Flybe - 8
So an airline with the structures in place to support an operation involving 17 ATRs (14 of which are leased out so little need to worry about commercial responsibility and things like selling tickets to customers or route planning) is thinking about buying an airline with 65 ATRs / Q400s and 20 jets and which is losing money.
Maybe Stobart can get the money to fund such an acquisition but this sounds like a classic CEO ego-driven strategy. My airline is bigger than yours ! Look how virile I am !
I hope the major shareholders in Stobart Group communicate their sentiments at an early stage to My Brady
Maybe Stobart can get the money to fund such an acquisition but this sounds like a classic CEO ego-driven strategy. My airline is bigger than yours ! Look how virile I am !
I hope the major shareholders in Stobart Group communicate their sentiments at an early stage to My Brady
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Yes, it is a considerable jump - but it does fit in with the Stobart group, especially if they take the maintainance side as well. Have a feeling its more about the brand, than the airline as present - if they do buy them it will be a complete reorg.
Maybe Stobart can get the money to fund such an acquisition but this sounds like a classic CEO ego-driven strategy. My airline is bigger than yours ! Look how virile I am !
I hope the major shareholders in Stobart Group communicate their sentiments at an early stage to My Brady
I hope the major shareholders in Stobart Group communicate their sentiments at an early stage to My Brady
Quite a chuckle yesterday on a Flybe flight reading the usual splurge from the CEO in the in-flight magazine. She was talking about Flybe's airline partnerships and how great they were, and said "Imagine flying from London City to Dublin, clearing customs and arriving in New York as a domestic passenger hours later" or something like that. Has someone actually told her that Flybe stopped flying between LCY and Dublin years ago, so indeed - all you can actually do is imagine it?!! How do they let howlers like that go to print....
The people who actually write these canned statements are almost never the people who apparently wrote them. If you've never heard of ghost-writing, now is the time to google it
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Sorry to be pedantic however I think you will find that the Aer Lingus Regional operation is a franchise, not a lease, arrangement.
The flights all operate under Stobart call signs.
The Flybe operations are ACMI lease arrangements.
The flights all operate under Stobart call signs.
The Flybe operations are ACMI lease arrangements.
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Numerous delays and flights cancelled at SOU over the last few days. I suspect the same is happening at other basis. Will BE ever shake off the flymaybe tag? They really need to get their act together.
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My son was subject to one of the delayed flights into Southampton yesterday.
Booked on the 20.35 departure from Manchester, which finally departed at 23.10, airbourne at 23.21, but had to go to Bournemouth as Southampton had closed for the night. Should have arrived at Southampton at 21.35, actually landed at Bournemouth at 00.06 this morning. Flybe then had to find taxis to get passengers home to Southampton. He arrived home at 01.20.
The earlier afternoon flight on the route was cancelled as the aircraft was said to be "tech". To operate flight my son was on, aircraft was positioned up to Manchester from Southampton after arriving there from Edinburgh.
There were numerous other Flybe delays at Manchester yesterday and their check-in area was chaos with not enough desks open or staff. Several people missed flights whilst we were there. Again excuse was given as earlier "tech" problems with flights.
Booked on the 20.35 departure from Manchester, which finally departed at 23.10, airbourne at 23.21, but had to go to Bournemouth as Southampton had closed for the night. Should have arrived at Southampton at 21.35, actually landed at Bournemouth at 00.06 this morning. Flybe then had to find taxis to get passengers home to Southampton. He arrived home at 01.20.
The earlier afternoon flight on the route was cancelled as the aircraft was said to be "tech". To operate flight my son was on, aircraft was positioned up to Manchester from Southampton after arriving there from Edinburgh.
There were numerous other Flybe delays at Manchester yesterday and their check-in area was chaos with not enough desks open or staff. Several people missed flights whilst we were there. Again excuse was given as earlier "tech" problems with flights.
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Obviously not a good day yesterday. All airlines have them from time to time. I believe some data was published recently that put Flybe quite high up on a reliability/ punctuality data analysis. As usual bitter old River Joint can't restrain himself.
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I had a 5 hr delay from Alicante to DSA recently. No ground staff at Alicante, but they forked out the compo for 3 of us within two weeks - no quibbling and no agency involved.
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Vectisman: funny how you chose to ignore IB4138's post. Yes all airlines suffer delays and cancellations and I am sure a fair bit of it is out of BE's control. However, BE have not obtained the nickname of flymaybe by accident. I have always got the impression that they will more readily cancel a flight compared with other airlines but that is just my personal experience.
RJ - funny how you chose to ignore IB4138's post where he said
- hardly the act of an airline that
The nickname flymaybe is just an easy play on words and not supported by facts - this source has them third in the UK and Ireland
FLIGHTONTIME.info - Airline Delays & Punctuality at UK Airports
and this source has them in the top 20 in the world
https://info.oag.com/hubfs/Free_Repo...Report2015.pdf
To operate flight my son was on, aircraft was positioned up to Manchester from Southampton after arriving there from Edinburgh.
will more readily cancel a flight compared with other airlines
FLIGHTONTIME.info - Airline Delays & Punctuality at UK Airports
and this source has them in the top 20 in the world
https://info.oag.com/hubfs/Free_Repo...Report2015.pdf
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Sounds like reasonable news for once with FlyBe
https://apple.news/A5yt-Zca3R4673zvFmGcMhg
https://apple.news/A5yt-Zca3R4673zvFmGcMhg
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Eastern Airways’ Embraer E170 (E70) and/or Jetstream J41 (J41) aircraft will be operating following routes for FlyBe, under BE flight numbers.
Aberdeen – Kirkwall 17 weekly J41
Aberdeen – Sumburgh 18 weekly E70, 1 weekly J41
Edinburgh – Sumburgh 1 daily E70
Glasgow – Manchester 21 weekly J41
Glasgow – Stornoway 17 weekly J41
Glasgow – Sumburgh 1 daily E70
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Aberdeen – Kirkwall 17 weekly J41
Aberdeen – Sumburgh 18 weekly E70, 1 weekly J41
Edinburgh – Sumburgh 1 daily E70
Glasgow – Manchester 21 weekly J41
Glasgow – Stornoway 17 weekly J41
Glasgow – Sumburgh 1 daily E70
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