Brighton City Airways

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by Aero Mad

An interesting idea London to Paris Flights via Brighton Shoreham Pontoise - Brighton City Airways

They want to fly from Shoreham to Pontoise - rather like Skysouth used to. And, according to the picture they want to use Let 410s. Sounds interesting, but very little detail.

Hmm, I particularly like the bit on the home page

We are currently waiting for Shoreham Brighton City Airport to provide us with service and support guarantees which are required for scheduled passenger flights. We will keep this holding page updated.

which I read as "Shoreham doesn't want to give us anything like the amount of £££ we are asking for, but we got impatient so we launched this website anyway."

Originally Posted by ConstantFlyer

While it's easy to pick holes in any proposal, what we really need is to find a way to get people flying from airports in South East England other than LHR. Aer Arann and easyJet have made a start at Southend; we need breakthroughs now at places like Shoreham, Manston and Lydd.

Fragmenting traffic between South East airports could make sense on a few dense routes which could support a meaningful frequency (e.g. taking some fraction of existing London-Dublin or London-Edinburgh traffic with a new service to/from Manston) but if you want to think about developing services from such airports, the most logical development IMHO would be to provide good connecting feed to an alternative hub such as AMS or CDG, rather than unconnecting point-to-point services which are inevitably marginalised.