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I dont know if we will ever see another scheduled service to a hub! We may get a new start carrier come in and start a niche route That would not be marketed properly and would last a few months, but thats all i can see happening.
Weve been very lucky in that KLM have remained comitted to airports that most majors would not dream of operating into! You would have thaught that AF would start a service to CDG to corner the market since AF and KLM have merged! Do AF operate small enough a/c to do it though?
From what i gather the franchise carriers make next to nothing i.e Gill airways HUY-CDG! Eastern have said that they want to reamain independant and no longer code share with BMI so any route to a hub would not be viable because they could not offer connections.
Its depressing to think that HUY, an airport that for years was well ahead of BOH, EXT, NWI, BLK, has been left behind. I hope it does not last forever and that someone will make the investment!
Weve been very lucky in that KLM have remained comitted to airports that most majors would not dream of operating into! You would have thaught that AF would start a service to CDG to corner the market since AF and KLM have merged! Do AF operate small enough a/c to do it though?
From what i gather the franchise carriers make next to nothing i.e Gill airways HUY-CDG! Eastern have said that they want to reamain independant and no longer code share with BMI so any route to a hub would not be viable because they could not offer connections.
Its depressing to think that HUY, an airport that for years was well ahead of BOH, EXT, NWI, BLK, has been left behind. I hope it does not last forever and that someone will make the investment!
Weve been very lucky in that KLM have remained comitted to airports that most majors would not dream of operating into! You would have thaught that AF would start a service to CDG to corner the market since AF and KLM have merged!
They would be able to offer more choice!
If, as has been said, the HUY-AMS route is popular, then it makes no economic sense to compromise the performance of that route by competing against themselves. AF / KLM would probably rather have one route with excellent passenger loadings on which they could charge high yielding fares, than two routes of borderline viability.
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Humberside - Regional Routes
I think the majority of posters to this forum would like to see additional scheduled routes from HUY but alas I just cant see any current operator wanting to try.
Surely if an operator was going to operate such routes than they would already be operating said routes. Surely the owners of Eastern Aw whom have decades of experience of operating from HUY and know what the market is for routes from the airport would have established either an offshoot of Eastern current operations or the airline itself would start operating these routes.
Ok, over the last few years Eastern have had to intergrate alot of routes and aircraft and maybe that has diluted there outlook on routes from HUy but I believe like most followers of this forum, Eastern have decided there just is no market for european routes from HUY.
The greatest travisty is the fact that HUY had the oportunities prior to DSA to establish itself as the area's regional airport but they dithered and now, I believe, HUY is not going to see the type of rapid growth expected at DSA and thats to the detriment of people whom have put their faith in HUY.
Surely if an operator was going to operate such routes than they would already be operating said routes. Surely the owners of Eastern Aw whom have decades of experience of operating from HUY and know what the market is for routes from the airport would have established either an offshoot of Eastern current operations or the airline itself would start operating these routes.
Ok, over the last few years Eastern have had to intergrate alot of routes and aircraft and maybe that has diluted there outlook on routes from HUy but I believe like most followers of this forum, Eastern have decided there just is no market for european routes from HUY.
The greatest travisty is the fact that HUY had the oportunities prior to DSA to establish itself as the area's regional airport but they dithered and now, I believe, HUY is not going to see the type of rapid growth expected at DSA and thats to the detriment of people whom have put their faith in HUY.
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lets assume that HUY business development team are doing all they can to secure new services OK? I'm sure sooner of later they will entice someone like flymonarch.com or Jet2 to do the spanish costas and canaries.
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They would be able to offer more choice! They would more likely generate more pax and compliment each other!
AF used to have three daily rotations from BRS to CDG but once the merger with KLM came along they pulled their Paris flights leaving the five KLM BRS-AMS rotations to deal with the merged airline's long distance pax.
There were plenty of 'local' BRS-CDG pax because BACx (who used to compete with AF) stepped in and increased their own daily rotations to five once AF left, but clearly AF are not interested in short haul traffic from smaller UK regional airports, and if they aren't interested at BRS with rising 5 million annual pax would HUY be any more likely to find their favour?
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The benefit of the AF/KL merger was to utilise the route networks of both to compliment the other.
We have already seen AF or KL drop some routes in favour of the other, so we are likely to see retrenchment from smaller airports rather than added flights, as mentioned by the gentleman from Bristol. Therefore we are unlikely to see either opening new routes to UK regional airports if they are already served by one of the partners.
Any increase, if their are to be any would only be I believe from the larger airports, and time will tell on that.
For example if you look on the AF website say to fly from Manchester to Paris as well as the direct flights is offers you the option to fly KL via Amsterdam.
We have already seen AF or KL drop some routes in favour of the other, so we are likely to see retrenchment from smaller airports rather than added flights, as mentioned by the gentleman from Bristol. Therefore we are unlikely to see either opening new routes to UK regional airports if they are already served by one of the partners.
Any increase, if their are to be any would only be I believe from the larger airports, and time will tell on that.
For example if you look on the AF website say to fly from Manchester to Paris as well as the direct flights is offers you the option to fly KL via Amsterdam.
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Surely the owners of Eastern Aw whom have decades of experience of operating from HUY and know what the market is for routes from the airport would have established either an offshoot of Eastern current operations or the airline itself would start operating these routes.
I still think that the only real hope HUY has as regards scheduled is lo-co! There are differing views about catchment area but we will just have to wait and see!
I just wish we could se LHR again! That service put MME one ahead of HUY for years (Before BMI-Baby and FR)
I think the majority of posters to this forum would like to see additional scheduled routes from HUY but alas I just cant see any current operator wanting to try.
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Following on from DSA thread..........do MAG own the land where HUY business park is?
I understand there's plans for development there, including a hotel I believe (I could be wrong...just thought I read it somewhere).
Following on from DSA thread..........do MAG own the land where HUY business park is?
I understand there's plans for development there, including a hotel I believe (I could be wrong...just thought I read it somewhere).
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Was in the morning, didn't log the time as I was driving past
Agreed Mr D.
But it seems they have only just decided to do something with the land and it is only really a \'big garden\' about 10 acres, would fit a small retail park, although not big enough for a B&Q warehouse.
Slightly different to the 96? acres Peel have got to play with at Finningley
Agreed Mr D.
But it seems they have only just decided to do something with the land and it is only really a \'big garden\' about 10 acres, would fit a small retail park, although not big enough for a B&Q warehouse.
Slightly different to the 96? acres Peel have got to play with at Finningley