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18 Summer Destinations With Excel Airways from NEMA
Excel Airways will now fly year-round from Nottingham East Midlands Airport (NEMA), with a choice of 18 European summer destinations in 2006 and the introduction of four routes throughout winter 2007.
Excel Airways' summer routes from Nottingham East Midlands Airport include the Canary Islands of Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Tenerife, the Costa Blanca on mainland Spain and Majorca. You can also fly to Faro in the Algarve; the islands of Rhodes, Corfu, Zante, Kalamata, Skiathos, Kos and Cyprus, Turkey or Egypt.
In winter 2006/07 you will also be able to fly direct to the Canaries from NEMA including Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, as well as to Sharm el Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea Coast.
Not sure if this is new news or not? but its a new press release on the NEMA website.
Excel Airways will now fly year-round from Nottingham East Midlands Airport (NEMA), with a choice of 18 European summer destinations in 2006 and the introduction of four routes throughout winter 2007.
Excel Airways' summer routes from Nottingham East Midlands Airport include the Canary Islands of Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Tenerife, the Costa Blanca on mainland Spain and Majorca. You can also fly to Faro in the Algarve; the islands of Rhodes, Corfu, Zante, Kalamata, Skiathos, Kos and Cyprus, Turkey or Egypt.
In winter 2006/07 you will also be able to fly direct to the Canaries from NEMA including Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, as well as to Sharm el Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea Coast.
Not sure if this is new news or not? but its a new press release on the NEMA website.
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HEY ALL EXCEL AND SISTER COMPANY FREEDOM WILL OFFER THE SHARM EL SHEIKH AND LANZAROTE ROUTES NEXT WINTER I THINK THE AIRPORT CANT COUNT I MAKE IT FIVE. ALSO THOMAS COOK WILL FLY NEW ROUTES TO SHARM EL SHEIKH ON MONDAYS AND GAMBIA(BANJUL) ON TUESDAYS
CHEERS PAUL
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Hey guys
How often does the AN124's visit NEMA? A friend of mine lives in Nottingham and really wants to see one arrive/depart and he'd like to know when the next one maybe visiting.
How often does the AN124's visit NEMA? A friend of mine lives in Nottingham and really wants to see one arrive/depart and he'd like to know when the next one maybe visiting.
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On a weekly basis - I'd say that it's a pretty regular visitor to EMA. Not sure of timetables and whatnot but I'm sure someone here can assist on more specific departures/arrivals of the aircraft.
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The Leicester Mercury have been running a story for the past couple of nights about a Ghanaian freighter struggling to get off the ground at EGNX.
This was alledged to have happened February 4th, supposed to have left wheel marks on 27 threshold and flew very low over Melbourne.
Edward Garnier the MP for Market Harborough brought up the subject in the House of Commons and now the enquiry is official.
The airport denies the allegations and welcomes the enquiry.
This was alledged to have happened February 4th, supposed to have left wheel marks on 27 threshold and flew very low over Melbourne.
Edward Garnier the MP for Market Harborough brought up the subject in the House of Commons and now the enquiry is official.
The airport denies the allegations and welcomes the enquiry.
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Hmmm, wouldn't be this one would it...
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=209701
Looks like the airport might be telling a few porkies
Fried Chicken
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=209701
Looks like the airport might be telling a few porkies
Fried Chicken
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It's excellent news to hear that the charter market from EMA continues to grow, as this sector of the airline industry is often overlooked for the prized schedule routes. I'm glad to hear that First Choice will be expanding their longhaul operations with another new route to the Americas, as well as to see that after a fairly steady few years at EMA, Thomas Cook will also be adding two new cities and upgrading the based aircraft to a B757-200. Excel going year round will not only add more destinations which can be booked as part of a package or as seat only, but also allow for more jobs to be year-round for the airport. Does anybody know what aircraft they will be using?
bmibaby, it seems, are going fairly steadily at the airport, so at the moment there are no plans to add any new cities, especially as a number of the domestic flights are doing well now with up to 3 flights a day, I think the issue will be more on frequency. Murcia has definitely been dropped from EMA, with Nice now only available up the road from Birmingham, it seems that bmibaby is loathe to encroache on Ryanair's new French routes, especially after the sound beating we got from them on Dublin! Faro however is back at the end of the month, although I believe it has been moved from Saturday evening to Sunday morning. bmi regional will continue to base an ERJ from Sunday to Friday for the 3x daily BRU, and it has been confirmed that bmi (handled by Servisair) will base an A321 weeklong operating for Kosmar/XL.com, as well as an extra A320 on weekends.
bmibaby, it seems, are going fairly steadily at the airport, so at the moment there are no plans to add any new cities, especially as a number of the domestic flights are doing well now with up to 3 flights a day, I think the issue will be more on frequency. Murcia has definitely been dropped from EMA, with Nice now only available up the road from Birmingham, it seems that bmibaby is loathe to encroache on Ryanair's new French routes, especially after the sound beating we got from them on Dublin! Faro however is back at the end of the month, although I believe it has been moved from Saturday evening to Sunday morning. bmi regional will continue to base an ERJ from Sunday to Friday for the 3x daily BRU, and it has been confirmed that bmi (handled by Servisair) will base an A321 weeklong operating for Kosmar/XL.com, as well as an extra A320 on weekends.
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HEY BMIBABY EXCEL ARE TO CHARTER THE VIKING MD83 FOR THE SUMMER UNDER THERE FLIGHT CODES(XLA&JN) AND FOR THE WINTER WITH VIKING CODES(VIK) .THE SUNDAY FLIGHT TO EGYPT IN WINTER WILL BE EXCEL DUE TO THE FLIGHT DISTANCE CHEERS PAUL
Paul, typing in all uppercase is the equivalent of shouting in internet protocol. Please dont shout in here.
Paul, typing in all uppercase is the equivalent of shouting in internet protocol. Please dont shout in here.
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DC-10 Levo, do you mean bmi or bmibaby?
I was aware that bmi mainline who will be operating the two charter aircraft to be based at EMA were due to have both passenger service & ramp functions handled by Servisair, although bmi have a very good relationship with Menzies at the airport. baby have always self-handled the PSA functions with a mixture of bmi & Menzies staff taking on ramp & maintenance support, which I think is going all Menzies.
I was aware that bmi mainline who will be operating the two charter aircraft to be based at EMA were due to have both passenger service & ramp functions handled by Servisair, although bmi have a very good relationship with Menzies at the airport. baby have always self-handled the PSA functions with a mixture of bmi & Menzies staff taking on ramp & maintenance support, which I think is going all Menzies.
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just to clear things up here bmibaby is handled by bmibaby ground staff and menzies ramp, bmi regional is handled by bmibaby ground and menzies ramp, and i believe bmi will be handled by servisair (that includes everything)
hope thats cleared a few things up!
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bmibabyfc
hope thats cleared a few things up!
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Originally Posted by bmibaby.com
I was aware that bmi mainline who will be operating the two charter aircraft to be based at EMA were due to have both passenger service & ramp functions handled by Servisair, although bmi have a very good relationship with Menzies at the airport. baby have always self-handled the PSA functions with a mixture of bmi & Menzies staff taking on ramp & maintenance support, which I think is going all Menzies.
bmi charter who will be operating the 2 Airbus charter aircraft and the 3 Erj 145 charter flights from NEMA this summer will be handled as follows :
All Airbus charter flights will be handled by Menzies (Both Pax and ramp functions).
All Erj145 charter flights will be handled by bmibaby for Pax services and Menzies for ramp functions.
All bmi charter flights will be overseen by bmi's charter team.
All bmi charter flights will operate on BD flight numbers.
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Thanks DRJ, although I'm not sure that I wanted my mistakes to be highlighted in red & capital letters! After reading your post it reminded me that last summer's bmi regional charters to LJU were handled by bmibaby/Menzies, and I believe there are two other destinations which bmi regional will be utilising an ERJ-145 on on Saturdays, however I'm not sure exactly where these are, although Sardinia has been mentioned. The week-long A321 & weekend-based A320 are being handled by Servisair, mostly because they have the appropriate staffing levels, as well as a 24-hour operation at EMA to be able to support the bmi mainline charters, which are being operated for Kosmar & XL to Greece & Spain.
bmibaby handle all front-of-house services at EMA, whilst Menzies now do everything on the ramp. The reason I believed that this was previously a jointly operated ramp operation between Menzies & bmi was because there is still a large storage of bmi vehicles on Beverley Road, but I believe these are due to be sold. The Menzies operation is specifically called KISS (meaning something like Keep It Safe & Simple or Keep It Simple, Stupid) which was designed specifically for the low-cost airlines. It has been largely rumoured that KISS have been eyeing the easyJet contract, as EZY are handled by Menzies at a few of their bases including a jointly-owned handling operation at LTN.
I'm yet to see what bmibaby are doing with this new fifth aircraft, as it appears it flies to Paris in the morning, then sits on the ground all day before doing Paris in the evening. It would be nice to see a new route of sorts, but chance would be a fine thing!
bmibaby handle all front-of-house services at EMA, whilst Menzies now do everything on the ramp. The reason I believed that this was previously a jointly operated ramp operation between Menzies & bmi was because there is still a large storage of bmi vehicles on Beverley Road, but I believe these are due to be sold. The Menzies operation is specifically called KISS (meaning something like Keep It Safe & Simple or Keep It Simple, Stupid) which was designed specifically for the low-cost airlines. It has been largely rumoured that KISS have been eyeing the easyJet contract, as EZY are handled by Menzies at a few of their bases including a jointly-owned handling operation at LTN.
I'm yet to see what bmibaby are doing with this new fifth aircraft, as it appears it flies to Paris in the morning, then sits on the ground all day before doing Paris in the evening. It would be nice to see a new route of sorts, but chance would be a fine thing!
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Just reread the post and am interested (and delighted) to see that the bmi Airbus charters will be handled by Menzies. They have a very professionally-run operation at EMA, and it is no surprise that bmibaby's experiences with them from a ramp perspective, has lead the mainline carrier to consider them for the charter operation. As mentioned, bmibaby simply do not have the resources to be able to handle these charters in group, but the regional charters (I'm pretty sure it's OLB & LJU, plus one more) will be baby handled.
Excel, as mentioned earlier in the post, will be using an MD-83 for their summer programme. This aircraft is leased from Viking Airlines, and was one of the terrible two that formed the backbone of Air Scandic's operation from here last year.
Excel, as mentioned earlier in the post, will be using an MD-83 for their summer programme. This aircraft is leased from Viking Airlines, and was one of the terrible two that formed the backbone of Air Scandic's operation from here last year.
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bmi have used Servisair before and I remember that they were happy with the service when we used to handle the bmi regional BRU operation when this route was first transferred back from bmibaby in late 2003 - although economies of scale saw the flight go back to baby/menzies. It makes sense for bmi's charter flights to be handled by Menzies, as regional & baby already are handled on the ramp by this company, but Menzies can also provide the front of house support. Menzies are indeed seen as a force to be reckoned with from a service perspective which is seen to be of a much higher level than Servisair, but I would disagree that the company is out for the easyJet contract, as they tend to go for boutique carriers, who are willing to pay a bit more for the better service. Whilst this is true of bmi & Thomas Cook, I don't see airlines like easyJet or Thomsonfly going for Menzies, even though the KISS product at EMA was originally devised specifically for low-cost airlines.