FlyBe - 6

[davidjohnson6]

adfly - are you asking about whether an aircraft is physically capable of performing a flight between 2 airports with a full cabin, or are you asking about whether the aircraft would be commercially viable ?

Plenty of competing flights to AGP / ALC / PMI / FAO / NCE on larger aircraft than an E175 with lower unit cost to the airline per passenger. Very few competing flights to the tourist honeypot that is Florence, particularly from LCCs.

Admittedly Pisa central station, 1 mile from the airport, has a good train service to Florence centre though...

[NickBarnes]

No you won't.

Your right i won't because i think it is a very very very safe bet

[adfly]

I'd be interested if it is be physically capable of operating said routes from SOU, 88 seats shouldn't be too much to fill even at higher prices than the competition. After all Flybe are trying the E175 on some similar routes from BHX, with direct competition from ZB/FR on larger aircraft that are cheaper to operate per passenger. And I do agree FLR is a different route on which the E175 is more likely to be a suitably sized aircraft.

[RDM]

Does anybody know how many Embraer pilots will be going compared to Dash? Seeing that a lot of the routes from Birmingham are on the Embraers.

[bad bear]

The official line is that...

The carrier has pared job cuts to 450 positions from 500 forecast in November after deciding to continue some services it was going to cut, Hammad said

Personally, I'm confused. I would guess that if all the "at risk" pilots go and assuming the uncertainty drove quite a few guys to look for other jobs and are now waiting to for start dates, there could be a bit of a pilot shortage in 3-4 months time. Could be a busy year for the training department.


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[Leg]

1013 & Barnes, my friend heard it straight from the DFO's own mouth, is that good enough for you.

Barnes, send my £10 to the 'Chest, Heart & Stroke' charity, there's a good chap

Bean, are you for real?

And I would think that job security will be greatly enhanced for those staying on.

If you do believe that then you are delusional son.

Yes, the training dept is about to be very busy over the company months as who in their right mind is going to stay with this bunch? Youngsters trying to get enough hours to leave & oldies cruising to retirement, everyone else, going, going, gone...

[Set 1013]

Leg, in my career at Flybe I have flown with the DFO several times. He is a very nice guy but Im quite sure he will not divulge the company plans including proposed fleet purchases to his pilots. I'm sure he will hold that card much closer to his chest.

So to answer your question. Your mates girl friend's brother who heard it from the DFO's own mouth does not satisfy me we are getting ex EZY 319's.

Anything is possible though!

[Alycidon]

Would the A319s be wetleased? This might have a positive impact on job security in the long term, but not for the summer.

I've heard that pilots have been moved off the "at risk" list, but admittedly that was from one of the refuellers!

[SWBKCB]

Sounds like the experiment in 2005/06 with the 737s leased from Astraeus?

[Tinwald]

Any of you flybe fellas know how the aircraft that the rock is going to have staying here overnight for Liverpool and Brum is going to come from. And what about crew cos weve got them here to work the flights.

[stab3.5up]

I overheard a men telling his mate that a good friend of his heard from a man you had been told by a friend whos friends uncles ciusins sons best friends girlfriends mates hairdressers sons best friend in school whos dad flew with a guy who had sat beside a man who told him that as far as he had heard from his best friends mates golf partners brother that flybe are going transatlantic. So all rumours must be true!

[Monty Gordo]

stab3.5up

With a total disregard for spelling, grammar and punctuation, i am afraid that post is gibberish!

[Cloud1]

Point that is being made is don't believe everything you hear - this is a rumour forum but sometimes generating a rumour is pointless without fact

For IOM believe it is a BHX and MAN Q400 as the BHX unit swaps in BHX where a crew swap takes place also

[sarnold]

IOM

Tinwald

Currently flybe have 3 DH4's based in the IOM as well as the crews. From S14 this will go down to two aircraft night-stopping as well as 16 crew being put up in a hotel each night to operate them.

One A/C will be a MAN shuttle 5 Daily and the other will operate IOM-LPL-IOM-BHX-NOC-BHX-IOM-LPL-IOM-LPL-IOM.

[Tinwald]

Cheers for that sarnold. But does that mean the island fellas are going to be accommodated at their own base and will work the flights.

[ib26uk]

Anybody know when Flybe have flights on sale from November 2014 onwards?

[pabely]

As for leasing EZY319's, why would EZY do this when they are short of capacity themselves and are leasing Titan aircraft all summer???

[Deano777]

pabely

I think the rumour is more to do with acquiring "ex" easy 319s when they offload rather than wet lease. With news this big I don't think anything would be divulged to the employees without it going to the city first. So I would hazard a guess that this rumour has surfaced due to our new CEOs easyjet connection and the offloading of our Ejet fleet. As with anything aviation related, though, a fortnight is a long time. Time will be the biggest teller.

[Lord Spandex Masher]

That and the lease cost of a 319 is about 60% of the 195.

Good bargaining French and Co.

[pabely]

ex frames is fine, then nothing to do with EZY, down to lessor of that frame.
I can't see EZY wanting to lease directly, they would rather see BE fail and pick up the crumbs!