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)a newsarticle saying that AirFrance/KLM dropped the idea of starting up a lo-co airline from the regions...
Surely the next chief exec at BA, after Willie Walsh, will buy up FlyBe, thus continuing the long-established sequence of alternate Chief Execs there investing in regional services, then the next incumbent dumping it all again. This has been going on, as far as I can tell, since BEA's formation in 1945. I always thought this was why BA maintained their continuing minority investment in Flybe, it's a sort of protection for this classic trend.
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Please BA, don't buy Flybe. You killed CityFlyer Express (arguably), you killed BA Connect, you killed British Regional and you've killed some other regionals (I'll get killed for saying this now). Flybe is rather successful and could do without being bought up unless you will turn it around for the better. (P.S.: I'm all for BA, but they can't run regionals!) 
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Well rumour has it, that in the coming few days a group of very high level Air France execs will be visiting flybe ext hq.
Flybe has even pulled one of their dashes of the line to go to CDG to pick these high level execs to fly them over to ext.
perhaps to do with lo co operation in france to compete against tgv,ryan and easy?
Flybe has even pulled one of their dashes of the line to go to CDG to pick these high level execs to fly them over to ext.
perhaps to do with lo co operation in france to compete against tgv,ryan and easy?
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The AF strategy at running regionals really doesn't seem that bad, so no objections. The Olympic deal kicks the bucket in the New Year so they might want some more work. How is the Finnair work doing?
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Apparently Flybe are considering reinstating the BHD - NWI service which was withdrawn when Air Berlin started the BHD - STN service (subsequently taken over by FR who have recently departed BHD). Anyone think this is likely?
A new summer Saturday service between Dusseldorf and Exeter announced on the Flybe website today
Edit to add more BE news that I already posted on the SOU airport thread:
According to the Flybe online timetable, SOU will see flights to Pau, Beziers and Clermont-Ferrand in addition to the existing raft of French destinations for S11.
Having said that the Croatian destinations (Dubrovnik, Split) that operated this year appear to have gone.
Initially I thought these new French routes might be codeshares via Paris, but the timings for the Beziers as an example would suggest otherwise:
Southampton - Beziers
BE3915 10:35 13:35 M . . . F . . - - 27-May-11 - 09-Sep-11
Beziers - Southampton
BE3916 14:10 15:05 M . . . F . . - - 27-May-11 - 09-Sep-11
Block time of around 2 hours seems about right for that route on the Dash?
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Ext - Dus
I can see why Flybe chose EXT - DUS over NQY - DUS. It helps if scheduled routes have support on both ends. EXT catchment is far larger than NQY. LH already run a charter to NQY from DUS. Austrian ran a series of summer only charters from Vienna to Exeter this summer. When I worked for VisitBritain it was clear Germans had a love affair with both Devon and Cornwall. They will fly in and hire a car and can be in St Ives in 2 hours from Exeter.
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Wycombe, I believe Lufthansa are upgrading their summer saturday flights between Dusseldorf and Newquay next summer to a 737-500 from the CRJ that had been used this past summer 
They will fly in and hire a car and can be in St Ives in 2 hours from Exeter.
I was aware of the LH Cityline DUS-NQY charter, good news it is being upgraded.
Are the above posts suggesting that some 175's will appear in SOU for S11 now?
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Nothing new with regards to E175 locations. After the one for Guernsey the next one doesn't arrive till Sept time. Always liable for change I suspect so who knows. The E195's down in SOU don't do that much work relative to the Q400's so it is possible that these new routes are on the E195.