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Old 4th Mar 2008, 07:29
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle3478531.ece

When will Mike Stoddart give up? Correct me if i'm wrong but did they ever plan to be profitable in March 2008? - when they originally designed the business plan.

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Old 4th Mar 2008, 16:06
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From Hudson Bay 12th Feb

Just in from the city.

Silverjet shares down another 30%. Rumour is the shares WILL be suspended tomorrow.

I find it shocking that the company is about to fold and yet they keep taking peoples money.

Its all about money money money. Root of ALL evil.

Hundon Bay was posting daily a while back with his bad news spin, now there is not a word. I woder why

It isn’t just Befree who has a hidden agenda.
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 08:45
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The oil price has dropped below $100 again. They are back to running 3 planes. Which day does the 4th plane come?
It should add to the route network in a few days.
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 09:07
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Which day does the 4th plane come?
4th is due 10th March c/n 25058 ex G-BYAA
5th is due 31st March c/n 25139 ex G-BYAB

Hope it helps.
Be lucky
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 15:07
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More to the point - what will they do with these two aircraft? No new routes or increased frequencies have been announced yet. If they intended operating them on revenue services as soon as this month, surely they should have started taking bookings by now.
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 15:58
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The new aircraft are not expected to go into operation on, as yet announced, new routes in June.
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 16:03
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G-BYAA was only taken out of service from Thomsonfly about 3 weeks ago.
G-BYAB is still in service.

How long will it take to refurb/paint the a/c into silverjet standards?
Also will the a/c undergo any hefty checks before being put into service with Silverjet? Or will they wait until whenever the standards checks are due?
They were well utilised with TOM!
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 19:00
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More to the point - what will they do with these two aircraft? No new routes or increased frequencies have been announced yet. If they intended operating them on revenue services as soon as this month, surely they should have started taking bookings by now.
Perhaps one or more of the current fleet is coming due for a heavy check and will go off line for a while. Its the sort of forward planning I would expect from Silverjet.
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 19:05
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I do believe that an announcement WRT new routes is about to be made. However, I believe some of the a/c might be due a big check.

Who knows!
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 22:21
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I believe some of the a/c might be due a big check
Don't tell me that they forgot the bridging checks between the Thomsonfly and Boeing maintenance programmes again?!!
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Old 8th Mar 2008, 15:13
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Does any one know if G-FJEB has been returned yet; last I heard it was still at Lasham waiting engines.
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Old 8th Mar 2008, 17:07
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G-BYAB operated its last revenue service on 6/3

It is now at LTN for end of service work.

Incidentally, its worthy of mention that with G-BYAB leaving TOM, the 24 year association of BAL/TOM and the
767-200 comes to an end.

The first aircraft (G-BKVZ) was delivered to BAL on 27/2/84 (the first 767 in Europe)
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Old 9th Mar 2008, 13:32
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how old are these planes that Silverjet are using. I'm guessing they are newer than the 76's that Maxjet used, simply because there was always a Maxjet sitting in maintenance at Stansted. I assume Silverjet have got newer more reliable one's?
 
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The original aircraft (G-SJET) dates from 1986 and its technical gripes have been well reported in the past.

The two ex TOM aircraft in service date from 1990 (the next two are from 1991) However, these four aircraft despite high utilisation have been well looked after from new and are likely to be in much better condition than many aircraft of a similar age which have been operated by a variety of airlines.

In addition, virtually all the Engineers looking after the Silverjet a/c are ex TOM (so they should have some idea what they are doing!)
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Grrr

G-FJEB is at Lasham engineless just like most of the other residents.
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Old 12th Mar 2008, 17:28
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booking engin down as well

not a good day then

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all working again

the system is working again and seems a lot faster than it was.
It would often take 30 seconds.
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Does anyone know if G-BYAA was handed over on 10/3 as planned?
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Old 17th Mar 2008, 11:21
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G-BYAA

The CAA G-INFO website shows it as still owned by Thomson but with the note..."Potential change of Registered Ownership in progress"
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Exclamation

Re MIKE JENVEY POST,

Friends of mine travelled on SilverJet and pretty much came up with the same comment as you. Overall good, but seats need to go flat, IFE needs to be better and they said the food was terrible. Not in the same league as BA Club. But for £500 they said it was a bargin.

For how much longer though
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