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BA did actually operate LGW-NQY a few years back, but it didn’t last long. 2x 319’s isn’t that different to 4x DH8’s - and there is nothing stopping BA operating a PSO route.
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I've operated the NQY-SEN route on the Dash before quite a significant number of times and there were no issues with holding or extended routing. At the time Flybe were operating into LGW and the SEN flights were not much longer.
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Well not really, if pilots operate the Dash to SOPs then they'll be flying fuel efficiency and cost index speeds, these speeds equate to not much faster than the ATR, maybe just in the climb.
BA did actually operate LGW-NQY a few years back, but it didn’t last long. 2x 319’s isn’t that different to 4x DH8’s - and there is nothing stopping BA operating a PSO route.
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They seem to add 10 minutes onto the published flight time when the ATR is operating the IOM to BHX route rather than the Q400, mind you we were spoilt last summer having the 175 on the route
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The Dash is normally filed for around 50kts faster than the ATR on any flight plans.
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COI was always based on the fuel price in MAN which depended on how much fuel u uplifted elsewhere if it was cheaper or more expensive. Weirdly BHD was cheaper a lot of the year. When we did the BHD-EXT-CDG we would regularly get crew take 4500kgs to do all 4 sectors
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Begs the questions why on earth would VS/Stobart get involved in the first place. Surely they would've had vision of the potential for this to happen. Unless the plan to pick the carcass for their own benefit? It was always too much for VS to solely make use of for connectivity.
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Very strange unless there is more to this let flybe to go in to administration and stobart/vs pickup what they want from it, as what happed to bmi regional and loganair
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It’s controlled by the consortium now. They put a Virgin executive in charge and Christine Ourmieres Widener left.
My two thoughts are: could the private equity firm which went in, and owns the largest stake, now have cold feet and trying to stall the investment by making the conditions tougher for Flybe to meet. Or, they want to let it go under, allowing them to pick the decent parts and escape paying redundancies and lease termination clauses.
If Flybe goes under, it does a lot of damage to Virgin’s claims to want to be the 2nd flag carrier and to get the slots on any new runway at LHR.
My two thoughts are: could the private equity firm which went in, and owns the largest stake, now have cold feet and trying to stall the investment by making the conditions tougher for Flybe to meet. Or, they want to let it go under, allowing them to pick the decent parts and escape paying redundancies and lease termination clauses.
If Flybe goes under, it does a lot of damage to Virgin’s claims to want to be the 2nd flag carrier and to get the slots on any new runway at LHR.
