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Maybe restarting the SOU Sun routes left by BE? always popular
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It's a fair point... compare Eastern's brand with what Blue Islands have done to relaunch themselves. With BI and Loganair now entering into a codeshare, you've got a combination of two different and distinct brands, each with a strong and obvious home market.
In contrast Eastern have a mishmash of aircraft types, many aircraft unpainted, probably fairly low brand awareness amongst the general public, and quick expansion into lots of previously unserved airports. I really hope they make it work, but right now the BI/Loganair combo looks like the slicker and more recognisable operation in marketing terms.
In contrast Eastern have a mishmash of aircraft types, many aircraft unpainted, probably fairly low brand awareness amongst the general public, and quick expansion into lots of previously unserved airports. I really hope they make it work, but right now the BI/Loganair combo looks like the slicker and more recognisable operation in marketing terms.
Find me 10 people outside of ABZ and SOU that know Eastern even exist...
I'm being slightly facetious, but by far the vast majority of the public don't know they exist.
Even a lot of my UK colleagues, (and I'm based in the south of the UK for a well-known airline), do not know Eastern exists.
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With three E190's coming in
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Air Moldova 190 ER-ECC routed Chisinau-Humberside-East Midlands yesterday reportedly on delivery and for painting.
I suspect that these leases were signed before covid came along and now they are committed to them. Quite what there going to do with a small fleet of 170/190s along with the 145s they’ve still got is beyond me.
The last time the 170s were at the company, it was just a money pit with them sat around most of the time doing nothing with crew/ contractors being paid daily rate sat around in hotels. I suspect this venture won’t be too much different other than the crew will probably be on salary.
wont be long before even more of the boss’s money needs to get pumped in to keep things afloat. Any other company would have been gone years ago.
The last time the 170s were at the company, it was just a money pit with them sat around most of the time doing nothing with crew/ contractors being paid daily rate sat around in hotels. I suspect this venture won’t be too much different other than the crew will probably be on salary.
wont be long before even more of the boss’s money needs to get pumped in to keep things afloat. Any other company would have been gone years ago.
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I suspect that these leases were signed before covid came along and now they are committed to them. Quite what there going to do with a small fleet of 170/190s along with the 145s they’ve still got is beyond me.
The last time the 170s were at the company, it was just a money pit with them sat around most of the time doing nothing with crew/ contractors being paid daily rate sat around in hotels. I suspect this venture won’t be too much different other than the crew will probably be on salary.
wont be long before even more of the boss’s money needs to get pumped in to keep things afloat. Any other company would have been gone years ago.
The last time the 170s were at the company, it was just a money pit with them sat around most of the time doing nothing with crew/ contractors being paid daily rate sat around in hotels. I suspect this venture won’t be too much different other than the crew will probably be on salary.
wont be long before even more of the boss’s money needs to get pumped in to keep things afloat. Any other company would have been gone years ago.
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Great Dane have some pretty long E jet routes. I wonder if T3 would be interested in establishing them at MME? I could certainly see LCY and DUB, possibly BHD going E190 and bringing fares down. They have the legs for the Canaries, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus out of Chubby Brown Intl. So if they're big and brave and sign on with a travel agent to assist sales it could just pay off for them.
I'd suggest they might need a larger fleet to commit to SOU, but it would be great to see it come back to life, as well as the other airports that died with Flybe.
Now is not the time, but if Eastern, Logan, Aurigny, Stobart and Blue Islands play their cards right and carve their niches, once covid-19 is no longer a consideration there might be a platform for regional growth.
I'd suggest they might need a larger fleet to commit to SOU, but it would be great to see it come back to life, as well as the other airports that died with Flybe.
Now is not the time, but if Eastern, Logan, Aurigny, Stobart and Blue Islands play their cards right and carve their niches, once covid-19 is no longer a consideration there might be a platform for regional growth.
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I suspect that these leases were signed before covid came along and now they are committed to them. Quite what there going to do with a small fleet of 170/190s along with the 145s they’ve still got is beyond me.
The last time the 170s were at the company, it was just a money pit with them sat around most of the time doing nothing with crew/ contractors being paid daily rate sat around in hotels. I suspect this venture won’t be too much different other than the crew will probably be on salary.
wont be long before even more of the boss’s money needs to get pumped in to keep things afloat. Any other company would have been gone years ago.
The last time the 170s were at the company, it was just a money pit with them sat around most of the time doing nothing with crew/ contractors being paid daily rate sat around in hotels. I suspect this venture won’t be too much different other than the crew will probably be on salary.
wont be long before even more of the boss’s money needs to get pumped in to keep things afloat. Any other company would have been gone years ago.
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Despite all of the expansion, Eastern only appear to be recruiting at CWL. Is the page out of date? CWL recruitment was also happening back in Feb/Mar before the pandemic. Given that they appear to have cut MME-CWL, there's only the twice daily CWL-VLY route from CWL which shouldn't be too difficult to recruit 1 or 2 cabin crew for.
https://www.easternairways.com/careers/cabin-crew
https://www.easternairways.com/careers/cabin-crew
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Heard no more on the 6 new routes that they were going to reveal once out of lockdown (plus SOU-DUB which has been announced). Is it likely they were also pitching for the 6 at BHD that Aer Lingus Regional eventually won?
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Looking at the schedules, the following aircraft seem to be based:
Cardiff - 1x J41
Humberside - 1x J41
Leeds/Bradford - 1x J41
Southampton - 4x ATR72
Teesside - 1x E190, 2x J41, 1x S2000
That leaves the 2x E145 new (3x) Embraer (170/190) aircraft, 2x ATR72 and 1x J41 unaccounted for. This would either be new bases or grow Southampton for European flights.
Regarding the new routes, there was SOU-DUB but also LBA-NQY and MME-NQY added. Meanwhile, ABZ base closed (along with ABZ-NCL and ABZ-WIC) whilst MME-CWL remains off-sale for the foreseeable.
