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Looking to book outward on BA from LCY to Nice on 18 March, am surprised to find that instead of the one (some days none) service there are no less than four flights on that date only, and although the outward fares are normal, those four flights returning on that day have huge fares, as indeed outwards do on a couple of days at the start of that week. I presume there is something significant on there.
More surprising though is how BA Cityflyer can marshal the aircraft from their small and well-utilised fleet to achieve this. How is it done ?
More surprising though is how BA Cityflyer can marshal the aircraft from their small and well-utilised fleet to achieve this. How is it done ?
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I would hazard a guess that MIPIM the big property conference in Cannes might be the event in question.
And I haven't looked at the schedules but I'd speculate that since business travel to/from Ireland will be near zero on the day after St Patrick's Day, BACF may perhaps have got smart and pulled one or more Dublin rotations to make room for Nice?
And I haven't looked at the schedules but I'd speculate that since business travel to/from Ireland will be near zero on the day after St Patrick's Day, BACF may perhaps have got smart and pulled one or more Dublin rotations to make room for Nice?
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Yeah, HAM was Sun-Air, so I would assume BA have asked them to move to offer more capacity, now they have more slack in the S2000 fleet from E170s going to IOM and eventually DUS.
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Fab TXL is somewhere I visit often. So much easier for me use LCY, this is a great addition & a route I've been wanting for a long time 👍
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DUS until Sep
HAM from May
IOM
It also looks like some French regional flying mixed in on the Saab.
Where's the Eastern E170 flying?
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According to what's on sale Saab flying looks like
DUS until Sep
HAM from May
IOM
It also looks like some French regional flying mixed in on the Saab
DUS until Sep
HAM from May
IOM
It also looks like some French regional flying mixed in on the Saab
Agners (from 21st May, Summer only)
Bergerac (from 6th May, Summer only)
Düsseldorf (until 5th September)
Hamburg (from 8th May)
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Hope Berlin has better success than in the past. My first flight ever from LCY was a 146 with German independent Conti-Flug, which went into Tempelhof at the other end and was a great city-to-city operation. Was this the first jet operation from LCY ? Unfortunately they were unable, in immediate post-unification Berlin, to get the loads/yields. Later Lufthansa had a go, to Tegel, but that didn't last either.
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Hope Berlin has better success than in the past. My first flight ever from LCY was a 146 with German independent Conti-Flug, which went into Tempelhof at the other end and was a great city-to-city operation. Was this the first jet operation from LCY ? Unfortunately they were unable, in immediate post-unification Berlin, to get the loads/yields. Later Lufthansa had a go, to Tegel, but that didn't last either.
Anyway good that it's back, I'll definitely be booking a trip soon
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Regarding the switch of the HAM route from Sun Air to Cityflyer, Sun Air is quoted in the Danish travel media that they plan to add another LCY route as a replacement for the HAM service but are in no position yet to make a formal announcement.
Will be interesting to find out what they are after. Certainly worth a try would be MUC, but it is a bit long on a Dornier 328.
Will be interesting to find out what they are after. Certainly worth a try would be MUC, but it is a bit long on a Dornier 328.
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If Sun Air do start LCY-GRQ on top of Flybe themselves doing LCY-RNS (admittedly for peak summer season, but who knows if they might extend to limited weekly frequency year-round)...this is surely likely to do significant damage to the remaining Stobart Air/Flybe franchise SEN operations..?
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LCY-GRQ would surprise me. GRQ has a very limited catchment area despite an above-average growth in recent years. VLM very briefly operated GRQ-RTM-LCY flights in the past, attracting very poor loads.
BRE-LCY sounds like a good idea. It worked quite OK on OLT's Saab 2000 until Ryanair dumped capacity with the introduction of a STN service.
Problem for Sun Air growing at LCY is, imho, that they are always at risk of establishing a niche route successfully that after a while can sustain BACF Saab 2000 and later on the E70.
BRE-LCY sounds like a good idea. It worked quite OK on OLT's Saab 2000 until Ryanair dumped capacity with the introduction of a STN service.
Problem for Sun Air growing at LCY is, imho, that they are always at risk of establishing a niche route successfully that after a while can sustain BACF Saab 2000 and later on the E70.
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LCY closure
The Green Party mayoral candidate, Sian Berry, was on "Sunday Politics London" yesterday. She came out with all the usual Green party platitudes and nonsense, but perhaps the most ridiculous comment was.....
.....that London City Airport would be closed and all flights would be transferred to Heathrow.
She did not state, and regretably, she was not asked by how high much the rates precept would have to rise to pay for this.
.....that London City Airport would be closed and all flights would be transferred to Heathrow.
She did not state, and regretably, she was not asked by how high much the rates precept would have to rise to pay for this.
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There's a certain logic to that you know, not from a Green perspetive but Crossrail will link Canary Wharf with LHR. It will have an impact I am sure.