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Old 14th Aug 2019, 17:02
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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
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Old 14th Aug 2019, 17:53
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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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Old 14th Aug 2019, 19:57
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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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Old 14th Aug 2019, 22:08
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Finally some competition on this route. FlyBe have made some hay on it with prices sky high on occasion. I do though wonder if the market is big enough for two operators.
Just checked some Flybe fares. £34 each way doesnt seem like gouging. Probably last minute fares are higher...
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Old 15th Aug 2019, 05:04
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Originally Posted by SealinkBF
Just checked some Flybe fares. £34 each way doesnt seem like gouging. Probably last minute fares are higher...
‘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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Old 26th Aug 2019, 11:57
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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)?
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Old 27th Aug 2019, 21:12
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GLA figures missing from the CAA provisional July stats.
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Old 1st Sep 2019, 20:08
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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...
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Old 1st Sep 2019, 20:09
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Originally Posted by VickersVicount
GLA figures missing from the CAA provisional July stats.
CAA page says next update w/b 2/9/19
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Old 1st Sep 2019, 21:43
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DXB

Originally Posted by CabinCrewe
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...
From another forum it was not difficult to notice a high percentage of low density A388's that were used in August and per FR24 it seems 20 out of 31 flights on EK27 were either 489 or 491 seat aircraft. Was this pre-planned or right-sizing for the route? I originally thought these low density aircraft were usually used on ultra long-haul due to the extra crew rest space but it appears it is not that unusual as they do appear on other European and shorter Middle Eastern routes as well..

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Old 16th Sep 2019, 19:59
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A nice positive increase in DXB for July up 3%. Not bad with all the extra A380 seats and flood of capacity at EDI
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Old 19th Sep 2019, 13:19
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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!
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Old 19th Sep 2019, 14:16
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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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Old 19th Sep 2019, 14:21
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Sorry but who or what is Greta Thunderbird?
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Old 19th Sep 2019, 14:42
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Sorry but who or what is Greta Thunderbird?
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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Old 19th Sep 2019, 15:22
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Ah the one who reminds me of Peter Sellers in “Being There “. Gotcha
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Old 5th Oct 2019, 12:05
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Flybe are to end the GLA-MAN route from the 26th October, I never seen that coming, I wonder if Loganair will pick up the route?
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Old 5th Oct 2019, 13:37
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It just seems like yesterday that Loganair and Flybe were knocking lumps out of each other on GLA-MAN.
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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.
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Old 11th Oct 2019, 09:56
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Originally Posted by GLAEDI
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.
what airline was supposed to operate these flights ?
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