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Been reported that Monarch Engineering will no longer provide maintenance for Fly Be.
Allegations that Fly Be fell behind with its payments and MAEL have excluded them .
Big loss of business for MAEL probably 2 or 3 planes a night go through the BHX facility.Still if BE are not keeping up payments MAEL have little choice.
Nigel
Allegations that Fly Be fell behind with its payments and MAEL have excluded them .
Big loss of business for MAEL probably 2 or 3 planes a night go through the BHX facility.Still if BE are not keeping up payments MAEL have little choice.
Nigel
I'm sure Flybe will find a new contract soon enough and it may be a nudge to bring more maintenance where possible back in-house. If anything, this going to be a loss for MAEL due to short term restructuring.
Flybe themselves have even gone as far as saying; " Flybe are sympathetic to the many employees of MAEL who may be affected by the loss of work at MAEL and will be offering employment opportunities for engineers at Birmingham and Manchester, increasing the size of Flybe bases at those locations and benefitting from establishing our own comprehensive maintenance operations.”
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They have also I believe lost or will soon lose the Boeing contract at Gatwick. MAEL will soon be no more IMO, sadly.
The decision to move some engineering back in house is a good one and outsourcing main bases was never a good idea. Again IMO it is being driven by the main suitor. The figure I have been quoted that Flybe we’re paying MAEL while very high was not something they couldn’t afford. Heaven forbid Flybe we’re trying to find a way to get out of the MAEL as part of the sale transaction...
Been reported that Monarch Engineering will no longer provide maintenance for Fly Be.
Allegations that Fly Be fell behind with its payments and MAEL have excluded them .
Big loss of business for MAEL probably 2 or 3 planes a night go through the BHX facility.Still if BE are not keeping up payments MAEL have little choice.
Nigel
Allegations that Fly Be fell behind with its payments and MAEL have excluded them .
Big loss of business for MAEL probably 2 or 3 planes a night go through the BHX facility.Still if BE are not keeping up payments MAEL have little choice.
Nigel
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Just curious. How long after a route launch do the codeshares get added ?
have tried to book a connecting flight post April ex NQY and can’t get any connections offered apart from BHX and MAN when we’re after connecting at LHR to JFK
cs
have tried to book a connecting flight post April ex NQY and can’t get any connections offered apart from BHX and MAN when we’re after connecting at LHR to JFK
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They do but from LGW. LHR is a new airport with new flights to share on / new IT systems at BE...new testing procedures etc etc. Wouldn't hold your breath for codeshares appearing this side of Christmas.
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Not necessarily - it depends on what has been agreed between BEE and it's codeshare partners and it doesn't always follow that two airlines will codeshare on every route they operate. Then there can be the thorny issue of prorates to work out if there isn't a blanket agreement between two airlines.
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Air India, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Etihad Airways and Singapore Airlines all code share on the Scottish routes. I guess they need to decide decide how much they want to codeshare, considering the feed they can potentially get from NQY and how much their worldwide passengers want to visit Cornwall.
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Even an agreed sale could collapse if there is something that is hidden in the books.
Witness what happened to WOW from Icelandair last week.
Sale is complete where the 2 companies announce it is complete and not before.
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BA may probably want to code share on NQY (as they do on the NQY-LGW route) but will have no interest on code shares on EDI or ABZ as they fly there themselves
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just curious CS, with numerous New York options available ex Manchester why Heathrow?
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Maybe they could operate LBA-LHR or a couple of the Cityflyer routes out of LCY but the general consensus seems to be that you can't make money at Heathrow with small planes. All of BA's LHR/LGW domestic routes are operated using A319/320/321s which have between 143 and 218 seats. FlyBe's biggest plane seats 118 people but the bulk of the fleet are the 78 seat Q400s. Swapping over would mean a big drop in passengers but would not free up any slots at LHR for BA to fly to new destinations.
