Eastern Airways
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Not sure if this has been mentioned, apparently Eastern are paying Loganair a lot of money to be their handling agents at KOI and LSI.
Of course, this came from the crew, and 'a lot of money' is ... vague.
Of course, this came from the crew, and 'a lot of money' is ... vague.
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One thing is certain, Flybe are going to realise very quickly that this is a disastrous partnership. As has been said before, Eastern don't even have sufficient crew to cover their own routes, let alone additional Flybe routes.
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Eastern has it's own handlers at LSI - don't know about KOI though
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One thing is certain, Flybe are going to realise very quickly that this is a disastrous partnership.
There are no encouraging signs at all here - looks like it is about to get as messy as many predicted and if Eastern are involved in taking any risk on this then I'd not be surprised if they were to back away from the whole thing in a real hurry.
A Swiss S.2000 has arrived at NCL tonight using an Eastern positioning flight number. There's been a J.41 parked up for a couple of days with what looks like engine problems(?), so don't know if this short term cover or something more long term.
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The first J41 in the Flybe colours is pictured here.
https://twitter.com/flybe/status/903565493554032640
Edit: And another slightly better picture:
http://skyliner-aviation.de/viewphot...v2&picid=10024
https://twitter.com/flybe/status/903565493554032640
Edit: And another slightly better picture:
http://skyliner-aviation.de/viewphot...v2&picid=10024
Last edited by BA318; 1st Sep 2017 at 11:23.
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Good luck to them. To stay a viable business for as long as they have under the circumstances is quite an achievement as far as I am concerned. I would have thought BE is a more valuable code share than BA is.