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VCE's Summer 2012 seasonal timetable was published at the weekend. This is usually the extremely accurate source when it comes to flight ops from the airport.
Venice Airport - Save S.p.A.
The schedule show the return of BACF's weekly Saturday charter flight from GLA.
The timetable also shows a 6 x Weekly service operating between STN and VCE starting the 17th September and running through until the end of the Summer 2012 schedule. The flights are showing as operating under the flight numbers 8479 & 8480. Both flight numbers are classed under BA's flight number list as used for BA Cityflyer scheduled services. Does anyone have know if in fact this will be a new destination from LCY and not STN.
Note: When flights are operated by a subsidiary or franchise carrier VCE airport use that carriers own 2 letter/digit IATA code. So flights are shown on the schedule as CJ8479/CJ8480.
Venice Airport - Save S.p.A.
The schedule show the return of BACF's weekly Saturday charter flight from GLA.
The timetable also shows a 6 x Weekly service operating between STN and VCE starting the 17th September and running through until the end of the Summer 2012 schedule. The flights are showing as operating under the flight numbers 8479 & 8480. Both flight numbers are classed under BA's flight number list as used for BA Cityflyer scheduled services. Does anyone have know if in fact this will be a new destination from LCY and not STN.
Note: When flights are operated by a subsidiary or franchise carrier VCE airport use that carriers own 2 letter/digit IATA code. So flights are shown on the schedule as CJ8479/CJ8480.
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VCE's Summer 2012 seasonal timetable was published at the weekend. This is usually the extremely accurate source when it comes to flight ops from the airport.
Venice Airport - Save S.p.A.
The schedule show the return of BACF's weekly Saturday charter flight from GLA.
The timetable also shows a 6 x Weekly service operating between STN and VCE starting the 17th September and running through until the end of the Summer 2012 schedule. The flights are showing as operating under the flight numbers 8479 & 8480. Both flight numbers are classed under BA's flight number list as used for BA Cityflyer scheduled services. Does anyone have know if in fact this will be a new destination from LCY and not STN.
14th Feb 2012 13:18
Venice Airport - Save S.p.A.
The schedule show the return of BACF's weekly Saturday charter flight from GLA.
The timetable also shows a 6 x Weekly service operating between STN and VCE starting the 17th September and running through until the end of the Summer 2012 schedule. The flights are showing as operating under the flight numbers 8479 & 8480. Both flight numbers are classed under BA's flight number list as used for BA Cityflyer scheduled services. Does anyone have know if in fact this will be a new destination from LCY and not STN.
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BACF yesterday announced that it will start a 3 x daily service from LCY-ABZ
http://www.scotsman.com/business/tra...ed-1-2253020om
Flights now available on BA.com but very strangley the flight numbers are not starting following the same series as there existing services. BACF's flight numbers all start BA8xxx the ABZ will carry a flight number starting BA3xxx
Does anyone know why the change?..
Also flight are showing as operating on a E70 operating both C and Y cabins
Timetable below:
BA3291 ABZ 06:50 LCY 08:20 E70 x67
BA3295 ABZ 12:00 LCY 13:30 E70 x67
BA3297 ABZ 17:30 LCY 19:00 E70 x6
BA3292 LCY 08:50 ABZ 10:20 E70 x67
BA3296 LCY 15:25 ABZ 16:55 E70 x67
BA3298 LCY 19:30 ABZ 21:00 E70 x6
http://www.scotsman.com/business/tra...ed-1-2253020om
Flights now available on BA.com but very strangley the flight numbers are not starting following the same series as there existing services. BACF's flight numbers all start BA8xxx the ABZ will carry a flight number starting BA3xxx
Does anyone know why the change?..
Also flight are showing as operating on a E70 operating both C and Y cabins
Timetable below:
BA3291 ABZ 06:50 LCY 08:20 E70 x67
BA3295 ABZ 12:00 LCY 13:30 E70 x67
BA3297 ABZ 17:30 LCY 19:00 E70 x6
BA3292 LCY 08:50 ABZ 10:20 E70 x67
BA3296 LCY 15:25 ABZ 16:55 E70 x67
BA3298 LCY 19:30 ABZ 21:00 E70 x6
It's going to be interesting to see the difference with the last time Aberdeen was served from London City, which was by Scot Airways quite some years ago, with a 31-seater Dornier where the loads were quite often down in single figures.
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One thing that is a little puzzling is the flight number range. Two hypotheses:
(a) the simple one: BACF has just run out of numbers in its existing range
(b) the conspiracy-theory one: this is not a normal BACF route, but some sort of tie-in with a future bmi regional.
On balance I vote for (a) in the absence of any evidence to the contrary!
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Point to point traffic would be using LCY, connections would remain at LHR I think. Feeding long haul is the whole focus of the LHR operation whereas LCY is point to point with, I believe, no Flight Connections facility. One has to exit and re-check baggage and join the queue for departures.
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A big chunk of ABZ traffic is oil connections on to IAH, DFW, LAS etc.
The ABZ service is very likely to be the end of CityJet's poor DND service over the past year or so - with so much chopoping and changing of schedule/aircraft type.
BACF's route dev dept seem to have been a very sharp bunch so far - so they will be launching this with confidence.
The ABZ service is very likely to be the end of CityJet's poor DND service over the past year or so - with so much chopoping and changing of schedule/aircraft type.
BACF's route dev dept seem to have been a very sharp bunch so far - so they will be launching this with confidence.
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Point to point traffic would be using LCY, connections would remain at LHR I think. Feeding long haul is the whole focus of the LHR operation whereas LCY is point to point with, I believe, no Flight Connections facility. One has to exit and re-check baggage and join the queue for departures.
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I would tend to agree with connections via LCY, I dont think that you can say people who connect go via LHR.
Im fairly certain that people connect onto the BA1-4 services from EDI, GLA etc. I know that if BA ran domestic flights from NQY-LCY i would look at connecting at LCY if heading to NYC.
The one thing i would guess that would put people off would be the lack of a Galleries lounge.
I do think that BA Cityflyer will continue to expand at LCY, and i think that JER & NQY could be the next destinations, JER especially as BA already has a presence at JER, no need for lounge facilities, SSCI machines, handling contracts etc. Same as ABZ really
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Im fairly certain that people connect onto the BA1-4 services from EDI, GLA etc. I know that if BA ran domestic flights from NQY-LCY i would look at connecting at LCY if heading to NYC.
The one thing i would guess that would put people off would be the lack of a Galleries lounge.
I do think that BA Cityflyer will continue to expand at LCY, and i think that JER & NQY could be the next destinations, JER especially as BA already has a presence at JER, no need for lounge facilities, SSCI machines, handling contracts etc. Same as ABZ really
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Im fairly certain that people connect onto the BA1-4 services from EDI, GLA etc. I know that if BA ran domestic flights from NQY-LCY i would look at connecting at LCY if heading to NYC.
I think NQY has really seen the peak of London traffic and flybe's LGW will be it for the years ahead. BA might try an off peak summer jolly but only if they think they won't make more nipping off to France or Spain, as to LCY-NQY year round, can't see it.
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So does anyone think that Big BA might have some immediate plans for BACF ? new MD, first significant upper management change in 5 years. BACF always looks like its an airline waiting for a plan.
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If BA CityFlyer are expanding, what do people think the chances are of starting a LCY-NCL route?
I always thought that CityFlyer, although being a BAConnect spin off would be quite at home at Gatwick, the home of CityFlyer Express and where the RJ100s were delivered. Smaller aircraft on point to point works well at LCY, it might be the savious of a BA presence at LGW. However the cost base would need to be CityFlyer and not Mainline.
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Totally agree with comments about cityflyer operating at Gatters, the newer aircraft and lower cost base could reopen routes such as DUB, NCL, ABZ, NQY, CDG, BFS, and provide extra rotations on MAN, EDI etc
But think that there is some sort of agreement in place that limits ops at LGW and LHR to mainline crews only???
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But think that there is some sort of agreement in place that limits ops at LGW and LHR to mainline crews only???
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