BIRMINGHAM - 4

[GayFriendly]

BE @ EMA

BE to start twice daily flights EMA-BHD. I wonder how this will affect their BHX ops on that route, the last thing BHX needs is yet another airline with conflicts of interest and EMA catchment overlap like FR and WW......it is worth noting however that they have also announced BHD-BRS and BHD-LPL both routes they quietly dropped when the big orange flexed its muscles, but will anyone scare them off from EMA? And could it mean more routes going up the M42? From small acorns and all that....

[S78]

BHD-EMA would be more accurate. No based BEE aircraft for EMA at the moment.

[OltonPete]

flybe BHD

GF

Hopefully not too much, as I was copying the 2006 & 2007 July pax
from the CAA site and BHD - BHX was 24925 in 2006 so that is a loss of
7000 since FR started EMA-BHD.

BHX-BFS was also also 15000 in 2006 compared to under 9000 in 2010.

I suggested in the EMA thread last week that BE might find it too
tempting to ignore 17000 pax. Even if you write off half as casual
one-off pax the remainder would give reasonable Q400 loads although
baby are also to increase their BFS-EMA offering as well.

I notice flybe Brest has finished abruptly not sure that was planned at
the beginning of the summer.

Pete

[crewmeal]

I remember when BA/Maersk carried 4 full 737 loads a day to BFS. What has happened to the route now? I know times are hard but these figures to BHD do not reflect good loads on NI routes

[Flyingwhale]

I also remember when that BFS also carried a full load of mail on everyflight..

[bejw2008]

It would seem that the Bullet was handed the gun and told "lets avoid the red tape" in true Swissport style, Im sure what managment is left will put out a memo saying "he has moved on to bigger better thing" and "he will be missed" yer right.......

[OltonPete]

Air France mainline

Some good and bad news with the AF/BE code-share

After a long spell without Air France mainline aircraft the code-share
agreement seems to have changed this.

AF2064/5 this winter in at 08.20 out at 09.20 is an A318.

Three flights will be flybe 195's at 06.30, 12.15 and 17.20
with two Cityjet RJ85's.

In summer six movements lost and four in winter.

However depending on the A318 config (106-123) the loss of
seats is about 100 a day in the week.

Massive savings of course for AF or cityjet with no night-stopping crew.

Pete

[Giddy]

There was an article in the Brum Mail yesterday about how BHX's CEO apparantly coined in the best part of £400k last year. This seemed to be derived from the BHX Annual Accounts which is on the BHX website. I seem to recall that the job was advertised at £200k plus bonus, in which case he has had a banker-style bonus. I'm sorry but I thought the industry was in the midst of the most difficult trading conditions it had known?

PS the article seems to have disappeared from the Mail website

[OltonPete]

Pk/be & Af

Giddy

try this - £386000!

Birmingham Mail - News - Birmingham News - Fury at airport chief Paul Kehoe's £386,000 pay and bonus package

You imagine what he would have got if he had increased passengers!

Air France

Their website still showing 1 x 318 and 2 x AR8 plus 3 x BE 195's and BE are
showing 6 x BE.

One 195 has definitely been pulled of the GLA-EDI-GLA-EDI sectors

Pete

[Giddy]

Thanks Pete but the link doesn't work for me. I wonder if he has been on to the Mail and played his face?! I'd like to be a fly on the wall in the pension meeting next week!

edit: link now works. The story speaks for itself.

[OltonPete]

BHX make a profit 2009-10 (just)

Annual Reports - Birmingham Airport

Just click on 2009-10 and it opens into PDF. If that does not work the main points are; -

Turnover 104 million down 3.3% (107.1 in 2008-9)
Operating Profit 16.2 million down from 21.2 million

After tax, interest and exceptional charges profit 592K compared to 9.8 mil.

Depreciation took a hit due to the pier but there doesn't seem too much in these figures to get excited about other than PK's pay.

BHX once again only got 39% passenger share of those living within an hour of the airport (static) - proving to be a tough nut to crack but what can BHX expect with so many European capitals unserved.

Turnover breakdown was 51.6 (54.7) Aeronautical & 52.5 (53) million commercial with 2008-09 in brackets.

I believe losses were expected for 2009-10.

Pete

[Ringwayman]

The 6 BE services for CDG will be 3 on their own metal plus 3 codeshares (if you look at MAN, the codeshare service begin BE74xx)

[OltonPete]

BE

Ringwayman

Correct, except the flybe sites shows the all aircraft as the 195 - all six flights
even the code-share ones although to be fair amadeus clearly shows the
different aircraft types.




Pete

[S78]

Viking should be dropping the Iraqi flights from end September 2010 - no great loss there.

[Crashpad]

So much money being wasted for little effect. CEO creaming off obscene amounts to line his own pockets on the back of the workforce. His pet marketing project is really paying off???
Redundancies! Pay freeze! Attack on the Pension! Reduction of wages! I doubt he would hang his head in shame as he has none. He seems to look on loyalty as a weakness.
Hopefully the workforce will now see how hollow everything they have been told actually is and react accordingly.
Monday should be interesting!

[Giddy]

I believe losses were expected for 2009-10.

May have been so in budget revisions but the forecast I saw was working on the basis of a £200k or thereabouts profit. I wonder how many CEOs are remunerated at 66% of their employer's net profit?

I also recall very clearly that Kehoe was said to be "disappointed" that the Negotiated Staff Group did not offer to give up the 4.5% pay rise that they got in Feb 2009 as the final part of a 3 year deal.

When Kehoe met the BHX Staff he encouraged them to "get on the train" in terms of moving the business forward. There's a name for the sort of train he's on.

[concernedofbhx]

Bhx Ceo Pay Fiasco

So, where do we go from here ......................

Firstly, PK is not BIA, BIA is not PK, from memory PK is PIA

Mr K can sure talk the talk, so I guess that is how he got the job, but what has he done for BIA ??, got rid of a large number of staff, thus saving the Company money, but then how much of that has gone into his own pocket?

Has any new business come to BHX ? Armavia !

Has BHX lost business ? several routes !

I now see that EASY @ LPL is going twice daily on certain days to MAD, BCN & TXL, three destinations no longer served from BHX.

I'm sure that staff morale is rock bottom, but these figures for the "highest paid director" are immoral ! These things have a habit of coming back and biting you on the bm !! Now we are seeing staff leave of their own choice including the Finance Director, what does he see that others don't?

Maybe it's time for the CEO to board his "train" and depart from platform 1 terminal !!!!!

[OltonPete]

flybe/AF

flybe/Air France

Anyone at bhx throw any light on this mess?

I have just done dummy bookings for 8 Nov 2010 and flybe think they are operating it with a 195 with the seat plan offering me seat 28A for the 09.20 departure at £106 return plus bags plus £9 debit card fee

However of the AF site think they are using a 318 at £212 return including bags and a smaller debit card fee (I think).

flybe offered no terminal at BHX (probably as I did not book) but AF offered Terminal 1.

So if you are a pax do you turn up at BHX T2 or TI or just guess?

At least that problem will be solved when two terminals become one.

As for the CEO - the figures are there to be seen, if that is success it is good job he is not failing!!!!!!

Pete

[Jamie2k9]

I now see that EASY @ LPL is going twice daily on certain days to MAD, BCN & TXL,

Easyjet fly LPL - SXF not TXL.

[concernedofbhx]

Jamie,

I stand corrected on the Berlin terminus thank you, but that was not the important text in my post.

Cheers - C O B.