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Old 4th Sep 2006, 10:59
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Originally Posted by lm06
what does he mean by a "broking airline" half way through the article
I assume he means a wet-lease carrier, i.e. one that sells capacity to tour operators, other airlines, etc rather than directly to Joe Public.

This is what would hitherto have been called a "charter carrier" but these days the charter boys are all relabelling themselves "leisure carriers" and selling seat-only.

His reference to being the "top broking airline in Ireland" in a couple of years thus translates as "We're going to be bigger than Eirjet and bigger than Aer Lingus's/Futura's/Flyjet's Irish charter operations."
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