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Old 16th Nov 2007, 21:49
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Tonyq
 
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VLM

I travelled to LCY with VLM last Friday and back on Sunday. Both flights had 30+ on and were more or less on time.

If you can make the timings work for you, this is by far the most pleasant way to/from London. Full service, well appointed aircraft (especially if you get one of the refurbished ones) and, in my case I paid only £60 plus a few Airmiles. Regular fare c£103 return, whereas as EMX pretty difficult to get for under £140.

I appreciate that for VLM this is a positioning flight, to park an aircraft during the day while its not needed, and can price accordingly, but they are carving a nice little niche and must be an appreciable thorn in EMX's side.

Bearing in mind they've run this single daily flight for over two years now, they must be pretty happy with how it's going and probably have a lot of experience and market data to enable them to become the dominant operator on this route, when the time is right.

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