EAST MIDLANDS

[airhumberside]

Any HUY-DUB route would have a minimal effect on NEMA-DUB.

[Fried_Chicken]

Is bmi also ceasing all 3rd party maintenance work at EMA? Don't think they do too much these days but the GB Airbus fleet have recently been passing through

Will bmi cease to use the large hangar & concentrate all work in the smaller hangar (H35?). If this is the case, Maybe somebody could persuade fellow Star Alliance member Lufthansa to move it's engineering/maintenance company (Lufthansa Technik?) into the large hangar resulting in fewer or no redunancies

Fried Chicken

[Sausagehead]

All heavy maintenace at EMA to be stopped including bmi & bmibaby aircraft.

Shame, also compounded that it is the Engineers who are bearing the brunt. Funny how no Senior Management will be laid off.

[phil_2405]

Do the Ryanair flight times indicate a 3rd based aircraft then? (as early as next March )

[madbadrob]

My worries over the flights possibly to be launched from HUY is more to do with the passengers than anything. At the minute those who live in Humberside Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire who want a FR flight local to home only have DSA and NEMA to fly from. By adding HUY the passengers will have a third which whilst great from a choice perspective will in my opinion cut Pax numbers from both DSA and Nema. Ok if flights are to be cut it will be DSA rather than Nema but I along with a number of others were hoping to get more especially since Thompson cut their DSA/Dublin run

With regards the Nottingham/RobinHood post I offer my apologies. Being new to this forum I was unaware of a user name of that title and made an assumption.

Rob

[egnxema]

madbadrob

Welcome on board mate.

You will soon pick up the ropes I'm sure. One thing you will soon notice is that a large number of folks that post on here are professional airline/travel industry guys/girls. You will be able to pick up a lot of info.

One tip: When joining a thread it is a good idea to read backa few pages to get an bit of background about where the topic is heading and who has said what.

[madbadrob]

Thanks for the welcome and the advice. I did read the whole of this thread but right after a night shift and when extremely tired

As for the Pro's being on board that was my main reason for joining. It is nice to get the real story rather than rumour after rumour you find on the other forums

Rob

[bmibaby.com]

madbadrob welcome to PPRUNE, and thank you for contributing so far to the topic, I hope you get to learn a lot about the industry!

It has been extremely regrettable to see bmi engineering scale down at EMA after a long & successful history. I'm not aware of the full ins & outs of maintenance, but have been told that the bmibaby Boeings (19/20 by next March) will be maintained at Nottingham East Midlands. It is certainly extremely sad to see the 185 professionals leaving us, I believe as many as possible have been offered alternative placements at other bmi engineering locations, I had heard that the addition of the fifth aircraft is creating around 60 new jobs for pilots, cabin-crew & front-of-house staff. With the fifth aircraft as far as I see it, it is only operating the two CDG flights, so whether we might see an extra city or two launched, I'm not sure, maybe NCE & BCN? bmibaby is more suited to CDG as there is no no-frills competition in the Midlands (CVTORY by Thomsonfly with one daily flight isnt competitive for independent business travellers or day trippers but more aimed at leisure pax) and there is a much greater number of independent business & leisure passengers who require lower fares than the corporate subsidised trips often made into BRU.

The germanwings rumour continues to float around, but personally I think it's a dead duck as I've heard it since late 2003. germanwings has established themselves at BHX, and whilst it might make sense to take a foothold in a less congested & partner airline hub airport, I don't see them doing that. EasyJet has wrapped up CGN, Ryanair are beginning SXF in March, and I'm simply not sure there is market for two airlines on these routes as well as services to HAM & STR - their other bases. It would be nice to see Lufthansa take over the old regional route to FRA, but again, it's pie in the sky!

[madbadrob]

What a great post. Please forgive me though when I ask what Airports the following are NCE BCN CVTORY CGN SXF HAM & STR

Whilst not new to aircraft spotting my experience as been with the RAF aircraft which I love and have only in the last 8 months moved over to civillian airports and aircraft

Rob

[egnxema]

Rob,

These are the 3 letter codes assigned by IATA. If you type a search in Google for IATA Codes there are loads of website that list every code in the world. You will soon learn the UK ones, and many others. After years in the industry I am actually embarrassed at how many 3 letter codes I have whizzing round my head - shame there are not more IATA questions in the local pub quiz!!

NCE Nice
BCN Barcelona
CVT Coventry
ORY Paris Orly
CGN Cologne/Bonn
SXF Berlin Shonefeld
HAM Hamburg
STR Stuttgart

[bmibaby.com]

Sorry madbadrob if I confused you with the airport codes, but it's simply a lot faster than writing out all of their names, and thank you to egnxema for having the patience to write them all out. On second thought I've thought HAM might be a popular route from EMA thanks to the Airbus connection, between Hamburg & Derby.

Nottingham East Midlands - Nice cancelled during winter schedule

bmi Nottingham East Midlands to Nice service (BD289, BD290) will not operate during their winter schedule, 30 October - 25 March 06.

Just come across this original press release from bmi in September when trawling through the pages of this topic, regarding the Nice service being dropped for the winter season until the 25th March, might this suggest that with the fifth B737 that the additional route alongside CDG will indeed be NCE? I remember it always being a fairly popular route (alongisde TLS & BOD but I believe these are now firmly routed at BHX) so I'd say it would have a strong future. Operationally BCN was a problem I believe due to slot restrictions, but it's a shame because the route was tremendously popular and GRO is not a realistic alternative.

[madbadrob]

Thanks for the clarification of the three letter codes. Kne wthey were online but couldn't find them not knowing their correct title. Have now downloaded the list

As for having them whizzing around in your haed don't worry. I work for Royal Mail and have post codes flying through my head. Now if only they would let me drive a wagon to NEMA

Rob

[airhumberside]

Croatia Airlines will launch a weekly scheduled flight to Split next April (Source - CH Aviation)

[Mike16]

Hi


This is great news, any more new routes or aircraft coming ?
I also flew last week from EMA to FAO and must admit the airport is really nice now once you pass customs, the layout is brill, keep up the good work, but i do have one moan, the staff in the restaurant are very rude, well hardly there to be honest, and the prices, a bacon buttie £5.49 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well that is my moan over, have a good day all

Mike

[EastMids]

I'm not aware of the full ins & outs of maintenance, but have been told that the bmibaby Boeings (19/20 by next March) will be maintained at Nottingham East Midlands.

Nope, only overnight/light checks on the 737s at EMA. 737 heavy maintenance is going to Eastern Europe, heavy A320-family checks to Lufthansa, and A330s are going to the Philippines for their heavy checks. On a more positive note, I'm told DHL have expressed an interest in taking on the big hangar - to use it for container storage!

[Wiggly Bob]

Volge Denepr

Afternoon Everyone,

Having been a long time "stalker" thought I'd register and start contributing to what are sometimes quite heated debates!

My first question is this: could anyone tell me what the "Volga Denepr" aircraft was that was at the DHL terminal on Weds or Thurs this week? I was driving past and saw the cockpit in the up position. I assume it was an Antonov or something similar. I am not very au fait with aircraft, too be honest I know very little about them, I just find them fascinating.

Rob

[Banzai Eagle]

Antonov 124, fairly regular at EMA, probably bringing in Xmas goods around this time of year.

[paul atkins]

summer 2006

hey all on the screens at work today BMI are to base a aircraft next summer operating charter flights all week and it looks like ASTRAEUS aircraft has now been withdrawn cheers paul

[madbadrob]

Eastmids said

On a more positive note, I'm told DHL have expressed an interest in taking on the big hangar - to use it for container storage

Funnily enough I have heard the same rumour but from a completely different source. Here is one for you though Royal Mail in their 5 year plan seem to have NEMA earmarked for an increase in workload

Rob

[UPS@EMA]

Here is one for you though Royal Mail in their 5 year plan seem to have NEMA earmarked for an increase in workload

They are building a new hub on beverley road, with direct access to the UPS Ramp.

Any more news on new routes???

Regards

Stu