easyJet announcement in June
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Buster - are you talking about the suspected link between Tiger Airways and easyjet???
Or is this the one where they will create another SIN based aircraft to compete with Tiger (which if I'm right is looked after by ex baby Tony Davis???) And I had heard that this was going to be Malaysian, not Singapore, but sell it as a SIN option???!!??!
Or is this the one where they will create another SIN based aircraft to compete with Tiger (which if I'm right is looked after by ex baby Tony Davis???) And I had heard that this was going to be Malaysian, not Singapore, but sell it as a SIN option???!!??!
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I have a feeling it's A321's. Overhead something I shouldn't have the other day and was told to watch this space.
We are short enough of crew already, can't imagine trying to find 5 crew for a new A321 delivery every week.
Also a lot of stories in the spanish press about a Madrid base. I think it is likely to happen if we set up our own ground handling company.
We'll have to wait and see.
We are short enough of crew already, can't imagine trying to find 5 crew for a new A321 delivery every week.
Also a lot of stories in the spanish press about a Madrid base. I think it is likely to happen if we set up our own ground handling company.
We'll have to wait and see.
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I have heard that the airline wants to set up an "Iberian" base which implies either the launch of a base in either Spain or Portugal. I'm very wary of the thought of Easy trying to set up a hub at MAD, because the airport is already quite busy and on domestic & trans-border flights there is already strong competition to IB from Spanair & Air Europa, and no doubt we will see the continued expansion of Vueling in Spain.
I doubt it will be Lisbon (or at least LIS!) because of the ridiculously high airport charges for that airport, but I wouldn't rule out more no-frills flights to Portugal. The country would love more no-frills flights that dont involve FAO!
PMI has already been snapped up by Air Berlin & their German alliance partners (Hapagfly & NIKI) and I'm sure Condor has a pretty big operation there as well. Am not sure if AGP/ALC would have a significant enough market for the type of ops that EZY want.
I doubt it will be Lisbon (or at least LIS!) because of the ridiculously high airport charges for that airport, but I wouldn't rule out more no-frills flights to Portugal. The country would love more no-frills flights that dont involve FAO!
PMI has already been snapped up by Air Berlin & their German alliance partners (Hapagfly & NIKI) and I'm sure Condor has a pretty big operation there as well. Am not sure if AGP/ALC would have a significant enough market for the type of ops that EZY want.
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Im sure it would'nt be for 320/321's as i have heard they are in talks again about removing seats from the bus so they can operate with 3 crew. Cabin Crew are just non exsistant at the moment to cover all the current a/c and the new ones arriving.
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No, no, no. Buster is right: there is a Singapore link. Following the announcement by the CEO of easyjet, Singapore Airlines will buy a controlling share in the company. easyJet will run SIA's low cost operation in Asia, as easyTiger (obviously), and easyJet UK will go on to provide feeder services to Virgin's long haul operation using the Heathrow slots acquired when Virgin buy bmi. Marvellous. That's all cleared up, then?
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'More good news to camouflage the bad news?'
That'll be the bad news that eJ was I think the second best performer today in the FTSE200, share price increasing by 4.6%!
Of course the rumours about Iceland are kicking off again, amazing what you can get at the frozen food counter nowadays!
That'll be the bad news that eJ was I think the second best performer today in the FTSE200, share price increasing by 4.6%!
Of course the rumours about Iceland are kicking off again, amazing what you can get at the frozen food counter nowadays!
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Maybe a scandinvian base?
easy doesn't have much of a presence up in Scandinavia, with flights only to Copenhagen. I'm sure they could give SAS a run for their money!
easy doesn't have much of a presence up in Scandinavia, with flights only to Copenhagen. I'm sure they could give SAS a run for their money!
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Scottie,
you shouldn't have said that out loud. now it'll be scaled back to 4 extra LTN runs a day. yum.
my moneys on something else but the extra flying in edi/gla may still be 'serviced' by the other bus bases initially. hope you're right though.
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you shouldn't have said that out loud. now it'll be scaled back to 4 extra LTN runs a day. yum.
my moneys on something else but the extra flying in edi/gla may still be 'serviced' by the other bus bases initially. hope you're right though.
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Come on guys, think outside the box. Stelios opens up Orange Squeezy cruises in the Med. It is to expand. I would not be surprised if, with his reunion with his old off-spring, he doesn't combine ej flights with cruise tickets. Who wants to pay silly ej last minute prices to fill his boat. It would be ironic if you flew last minute BA to float about on an over grown mandarin.
Now that he is starting something in the caribbean for the winter, what about him aquiring a couple of old BY B767-200's to fill his tubs?
Now that he is starting something in the caribbean for the winter, what about him aquiring a couple of old BY B767-200's to fill his tubs?
