Bye Bye, Etihad Regional
We flew back into CBG today, on what was apparently the last-but-one AMS-CBG flight. The in-flight magazine now does not show CBG on the route network map at all. I don't know about the "bad publicity" due to the slow withdrawal of services mentioned above, but ANY publicity AT ALL for those that it was running might have made a difference. The poor loads (there were three of us on the outward flight a couple of weeks ago, six on the return today) made the pull-out inevitable, and the "death by a thousand cuts" was not going to help either - if the service was supposed to be aimed at business-people then really the minimum needed to be a schedule to get people out and back in a day. Neighbours and others that we have spoken to didn't know about the flights. I have been told that some of the ground handling staff are being made redundant, so it's not good news for them either.
PBW