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Good if it's served properly. Rich catchment and a far superior passenger experience to any of the London airports. If I lived anywhere south of Farnborough/Aldershot/Guildford and SOU had the flights I needed it would definitely get my money over LHR just for the convenience, time saving and speed through the airport.
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Is this a poor attempt at trolling? (I note you are a prominent poster on the BOH thread). Are you talking about LHR the airport that is at full capacity? SOU has been a pillar of BE’s business for over 15 years and will be in the future. You appreciate people actually need to fly to SOU? It’s the biggest cruise turnaround port in Europe for a start, which involves over 2 million passengers (let alone the many thousands of crew). Please keep your prejudices to the BOH thread.
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So Flybe/Connect have to give up 5 slot pairs at AMS and 3 slot pairs at CDG up as part of the deal, relating to monopoly on these routes to/from Birmingham. Presumably this can easily be solved by upping the aircraft size in the remaining AF/KL flights on these routes and also losing some of the spare capacity.
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So Flybe/Connect have to give up 5 slot pairs at AMS and 3 slot pairs at CDG up as part of the deal, relating to monopoly on these routes to/from Birmingham. Presumably this can easily be solved by upping the aircraft size in the remaining AF/KL flights on these routes and also losing some of the spare capacity.
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I would have thought that EasyJet (with a base in AMS and an operation at BHX) would look very seriously at this. Amsterdam slots are like rocking horse droppings right now due to the environmental cap on movement numbers.
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Could also be a route for Jet2 with their base at BHX and that they already operate to AMS from LBA.
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Interesting they have stepped away from the initial blurb of committing to seamless Virgin experience across the network to a new brand experience to be announced shortly. Clearly not so clean cut a plan but at least it got the go ahead which is a positive for all concerned. Interesting times ahead.
- An enhanced customer experience in line with the Virgin brand, which Connect Airways will use in due course
and - once Connect Airways joins the Virgin family and operates under its new brand
Implication being the Virgin word is going to be in there somewhere...(Virgin Regional)
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Given Flybe merged with BA Connect it’s not exactly original and given Virgin is forward thinking ,referencing a name used by their biggest rival is something I would think they would try and avoid
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That’s exactly my train of thought, and I was shot down on Twitter for suggesting they would drop ‘atlantic’. How many ‘normal’ people refer to them in their full name??
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Virgin Atlantic Airlines was the second Virgin brand created, after Virgin Records. At the time there were no other Virgin brands to get confused with and the Atlantic tag has evolved as the Airline. Now you have Virgin Money, Trains, Cruises, Media, Mobile and many more current and previous brands.
