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Why do people running airlines not realise that reviving the brand of an airline that went bust almost never works ? Passengers don't care about how much employees enjoyed working for the previous incarnation - but they do remember the outcome when the last company went bust and they (or people they knew) were stranded.
The 'real' Pan Am had a really really good brand and even now people talk wistfully about what flying Pan Am was like. It went bust around 1991. There have been three or four reincarnations of Pan Am since - none of them have succeeded in a meaningful way.
I wish this new company well and if I have a chance will buy a ticket from them. I really hope however that they are sensible enough to create a new brand with an identity that the new management can define in the way they want but with no emotional baggage
The 'real' Pan Am had a really really good brand and even now people talk wistfully about what flying Pan Am was like. It went bust around 1991. There have been three or four reincarnations of Pan Am since - none of them have succeeded in a meaningful way.
I wish this new company well and if I have a chance will buy a ticket from them. I really hope however that they are sensible enough to create a new brand with an identity that the new management can define in the way they want but with no emotional baggage
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From: Siargao Island
reviving the brand of an airline that went bust almost never works
Joined: Apr 1999
Aviation Qualifications: ATPL
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an airline that went bust during the 1980's that involved them secreting their aircraft in flying club type airfields in the Humberside area?
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Harry - you are fighting uphill here.
Eastern Airways was incorporated on 19th Nov 1997 and subsequently bought the AKL operating cert ( as a quick way to get started) in Feb 1999.
Thus your assertion that the moving of a SD-330 from Leeds to a flying club field in the late 80s was something to do with Eastern is wrong.
I know this because a) I worked for Air Kilroe b) I was a Leeds at the time c) I knew the two crew who "relocated" the Metropolitan SD-330 ... having taught one of them to fly.
Over to you.
Eastern Airways was incorporated on 19th Nov 1997 and subsequently bought the AKL operating cert ( as a quick way to get started) in Feb 1999.
Thus your assertion that the moving of a SD-330 from Leeds to a flying club field in the late 80s was something to do with Eastern is wrong.
I know this because a) I worked for Air Kilroe b) I was a Leeds at the time c) I knew the two crew who "relocated" the Metropolitan SD-330 ... having taught one of them to fly.
Over to you.
