UA/CO
The 2011 cuts although are not savage it is a worrying trend especially Manchester dropping to daily from early September. BHX still appears to
be six weekly in November, as it was thought it might be five.
BFS was even worse as one site it came back as no availability but the
egg-timer had not run its course and that is still bookable at five weekly.
Smisek was interviewed in London but gave little away just insisting the
competition will be scared of them when full integration has finished. He
like most CEO's had a go at Government taxes especially the UK but again
nothing new in that.
Customer Service was mentioned and some have pointed out that this
will go down the CO route and the operational side the UA route. I am
sure it won't be as simple as that but I do fear changes might be the
order of the day eventually.
Lets face it, some CO 757's are already being moved to Washington
for European services rather than the much rumoured switch to Chicago.
Lufthansa
Lufthansa flying high after 25 years at Birmingham - Birmingham Airport
I remember working the first day (just) the Frankfurt started although
I thought it was earlier than 1986!
No mention of the Munich upgrade to all 195's in late May. Some very
impressive figures for early 2011 including the Middle East connections.
Air France
It seems an extra early morning departure was due to start (flybe Q400)
but this was only a slot application. Seemed logical in one sense considering
the cut in capacity with the flybe tie-up compared to summer 2010 but
I wonder if this was canned due to flybe not basing aircraft number 10.
This also affected the Inverness which was due to switch back to BHX
based but this changed as well, back to the winter schedule times.
Pete