FlyBe - 6

[Lord Spandex Masher]

Why, then, does the public refer to you as FlyMaybe?

[BFS101]

In Northern Ireland, haven't heard the FlyMayBE comment in a long long time...

"Oh that's so three years ago" lol

[NickBarnes]

I mean really that saying is so old and pathetic, you could make up names for all the airlines if you had the mental age of a 5 year old which clearly you must be, just another Troll with nothing better to do with his life

[Coffin Corner]

Why Spandex? Because the ones that do think they're smart, funny, intelligent and clever, but alas we know different. NickBarnes is spot on. You can make up any name for any airline within thirty seconds and make out that you're clever and funny

[Lord Spandex Masher]

Dear Nick, calm down. You'll hurt your head

You can, I hope, see the difference between actually referring to Flybe as FlyMaybe (which I don't and haven't) and asking why the public uses it?

I mean really, I thought we could have a grown up conversation. I was wrong.

Back to your name calling kids...

[Lord Spandex Masher]

CC, yeah you can make up any name you like. Usually they have some relation to perception or reality.

Not mine, the public's.

[monkey.tennis]

I see from the BHD thread that flybe have slots to operate BHD - LCY.

[j636]

I see from the BHD thread that flybe have slots to operate BHD - LCY.

They have BHD, INV, JER, IOM, NQY

[LAX_LHR]

After pulling many charter flights, it seems flybe are maintaining some presence in this area as several flights have re-appeared at MAN.

Saturdays:
Innsbruck (Inghams), Figari (Corsican Places), Verona (P&O)

Sunday:
Calvi (Corsican Places), Almeira Thomas Cook.

All these flights were taken off sale when it seemed they would exit charter ops, but all have appeared again in the last few days.

[78Whiskey]

Any sign of the Waterford schedule being updated? Seems to be finishing first week of September whereas most other routes continue until the end of October currently.

[cornishsimon]

Sorry BE hold slots to operate NQY-LCY ?


cs

[Coffin Corner]

cs, from September it appears.

[cornishsimon]

September hey !
Bet they are going to of bid to run the PSO
LCY - NQY as a PSO would be brilliant, and no doubt they would keep the BA codeshares on all of those routes ?!?!


cs

[davidjohnson6]

Flybe at LCY

Looking carefully at the slot allocation, it seems that BA will retain their slots at LCY for their IOM service (apart from dropping 9 ATMs over the 7 month summer period), while Flybe pick up 252 slots at LCY for an IOM service beginning in September. The Flybe slots are more than enough for a 2x daily for the entire period 01Sep14 to 25Sep14.

Of course grant of slots does not imply service will take place, particularly the disclaimer in the ACL report
"As Flybe operations due to begin in September but not on sale, routes are indicative only"

Should one assume that Flybe will be operating jointly with BA under a codeshare, or could one possibly instead infer that Flybe intend to compete with BA/Eastern ?

http://www.acl-uk.org/reportsStatist...8&subjectId=39

[cornishsimon]

Well considering BA(IAG) own a decent chunk of BE I can't see them being too pleased if BE tried competing !

However i suspect that BA would do well from JER-LCY feed


cs

[monkey.tennis]

Would it not make more sense for Flybe to set up at Southend to join up with their new franchise partner? Although the slots are there, it does seem unlikely although BA code shares might make it worthwhile.

[lfc84]

Direct link to LCY file:

http://www.acl-uk.org/download.aspx?...ction=download

[Skipness One Echo]

Slots held and service launches are not one to one relationships though. Beware.

[CabinCrewe]

dont IAG own less than 15% of BE ? Cant see BA caring.

[davidjohnson6]

ACL have been very transparent with slots granted for summer schedules at London City. Time windows (and flight codes) shown - presumably for arrival at London City followed by departure approx 30 mins later. Note all times are GMT/UTC and not BST, so 0700 GMT listed below is 0800 BST. ACL report indicates everything with Flybe is on a 78-seat aircraft - i.e. a Dash-8 Q400. Looking at the number of slots granted and then counting back the days from the last last day of the summer 2014 season, I've tried to guess possible start dates of these routes

Again, the ACL report describes these as indicative and nothing more...

Belfast City - likely start date Monday 08 September
0835-0905 BE1471/1472 - stand 3 at LCY
1200-1230 BE1473/1474 - stand 10 at LCY
1435-1505 BE1475/1476 - stand 8 at LCY
1825-1855 BE1477/1478 - stand 4 at LCY

Inverness - likely start date Friday 05 September
0840-0910 BE1451/1452 - stand 4 at LCY
1630-1700 BE1455/1456 - stand 2 at LCY

Isle of Man - likely start date Sunday 07 September
0745-0815 BE1461/1462 - stand 3 at LCY
1500-1530 BE1465/1466 - stand 9 at LCY
1755-1825 BE1467/1468 - stand 9 at LCY

Jersey - likely start date Monday 01 September
0750-0820 BE1491/1492 - stand 7 at LCY
1510-1540 BE1493/1494 - stand 10 at LCY
1825-1855 BE1495/1496 - stand 6 at LCY

Newquay - likely start date Sunday 07 September
0645-0715 BE1481/1482 - stand 12 at LCY
1500-1530 BE1485/1486 - stand 5 at LCY
1850-1920 BE1487/1488 - stand 12 at LCY

BA for comparison:
Isle of Man:
0715-0745 BA3281/3282
1450-1530 BA3285/3286
1835-1905 BA3287/3288