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i too have slight concern about picking up routes that caused BMI to fail. However EMA INV might just be a useful positioning or ferry route which coincidentally carries passengers. Any more expansion into weird thin routes and I might be concerned.
Still surprised no competition on GLA-LHR which outwith offpeak is full constantly. Some of the BE EDI-LHRs run half empty from personal experience
Still surprised no competition on GLA-LHR which outwith offpeak is full constantly. Some of the BE EDI-LHRs run half empty from personal experience
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EMA-INV is not that weird if a route to run, it was just fine on an FR 738 so an ERJ145 should be fine. I believe the reason it was cut the first time was the poor short field performance of earlier 738s causing seats to be blocked out.
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Is anyone else concerned about Loganairs rate of expansion? I mean i'm all for growth but I just don't want it to come at the expense of the airlines very survival. I can think of much better routes than EMA-INV to get onto. Why no LHR to UK/Scottish domestics? Why is Flybe being given preferential treatment with LHR???
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I always found strange, and still am, the flights from bristol to FRA, CDG, MUC and others to Europe previously operated by Flybmi, was never resumed by Loganair or another company. Bristol is left with a gap but nobody seems to fill it up.
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With Bristol isn’t it a catchment that’s got used to cheap fares and baulks at having to pay the ‘proper’ price?
It was very often £200 cheaper for me to drive to Inverness to catch the EZY than catch a BMI to BRS from ABZ
It was very often £200 cheaper for me to drive to Inverness to catch the EZY than catch a BMI to BRS from ABZ
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provisional reviews of some Loganair fares generally don't look desperately appealing. I think price is the first thing punters consider now and look elsewhere very quickly if not immediately reeled in.
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The loads on FRA and MUC were probably above the airline's average, although looking back over 20 years under various ownerships bmir/flybmi's annual load factor was never more than 62%. Most years it ranged between 54% and 59%. Ironically, the Bristol region is probably one of the few city regions in the country served by a small airport that could potentially sustain the high fares that bmir/flybmi usually charged on most of its routes, but it would seem that was not enough. That said, the region still loses a lot of travellers to LHR even on routes served from BRS but which might sometimes have poorer frequencies/timings.
The other main flybi route from BRS was Brussels, latterly as a code share with Brussels Airlines and before that on behalf of Brussels Airlines. As far back as last autumn the Brussels Airlines booking engine indicated a change from the end of March this year with AR8 equipment replacing the small EJets operated by flybmi. It was presumed that the aircraft would be those of CityJet. Brussels is currently not operating at all from BRS and the AR8 start date has been pushed back twice to September this year.
flybmi also operated to Paris CDG, Hamburg and Dusseldorf from Bristol with, usually, high fares and no more than average loads for the airline on the latter two. We don't know about CDG because easyJet also operates to there and in fact is doubling its frequency to 14 x weekly this summer. HAM has an Airbus and Imperial Tobacco connection between the two ends of the route but easyJet tried it a over decade ago and it didn't work for them. DUS has had Ryanair to Cologne as a near competitor in the past year or so. An earlier flybmi route to Milan MXP has been taken up by easyJet and Ryanair from this summer.
I've set this out in some detail because it shows part of what Loganair might have considered if they seriously mused over BRS, and they would be in a better position to judge than anyone having operated the routes through a sister company.
The only flybmi BRS route that Loganair has taken on is Aberdeen. HAM, DUS and CDG might not be seen as viable partly for the reasons I listed above, and the airline might be concerned that Brussels Airlines really will restart the BRU route.
That leaves FRA and MUC, probably the two routes that BRS will miss most. The Loganair ownership will know what flybmi got out of the code share and presumably it's not to their liking, even if they were in a position to operate these routes.
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They sent an ERJ145 on GLA BEB SYY BEB GLA this morning. I don't know if this was planned or if the s340 went tech and they had this one available. They do GLA BEB with the jet on Sat / Sun.
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Edit: LGNF hasn't flown since last night and is in ABZ, strange to see the SF34s not flying a day during the week.
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What are the plans for the dornier now, are they going to try and sell them or are they only fit for scrap?
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Sad news in a way about the Dornier. End of an era I guess. I remember meeting Roy and Merlyn Suckling when they were pitching for work out of Aberdeen.
They don’t make them like that anymore.
They don’t make them like that anymore.