BA Cityflyer

[richardwpprn]

Re BA8751 LCY 08:35 ORY 10:55 E70 x7 on Saturdays, will the aircraft park at ORY until the return flight on Sunday?

[AirportPlanner1]

Couldn't it comfortably get back to LCY on those timings - say 11:35/11:55? If not perhaps it'll join the increasing number of routes to STN.

[BAladdy]

Or maybe it could operate ORY/STN early Saturday afternoon and operate from STN before returning to ORY on the Sunday

[virginblue]

What market would such timings serve?

[WHBM]

Possibly gone under the radar is the great increase in holiday flights Cityflyer's Embraer fleet are making this summer. I reckon they did 130 such round trips last week, a combination of schedules and charters, some from unlikely starting points such as Humberside or Isle of Man. Over 30 round trips to Ibiza, the most popular point, in a week, almost as many to Palma. There's even a classic overnighter late Friday departure from LCY to Malaga that rolls back just as they reopen on Saturday morning. It's a lot more extensive than just covering the weekend LCY closure time.

Not particularly what the crews (especially cabin) signed up for, is it ?

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by davidjohnson6

Reykjavik ... Without wishing to disrepect anyone or their abilities, I suspect also that pilots based in the Faeroe Islands are by necessity perhaps more used to dealing with a short runway in really bad weather (Vagar) compared to those working at BACF

I'm sure you didn't mean to disrespect anyone, but a pilot group based at LCY, of all places, is really not one to make short runway comments about.

I recall being on a CityJet 146 which surprisingly departed for LCY from Dublin from the old short northern runway 29, now closed, which I had always regarded as just for small GA. When I looked it up, it was actually longer than LCY ...

[inOban]

Originally Posted by WHBM

Possibly gone under the radar is the great increase in holiday flights Cityflyer's Embraer fleet are making this summer. I reckon they did 130 such round trips last week, a combination of schedules and charters, some from unlikely starting points such as Humberside or Isle of Man. Over 30 round trips to Ibiza, the most popular point, in a week, almost as many to Palma. There's even a classic overnighter late Friday departure from LCY to Malaga that rolls back just as they reopen on Saturday morning. It's a lot more extensive than just covering the weekend LCY closure time.

Not particularly what the crews (especially cabin) signed up for, is it ?

There are normally three which overnight in EDI for the 06.30, 7.05 and 7.35(FX) services to LCY. Only one is used for holiday flights - a Fri am rotation, two Saturday ones and a Sunday am. The other Sun rotation uses the plane which arrives from Zurich on Saturday morning, transfers empty to IOM for a rotation from there, and returns to EDI in the evening. So the EDI crews won't be working every w/e.