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There was a lovely documentary in the 80s or 90s about Suckling Airways. Merlyn made the sandwiches in her kitchen for the flights. Just seemed like a delightful airline. Although they all were back then!
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Loganair gets a mention in this.
Failed airline FlyBMI 'owed £37m' when it collapsed, say administrators
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48071724
Failed airline FlyBMI 'owed £37m' when it collapsed, say administrators
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48071724
Join Date: Dec 2011
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Loganair gets a mention in this.
Failed airline FlyBMI 'owed £37m' when it collapsed, say administrators
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48071724
Failed airline FlyBMI 'owed £37m' when it collapsed, say administrators
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48071724
Join Date: Aug 2004
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It also depends if the routes that Loganair have picked were loss making...? They surely would have seen the numbers previously, plus there are a number of ex-bmi services not resumed (maybe they were the loss making ones...?).
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And yet Logan are taking on a lot of the same clearly loss making routes and uneconomic aircraft. Is there no lesson to be learnt here? East Midlands to Inverness? Bournemouth to the Channel Islands? All on 50 seater regional jets that Flybe and BA connect Decided were uneconomical over 10 years ago? Hope it works out for them but seems flawed logic.
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Give the route some time. Awareness needs to build. Bournemouth is home to the largest financial services centres on the south coast so Loganair should try to promote the route with JP Morgan, Liverpool Victoria and Barclays to name a few....
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What was the load in the other direction though? I’d have assumed the bulk of pax would be leisure travellers from the south coast
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and im sure they would give it a summer season to pick up and assess. Do we know if theres been any decent advertising at either end. Certainly some Scottish TV stuff for new routes to eg DUS and Bergen
Join Date: May 2006
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On the advertising front, maybe I'm not looking hard enough but I haven't seen any at all for the ex-BMI routes from NCL.
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Newcastle to Brussels loads poor compared to BMI on the 3 times I've used the service. Loganair should be looking at SN codeshare if they want to increase pax numbers or reduce fares.
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Of course LH might decide after getting their fingers burnt with bmi that they want nothing to do with another AIL group company.....
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I did worry that all this expansion was far too fast! The brand change is a big adjustment for a lot of their catchment areas. Perhaps they’re hoping the Scottish island routes will subsidise the other routes. They should consider expansion of their Glasgow and Edinburgh bases to European destinations I feel.
Poster on another forum has pretty much said that they won't go into the Lufthansa process as it's too restrictive. It sounds like the desire for LH and LM to work together may be absent from both sides of the relationship!
