W15/16 Summary
With little going on currently at SOU and little chance any any significant changes I'll try to summarise the upcoming winter season;
Aurigny -
Alderny will operate at least twice daily (14 weekly) over the winter, although the use of the larger Do228's helps mitigate the smaller number of flights than last year (believe it was 17/18 weekly).
Blue Islands -
Guernsey is similar to last year, at least 21 weekly flights operated by the ATR 72. Obviously chosen to bump fares rather than add flights in response to Flybe throwing in the towel.
Eastern -
Aberdeen seems to be the same as last year, 10 weekly (2x Mon - Thurs, 1x Fri and Sun) all via Leeds.
Leeds increases to 21 weekly (4x Mon-Fri and 1x Sun) as a result of some more towel throwing...
Flybe -
All in all a rather disappointing schedule, if not quite as bad as when it was originally released. No new routes.
Dropped routes:
Aberdeen (Was ~21 weekly via Leeds)
Alicante (2 weekly)
Grenoble (1 weekly)
Guernsey (8 weekly)
Leeds (~21 weekly)
Malaga (2 weekly)
Salzburg (1 weekly)
Xmas only routes:
La Rochelle (1 weekly, was 2 weekly all W14/15)
Limoges (2 weekly, was 4 weekly in W14/15)
Rennes (2 weekly, was up to 6 weekly in W14/15)
Frequency reductions:
Belfast City (16 weekly, was 18 weekly W14/15)
Bergerac (3 weekly, was 4 weekly W14/15)
Dublin (18 weekly, was 27 weekly W14/15)
Manchester (27 weekly, was ~31 weekly W14/15)
Nantes (3 weekly, was 4 weekly W14/15)
Paris Orly (12 weekly, was 17 weekly W14/15)
Further reductions in capacity come from the lack of any E175's or E195's based at SOU.
Inghams -
Innsbruck will operate on Saturdays during the Ski season, flown by Austrian Airlines. Given that Salzburg has been dropped we might see them using an A319/20 to make up for lost capacity.
Total Ski
Weekly (Sunday) flight to Chambery using Germania will operate for the Ski season. Presumably on an A319 or 737 700.
VLM -
Antwerp/Hamburg is continuing over the winter with no change to the frequency (5 weekly Mon-Fri).