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Easyjet route planners will not think "what unserved routes can we open at an airport to give pax the maximum choice of holiday destinations". Instead they think "how can we deploy aircraft to get the maximum profit"
Easyjet know Birmingham is not a strategically important airport for Virgin long-haul, and Flybe/Connect are perhaps unlikely to defend their BHX routes heavily if facing strong competition from a well-funded rival.
Or to put it a more crude way - Easyjet can smell blood in the water at Birmingham
Easyjet know Birmingham is not a strategically important airport for Virgin long-haul, and Flybe/Connect are perhaps unlikely to defend their BHX routes heavily if facing strong competition from a well-funded rival.
Or to put it a more crude way - Easyjet can smell blood in the water at Birmingham
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From EDI, EZY operate domestic rotations in the first wave (LGA, STN, LTN, BRS, BFS), and then the frames go to continental destinations such as Berlin and Geneva at a more civilised hour. Seems to work.
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More Spain/Canaries and Turkey will be the fillers. Dull but profitable im sure. Though TFS will no doubt go down a storm and BCN always seems underserved. MAD would have been nice.
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Just checked some Flybe fares. £34 each way doesnt seem like gouging. Probably last minute fares are higher...
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‘in all years I’ve been doing GLA (and EDI) to BHX I’ve never seen a fade as low as that. I tend to fly at fairly short notice to be fair and at peak times and as a result fares are higher. However I still maintain that having a monopoly FlyBe have milked the route and maybe the fares you’ve quoted are now a response to the EZY announcement?
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The Canadian shareholder meeting for TS/AC quoted
"Air Canada plans to preserve the Transat and Air Transat brands and maintain the Transat head office and its key functions in Montreal. Travellers will benefit from the combined companies"
Suppose that still doesn't mean there won't be consolidation. Can we honestly expect ACr and TS to continue to operate GLA-YYZ in parallel (in summer total 8 times per week)?
"Air Canada plans to preserve the Transat and Air Transat brands and maintain the Transat head office and its key functions in Montreal. Travellers will benefit from the combined companies"
Suppose that still doesn't mean there won't be consolidation. Can we honestly expect ACr and TS to continue to operate GLA-YYZ in parallel (in summer total 8 times per week)?
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Looks like A380 on the PM rotation with EK to DXB confirmed again and bookable for S20. I heard this forms part of a 3 year 'deal' to stick with the A380 on the route.
I think we all know what might happen after that...
I think we all know what might happen after that...
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New route with Loganair to East midlands replacing the Flybe flight which is ending at the same time, overall a reduction in seats.
Good news though to see Loganair expand more!
Good news though to see Loganair expand more!
Blimey, Loganair really are the great survivor of my childhood. They're now back on most of the routes that they lost to Manx(Europe) or lost to the locos. There IS a place for UK domestic aviation outside London even in the age of Greta Thunderbird.
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Some over-hyped, under-age eco - warrior. Someone who preaches to us that we must not fly whilst her little helpers flog around the sky to ensure she can stand on a soap box, and her followers can jet in from all around the world to hear her pearls of wisdom and prophesies of doom.
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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.b...tland-50011548
A lot more people losing their holidays. Surely they knew before the day of flights they didn’t have any planes.
A lot more people losing their holidays. Surely they knew before the day of flights they didn’t have any planes.
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A lot more people losing their holidays. Surely they knew before the day of flights they didn’t have any planes.
A lot more people losing their holidays. Surely they knew before the day of flights they didn’t have any planes.
