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And whoever came up with a Newquay to Kidlington route? Wasn't this discussion supposed to be regarding a London route? Strewth, they'll be discussing Newquay to Ashford next!
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Hampton, as in Hampton Court, actually but have never lived in Middlesex in my life, the family lived just over the river in Kingston, Surrey
For those who think this wrong, consider why house prices are so high and why so many of the "rich and famous" choose to live in that part of the world.
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Just as good, Phileas, good enough for a king. In fact all of the Middlesex-Surrey section of the Thames Valley is a great place to live, flightpaths notwithstanding.
Life here does have it's challenges though:
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According to the local news. Flybe are now set to continue it's NQY to London service until October 2014. This will apparently give NQY airport time to PSO funding for the route to continue.
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Here is that news, although it is tempered with a "the BBC understands" caveat.
BBC News - Newquay-to-Gatwick Flybe route threat lifted
I notice it talks about a twice a day service, which would be a reduction on the current operation.
Which leads me to wonder whether the a/c will be pressed into service on other routes out of NQY (in addition to the current MAN trips) between the LGW rotations?
BBC News - Newquay-to-Gatwick Flybe route threat lifted
I notice it talks about a twice a day service, which would be a reduction on the current operation.
Which leads me to wonder whether the a/c will be pressed into service on other routes out of NQY (in addition to the current MAN trips) between the LGW rotations?
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Wasn't it WW that previously did BHX on the 737 seasonally ex NQY ?
Sounds like BE are keeping the NQY based dash and looking at routes to use it on around the two slot pairs at LGW.
Guessing MAN will continue to operate on the NQY bases DH8.
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Sounds like BE are keeping the NQY based dash and looking at routes to use it on around the two slot pairs at LGW.
Guessing MAN will continue to operate on the NQY bases DH8.
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NQY - BHX
BMI baby did do flights from BHX for a couple of summers & then moved the flights from EMA, also FLYBE did flights from BHX for peak summer the year after BMI....
Times are now up on the Flybe site for the S14 NQY-LGW operation, which looks like twice daily, 7 days a week, as follows:
BE801 NQY-LGW 07:45 09:00 M T W T F Sa Su - - 30-Mar-14 - 25-Oct-14
BE802 LGW-NQY 09:30 10:40 M T W T F Sa Su - - 31-Mar-14 - 25-Oct-14
BE805 NQY-LGW 18:25 19:40 M T W T F Sa Su - - 30-Mar-14 - 25-Oct-14
BE806 LGW-NQY 20:10 21:20 M T W T F Sa Su - - 05-Apr-14 - 25-Oct-14
Which means an 11 hour window for day-trippers from NQY.
It also means Flybe have 7hr 45min to do something with the a/c between the London rotations, easily time for 2 domestic sectors.
BE801 NQY-LGW 07:45 09:00 M T W T F Sa Su - - 30-Mar-14 - 25-Oct-14
BE802 LGW-NQY 09:30 10:40 M T W T F Sa Su - - 31-Mar-14 - 25-Oct-14
BE805 NQY-LGW 18:25 19:40 M T W T F Sa Su - - 30-Mar-14 - 25-Oct-14
BE806 LGW-NQY 20:10 21:20 M T W T F Sa Su - - 05-Apr-14 - 25-Oct-14
Which means an 11 hour window for day-trippers from NQY.
It also means Flybe have 7hr 45min to do something with the a/c between the London rotations, easily time for 2 domestic sectors.
Move from a Do328 with 30 pax to a Q400 with 60 pax, and the various airport charges drops by about £50 per person to about £64 per head.
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So come the winters how does 30 pax on a Do328 compare to 30 pax on a Q400 taking in to consideration Eurocontrol, landing/navigation/handling fees, fuel burn, additional crew salaries and anything else that doesn't spring to mind at this moment in time?
So come the winters how does 30 pax on a Do328 compare to 30 pax on a Q400 taking in to consideration Eurocontrol, landing/navigation/handling fees, fuel burn, additional crew salaries and anything else that doesn't spring to mind at this moment in time?
Does LGW-NQY need to be 3x daily in winter, or would 2x daily on weekdays and 1x daily at weekends suffice ? I note that even for S14, Flybe are doing just 14x weekly on the route
On that basis, could 35 pax 21x weekly perhaps translate into maybe 50 pax 12x weekly ?
On that basis, could 35 pax 21x weekly perhaps translate into maybe 50 pax 12x weekly ?
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DJ,
Does one really want to get up at stupid o'clock of a morning when they might have a 5pm connection out of London or they might be going to the opera or theatre in London for the evening and have a hotel that they might not be able to check-in to until after 2pm of an afternoon?
Lo-Co's operate filghts at stupid o'clocks for, often, stupid fares, NQY is not a LoCo route, it is a business route, the Cornish can be extremely faithful folk, look after them and they'll look after you, so why not operate flights when people actually want to travel?
Does one really want to get up at stupid o'clock of a morning when they might have a 5pm connection out of London or they might be going to the opera or theatre in London for the evening and have a hotel that they might not be able to check-in to until after 2pm of an afternoon?
Lo-Co's operate filghts at stupid o'clocks for, often, stupid fares, NQY is not a LoCo route, it is a business route, the Cornish can be extremely faithful folk, look after them and they'll look after you, so why not operate flights when people actually want to travel?