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Soon she can use the LCY-capable Scot Force One....
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There has been sum murmurings in the local press that FlyBe may be considering a London City to Prestwick flight.
Does anyone know if this is accurate or just some fanciful reporting?
Does anyone know if this is accurate or just some fanciful reporting?
Skipness - there is of course the possibility that London-Prestwick gets turned into a PSO route with an aircraft of at least 75 seats being required in the bidding documents.
I know it would be a waste of taxpayers' money but weirder things have happened...
I know it would be a waste of taxpayers' money but weirder things have happened...
Of course CornishSimon lots of people know, so, lets's give away extremely sensitive information so thst the lunatics can once again take over the asylum and bedlam can once again prevail over this prematurely re opened thread
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Totally agree
No body is going to give this info to a complete stranger
All Airlines must have there own agreements with varying Airport
So they will not be stating any details whatsoever
I'm amazed the Question was ever asked
No body is going to give this info to a complete stranger
All Airlines must have there own agreements with varying Airport
So they will not be stating any details whatsoever
I'm amazed the Question was ever asked
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C/S - hopefully my reply will not be quite so curt. I suspect some on here do know but I agree in that it probably would not be in anyone's interests sharing it. We can of course speculate - so let's say it is a 5 year deal where Flybe have to ensure XXX number of weekly or monthly sectors or it could be XXX number of passenger throughput. If it were the latter it may explain why nothing has replaced the INV and DUB routes other than the odd additional EDI or BHD which I understand have good solid numbers and possibly better than initially anticipated.
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Birmingham Flybe pilot drowned neighbours' pet dog after barking saw him 'lose his sanity' - Birmingham Mail
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Flybe genuinely appalled. Sincerest sympathy to family. Taking this extremely seriously. Cpt Woodhouse suspended pending full investigation.
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Flybe genuinely appalled. Sincerest sympathy to family. Taking this extremely seriously. Cpt Woodhouse suspended pending full investigation.
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In the light of the recent Andreas Lubitz case, paying attention to the mental health of senior aircrew in the most responsible of positions is NOT irrelevant. Without referring to this incident in particular, any everyday situation which sees an airline captain "lose his sanity" with bizarre and troubling results warrants close investigation.
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If all of the know it all internet warriors vowing to boycott Flybe on their Facebook page for the (admittedly very disturbing and frankly disgusting) actions of one pilot I do wonder if they do this for every company where such an incident happens, there probably wouldn't be many left for them to use regardless of the industry! Perhaps somebody should remind them all how many crashes all of the 'deranged' and 'mentally unstable' beings they hire to be pilots have caused in the last 13 years... 
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In other news, SEN-based EI-REL has now gone to Germany to join EI-REM, presumably on mx. Stobart "hot spare" EI-REH is now operating the BE franchise. This is just a theory, but I personally suspect that Stobart are looking to do some fleet standardisation and will sell both ATR 72-500s. This will leave the ATR 42s and ATR 72-600s for EIR, EI-REH as hot spare (as it has been for ages) and EI-REI for BE when the CityJet contract ends at the end of June.
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Winter schedule
Flybe put flights from late Oct 2014 to early Jan 2015 on sale in late April 2014
It's now late May 2015, and (apart from Southend which isn't exactly a major Flybe base) and Loganair, there seems to be very little on sale beyond late October 2015
I know that publishing a schedule reduces an airline's flexibility to make subsequent significant changes, but Flybe in the past have not been averse to cancelling flights when it's been in their commercial interest.
At some point however, the business need for both cashflow must be an issue. Furthermore, even ignoring late booking business passenger, people will start to make plans for both half term in October 2015 and also Xmas 2015 by now - neither of which are available to book. Obvious as it is, the later flights go on sale, the less potential revenue to capture. Major legacy airlines release seats 11 months in advance and Easyjet / Ryanair released for winter 2015-16 about 2 months ago. Eastern already seem quite happy to take people's money for November. Average profit margins for Flybe are thin, so selling a few extra seats turns a loss making flight into a profitable one.
The only significant event I can see in June is the profits announcement on 10-Jun-2015 but I really can't understand why a winter schedule desperately needs to be linked to releasing the latest set of accounts.
So why on earth is it taking Flybe so long, notably at least a month later than last year, to start putting their product on sale ?
It's now late May 2015, and (apart from Southend which isn't exactly a major Flybe base) and Loganair, there seems to be very little on sale beyond late October 2015
I know that publishing a schedule reduces an airline's flexibility to make subsequent significant changes, but Flybe in the past have not been averse to cancelling flights when it's been in their commercial interest.
At some point however, the business need for both cashflow must be an issue. Furthermore, even ignoring late booking business passenger, people will start to make plans for both half term in October 2015 and also Xmas 2015 by now - neither of which are available to book. Obvious as it is, the later flights go on sale, the less potential revenue to capture. Major legacy airlines release seats 11 months in advance and Easyjet / Ryanair released for winter 2015-16 about 2 months ago. Eastern already seem quite happy to take people's money for November. Average profit margins for Flybe are thin, so selling a few extra seats turns a loss making flight into a profitable one.
The only significant event I can see in June is the profits announcement on 10-Jun-2015 but I really can't understand why a winter schedule desperately needs to be linked to releasing the latest set of accounts.
So why on earth is it taking Flybe so long, notably at least a month later than last year, to start putting their product on sale ?
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On their Facebook page I think they said release would be due in frst 2 weeks of June. One can only assume that they are planning some significant adjustments to their network/timetable, if not this delay would make even less sense.