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Let me explain:
Loganair - Scotlands airline and should by definition ‘focus’ on connecting the Highlands and Islands via a hub/spoke network where commercially viable along with PSO supported routes where the Scottish Exec requires them to be provided. (Barra - et al) Further it could be a carrier of choice for connecting major cities from INV | GLA | EDI - LHR/LGW/MAN/BHX throughout the UK where commercial pressures allow it be profitable and it is not in direct competition with either a Green airline or Orange one... if its not commercially viable - don’t do it.
Twotter operators - IoSSC - spare aircraft - UK based - crews and aircraft available - profitable company currently with NO debt
BN 2 Operators - IoSSC - spare aircraft - UK based - crews and aircraft available - as above
Air Task - UK based - F406 & Islander aircraft available
Aurigny - Surplus ATR 600 aircraft plus an E-jet - 100% owned by the states of Guernsey which is a crown dependency of the UK - aka if UK PLC needs to borrow or build an airline to support regional connectivity in the UK it can be achieved without needing to support private companies that are historically loss making or operate aircraft that are the wrong type. It can write an IOU to Guernsey and achieve exactly what it wants to achieve. Aurigny will not be going bust any time soon - Blue Islands will no doubt disappear but Aurigny is 100% govt owned!
With current load factors in the single digit for most routes - you can fly most of what you need including cargo / air ambulance with either the Twotter or the BN2 - if you need anything bigger then you can use the ATR or call the crabs!
HIAL has shut ALL airports currently other than for essential flights / PSO - air ambulance and military.
Loganair should also tap up CNR/Enquest/Taqa for some coin based on them winning a new 5 year crew change IAC contract from ABZ to LSI as well as the owners of the crew change contract they are currently flying for the next month flying to Riga and Gdansk..
Cutting out the white noise and focusing on the facts reveals many paths that could be taken to provide connectivity to Scotland.
Cheers
Loganair - Scotlands airline and should by definition ‘focus’ on connecting the Highlands and Islands via a hub/spoke network where commercially viable along with PSO supported routes where the Scottish Exec requires them to be provided. (Barra - et al) Further it could be a carrier of choice for connecting major cities from INV | GLA | EDI - LHR/LGW/MAN/BHX throughout the UK where commercial pressures allow it be profitable and it is not in direct competition with either a Green airline or Orange one... if its not commercially viable - don’t do it.
Twotter operators - IoSSC - spare aircraft - UK based - crews and aircraft available - profitable company currently with NO debt
BN 2 Operators - IoSSC - spare aircraft - UK based - crews and aircraft available - as above
Air Task - UK based - F406 & Islander aircraft available
Aurigny - Surplus ATR 600 aircraft plus an E-jet - 100% owned by the states of Guernsey which is a crown dependency of the UK - aka if UK PLC needs to borrow or build an airline to support regional connectivity in the UK it can be achieved without needing to support private companies that are historically loss making or operate aircraft that are the wrong type. It can write an IOU to Guernsey and achieve exactly what it wants to achieve. Aurigny will not be going bust any time soon - Blue Islands will no doubt disappear but Aurigny is 100% govt owned!
With current load factors in the single digit for most routes - you can fly most of what you need including cargo / air ambulance with either the Twotter or the BN2 - if you need anything bigger then you can use the ATR or call the crabs!
HIAL has shut ALL airports currently other than for essential flights / PSO - air ambulance and military.
Loganair should also tap up CNR/Enquest/Taqa for some coin based on them winning a new 5 year crew change IAC contract from ABZ to LSI as well as the owners of the crew change contract they are currently flying for the next month flying to Riga and Gdansk..
Cutting out the white noise and focusing on the facts reveals many paths that could be taken to provide connectivity to Scotland.
Cheers
Your assumption about how fiscal policy works in a Crown Dependency is enough for me, I struggled to understand it and I've lived on two of them for many years.
Try and keep the fantasy to a minimum, the Sun are always on PPrune looking for a story!
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Loganair is a name - it's the people employed that make the airline and many of them have changed since 1960, if they have excellent leadership who can practice empathy with sound business acumen then it's relatively easy to make a go of it and succeed, but when you are mere puppets on a string to a higher master then you are in no different place to any other airline no matter what your heritage.... Any savvy new operator would have rich pickings of excellent staff if anything happened, and it would be easy to create Tartan airways powered by the old Loganair staff!
Running airlines is all about economics, you must operate the right aircraft on the right route for the right price and ensure you focus on the customer who is the only one that will decide your future...whilst making it unattractive to the competition.
Let's face reality... In the current C-19 situation you will be re-starting any airline from 'Zero' unless you are a freight dog in which case make hay and enjoy the uncluttered frequencies!
So if you are re-starting from zero then you may as well rethink the fleet and operating model and make it fit for purpose for its required audience which is all the Scottish people including the Highlands and Islands.
Running airlines is all about economics, you must operate the right aircraft on the right route for the right price and ensure you focus on the customer who is the only one that will decide your future...whilst making it unattractive to the competition.
Let's face reality... In the current C-19 situation you will be re-starting any airline from 'Zero' unless you are a freight dog in which case make hay and enjoy the uncluttered frequencies!
So if you are re-starting from zero then you may as well rethink the fleet and operating model and make it fit for purpose for its required audience which is all the Scottish people including the Highlands and Islands.
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Some people are talking as though there is an extensive non-Scottish network, as far as I can tell there isn’t. Just a few routes from Newcastle including a couple of very recent additions post-flybe and the PSO from Derry-London along with (for now) the hospital transfer from IOM to Liverpool and the BA service from IOM to London. Whether the jets are the optimal equipment is another matter but connecting Scotland with the English regions, Cardiff and Belfast is also surely a priority worthy of support (and politically important for both U.K. and Scottish government).
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Being Realistic
Let me explain:
Aurigny - Surplus ATR 600 aircraft plus an E-jet - 100% owned by the states of Guernsey which is a crown dependency of the UK - aka if UK PLC needs to borrow or build an airline to support regional connectivity in the UK it can be achieved without needing to support private companies that are historically loss making or operate aircraft that are the wrong type. It can write an IOU to Guernsey and achieve exactly what it wants to achieve. Aurigny will not be going bust any time soon - Blue Islands will no doubt disappear but Aurigny is 100% govt owned!
Aurigny - Surplus ATR 600 aircraft plus an E-jet - 100% owned by the states of Guernsey which is a crown dependency of the UK - aka if UK PLC needs to borrow or build an airline to support regional connectivity in the UK it can be achieved without needing to support private companies that are historically loss making or operate aircraft that are the wrong type. It can write an IOU to Guernsey and achieve exactly what it wants to achieve. Aurigny will not be going bust any time soon - Blue Islands will no doubt disappear but Aurigny is 100% govt owned!
Loganair offer a fantastic product and like any other airline in the U.K will need support to overcome the challenges that are now faced by the unprecedented situation we face ourselves in due to COVID. Just like Eastern and Blue Islands, Loganair have adapted to try and mitigate the effects, prior to this all three airlines again adapted very quickly to try and fill the void left by Flybe. It will be a tough few months and the forms of the airlines that come out the other side will be different, but we will need Loganair, Eastern and Blue Islands post COVID to connect the regions, the work will be there, people will need to travel. Loganair and Blue Islands offer services others dont (granted Aurigny does for Guernsey but ONLY Guernsey). Rather than attacking them all, everyone should be rallying behind these companies and hoping for positive outcomes as if all went horribly wrong realistically who would step in and cover everything? The world is a very different place now!
The wider economic impact might suggest the jets would have to go anyway
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I'd love to see your CV for sure, but it really does look like we should all bow to your superior knowledge of our industry gained on google, days at a perimeter fence and aviation websites by the looks of it.
Your assumption about how fiscal policy works in a Crown Dependency is enough for me, I struggled to understand it and I've lived on two of them for many years.
Try and keep the fantasy to a minimum, the Sun are always on PPrune looking for a story!
Your assumption about how fiscal policy works in a Crown Dependency is enough for me, I struggled to understand it and I've lived on two of them for many years.
Try and keep the fantasy to a minimum, the Sun are always on PPrune looking for a story!
Wanna - Yes well aware of how it works - but HMG UK PLC has a defined financial mechanism for working with the Crown Dependencies. So when dealing with such a toxic issue as airlines and most being privately owned - the appetite for risk is mitigated when there is one, where no UK taxpayer is going to be able to blame them or hold them to account for propping up a 'private airline' that is owned by wealthy individuals who no longer want to make themselves poor by owning it now that it is no longer making money and they failed to save for a rainy day!
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Let me explain:
Loganair - Scotlands airline and should by definition ‘focus’ on connecting the Highlands and Islands via a hub/spoke network where commercially viable along with PSO supported routes where the Scottish Exec requires them to be provided. (Barra - et al) Further it could be a carrier of choice for connecting major cities from INV | GLA | EDI - LHR/LGW/MAN/BHX throughout the UK where commercial pressures allow it be profitable and it is not in direct competition with either a Green airline or Orange one... if its not commercially viable - don’t do it.
Twotter operators - IoSSC - spare aircraft - UK based - crews and aircraft available - profitable company currently with NO debt
BN 2 Operators - IoSSC - spare aircraft - UK based - crews and aircraft available - as above
Air Task - UK based - F406 & Islander aircraft available
Aurigny - Surplus ATR 600 aircraft plus an E-jet - 100% owned by the states of Guernsey which is a crown dependency of the UK - aka if UK PLC needs to borrow or build an airline to support regional connectivity in the UK it can be achieved without needing to support private companies that are historically loss making or operate aircraft that are the wrong type. It can write an IOU to Guernsey and achieve exactly what it wants to achieve. Aurigny will not be going bust any time soon - Blue Islands will no doubt disappear but Aurigny is 100% govt owned!
With current load factors in the single digit for most routes - you can fly most of what you need including cargo / air ambulance with either the Twotter or the BN2 - if you need anything bigger then you can use the ATR or call the crabs!
HIAL has shut ALL airports currently other than for essential flights / PSO - air ambulance and military.
Loganair should also tap up CNR/Enquest/Taqa for some coin based on them winning a new 5 year crew change IAC contract from ABZ to LSI as well as the owners of the crew change contract they are currently flying for the next month flying to Riga and Gdansk..
Cutting out the white noise and focusing on the facts reveals many paths that could be taken to provide connectivity to Scotland.
Cheers
Loganair - Scotlands airline and should by definition ‘focus’ on connecting the Highlands and Islands via a hub/spoke network where commercially viable along with PSO supported routes where the Scottish Exec requires them to be provided. (Barra - et al) Further it could be a carrier of choice for connecting major cities from INV | GLA | EDI - LHR/LGW/MAN/BHX throughout the UK where commercial pressures allow it be profitable and it is not in direct competition with either a Green airline or Orange one... if its not commercially viable - don’t do it.
Twotter operators - IoSSC - spare aircraft - UK based - crews and aircraft available - profitable company currently with NO debt
BN 2 Operators - IoSSC - spare aircraft - UK based - crews and aircraft available - as above
Air Task - UK based - F406 & Islander aircraft available
Aurigny - Surplus ATR 600 aircraft plus an E-jet - 100% owned by the states of Guernsey which is a crown dependency of the UK - aka if UK PLC needs to borrow or build an airline to support regional connectivity in the UK it can be achieved without needing to support private companies that are historically loss making or operate aircraft that are the wrong type. It can write an IOU to Guernsey and achieve exactly what it wants to achieve. Aurigny will not be going bust any time soon - Blue Islands will no doubt disappear but Aurigny is 100% govt owned!
With current load factors in the single digit for most routes - you can fly most of what you need including cargo / air ambulance with either the Twotter or the BN2 - if you need anything bigger then you can use the ATR or call the crabs!
HIAL has shut ALL airports currently other than for essential flights / PSO - air ambulance and military.
Loganair should also tap up CNR/Enquest/Taqa for some coin based on them winning a new 5 year crew change IAC contract from ABZ to LSI as well as the owners of the crew change contract they are currently flying for the next month flying to Riga and Gdansk..
Cutting out the white noise and focusing on the facts reveals many paths that could be taken to provide connectivity to Scotland.
Cheers
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Even though it doesn't have anything beyond the standard quote from the company, this news report strongly hints it's the same loan support that is being sought by Loganair as that for any other mid-size business in any sector now that the Government has extended the programme.
Assuming this is a fair summary, it moves the question of support for Loganair onto the same footing as that for easyJet, Wizz or a chain of pubs or retail outlets - through an approved Government scheme open to any eligible company in any sector of the economy.
Assuming this is a fair summary, it moves the question of support for Loganair onto the same footing as that for easyJet, Wizz or a chain of pubs or retail outlets - through an approved Government scheme open to any eligible company in any sector of the economy.
Thanks Saabdriver1 - it looks like this all stems from a poorly written article using the term "bailout" which suggested that LM were looking for special treatment.
I suspect Shetland News have a firmer grip on the subject than Sky...
I suspect Shetland News have a firmer grip on the subject than Sky...
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Even though it doesn't have anything beyond the standard quote from the company, this news report strongly hints it's the same loan support that is being sought by Loganair as that for any other mid-size business in any sector now that the Government has extended the programme.
Assuming this is a fair summary, it moves the question of support for Loganair onto the same footing as that for easyJet, Wizz or a chain of pubs or retail outlets - through an approved Government scheme open to any eligible company in any sector of the economy.
Assuming this is a fair summary, it moves the question of support for Loganair onto the same footing as that for easyJet, Wizz or a chain of pubs or retail outlets - through an approved Government scheme open to any eligible company in any sector of the economy.
In two minds - if they do, I hope they do it sensibly to ensure their long term survival. But if they get greedy, they’ll only find themselves in a more difficult situation down the line. I’m not convinced any level of debt they could access - with minimal assets on the books - will be enough.
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Three decades of take overs, mergers, closures, redundancy and relocations has taught me a thing or two.
Try and look at life with a little more positivity fella, life is hard enough at present without your predictions of doom, gloom and misery in every post.
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There's clearly not a lot of point in trying to reason with someone who has their own agenda and is able to be negative about everything!
What no-one also knows is any level of involvement that the shareholders might be putting up at this stage. I'd presume there has to be some, which could change all of the prejudices above...
What no-one also knows is any level of involvement that the shareholders might be putting up at this stage. I'd presume there has to be some, which could change all of the prejudices above...
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There's clearly not a lot of point in trying to reason with someone who has their own agenda and is able to be negative about everything!
What no-one also knows is any level of involvement that the shareholders might be putting up at this stage. I'd presume there has to be some, which could change all of the prejudices above...
What no-one also knows is any level of involvement that the shareholders might be putting up at this stage. I'd presume there has to be some, which could change all of the prejudices above...
But you have to view these things without emotion.
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So much nonsense being posted on here. Loganair are great at what they do and no other airline can feasibly step in. Had to laugh at the person who suggested that Eastern were in a good position to!!
They aren't asking for a bailout, it's a government backed loan. No other UK airline is more deserving.
I wasn't suggesting Eastern were in a good position - more a case of trying to think aloud in the event that Loganair went bust, who else potentially could do the job - I'm well aware of the Flybe/Eastern v Loganair affair and how it ended badly for Eastern. If Nicola Sturgeon was to find that there were no potential alternatives, then it puts a greater onus on Govt to provide monetary support in some form for Loganair...