (over 5 months), 4 or 5 BY 767 Caribbean flights, added to a pathetic token weekly program from TUI and My Travel, that just protects the MAN programs from suffering at the end of the day.
I don't think they quite realise how bad next summer is for them also. 2 TUI destinations axed, The Style Air Malta Faro cancelled, a probable massive reduction in My Travel ops, given the loss of the base. On the plus side there is an extra flight from JMC to Dalaman with Sun-Air, but hardly worth shouting about. A based aircraft for JMC, Cosmos, and First Choice, with a weekly program of flights, now that would be worth shouting about.
It looks like LBA are putting all their eggs in the Jet 2 basket. Let's hope for their sake that Jet 2 remain as strong and committed as they are at Leeds, and become even more pro-active in adding "newer" destinations, if only to keep the pax numbers rising, but the way things are going I feel S05 could be a struggle for LBA.