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I don't know who the "deputy CEO" is but you can be sure that the board will be answering to him or her, and the shareholders will be looking to this person to keep the ship on an even keel.
would rather a business took it's time to source the right candidate for any position, rather than choose the least worst from those that apply, or even worse than that choose the least worst candidate based on gender or ethnic quotas.
If you think that appointing a figurehead CEO is the panacea the perceived problems your kidding yourself.
Wherever I have worked the CEO is the person with whom the buck stops. The board answers to the CEO, the CEO to the shareholders.
CEO means Chief Executive Officer which is long hand (American) for the old "Chief Executive", or even more old fashioned "Managing Director".
If you ever got summoned to the MD's office it wasn't so much "tea and no bickies" and "No tea or bickies" and a hefty book stuffed down your trousers!
CEO means Chief Executive Officer which is long hand (American) for the old "Chief Executive", or even more old fashioned "Managing Director".
If you ever got summoned to the MD's office it wasn't so much "tea and no bickies" and "No tea or bickies" and a hefty book stuffed down your trousers!
CEO means Chief Executive Officer which is long hand (American) for the old "Chief Executive", or even more old fashioned "Managing Director"
Sorry for OT!
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Precisely. Legally it is the Board which sets the policy of the company. The CEO executes it. The fact that the policy was probably written by the CEO doesn't change the position.
In the case, for example, of Carillion, it was the Board's decision to approve the accounts, continue to pay dividends etc, etc.
In the case, for example, of Carillion, it was the Board's decision to approve the accounts, continue to pay dividends etc, etc.
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Just had confirmation that both of my Primera BHX flights in June have been cancelled. BHX-BOS on June 22 and EWR-BHX on June 23. People are starting to take to Twitter already but they are giving us no more options 
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Have they offered you different dates or to fly from Stansted I wonder if they are planning on any flights at all from Birmingham and putting everything into Stansted there doesn’t seem to be any negative news for Stansted as yet.
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Taken from another forum: "The website has now been updated, New York is daily until Jun 23rd when it goes 4x weekly and there is nothing available for Boston. Toronto remains unaffected".
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They sent the email at 1735 and went home for the weekend at 1800! So I guess we have to wait to see what happens. Hopefully they will offer me flights from STN to tie in with my connections the other end.
Dear Passenger,
Unfortunately, Your flight PF 53 2018-06-22 BHX BOS was cancelled for booking XXXXXX. Please, reply to us via [email protected] for further assistance.
Please, accept our sincere apologies for such inconveniences.
Best regards,
Customer Service
Primera Air
Dear Passenger,
Unfortunately, Your flight PF 53 2018-06-22 BHX BOS was cancelled for booking XXXXXX. Please, reply to us via [email protected] for further assistance.
Please, accept our sincere apologies for such inconveniences.
Best regards,
Customer Service
Primera Air
What a poor and disappointing start for a new airline and indeed BHX. This sort of action results in the trust element being lost. In this case who if booking a ticket from BHX would if offered an altenative, would want to trapes all the way to STN. You might as well use LHR.
Gay Friendly is right, see post #282.
Gay Friendly is right, see post #282.
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Birmingham to Stansted is not that far if your Birmingham flight is cancelled and you have booked hotels or onward travel it might just be easier all round than to abandon your trip and possibly end up out of pocket I know it’s not ideal but if it’s a free transfer of departure airport it’s better than nothing
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Well I hate to be proved right but it seems I am. I fear that Primera are nothing but a fanciful joke as far as BHX goes. It's all over Twitter and FB that their flights from BHX are cancelled so there is little hope of any success for them now even if they reinstate some sort of schedule. Once you destroy public confidence in today's social media obsessed customer base, you've had it.
BHX needs to stop obsessing over long haul. Apart from the niche routes it has, it simply isnt going to work. They would have been far better doing a deal with FR to court the 3 aircraft they have today added into MAN with a resultant increase in destinations and frequencies to go some of the way to filling the huge void left by ZB at BHX.
The airport is like a rudderless ship heading nowhere whilst LTN, MAN and STN continue to streak ahead enticing even more Midlander's away from BHX with their ever increasing choices of destinations
BHX needs to stop obsessing over long haul. Apart from the niche routes it has, it simply isnt going to work. They would have been far better doing a deal with FR to court the 3 aircraft they have today added into MAN with a resultant increase in destinations and frequencies to go some of the way to filling the huge void left by ZB at BHX.
The airport is like a rudderless ship heading nowhere whilst LTN, MAN and STN continue to streak ahead enticing even more Midlander's away from BHX with their ever increasing choices of destinations
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The Primera website has been updated from yesterday and shows 4 New York per week from the 24 June and 3 per week to Toronto from the 23 June.
This would indicate the aircraft present from the 23 June.
The New York flights on the other 3 days have been removed as suspected by the route watchers as they were already changed to a prevent booking fare. I would imagine that the alternate will be a day before or after departure, refund or a flight from Stansted.
Toronto still shows as unchanged.
Boston is removed with no flights listed. A refund, change destination or Stansted seem to be the options.
Also worrying is that the Paris and Stansted flights now show to December but BHX does not. At the moment it is a short season of summer only flights, the end of June to the end of October. .
The flight TCAS had been booked on have been showing preventative high fares for some time and were at risk.
Although Stansted and Paris seem to be the priority the Primera web site allows viewing of the seat maps. I have checked Toronto until the end of August and contrary to some posts saying that Stansted and Paris are selling better that BHX is not born out by the seat maps. Stansted and Birmingham seat maps show similar allocated seat sales and both appear to be better than Paris which has several flights showing no bookings. The Birmingham and Stansted bookings considering the time before the service commences look OK.
I would hope that having changed the web site schedule that they are confident of operating from the end of June, otherwise it would have been changed at this time.
The New York flights prior to the end of June are still showing as before 4 low fares and 3 high fares per week. If I was booked on one of these flights prior to the end of June I would not be surprised to receive an email otherwise the aircraft will be operating 4 flights per week.
Fingers crossed it is sorted.
This would indicate the aircraft present from the 23 June.
The New York flights on the other 3 days have been removed as suspected by the route watchers as they were already changed to a prevent booking fare. I would imagine that the alternate will be a day before or after departure, refund or a flight from Stansted.
Toronto still shows as unchanged.
Boston is removed with no flights listed. A refund, change destination or Stansted seem to be the options.
Also worrying is that the Paris and Stansted flights now show to December but BHX does not. At the moment it is a short season of summer only flights, the end of June to the end of October. .
The flight TCAS had been booked on have been showing preventative high fares for some time and were at risk.
Although Stansted and Paris seem to be the priority the Primera web site allows viewing of the seat maps. I have checked Toronto until the end of August and contrary to some posts saying that Stansted and Paris are selling better that BHX is not born out by the seat maps. Stansted and Birmingham seat maps show similar allocated seat sales and both appear to be better than Paris which has several flights showing no bookings. The Birmingham and Stansted bookings considering the time before the service commences look OK.
I would hope that having changed the web site schedule that they are confident of operating from the end of June, otherwise it would have been changed at this time.
The New York flights prior to the end of June are still showing as before 4 low fares and 3 high fares per week. If I was booked on one of these flights prior to the end of June I would not be surprised to receive an email otherwise the aircraft will be operating 4 flights per week.
Fingers crossed it is sorted.
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It should be remembered that during the last 2 years there have been high increases in passenger numbers almost second to no other UK airport.
There has been some reverses recently, United, Iceland air, Norwegian and Vueling to name a few. The major issue has been the failure of Monarch which has removed several destinations (Lisbon/Seville) and capacity from the airport, notably the Canary Islands especially Tenerife.
Yes Ryanair have added 3 aircraft to Manchester but do not forget that already announced is 4 additional aircraft from Jet 2 for BHX compared to last year.
There has been some reverses recently, United, Iceland air, Norwegian and Vueling to name a few. The major issue has been the failure of Monarch which has removed several destinations (Lisbon/Seville) and capacity from the airport, notably the Canary Islands especially Tenerife.
Yes Ryanair have added 3 aircraft to Manchester but do not forget that already announced is 4 additional aircraft from Jet 2 for BHX compared to last year.