DONCASTER SHEFFIELD
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I agree Timmy... not the best news for LinksAir. Negative publicity is sadly a problem and the added news that only one passenger was on board creates the impression that the service is not well used or popular. Hopefully they will recover quickly and the incident will be forgotten. But it is blow for a new endeavour.
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I believe the Belfast figures showed an increase of something like 18% in July on June so the route seems to have been steadily catching on. It would be a shame if this incident were to scupper a brave and potentially succesful venture. Iwould expect a drop in August anyway ... school holidays, end of August ... to be honest Friday night might be busy on other routes, I wouldn't expect it to be at this time of year on this route.
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A guy on A.net did a trip report on the previous flight to the one which the incident happened on and said that it was full, so it seems their loads are inconsistent more than anything.
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Is their a link to the trip report, can't find it on A.Net.
Flew with them about three weeks ago, nice outfit, crew very good, J31 not bad little aircraft. Shame theirs no plans to build an updated version. 14 pax going out to belfast 12 coming back.
Hope all this does'nt do lasting damage, though 2nd undercarridge problem for Links and the J31
Flew with them about three weeks ago, nice outfit, crew very good, J31 not bad little aircraft. Shame theirs no plans to build an updated version. 14 pax going out to belfast 12 coming back.
Hope all this does'nt do lasting damage, though 2nd undercarridge problem for Links and the J31
TimmyW Like I said, Links being newcomers to DSA, and obviously operating a tight ship financially, its hard to see how their services will survive this incident, especially considering their other aircrafts are used elsewhere.
Thankfully not everyone is as shortsighted or ignorant of how airlines and airports work as yourself.
Hippy Surely a minimum of 3 crew is required? (2 flight deck & 1 cabin)
19 seats and under, no galley cat required.
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Flew with them on G-GAVA a few weeks ago. Very pleasant flight, around half full (not bad for a Wednesday morning DSA-BHD flight).
My video of the Links Air Experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BXaogT5WIs
My video of the Links Air Experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BXaogT5WIs
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I wouldn't be popping the corks for Links Air yet - Lada Air have picked-up the 4xx services for City Wing, in the absence of a Links Air backfill, which will be a fair chunk of revenue lost to Links.
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Isn't Air Lada the company who owned the metro IIIs which were leased to flightline. The then Manx2 used Air Lada metros, who with Flightline agreed to the operation of the two Metro IIIs under Flightline's Air Operator's Certificate???
One of the Metros was sadly involved in the cork incident??
One of the Metros was sadly involved in the cork incident??
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Links have cut back from 2 x daily for Belfast to 1 per day. Their loads had increased to 70% as well for August.
Todays flight was cancelled as well. Doesn't look good.
Todays flight was cancelled as well. Doesn't look good.
Well at 2019hrs on 2 Oct I tried to book a random date in Nov and another in Dec and there are 2 flights a day (Mon-Fri), none on Sat and one on Sun - just like the timetable (effective 23 Jun 14).
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None of the Links flights have operated this week. Apparently they are having problems with aircraft numbers since the one that crash landed is out of operation.
On another thread, many others seem to share my opinion that DSA won't see the decade out.
On another thread, many others seem to share my opinion that DSA won't see the decade out.
