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Old 29th May 2006, 21:16
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Have they started recruiting for pilots for the B767 yet? Does anyone know their minimum requirements (for Captains)?

I heard from a little bird that they were hot to trot for the 787. Whats the deal on that, are they a launch customer for the type or is it just wind and piss?
 
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Think FCA are the Uk launch customer.
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Old 30th May 2006, 10:38
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Justonemorebeer,

You are right.

Oh, and recruitment for summer06 has finished, with lots of BA guys having jumped ship to GSM on the B767, including the fleet chief.
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Old 30th May 2006, 10:54
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Hardly "lots of BA guys jumping ship." Only three, one of which was already at GSM, and all of them retired from BA. None "jumped ship."
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Old 31st May 2006, 20:14
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FlyGlobespan MAN to YYZ

Just announced,

Weekly flights every Friday from Manchester to Toronto.
Starts First week in November!!

Will be Opearted by a 757/767...

CT
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Old 1st Jun 2006, 00:29
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Will be a B763.
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Old 1st Jun 2006, 09:56
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flyglobespan pledge new aircraft to launch Aberdeen routes

Flyglobespan are to expand to Aberdeen and bring budget flights to the north east of Scotland.
From next summer, the airline are to operate a brand new £25m Boeing 737 700 aircraft from Aberdeen which will bring a host of attractive holiday destinations into range for direct flights.
Flyglobespan cannot say exactly what resorts they will be flying to until landing rights have been negotiated but point out that the fuel efficient 700s can fly as far as Cyprus from Aberdeen - putting all of the Mediterranean resorts within easy reach.
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Old 2nd Jun 2006, 12:45
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anyone know how the inaugural GLA - SFB went this morning. was their good send off? was it full?
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Old 2nd Jun 2006, 12:56
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GLA-SFB
Friday 2/6/06:

No-Frills (160 seats) - 4 seats left
Premium (60 seats) - Sold Out
Business (24 seats) - Sold Out

Saturday:

No-Frills - Sold Out
Premium - 3 seats left
Business - Sold Out

Sunday:

No-Frills - Sold Out
Premium - 4 seats left
Business - 5 seats left

All in all, quite good loads for the first weekend.
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Old 2nd Jun 2006, 15:41
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Hi Webby!

any idea how tuesday looks, have family on that trip!

Thanks
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Old 2nd Jun 2006, 16:51
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Globespan

I wonder if any of those pilots (Black_bush, G-IBBO,Justonemorebeer, Tarek Nor, NG708) or any of the others promoting this company on the Pprune forum have heard anything from their management as to whether they have enough in the kitty to pay for the Employment Tribunal award made against them by the Stratford Employment Tribunal amounting to £528,000,00 to 17 of their employees whom they cynically made redundant when they changed their name from COUGAR to Globespan?
 
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1.wasn't Cougar a 727 charter kinda cargo operator ?
2.did Cougar ever operate 737's ?
3.did Globespan ever operate 727's ?
4.did Flyglobespan purchase Cougar's operating Rights/Licence ?
5.did Cougar close down beause of lack of revenue/funds ?
6.was the management with Flyglobespan involved with Cougar ?

or is it simply the case that one buisness model wasn't working & they shut it down only to try another model which has now worked at the second attempt after trying out at Prestwick first, before moving to Glasgow & hopefully they wont look back ?
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Old 3rd Jun 2006, 07:05
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Tarek Nor is not and has never been a pilot. The others, well who knows. I would think someone somewhere has enough dosh to cover the bill you mention, lets face it, GSM have ordered a brand new 737 recently at $25m.

Maybe the little dwarf who caused all the aggrovation at Cougar in the first place would care to make a financial contribution out of his own gold lined pocket. He should have retired years ago and gone back under the stone he crawled out from. The day he walked into Cougar, it was doomed.

I hope GSM see the daylight soon and retire him so that they can grow and prosper.


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Old 7th Jun 2006, 07:55
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How have the Orlando flights been doing in the first week?
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Old 7th Jun 2006, 09:10
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Any idea what aircraft type is doing the GLA-PMI rotations?
I'm on it on the 4th of July and I'm hoping it ain't a 300 series!.
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Old 7th Jun 2006, 09:16
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The loads on SFB for the first week have been great - either fully booked or nearly full on most flights outbound this week. The inbound flights have proved successful too - with over 100 US pax inbound on the first flight back to GLA.

The GLA-PMI flights are on the B738W.
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Old 7th Jun 2006, 14:44
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Smile

Cheers fella, look forward to it.
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Old 8th Jun 2006, 07:21
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Originally Posted by webby1919
The loads on SFB for the first week have been great - either fully booked or nearly full on most flights outbound this week. The inbound flights have proved successful too - with over 100 US pax inbound on the first flight back to GLA.
The GLA-PMI flights are on the B738W.
it is always good to have a full load flights, however this is not the difficult bit. after all the loads can be controlled 100% by how high or low you set your fares. if for example the flight is full of £20 paying passengers, then it is not necessarily a very strong flight. i am not saying thats how much they paid. just trying to explain that load factor is not necessarily a measure of a route's success.

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Old 11th Jun 2006, 04:41
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Refueler truck ablaze 10.06.06

nearly no 767-300 any more @ SFB

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...lines-seminole
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Old 11th Jun 2006, 23:30
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yikes that could have been bad
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