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I doubt anyone would risk taking on the route whilst Easyjet are still flying to the IOM as they can just add capacity very easily and flood the market with cheap seats to see off any competition
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Originally Posted by manx crab
I doubt anyone would risk taking on the route whilst Easyjet are still flying to the IOM as they can just add capacity very easily and flood the market with cheap seats to see off any competition
how many have they got lying around doing nothing so that they can flood the market?
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"Obviously we had an existing base at Liverpool. We had some spare aircraft time, so we saw it as a sizeable opportunity for us, and exactly the same analysis was undertaken for Gatwick as well"
Quote taken from Easyjet evidence to Open Skies Committee in the Isle of Man.
Makes you think not all aircraft are fully used all of the time
Quote taken from Easyjet evidence to Open Skies Committee in the Isle of Man.
Makes you think not all aircraft are fully used all of the time
there is very little else what a MAN or LPL based aircraft can do if there is only 2-3h slack in the schedule.
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Fellas, rest easy (oops, didn't mean it to sound like that). Word down the Albie is BA is going to come up trumps with the City service back to the old schedule so thats the suits covered, the casuals to Gatwick and if the pale blues throw in Brum and the Pool someone will jump in, no fear. Then the Bell gang will sit there and ask what all the fuss was about, yessir!
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It won't be a Saab. On the BA Cityflyer thread it's off to Rotterdam for the summer. BA won't be basing anything here in the near future. Shame
Sun-Air operate a fleet of 32 seat Dornier 328 aircraft. Personally I think this would be the perfect aircraft from the IOM-LCY Route.
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Not sure that the Dornier would be a suitable fit for IOM-LCY. Most of the weekday flights have pax numbers above the seat capacity of the dornier. Also without the Flybe LGW rotations there is going to be a lot of people wanting of the island first thing and inbound in the evening from the London area. I would imagine the E170 would be perfect come April next year, capacity wise. Some days when there are two EZY LGW's the first departure to London isn't until something like 1100. Bearing in mind some days its just the one rotation in the afternoon and none on saturdays. I don't believe the Sun Air Dornier would be able to cope with the demand but who knows what BA will do! Possibly nightstop an E170 in IOM and replace the route that aircraft was operating with a new E190?
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BA won't be basing anything here in the near future
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Citywing start IOM-Glasgow in March 2014
Good to hear this link will be restored. Nine flights a week from the end of March, according to the announcement. BBC News - Flights between Glasgow and Isle of Man to resume
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Have you seen the BA website for the LCY flights? Put in April or May and they are still listed as one flight a day? I thought by now they would be advertising the flights and selling them in the website? On a few examples they are flying in to the island in the morning, and then the flight departs at lunchtime. .???
