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we know what its like
Originally Posted by flyingbug
Johny FP is right, severed power cable led to no ATC, therefore Flybe flights cancelled or diverted. Happy days!!
We are experts at dealing with power failures.
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seems that senior management now recognise the need for a back up system.. like many things at SOU only gets approval for back ups after the primary has failed. Things get to be a little bit like the younger sibling, always getting the hand me downs (LHR). It would be nice to get a northen taxiway and a proper peri track but budget always seems to go the way of other "more important" projects like paint signage that deteriorates within weeks of being done. 
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BACON dropping SOU-GLA. BE increasing as a result to 6 daily, including some ops with E95.
Think this is the beginning of the end for BACON at SOU.
Regards
Mike
Think this is the beginning of the end for BACON at SOU.
Regards
Mike
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Barcelona
A route from Barcelona to Southhampton is on the wish list of new Spanish airline "Click Air".
http://www.elperiodico.com/EDICION/E...F/g002mR98.PDF
http://www.elperiodico.com/EDICION/E...F/g002mR98.PDF
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The Glasgow route can be a good route with the right business model which Bacon did not have for regional routes. How long before someone else steps into the breech as I don't believe the other players will allow Flybe to have a prime domestic trunk route all to themselves? BMI? Easyjet ?
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I think with the high price of oil, thus aviation fuel, airlines will not want to readily open new routes to directly compete against established existing carriers.
There has recently been a swathe of routes cut by easyJet, Ryanair and Monarch that whilst performing well, cannot make money due to the high costs of fuel.
I doubt if either Glasgow or Southampton airports or their local regional authorities would subsidise a new additional operator, so the route would have to become profitable from day one.
Flybe have increased the capacity off the route, so making it extremely difficult for a new 'player' to gain entry I would suggest?
All airlines are struggling with the price of Jet A1 against the tickets/fares that they sold months ago, this income does not match the oil price rise. You will also note the increase in fares for this coming winter and next summer to overcome this rise in a fixed unavoidable cost. Ryanair has of course, no fuel surcharge, but their overall fares have risen, they still offer 99p flights, but not in the same number and far fewer on every flight to compensate.
I am expecting quite a lot of re-adjustment of low cost routes offered by airlines once the introductory discounts and subsidies are over. The airlines stated above have already started this process.
There has recently been a swathe of routes cut by easyJet, Ryanair and Monarch that whilst performing well, cannot make money due to the high costs of fuel.
I doubt if either Glasgow or Southampton airports or their local regional authorities would subsidise a new additional operator, so the route would have to become profitable from day one.
Flybe have increased the capacity off the route, so making it extremely difficult for a new 'player' to gain entry I would suggest?
All airlines are struggling with the price of Jet A1 against the tickets/fares that they sold months ago, this income does not match the oil price rise. You will also note the increase in fares for this coming winter and next summer to overcome this rise in a fixed unavoidable cost. Ryanair has of course, no fuel surcharge, but their overall fares have risen, they still offer 99p flights, but not in the same number and far fewer on every flight to compensate.
I am expecting quite a lot of re-adjustment of low cost routes offered by airlines once the introductory discounts and subsidies are over. The airlines stated above have already started this process.
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BMI maybe but I wouldn't think that Easy would start up at SOU as well as showing an interest at BOH. If BMI can make a go of the AMS route than they might, but Flybe certainly appear to be flooding that route with cheap seats, therefore not leaving much space for a competitor.
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If BMI are serious about setting up a base in SOU perhaps GLA isn't out of the question, however I would like to see them linking SOU to Star Alliance airports such as CPH, MUC and FRA.
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Flybe 3rd frequency is bookable on-line now. Leaves SOU at 14:00 and returns from AMS at 16.45.
Word on the street is that they just passed 10K pre-bookings.
Any news on Scot moving current AMS deployed aircraft to EDI or on the rumours that BMI were having second thoughts due to BACON removing Eng line support at SOU and therefore adding lots of additional cost?
Word on the street is that they just passed 10K pre-bookings.
Any news on Scot moving current AMS deployed aircraft to EDI or on the rumours that BMI were having second thoughts due to BACON removing Eng line support at SOU and therefore adding lots of additional cost?
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BMI having second thoughts doesn't surprise me at all, just remember EDI-MUC and LTN-BRU?
On a plus point Click Air seem to be interested in serving SOU-BCN, a route promised by Flybe when they first turned up, along with NCE!
On a plus point Click Air seem to be interested in serving SOU-BCN, a route promised by Flybe when they first turned up, along with NCE!
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The first outward flight has less than 8 seats available to book, but the rest of the flights are pretty low in price, indicating that they are not that full!
There's so much competition on this route from Gatwick and Bournemouth that even Flybe had to scale down their planned 3 flights a day to the 2 that they currently offer.
There's so much competition on this route from Gatwick and Bournemouth that even Flybe had to scale down their planned 3 flights a day to the 2 that they currently offer.