Originally Posted by
LBIA
The are only 4x Eastern Airways aircraft to be rebranded into Flybe colours. These will be used to operate the new routes Scottish announced yesterday.
Current Eastern Airways routes eg Leeds - Aberdeen and Leeds - Southampton will continue to be flown using Eastern Airways branded aircraft, use "Eastflight" callsign and "EZE" flight code. The "BE" code will be applied to ticketing and Flybe brand used for marketing routes.
That is not correct. As per Flybe's stock exchange filing, there will be no longer Eastern Airways-branded flights:
Flybe Group plc ("Flybe") announces that it has signed Heads of Terms with Eastern Airways (UK) Limited ("Eastern") to establish a new alliance:
1. a five-year franchise agreement in which Eastern will operate its scheduled route network under the Flybe brand; and
2. a joint revenue and risk sharing agreement, covering four Eastern aircraft, to fly existing Flybe branded routes from Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester. The four aircraft will be operated under the Flybe franchise and significantly improve connectivity for Scotland.
If the opposite is correct, Flybe will be in legal trouble after this filing.
Flybe Group PLC Flybe Agreement with Eastern Airways - ADVFN
Eastern's existing network will be operated at Eastern's risk with all revenue (or losses...) going into Eastern's pockets. The Scottish routes will be risk- and revenue shared. I guess the usual franchise fees will not apply to this operation.
So RAF Valley will see Flybe-branded services then - who would have thought... With Stobart, Eastern and Blue Islands, Flybe have gobbled up most of the UK's regional airlines at the lower end of the pecking order. Not much else left now.