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Not sure if this helps but latest caa stats state
I.O.M to Oxford 110 for month of July and I.O.M to Jersey 239.
Assuming Dornier 19 seat then 133 seats per week available-530ish a month?
Can't find a figure for Oxford to Jersey.Maybe somebody in the know might like to comment.!!
Not sure if this helps but latest caa stats state
I.O.M to Oxford 110 for month of July and I.O.M to Jersey 239.
Assuming Dornier 19 seat then 133 seats per week available-530ish a month?
Can't find a figure for Oxford to Jersey.Maybe somebody in the know might like to comment.!!
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How many Olympic business jet movements did Oxford attract? Curious to see if the expcted demand at all SE airports actually happened or not away from Luton, Stansted and Biggin Hill.
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I was talking to a PFT instructor who seemed to reckon OXF hadn't attracted as many as it was planning to. I brought up something about "I bet it must of been pretty busy" and he was saying he thought that they were expecting it, but it never happened.
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Cranfield did Ok on positioning/overnighting, but it has natural links from LTN & STN, OXF is a bit out on it's own so would not get overspill from the established FBOs.
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The PFT instructor does not work in Oxfords Operations department. I have a friend who works there and he said they were very busy booking slots in the three to four weeks leading up to the Olympics and busy throughout the games too.
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Does anyone know how the Manx2 route to JER and IOM is doing?
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Ref. Olympics period traffic, we saw over 600 slots for IFR/Business Aviation traffic over the slot coordinated period from the 21st July to the 15th August. That's putting us at No.5 behind (1) Luton, (2) Farnborough, (3)Biggin Hill and (4) Stansted who saw over 700 slots for this traffic.
Busiest day before the opening ceremony on the Wednesday with 45 business aviation movements. Main increase over normal summer activity levels was the period before the games in July when we had a lot more of the larger business jets than normal including the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ - 737-700) - 50+ slots for GV/Global/F7X types a 180% increase over same period last year. During the games, there was little Olympics-related traffic, just normal business aviation and charter traffic.
Busiest day before the opening ceremony on the Wednesday with 45 business aviation movements. Main increase over normal summer activity levels was the period before the games in July when we had a lot more of the larger business jets than normal including the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ - 737-700) - 50+ slots for GV/Global/F7X types a 180% increase over same period last year. During the games, there was little Olympics-related traffic, just normal business aviation and charter traffic.
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Further Routes 2013
Cut and paste from the Oxford Mail
OXFORD Airport’s new managing director is targetting european routes as early as next year.
Andi Pargeter says destinations including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Geneva and Zurich have been identified as places where there is sufficient demand, particularly from local business travellers.
But the 31-year-old said turning the Kidlington airport into a large airport on the scale of Birmingham was not on the cards.
Ms Pargeter said services to some destinations were “targeted to see operations commence in 2013” although it was too early identify which ones.
full story here http://http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/n...hts_on_Europe/
Let the pessimists run amok!
OXFORD Airport’s new managing director is targetting european routes as early as next year.
Andi Pargeter says destinations including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Geneva and Zurich have been identified as places where there is sufficient demand, particularly from local business travellers.
But the 31-year-old said turning the Kidlington airport into a large airport on the scale of Birmingham was not on the cards.
Ms Pargeter said services to some destinations were “targeted to see operations commence in 2013” although it was too early identify which ones.
full story here http://http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/n...hts_on_Europe/
Let the pessimists run amok!
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Does anyone know how the Manx2 route to JER and IOM is doing?
Kidlington might call themselves London Oxford but I bet not a single passenger came from London or went there.
Does anyone know how the Manx2 route to JER and IOM is doing?
Kidlington might call themselves London Oxford but I bet not a single passenger came from London or went there.
As for the Manx route - supply and demand! Todays outbound to Jer was full!
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Andi Pargeter says destinations including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Geneva and Zurich have been identified as places where there is sufficient demand, particularly from local business travellers.
I realise that the economy in Greece is not making things easy for an airline that flies domestic Greek routes to/from Crete, but to open up a base at Oxford seems quite a significant change in operations. Their website indicates they began scheduled flying in summer 2012
Any particular reason for Minoan thinking they can make this work ?
Any particular reason for Minoan thinking they can make this work ?
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Does Oxford even have a proper passenger terminal? I know it has a small business one, but will it be able to cope?
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A series of meetings with European airports resulted in achieving favourable incentives that will enhance the cost effectiveness of the operation.
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A very interesting development for Oxford. A couple of thoughts spring to mind though. Firstly, Munich and Copenhagen are going to be extremely long slogs in a Fokker 50. I think the thing cruises at around 300kts, fine for shorter flights, but anything over 500 miles is really going to be pushing it.
Secondly, are they going to come up with some different branding for the UK operation? Minoan Air doesn't immediately make me think of an airline operating from Oxford to Edinburgh or Oxford to Dublin! They're going to need quite a bit of marketing to succeed, and without any interlining agreements in Europe, I think they may struggle on the Munich, Amsterdam and Copenhagen routes.
Secondly, are they going to come up with some different branding for the UK operation? Minoan Air doesn't immediately make me think of an airline operating from Oxford to Edinburgh or Oxford to Dublin! They're going to need quite a bit of marketing to succeed, and without any interlining agreements in Europe, I think they may struggle on the Munich, Amsterdam and Copenhagen routes.