VLM Airlines

[DIBO]

FDH ticket sales

According to a German regional newspaper, Friedrichshafen flight bookings reached 1750 in the first week, mainly to Berlin & Hamburg. Dusseldorf not doing so well
Bodenseekreis: Volles Engagement von VLM Airline am Bodensee Airport | SÜDKURIER Online,

[Xavi22]

Originally Posted by DIBO

According to a German regional newspaper, Friedrichshafen flight bookings reached 1750 in the first week, mainly to Berlin & Hamburg. Dusseldorf not doing so well
Bodenseekreis: Volles Engagement von VLM Airline am Bodensee Airport | SÜDKURIER Online,

I think 1.750 sold tickets within 4-5 days is not bad (3.200 seats available per week).

[EI-A330-300]

New Routes?

Antwerp to Bologna, Hannover, Milan (MXP), Munich and Nürenberg
Rotterdam to Bologna, Hannover, Nürenberg and Stavanger

No flights bookable from what I can see.

[Avnu]

Their site is a bit of a mess. Those new destinations from ANR/RTM are actually one-off charter flights to trade fairs. Hannover for instance is a day trip to the CeBIT fair on March 15th, bookable via a Belgian site.

I guess they might be planning to sell individual tickets on those flights, but I couldn't for instance find any available seats for ANR-HAJ-ANR on March 15th. In the meantime, all those destinations are right there on the booking site without any explanation at all. Mighty confusing.

[irishlad06]

VLM will be leasing a F50 this year again to Flybe with the first lease period running from the 14th of March to the 31st of March.

[wallp]

How is the WAT- LTN and WAT - BHX routes doing?

[AerRyan]

WAT-BHX LF between 35%-45% in JAN.

[wallp]

Appreciate its Jan but that seems quite a low LF for the time of year.

What about LTN?

[Avnu]

CAA says 545 passengers between WAT and BHX in January. WAT to LTN: 1651 passengers, but hard to tell now which flights actually ran and how many in total since I understand there have been at least a few cancellations. Must start writing these things down off FR24 from time to time

[wallp]

A third full - even for January that seems pretty low doesn't it?

I hope the route picks up in 2016. It used to do so well, warranting up to 3 daily flights at times in the past. Of course times change but hopefully more can be done to make WAT an attractive operation both to LTN & BHX

[PPRuNeUser0176]

LTN was 15 or 16 per full week and I think BHX went 3 weekly at some stage.

BHX 30-40 and LTN around 50.

[Avnu]

Did LTN go back to one return flight per day on most days in January? Because that's the only way you'd end up with 16 flights per full week. I was looking at the March schedule which is showing two return flights Mon-Fri and one each Sat and Sun, thus 12 return flights/24 flights per week. But I guess they did cut back quite a bit during January then.

[AerRyan]

LF's are higher due to several cancellations.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Did LTN go back to one return flight per day on most days in January? Because that's the only way you'd end up with 16 flights per full week. I was looking at the March schedule which is showing two return flights Mon-Fri and one each Sat and Sun, thus 12 return flights/24 flights per week. But I guess they did cut back quite a bit during January then.

Yeah after the new year and most of Feb had it at 8 weekly, likely started to increase in the next few weeks again.

[Avnu]

Ok, my bad. I'll change my post.

[slf99]

VLM to IoM

Apparently they are doing some of the MAN - IOM flights.
So there will be Dash 8, ATR and the F50 all on this route for a short while.
Stobart apparently running everything May onwards.

[Xavi22]

LF of the first two weeks in FDH:
HAM apprx. 51%
TXL apprx. 54%
DUS appx. 51%

Weekend-Flight FDH-ANR apprx. 57%

Considering the fact that you can book since 7 weeks and the routes are operated since two weeks the load factors aren't that bad.

BTW the Sukhoi deal was scrapped.
VLM Airlines scraps Superjet order | Airframes content from ATWOnline

[insuindi]

Numerous new route combinations have popped up on the VLM site, no flight times yet visible

ANR-BLQ
ANR-HAJ
ANR-MXP
ANR-MUC
ANR-NUE

RTM-BLQ
RTM-HAJ
RTM-NUE
RTM-SVG

Could be trade fair flights rather than regular scheduled ones.

[PlymouthPixie]

VLM to IoM

VLM also operating MAN - EXT - MAN on Saturdays, currently from 02/04/16 - 31/07/16 for Flybe.

[bananamanuk]

SSJ100 Order Cancelled

Air Transport World is reporting that the order for Sukhoi SuperJets has been cancelled.

VLM Airlines scraps Superjet order | Airframes content from ATWOnline