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From BAladdy's 1 June post on the BA CityFlyer thread:
That suggests G-CDKA would return to Eastern at the end of May 2016 unless the lease was extended or G-CDEB was available. I imagine BACF will make the appropriate commercial decision to carry on or not in due course. This would explain the 20 May 2016 end date in the current timetable.
G-CERZ was operated for BACF from 30MAR14 for 14 months and was replaced by G-CDKA on 11MAY15. Both aircraft are expected to operate on the IOM and DUS routes for BACF until at least the start of S16 schedule.
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Press release today:
easyJet Media Centre
Carolyn McCall explained easyJet’s plans at an expanded Heathrow:
“easyJet would open a base at Heathrow (in addition to our other existing London bases - Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and Southend) enabling easyJet to provide new routes and increase competition on dozens more UK and European routes.
“This would include new services to Inverness, Isle of Man and Jersey and increased services and more competition for Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Belfast as well as new and increased services for many other key cities including Amsterdam, Geneva and Zurich.
"easyJet's costs are significantly lower than legacy airlines so even allowing for an increase in charges at an expanded Heathrow easyJet's fares on these services would be lower than those paid by passengers today.”
easyJet Media Centre
Carolyn McCall explained easyJet’s plans at an expanded Heathrow:
“easyJet would open a base at Heathrow (in addition to our other existing London bases - Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and Southend) enabling easyJet to provide new routes and increase competition on dozens more UK and European routes.
“This would include new services to Inverness, Isle of Man and Jersey and increased services and more competition for Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Belfast as well as new and increased services for many other key cities including Amsterdam, Geneva and Zurich.
"easyJet's costs are significantly lower than legacy airlines so even allowing for an increase in charges at an expanded Heathrow easyJet's fares on these services would be lower than those paid by passengers today.”
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IOM-London Market in May
In view of recent discussions on the possible future shape and mix of London services, a quick look the provisional CAA stats for May shows that overall London traffic has grown by 18% YoY to 23265.
LGW 13748 +3%
LCY 4457 -30%
STN 5060 +100%
LGW 13748 +3%
LCY 4457 -30%
STN 5060 +100%
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Wonder what those people think of the London STN experience. I was there yesterday flying to Denmark it has to be one of the worst airport experiences I have ever had long queues miles of corridors airport charges for dropping off and picking up etc. simply horrendous. I also wonder to what degree Flybe are marginally pricing the route and will look to increase ticket prices dramatically at some stage.
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Interesting suggestions by easyJet about possibility of routes ex LHR like IOM and INV.
I recall when bmi brought back LHR JER, it certainly wasn't a hit, and loads on Embraer were not spectacular . LGW was so well established and connected that the LHR wasn't really all that great of an addition. Again, would easyJet fly from lhr simply replace the LGW route? I suggest there would be far more lucrative honey pots than IOM ex LHR to European population centres...
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I recall when bmi brought back LHR JER, it certainly wasn't a hit, and loads on Embraer were not spectacular . LGW was so well established and connected that the LHR wasn't really all that great of an addition. Again, would easyJet fly from lhr simply replace the LGW route? I suggest there would be far more lucrative honey pots than IOM ex LHR to European population centres...
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June 2015 record monthly total for IOM
Traffic up 17.5% overall and a record for a single month, beating previous best by 10,000 pax
http://www.gov.im/media/1347891/june...ic-summary.pdf
The route by route, and regional, breakdowns are in the link, so I won't repeat here.
Clearly driven by an exceptionally good TT, and new routes kicking in.
http://www.gov.im/media/1347891/june...ic-summary.pdf
The route by route, and regional, breakdowns are in the link, so I won't repeat here.
Clearly driven by an exceptionally good TT, and new routes kicking in.
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I recall when bmi brought back LHR JER, it certainly wasn't a hit, and loads on Embraer were not spectacular . LGW was so well established and connected that the LHR wasn't really all that great of an addition.
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No more hand outs from the betting centres
Confirmed, BA to def pull off due to Easterns unreliability of the Saab and hand over to Flybe. News to be announced soon. 😥
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BA's enthusiasm probably not helped by the collapse (-30% year on year) in traffic since BE came on to STN.
My prediction that this was part of BE's game plan (post #2683) was scoffed at, at the time, but maybe it will come to pass, sooner than even I thought?
My prediction that this was part of BE's game plan (post #2683) was scoffed at, at the time, but maybe it will come to pass, sooner than even I thought?
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hand over to Flybe.
G-CDKA has become the second S2000 in BA colours as well.
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As far as we are aware in City BA code share transfers to flybe. They use Saab to test European routes, iom has been poor. Use it lose it seems to have now gone and BA will cease to disappear once again
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So is it unreliability or passenger volumes? Are they going to continue testing into Europe with the unreliable Saab?
Also no idea why BA would code share without a connection onto Europe?
Also no idea why BA would code share without a connection onto Europe?
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The code share will continue but as far as we are aware down south and what is said, eastern are to go on other route tests in Europe and cease on IOM hence being given to IOM. Saab has shown very unreliable figures and constant tech issues. Good luck for all the Eastern peeps based on the IOM.
