EAST MIDLANDS

[egnxema]

almost prof - you take many diverts due to fog yesterday?

[almost professional]

onto the second page of the tower log book!
did'nt count them but was the best day for a long time, just about everything too-including Dragonair B747-luckily it was a monday night and there were a few spare stands on the cargo aprons

[Maddog Red]

With Skyeurope announcing a new BHX-KRK route, have Ryanair missed a trick and a very popular up and coming route or will they fight back now and announce an EMA-KRK.

[egnxema]

What do we think the odds are that FR will announce basing additional aircraft at EMA before the start date in Feb?

Just going on them bringing fwd the start date already, plus FR's desire to see off small-fry competition.

Any guesses?

[almost professional]

if the sales are as good as they say then lets hope so-need to get cracking with the apron extension, diggers should be on site this week-so long to the compass base!

[Maddog Red]

Or should NEMA Management be wooing some one like Wizzair or even Centralwings, one thing the region needs is traffic coming this way as well.

[egnxema]

Can we have a quick "Fun Friday" count up of how many aircraft will be based at EMA next summer?

I get:-

bmibaby 5 737
easyJet 3 A319
Ryanair 2 738
bmiRegional 1 Jungle Jet
Thomsonfly 1 763 & 1 752
MyTravel 2 A320
First Choice 1 A321
Thomas Cook 1 A320
Excel Airways 1 738

18....... anyone add/take away from that?

[Banzai Eagle]

egnxema
RYR? more than 2 738's with the recent new routes but not sure how many more

[phil_2405]

What new routes? The 10 announced in Sept will be operated using the 2 based aircraft. Existing routes operated with aircraft from other bases.

[paul atkins]

BASED AIRCRAFT 2006

JUST 1 MYTRAVEL A320 + 1 ASTRAEUS B737 NEXT SUMMER

[737James]

Anybody know who is operating some flights for Airtours from Ema next year as year before last it was Skyservice and this year Air Scandic/ various airlines.

[paul atkins]

AIRTOURS

ASTRAEUS + EXCEL ARE OPERATING CERTAIN FLIGHTS FOR AIRTOURS

[bmibaby.com]

I was under the impression that EMA had nearly forty diverts the other day, mostly coming from BHX, BLK & LPL. Kudos to everyone from Servisair-GlobeGround and the Pax Services staff on the info desk for keeping everything running as smoothly as possible in these circumstances, having witnessed the scenes of confusion & anger (some people I heard were waiting for coaches for up to six hours!)

bmibaby will indeed be basing five Boeing 737 aircraft at EMA next summer (not sure the mixture of -300s & -500s) and bmi regional will be basing one ERJ-145. Destinations for baby; GLA/EDI/BFS/AMS/CDG/ALC/PMI/AGP/PRG/JER, and regional will be doing BRU. Sadly no return of Irish flights, or by the look of it NCE.

[nema/robin hood]

FR are strongly rumoured to be basing another B738 at Cork to operate LGW flights as well as an additional UK airport.

Maybe that UK airport will be NEMA. Would make sense to link the two bases.

If that happens then I can't see WW flying this route for much longer.

[bmibaby.com]

nema/robin hood; I had too heard that Ryanair might link Cork with Nottingham East Midlands Airport following the success of their Dublin & Shannon flights, but I don't think anything has been confirmed. Cork & Knock have already been dropped from bmibaby's route network from EMA, having been transferred over to BHX.

[paul atkins]

new flights 2006

NEW FLIGHTS NEXT YEAR PULA (SUMMER 2006) & AGADAIR TWICE A WEEK NEXT WINTER. NEW SCHEDULED FLIGHTS NEXT SUMMER BEING INTRODUCED BY EXCEL AIRWAYS TO LARNACA(SUNDAYS) DALAMAN(MONDAYS) & PALMA(SATURDAYS)

[paul atkins]

RYANAIR

JUST BOOKED A FLIGHT IN MARCH(22ND) TO MURCIA FLIGHT TIMES HAVE NOW ALTERED LOOKING LIKE A THIRD PLANE BASED WITH NOW NO CONNECTION WITH THE DUBLIN SERVICE AS WELL AT THE SAME TIME PLANES DEPARTING TO DERRY & BERLIN

[egnxema]

Dear Paul,

While I can see that the MJV flights no longer link in with the DUB flights, did you notice this:-

FR1676 LDY EMA 1725 1825
FR1638 EMA SXF 1850 2145


The LDY and SXF flights do not conflict, infact they fit together with standard 25 min Ryanair glue.

[madbadrob]

BMIBaby Nema and Robin Hood are two different airports. NEMA is in Nottingham as you well know and Robin Hood is at Doncaster. Yes ok we don't want it called Robin Hood neither which is why we affectionately name it DSA.

With regards to Nema and planes based there a local press release two weeks ago claimed that 600 jobs were to be lost when BMIBaby take their Airbus ( I think dont have paper anymore) maintenance operation to LHR however there will be maintenance of other stock split between there and Aberdeen.

As for FR there are a number of rumours circulating that they are to commence flights from HUY (Humberside) which will have a knock on effect for both DSA and NEMA

Rob

[bmibaby.com]

madbadrob, don't worry I do know the difference between EMA & DSA, my comment was actually aimed at the user on the board called nema/robin hood - I haven't gone mad or making up names for the place I've worked for the last five years!

Following on from my post, I don't believe Ryanair adding maybe a Dublin service from Humberside would have a significant effect on the Nottingham East Midlands service. Ryanair are creating a base at EMA, so I'm sure that the airline has plans for a long future here, although I've no idea how many based aircraft or routes that will entail!

bmi Airbus maintenance will now be handled at LHR, bmi regional maintenance will continue to be handled at ABZ, whilst the maintenance for bmibaby's 16 Boeings will be from EMA. Whilst it is no consolation to the 185 people who are being made reduntant, it simply is more cost effective to do all Airbus maintenance at LHR where bmi operates an all Airbus fleet. I believe that some workers have been forced to take reduancy, whilst one or two others are planning to relocate.