FlyBe - 6

[airhumberside]

JER-BRS is not new. It has just been slightly increased in frequency for next summer

[L G Double-Yew]

Any idea why BE have cancelled so many NQY-LGW flights in Jan? Seems they are down to just one flight on some days unless I'm reading the website wrong? Should be good news for ASW.

[GayFriendly]

Are BE planning to do Croatia in 2010 as scheduled flights from BHX or SOU? I am assuming not but Croatia still on their route map albeit with no destinations marked. If not need to book another flight as prices already creeping up with EZY from LGW.....thanks in advance for your help!

[Cloud1]

The full schedule is out next week so please could everyone wait until then???

Gayfriendly - I dont know but you will find out soon. EXT-DBV resumes next summer but not sure about SOU or BHX. A lot of speculation in other threads but to be honest it might be a load of bull as conflicting info so ignore it. We shall all find out next week

[fanrailuk]

Schedule

Is it definate that the summer 2010 schedule is being written in concrete next week? Where are these facts from?

Thnx, PP

[GROUNDHOG]

I guess the sad collapse of Holiday Options ( Croatia specialist) will have an impact on the Croatia market?

[Maverick8701]

Schedule

I guess it would make sense to wait till next week so they could see what LH's plans were for BMI and whether they could react to anything......although nothing I can see from the press release. Any ideas?

[ALLMCC]

I e-mailed Flybe last week asking if the BHD - JER would be returning in summer 2010. I received a response saying that the full schedule would be released in the first two weeks of December.

[Serenity]

Now Flybe have pretty much saturated the UK domestic market and most of France (summer anyways), why dont they do more flights to other european countries such as Italy, Spain, Austria, Norway, Switzerland and so on..

They have crews with good experience, a/c with the range, the dash is good for 2 hrs+ and the 195`s dont do a lot at the moment, and they operate from big catchment airports like Manchester, Gatwick and Birmingham!

Why stop at destinations just on the doorstep???

[Deano777]

Because they fly niche routes, thus staying away from direct competition.

[mrmagooo]

Flying niche routes is true, but having excess aircraft doesn't make sense. From what I heard there were as many as four 195 doing nothing last weekend. Flybe dont like competition which is fair enough, but with aircraft not doing anything new routes could be looked at, Man- Madrid for instance isnt served since BA stopped it quite some time ago. I could possibly see Flybe going to a 1 fleet company.......

[Dash-7 lover]

L G Double Yew. Airlines reduce frequencies on some low yield routes through the winter but on this route it's surprising. I understand the NQY-LGW schedule has been reduced due to crap loads and to save face they wont can it altogether. The local press will have a field day if they do after all the initial bravado and hype.

Anyway you may find Flybe might be concentrating on ex-BMI fodder currently. The vultures are circling LHR.

[GayFriendly]

The local press will have a field day if they do after all the initial bravado and hype

That never seems to bother FR Launch a route, drop a route as is the case at BHX! At least BE don't just open up routes willy nilly then bin them without any regard for their passengers. However I was always a bit surprised with the NQY-LGW choice and it would seem there is not enough demand to go round in the winter months.....

[jpthomas72]

That never seems to bother FR Launch a route, drop a route as is the case at BHX! At least BE don't just open up routes willy nilly then bin them without any regard for their passengers.

Yes, you can't repeat this often enough ! FR at BHX is a disgrace, they check if a route is <70% full and then it's choped. NRN was vaguely higher than HHN, so they chop HHN. On my last HHN flight, we had many business people (Saarland, Luxembourg), it had clear potential. Clever passengers could also nicely combine one-ways with FlyBE's FRA for example. I can tell you the new Germanwings MAN-CGN was packed, this was surely also due to FR's big mess-up at BHX and MAN. FlyBE is getting good money from me again now, as they have the only afternoon BHX-FRA (The LH evening flight is too late to travel a bit further from FRA). Pity though they use the Q400 for this, I'd prefer a jet engine, but sure, not enough people to justify the E195. BTW, the route I really hope FlyBE would try is BHX-TXL/BER, but I know, dream on...

[INKJET]

Late accounts

Flybe accounts for 2007/8 (year end March) were published on the 3rd of Sept 2008. Next Thursday they will be 3 months late, a company of this size that plans a public flotation in 2010 should have published by now, what are they hidding? bury bad news over the Xmas period or are they having trouble counting all they money they have made.

[Pizzaro]

Flybe lifts off in £300m stock market float - Times Online

Intersting news ?

[TechProblem]

Regarding the 195's not being used at the weekend, the reason is the ski flights will kick in soon.
So there was no point using them to do Sch services just to stop them again a few weeks down the line.

TP

[OltonPete]

195's

Certainly seems as if BHX has at least 5 Ski flights over the weekend
from the third week in December.

I believe this is one down on last year but still not bad.

Pete

[Serenity]

Flybe lifts off in £300m stock market float - Times Online

SO if Flybe floated next year, would one of the major airlines take a controlling share??
BA, Virgin, LH, KLM, Etihad ????

[JAR]

BA already have 15% share and BACF will have 13? Embraers which with FlyBe's 14 Emb 195s could become one airline?