EXETER

[Cloud1]

If anyone does agree to either of those names they need to reconsider their position in marketing I think if anything the airport should retain its simple Exeter name but its slogan could be changed.

At the moment I believe its "Flying you further from closer to home". This could be tweeked slightly to simply "flying you further from the heart of Devon" or "Southwest".

IMHO I dont think a name change will make much difference to the airports status. I think traffic in and out of the Westcountry is good in the summer but not excellent and it dies off terribly in the winter - Flybe cut back their operation a lot last winter 2010/11. How the airport will get more passengers flying out I dont know but I guess a lot of it is to do with the airlines as well and the timings they offer for flights.

[TSR2]

IMHO I dont think a name change will make much difference to the airports status.

And neither will a slogan.

I think traffic in and out of the Westcountry is good in the summer but not excellent and it dies off terribly in the winter

Like all regional airports.

[Cloud1]

TSR, if you cant add something useful or constructive rather than pick apart other posts please do not bother at all.

[MerchantVenturer]

There is a post in the BOH forum that suggests easyJet is to create a 3-aircraft base at EXT.

On the face of things it seems highly unlikely and we've been there before - see link.

http://www.pprune.org/airlines-airpo...-base-ext.html

However, my post in this forum of 10 December 2010 (#21) pointed out that the EXT MD was forecasting 1 mppa by 2012 and up to 1.9 mppa by 2015 so is there more to this than an unsubstantiated rumour?

[Whispering Giant]

I very much doubt that Easy jet will create a base at EXT, for a start there's NO stand space available to park an additional 3 aircraft on nightstop's as all the stand's are taken with either Flybe a/c, Thompson(Air2000), plus 2 737's that operate on behalf of the Royal Mail.

[Cloud1]

Hmm that is interesting, I wouldn't rule it out especially considering some of their other moves. It could be a little hit at BE again as they did on the IOM and JER routes.

How many stands are there at Exeter? Currently there is 1 mail a/c that to my knowledge is flying at night so parked up during the day. There are between 3 and 4 nightstoppers from BE and the 1 TOM. I am sure that the airport would find space for a potential new carrier, maybe by moving the mail a/c over to where engine testing takes place (sometimes it is parked there anyway)

There was a time when not only did we have the TOM, but 3 Q400s and 2 Embraers so there must be some room?

[Helen49]

TSR 2.....agreed!

Nothing so painful as the truth!

[MARKEYD]

Exeter Airport has joined the growing ranks of regional airports that charge for dropping off passengers at the terminal , from today it will cost 1 pound or walk from car park 4 where you have 10 min grace

Thomson have cancelled the Antalya programme for next summer and replaced it with a another Palma series instead

[benjiman1994]

I dont understand why airports have started to charge drop-off/pick up fees. They are a disgrace to customer service, as if the customer hasn't paid enough to fly in the first place. Cardiff has done the same, also now charging a non-returnable £1 for trolleys !

[adfly]

Just to put it into perspective lets take BOH, where they charge a frankly ridicules £2.50 for drop offs. If you look on Skytrax before the charge was introduced the reviews were typically averaging 3-4 stars with a few at either extreme. However EVERY review after the charge is introduced is either 1 or 2 stars, and they all mention the charge as being stupid, unnecessary and a deterrent to passengers. All these charges do is put off and anger passengers, resulting in fewer of them choosing to travel from the airports which charge for drop off fees even if they are nearest to them. This reduces the revenue further, making the whole idea of the extra charge pointless.

[devon_guy]

Thomson have also cancelled Madeira and Enfihda with effect from W11

[MARKEYD]

Looks like Thomas Cook have cancelled there Turkey programme for next summer as bookings been on hold for a little while now and according to local agents at Thomas Cook they are having a major cull of smaller airports that duplicate there flights ie . Bournemouth , Doncaster and Humberside have all had flights cut

Palma remains bookable on a Saturday

[Cloud1]

These cancellations are not good, and I hope they are replaced by something else.

Exeter becomes a ghost town in the winter so its important that the summer programme remains reasonably busy. It is interesting that these routes/operators are reasonably new with the exception of madeira which has operated for years. I would be interested to know why the sudden stop, passenger numbers cannot be that low can they??

Exeter charges seem to be rather high and a passenger can save in the region of £200 by flying from Bristol or further afield. Maybe this is the problem

[Cloud1]

Ryan International

Does anyone know what the Ryan International Airways flights are later today (Sun) 0900 Gander and 1200 Reykjavik Iceland?

Also, who are OAI? Is it Tor Air - I notice whoever it is they are operating some special charters this week

Noticed an A330 on approach the other day, assume a Military flight?

[Daysleeper]

OAI may be Omni Air International, along with Ryan International Airways are often seen on the US Army troop rotation flights. They probably do other charter work as well.

From wiki

In September of 2011, Ryan International announced that they would be acquiring two A330-300s from Virgin Atlantic, and these aircraft should be in service with the carrier by the end of the year.

[tubby linton]

A monarch A300 was there recently,and to the ops guy who was taking photos as it taxied in can he please pm me.
OAI I believe is Torair but I have heard it used by a Balkan holidays A320.

[trunkera1]

OAI is Small World Airlines,being operated by TOR Air into BOH,........chris

[Cloud1]

So it seems Tor Air are still operating some one off charters using a leased Balkan A320.

Today there are three flights from Las Vegas showing on the arrival boards - any idea as to what these are for as I have never known any troop flights coming in from this part of the world.

0600 5K672 Las Vegas Landed 0648
1430 NAO038 Las Vegas Expected 1615
1530 XLF901M Las Vegas Estimated 1730

[yeo valley]

the paras are out in mojave training. might have something to do with it.

[OltonPete]

French routes

flyBe to Start 3 New French Routes from Exeter in S12 | Airline Route


The airport has them as new routes and they are March April starts so
not bad really.

Airport News – Exeter International Airport

Pete