bmir GLA-LCY?

[GLAMM]

FYI TUE
LBA-LCY 15,8,9,9
LCY-LBA 9,5,10,15

[Headset starter]

Surely Mondays and Fridays are when you make your money? I heard a guy from Ryanair, now with an Asian carrier, that they could basically stop flying on a Tuesday and Wednesday and make more money.

Promtion, promotion, promotion. As we can all identify this, I'm assuming the marketing people also see it. They obviously need more resources.

HS

[Fried_Chicken]

bmi Regionals next ERJ has just been rolled out of the factory in Brazil so all going well, should be delivered after the new year.

Hopefully it is in bmi colours not that boring STAR Alliance colourscheme

Fried Chicken

[INKJET]

Chicken

A clever trick, given that i was watching it doing circuits in Aberdeen at about 3pm (G-RJXL) on Wednesday the 22nd? there are no more to follow from Brazil the next one (Ex - Eastern) will join the fleet at the end of Jan until mid 2006. by which time we could all be working out of Donny Hall i hear, can't come soon enough (watch for high profile management resignations in the new year) mainly from the buggers upstairs. If we had as many aircraft as company cars we might make some dosh.

Cheers

Burt

PS it was in the new `coke` color scheme

[MAN_Dispatcher]

Is the fact that is is missing the 'regional' titles anything to read into perhaps?!

It is in the bmi livery as worn by the mainline fleet (well, the few which actually wear the 'new' colours)....

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...VND&photo_nr=1

[eurostar builder]

Dont know if anybody has noticed the link for ex Jetmagic emb135 on this list and its now wearing a new g- registration.

[bmifox]

LBA-LCY

I flew down from LBA this morning to LCY on the ATR and it was qiute busy!. I think we had 25 pax on board. Not bad for a bank holiday Tuesday. The 413 to LHR which departed 10 mins later was overbooked so i jumped on the LCY...very handy for standby people who don't HAVE to go to LHR!

[jamesbrownontheroad]

... which also might suggest a possible bmir BHD - LCY?

I didn't understand BE's logic of flying BHD - LCY if some of the services went via IOM. Operationally, that might make sense, but it removes the advantage of flying direct from city airport to city airport if the journey takes two hours.

Now BE have gone, and with more Embs on the way, could BD mainline at BHD be supplemented by a couple of well timed direct flights to LCY? If BMI can serve two London airports from LBA, then I reckon it could work.

*j*

[airhumberside]

BHD-LCY

For BHD-LCY, VLM may also be a possibilty

[flybe.com]

Although flybe, or British European as it was then, did make a bit of a hash of LBA-LCY, ie. spending all the marketing budget on the name change leaving insufficient funds to promote the service, and then dropping the route just as it became popular; a direct BHD-LCY service was introduced and well marketed. However, the loads were insufficient to sustain the route, and the bean-counters at EXT assessed that the main LCY traffic was from IOM, so the direct service was dropped. I'm sure other operators will have researched this history, and are therefore unlikely to risk it.

I hope bmi Regional do very well on LBA-LCY.

[INKJET]

A good plan, except there are no more 135 or 145 for that matter on the way or still `offically` on order. Expect a total of 13 units plus one wet lease ATR 42 for at least the next 18 months, including a dry lease 145 ex Eastern. 2005 will be all about mainline longhaul. The next regional aircraft are unlikely before late 06/early 07 and will be bigger than ERJ. But a lot can and will happen before then.

Right time to get my ski's packed and hit the slopes and bars

Cheers, happy new year to all

Burt

[ALLMCC]

Flybe used to operate BHD - LCY direct until around 2 years ago - the problem with this route was that low fares were never available as with all other BHD routes - the return fare was almost always over £200. With the option of less than half of that to LGW. it was hardly surprising the route was poorly supported.

With the right level of fare and suitable aircraft, this route could work - in fact, VLM took over LCY - JER when Flybe relinquished it so they might be a possible candidate - Euromanx are supposed to take over BHD - IOM on the 10 January - it remains to be seen whether it actually happens!

[juan who nose?]

Judging by the LCY website the airport do not seem confident that Euromanx will start on 10 Jan..... they state on the main page that Flybe operations cease on the 9th and that they are actively seeking a replacement - if Euromanx were likely to start surely the airport would be saying so and offering a reassuring message...

Then again, given that Euromanx is only a ticket provider for Denim Air presumably the real question is will Denim Air start flying on 10 Jan????