Some news...........
Well it looks like ABZ WILL be a winner in the BACon/flyBE shake up. Mike Rutter, flyBE's chief commercial officer, has said the plan is for ABZ to become a fully fledged flyBE base by next summer! It is possible that 3-4 aircraft could become based, flying 15-20 domestic sectors, plus possibly some Scandi routes. An ABZ-SOU route may be next, up & running by next summer. Any base could bring up to 400 jobs in the next 18mths.
INV also expected to become a smaller base, said the same report; BHD-INV due to start next month. (Base 2-3 aircraft, about 10 destinations envisaged, up to 250 jobs).
FlyGlobespan's ABZ-TFS launched yeaterday (merited only a small paragraph in the paper, unfortunately I think, due to the flyBE front page). Routed via GLA.
Tim Jeans of Monarch, reported that the AGP-ABZ route averages 86% load factor since launch, far in excess of its expectations. Looks like now operates M, W & Sa for the winter, with a mid afternoon arrival rather than late evening. Could MON look at more ABZ routes, or has it "missed the boat" in view of GSM's forthcoming expansion?