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Good luck to all FJE staff. A shame to see this happen to an airline, especially with such smart and retro looking crews!
Hope Silverjet don't regret ending it for Flyjet, especially if they are making a profit in the charter market, which is no easy task.
All the best
Hope Silverjet don't regret ending it for Flyjet, especially if they are making a profit in the charter market, which is no easy task.
All the best
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First of all TRANSWEDE many thanks for your kind words at a time of great loss for all of the Flyjet crews, and thanks for all the other kind words that others have mentioned on here about the Flyjet crews.
It is such a shock when you get the dreaded letter saying that you wont have a job after 1st October at NCL or 4th October MAN.......
A particular song springs to mind over the whole subjet and it goes something like this " and so the end is near, its time to face the final curtain"
Maybe another LOCO airline or any other airline will offer the Flyjet crew work in the near future.....who knows.....we live in hope..............
It is such a shock when you get the dreaded letter saying that you wont have a job after 1st October at NCL or 4th October MAN.......
A particular song springs to mind over the whole subjet and it goes something like this " and so the end is near, its time to face the final curtain"
Maybe another LOCO airline or any other airline will offer the Flyjet crew work in the near future.....who knows.....we live in hope..............
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It is a great shame that Flyjet will leave the charter network.
But for all Flyjet crews keep in mind Flyjet did end up with a bad reputation esp in Newcastle with the undeserved news press. Flyjet did make profit for 2007 but not enough to survive the loss of the winter 2007/2008 or fund expansion of newer aircraft. (
so i've been told )
It has been a great pleasure to work at Flyjet especially with the crews and I will now also be leaving Flyjet and have no intention of staying at Silverjet.
All I can say is all Flyjet crew will most probably be kept on file in case someone with enough money comes along to set up another airline with a different name. WINK WINK..
hopefully
Watch this space. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But for all Flyjet crews keep in mind Flyjet did end up with a bad reputation esp in Newcastle with the undeserved news press. Flyjet did make profit for 2007 but not enough to survive the loss of the winter 2007/2008 or fund expansion of newer aircraft. (
so i've been told )It has been a great pleasure to work at Flyjet especially with the crews and I will now also be leaving Flyjet and have no intention of staying at Silverjet.
All I can say is all Flyjet crew will most probably be kept on file in case someone with enough money comes along to set up another airline with a different name. WINK WINK..
hopefully
Watch this space. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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shame! same hapened to me when working for a spanish charter company few years back - never nice situation to be in.
good luck those of you at flyjet - sounds positive still tho fje1?!
good luck those of you at flyjet - sounds positive still tho fje1?!
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Oh well, im sad to say i was wrong, SilverJet are s**t's.
Losing money over the winter was out of there hands and they weould have know how much cash they would make over the summer.
So to say its is becasue of the bad winter program sounds a bit silly.
Flyjet have had the best summer since ive dealt with them and if SliverJet had carried through the winter (although that have been subject to excel?) Im sure they have made money again.
Maybe it is because they could not find another charatar company to sell there seats, or the a/c had been sold along time ago and the writing was already on the wall.
Anyway been great to work with all the FlyJet Crews out of Man, good luck to you all.
Losing money over the winter was out of there hands and they weould have know how much cash they would make over the summer.
So to say its is becasue of the bad winter program sounds a bit silly.
Flyjet have had the best summer since ive dealt with them and if SliverJet had carried through the winter (although that have been subject to excel?) Im sure they have made money again.
Maybe it is because they could not find another charatar company to sell there seats, or the a/c had been sold along time ago and the writing was already on the wall.
Anyway been great to work with all the FlyJet Crews out of Man, good luck to you all.
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Chief executive Lawrence Hunt said the fall was overdone as chartered airlines was not its main business. "There is an overreaction. We acquired Flyjet to get licences and it had a Boeing 767 lease on advantageous lease rates, saving us $1m (£500,000) a year. It also had a full crew of pilots and enabled us to accelerate our launch and cut down on start-up costs."
SAYS IT ALL DON'T YOU THINK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...lverjet109.xml
SAYS IT ALL DON'T YOU THINK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...lverjet109.xml
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Flyjet had some great crew over the time and i hope everyone in ncl and man is out getting good jobs lined up. Its a shame its come to this but after what happened to those of us at LGW Im not surprised. Think we all knew all along Silverjet were only after the 767 and aoc.
Good luck to everyone
Good luck to everyone
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Scandic - 757 going to fedex to be refitted as cargo planes.
Pinhead - Pilots kept on by Silverjet but down at a LTN basing. Guess there will be a few not wanting to do that and will jumpship and go elsewhere.
Pinhead - Pilots kept on by Silverjet but down at a LTN basing. Guess there will be a few not wanting to do that and will jumpship and go elsewhere.
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Congrats to Mr Evans for his handling of the situation
gatwicknose,
Nice to see someone who can see right through PE's grade A BS.
The anonimity of this forum (for fear of retribution or post removal) prevents
one from saying what I would dearly love to publicly!! Let's hope airlines and
Mr E are not allowed to mix again.........EVER
Rgds
The Moss
Nice to see someone who can see right through PE's grade A BS.
The anonimity of this forum (for fear of retribution or post removal) prevents
one from saying what I would dearly love to publicly!! Let's hope airlines and
Mr E are not allowed to mix again.........EVER
Rgds
The Moss
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Say it as I see it.... Pure and simple aquisition of FJE for the AOC.... theres quite a bit nepotism going on ay SJE with jobs for the boys being handed out in quite a few areas... I also hear that there is a very large law suit heading SJEs way from Flyfirstclass who paid deposits and bought equipment heading well over a million USD.... only to be circumvented when FJE were bought.... personally very sad to see FJE go...although at times working with them was totally crazy...it was like the airline biz used to be, when it was hands on and fun.... good luck to all those ex FJE guys and gals.....u deserved a lot better....
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I really think that Flyjet should of kept going they should of sourced some bigger aircraft with a longer range. I bet that there are plenty of 767- 300's out there. They gave up to easily on what could of been a fantastic success with the right amount of aircraft, its very sad to hear that they are officailly ceasing operations. Something similar happened with the charter airline Air Scandic.
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There is a shortage of cheap to lease B767 aircraft right now..look at silverjet/maxjet/UKIA...all of them have really had to scrape the bottom of the deepest barrels to find even these flying donkeys....
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Yeah thats true about there being a shortage of 767's. Has anyone heard the rumour the jet2 might be getting a couple of 767's they reckon that they will be coming excel airways does anyone know anymore about this and will b757-200 lsad ever get painted up cos i prefer it in the white colour scheme. Also are the Mytravel 767's definantely going this winter it would be a shame to see them disappear from the fleet.