Originally Posted by GLAGAZ
All GLA flights on the E190? Must be doing well.
Gaz
The loads on the route have never been great but they have improved year on year. The yields however have always been good. This is because the the majority of pax who travel on the route travel on business and tend to buy flexible or semi flexible tickets. On the GLA/LCY route, during peak travel times it is not unusual for over 90% of pax traveling to have payed more than £350 rtn for there tickets. Demand is much higher for seats on the the first two flights ex GLA and the last two flights ex LCY making the E190 a good choice of aircraft for those flights. The first two flights ex LCY and last two ex GLA would be operated by a E170. BACF struggle to fill half of the seats on these flights and the ones they do fill are usually with pax traveling on the lower priced fares.
I think there would be a huge improvement in loads if the current GLA schedule was altered slightly and a additional afternoon flight from LCY and evening flight from GLA was added. The additional flight at that time of day would make the route instantly more appealing to those pax who want to travel to GLA on business and back in one day.
Having the E190 flying from GLA has enabled BACF to successfully tender to operate charter flights from GLA to AGP, ALC, BCN, FAO and PMI on behalf of a number of tour operators that include Thomson and Barrhead travel this summer.
It already looks as if BACF will in 2011 continue to operate charter services from GLA. According to the first editions of Thomas Cook and Thomson Holidays summer 2011 brochures , BACF will be operating the following charter flight from GLA next summer.
At present, BACF are expected during Summer 2011 to operate on:
Friday's - GLA-PMI-GLA (16MAY11-29JUL11) and GLA-MAH-GLA (06MAY11-21OCT11)
Saturday's - GLA-ALC-GLA (14MAY11-21SEP11)
Sunday's - GLA-AGP-GLA (01MAY11-23OCT11) and GLA-FAO-GLA (01MAY11-31JUL11)
With more expected to be added in late 2010 from GLA and EDI.