Astraeus - 2

[TheRedVonBaron]

there are 139 pilots in aerlingus who are currently being threatened with redundancy due to a "surplus" who are available.

[INLAK]

Yep, it's all over for Astraeus and their Aer Lingus contract.

[sam1993]

Astraeus will be operating from Gatwick to Winnipeg via Reykjavik using a 757 on behalf of Go Travel Flights next summer!

[snipes]

I'll take that wager. I bet the EI guys will be fine.

[Rainboe]

Snipes

I'll take that wager. I bet the EI guys will be fine.

Just in case the wager is deleted.

Let's see if AL will continue to pay bigger than BA 747 Captain pay for an AL A320! They have an extreme cost problem. Who's going to keep financing them and keeping hay coming into this trough surrounded by the fattest pigs in Europeland?

[muckin fuddle]

Its an in joke Roy.If you knew the story behind it you would be proud

If you know, plesase tell us more.....................

[BAladdy]

Palmair

Does anyone know if AEU's contract with Palmair is coming to a end.

Just noticed that AEU have put the 735 currently operating the route up for sale/lease

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Anyone know anything about this??


You might want to look at the thread in Terms And Endearment

[adfly]

I think its just so company's can subcharter it when Palmair are not using it(sometimes in the afternoons when it only operates 1 return flight per day), or they could be upgrading to a 737 700!!

[shamrock7seal]

Looks like Palmair are stopping the lease from November 2010.

Possibly Palmair can't afford the lease through each winter when they don't have enough activity to justify a whole aircraft and flight crew. Alternatively Palmair could be shifting to a different aircraft with more range as the -500 is pretty limited especially for Canaries.

The aircraft is listed as being 'available' from Nov '10 to Apr 2012 (covering the remainder of the Palmair original contract which was for 3 years)

[Groundloop]

Possibly Palmair can't afford the lease through each winter when they don't have enough activity to justify a whole aircraft and flight crew.

The Palmair contract is based on a pay-to-fly arrangement. It costs Palmair very little to keep the aircraft on the ground.

[yeo valley]

palmair

perhaps palmair will buy seats from other airlines.?? With no fear of filling a whole plane. Also do other destinations as well. Just a thought.

[Groundloop]

perhaps palmair will buy seats from other airlines.??

But that would destroy the whole Palmair ethos of a full service airline - allocated seats, hot meals, etc. Their whole selling point is that they still offer all of this.

[dublindispatch]

DUB

Have heard that AEU are doing some charter work from Dub for summer 10, in on sat and sun, any ideas??

[Captain Lampshade]

I guess technically it is AEU but understand it is using the Palmair a/c

[TCX69]

bmi Lease

This lease is meant to be ending in April. Does anyone know if this will be extended?

Although a confirmed date is not yet known, bmi will be extending the lease of G-STRY until some time in June when both of bmi's A330's return from C Checks. One of which will then operate the current 757 routes to ALA/FNA/FRU.

[Clandestino]

Seemingly G-STRP is back four weeks early from wet lease to Dubrovnik Airline. Rumor has it that legal actions are pending. Would someone please share what happened down there, if it's not confidential?

[BAladdy]

Does anyone know what Astraeus has planned for it's fleet in the future.

I hear that the A320, G-STRP, is also expected to be flown to the US in October to be parted out and that G-STRZ a 757 is expected to be withdrawn from service this week.

Will these aircraft be replaced and do Astraeus have any plans to add to the fleet before the start of the S12 season