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Old 4th Dec 2013, 19:13
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Is that a final list of routes to be closed for the time being, or are there potentially more route cuts to come later this month ?
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Old 4th Dec 2013, 19:17
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Is that a final list of routes to be closed for the time being, or are there
potentially more route cuts to come later this month
Whilst this is probably it for now (only so much bad press the shares can take), I would not rule out another list of closures. With apparently 61 unprofitable routes, there could be more at risk.
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Old 4th Dec 2013, 19:20
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Thanks for that LBIA
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Old 4th Dec 2013, 19:44
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A posting on another forum states that a Flybe Call-Centre employee said more route cuts would be announced a week from today, Wednesday 11th December.
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Old 4th Dec 2013, 21:04
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Sorry to hear of job losses. Has the redundancy policy been agreed ie LIFO/fleet/age?
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Old 4th Dec 2013, 21:14
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I believe the share price increased again

Difference is, this bad news is good for the long term and thats what investors are interested in.

Any ideas of what other routes may be chopped?
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Old 4th Dec 2013, 22:01
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I don't think the call centre really knew what was happening today as I know of a member of the public that contacted them after his Cardiff to Paris flight was cancelled.

The response from the call centre was that the route was under evaluation however the decision would be made on the 11th December. Within an hour there was a press release to the media and flights not available to book online.
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Old 4th Dec 2013, 22:10
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Reading the media release carefully I'd speculate that this is the extent of planned route withdrawals for the period until October 2014.

However frequency reductions and consolidations, changes to operating bases and therefore timings, on the remaining routes, are another matter.

December 11th sounds like the target date for having the new schedules in the system, when they will be able the change displaced bookings with more certainty as to alternatives.
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Old 4th Dec 2013, 22:20
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I don't think the call centre really knew what was happening
+1 on this. I phoned the call centre 4 days ago asking when the schedule would be trimmed to reflect the closure of 6 bases. The response was to give an absolute assurance that yes 6 bases were closing but not a single route would be cut, all rescheduling was done months ago and nothing more was planned.

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Old 5th Dec 2013, 08:29
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Anyone think that WAT may get cut from MAN/BHX? BHX has been performing pretty well as of late when going on the pax numbers over the previous couple of months. I Don't know about MAN, LF seems to be in the 40%-50% range.

Such a shame 2 of other Irish routes have stopped. Can see really why GLA-SNN was dropped, but don't really know much on the EDI-NOC and how it was doing. Hopefully won't be too many jobs lost overall.
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 08:50
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SNN-GLA and NOC-EDI were both doing around the same average load
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 08:57
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It was my understanding Flybe was to re-evaluate the Sunshine routes, with an aim to become a 90 minute airline. If these are the only cuts, then it would mean destinations such as Alicante, Malaga, Faro etc were all staying??
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 09:00
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Flybe routes

GLA SNN and EDI NOC marginal at best but FR PIKNOC. Will take
That business easily ,
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 18:07
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belfast-isle of man must be a typo in the list above. they dont operate it
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 18:13
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It seems that the routes out of Exeter and Southampton to places like Faro and Malaga are ending around 30 September 2014, instead of running through to late October 2014. The summer seasonal routes are still being run, just that the last few weeks in October look like being dropped, prezumably because of expected insufficient demand.

I somehow doubt there are many people who will have booked on these sunshine routes for October a full 10 months in advance at this stage.

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Old 5th Dec 2013, 18:25
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davidjohnson6,

I do apologize, I understood it as the Sunshine routes were ending at the end of next summer. What you state makes far more sense, so I've deleted my inaccurate post...

Sorry everyone!
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 19:27
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The sunshine routes from Exeter used to be year round though so they are obviously being reduced to just summer routes.
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 20:07
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I can't see them axing these routes. They do put on extra flights from July through to September so perhaps that's where the confusion lies.......hopefully
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 20:29
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Anyone know how BHX-NOC is doing so far?
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Old 5th Dec 2013, 20:34
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Pulling out London completely! AMS completes another step of being the UK's hub airport for the regions...
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