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Well I'm back from my little jolly to Orlando and do you know what, the flights were fine 
Both flights on 757 aircraft but comfy enough, brief fuel stop at Bangor outbound, 45 mins late leaving GLA, arriving at SFB just 25 mins behind schedule. Return on time departing SFB and 5 mins early landing at GLA. Nothing to complain about there.
A big thumbs up for the GSM crews,
great friendly bunch, looked after pax well. Even the food was good. My only gripe, the IFE which after a few stutters, gave up the ghost midway through King of California which I was rather enjoying.
Maybe GSM lives to fight another day.
Both flights on 757 aircraft but comfy enough, brief fuel stop at Bangor outbound, 45 mins late leaving GLA, arriving at SFB just 25 mins behind schedule. Return on time departing SFB and 5 mins early landing at GLA. Nothing to complain about there.
A big thumbs up for the GSM crews,
great friendly bunch, looked after pax well. Even the food was good. My only gripe, the IFE which after a few stutters, gave up the ghost midway through King of California which I was rather enjoying.Maybe GSM lives to fight another day.
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Well if GCDKT is still hangared at LPL and GCDKD is still in SEN, engineless, GSM beeter have a plan.
B736 are required from GLA from 01 Apr (not an April Fool's joke), and a 2nd is required from EDI from 04 Apr.
B736 are required from GLA from 01 Apr (not an April Fool's joke), and a 2nd is required from EDI from 04 Apr.
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For the winter 08/09 season do GSM plan to continue to operate YVR and YYC flights, SFB from GLA,BFS and maybe even MAN or LGW as TD said he had planned in this interview ?
http://www.insider.co.uk/editorial/c...name_page.html
Also what about BOS starting again from GLA or even try LAS but give people a chance to book this time ?
Also will they keep running YHM flights ?
http://www.insider.co.uk/editorial/c...name_page.html
Also what about BOS starting again from GLA or even try LAS but give people a chance to book this time ?
Also will they keep running YHM flights ?
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"And it would be nice if they resurrected the EDI-STN route if only to give GreasyJet a run for their money."
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Ryanair beat them to it given their recent expansion at Edinburgh
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Ryanair beat them to it given their recent expansion at Edinburgh
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If you think that TD will run this route with zero or worse financial return just to keep pilots flying....against Ryanair or easyJet. forget it....TD is a businessman and a multi millionaire too ......would you present this sort of business plan to the Dragon's den?
Forget it mate it's not gonna happen
Forget it mate it's not gonna happen
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Flyglobespan used to fly between Glasgow and Stansted, did they fly from Edinburgh to Stansted too? The Glasgow route didn't seem to last too long. Friends who flew with them on the Glasgow Stansted route said that they were far better than Easyjet or Ryanair and that they got free tea / coffee and a muffin. Obviously the competition was too great and they didn't make enough profit or else they'd still be flying on this route.
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Re Post #344:
"Why would it, there is no ops or crewing and only limited engineering at GLA anyway as far as Im aware."
There's nothing limited about heavy A-checks or APU changes.
"Why would it, there is no ops or crewing and only limited engineering at GLA anyway as far as Im aware."
There's nothing limited about heavy A-checks or APU changes.
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Depends on your definition of limited I suppose. Compared to a C or D check- an APU or overnight A check- is limited. Overall this type of work is hardly likely to impact on GLA ops if there was a switch to MAN engineering which was the orginal posters enquiry.
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"If you think that TD will run this route with zero or worse financial return just to keep pilots flying....against Ryanair or easyJet. forget it....TD is a businessman and a multi millionaire too ......would you present this sort of business plan to the Dragon's den?
Forget it mate it's not gonna happen"
Er, Ryanair don't fly EDI-STN otherwise I wouldn't wonder if GSM would look at the route again. Can't believe they couldn't make it pay when they are only competing against GreasyJet who aren't cheap any more as they have no competition.
Not rocket science, is it? So yes, I probably would present it to Dragon's Den
Forget it mate it's not gonna happen"
Er, Ryanair don't fly EDI-STN otherwise I wouldn't wonder if GSM would look at the route again. Can't believe they couldn't make it pay when they are only competing against GreasyJet who aren't cheap any more as they have no competition.
Not rocket science, is it? So yes, I probably would present it to Dragon's Den
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Whenever i did the STN runs from GLA & EDI there were often only 30ish pax. GSM can simply profit more on other routes.
Air Berlin were more of a threat between STN & Scotland than Easy.
Air Berlin were more of a threat between STN & Scotland than Easy.
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So have you done many APU changes on the line then Cabincrewe? Or an 8A check in the pouring rain at night? C and D checks are hangar maintenance, different ball game. In terms of line maintenance, the Globespan aircraft get more done on them Alfresco than is the norm; that was my point.
It ain't easy finding type rated Engineers for a new base either. It'll sure as hell impact ops if there's no-one to release the aircraft to service overnight.
It ain't easy finding type rated Engineers for a new base either. It'll sure as hell impact ops if there's no-one to release the aircraft to service overnight.
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It is maybe time to stress that what I'd heard was Ops, Crewing and what would be called Maintrol moving to MAN. Shifting line maintenance to MAN would almost certainly be a non-starter but moving maintrol and tech planning - which don't have to be near the aircraft in question - is a much easier issue.