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Ok, I am thinking to go to Primera to join Airbus fleet, as you can imagine I want to know if someone will share some information with me, about certain conditions, how is people inside, etc, time for captaron upgrade, etc, roster,etc.
Of anyone (polite) don’t mind to share info, just share here.
Thank you very much!
Of anyone (polite) don’t mind to share info, just share here.
Thank you very much!
Nobody can answer your question as nobody knows - essentially the airline doesn't exist yet! Primera Air fly a handful of 737's on scandi to canary island and other holiday routes. Now they decide to get a brand new type, start a brand new type of flying on low cost long haul where no one has ever made money. If you choose to go there, then you are a braver soul than I. I wish them all the luck in the world but I'd be very surprised to see them around BHX or STN this time next summer.
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Thank you very much for your answer, however....will it not being related with Primera (the one with 737s??)
I will see, but it seems to be a good proyect, I remember American Airlines doing this things with 757....it was not a low cost however things can change and ....if you don’t take the risk you will never know if you are going to get success!
Thank you very much for the answer if anyone is in my same situation just contact me.
I will see, but it seems to be a good proyect, I remember American Airlines doing this things with 757....it was not a low cost however things can change and ....if you don’t take the risk you will never know if you are going to get success!
Thank you very much for the answer if anyone is in my same situation just contact me.
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"if you don`t take the risk you will never know if you are going to get success!"........ perfect reasoning & positive too.
Can add nothing to your requests I`m afraid but to point out the negativity & dismissiveness from the previous poster may well be to do with his geography & locale,
sandwiched as he is at an airport between the two proposed Primera bases of BHX & STN...
"if you don`t take the risk you will never know if you are going to get success!"........ perfect reasoning & positive too.
Can add nothing to your requests I`m afraid but to point out the negativity & dismissiveness from the previous poster may well be to do with his geography & locale,
sandwiched as he is at an airport between the two proposed Primera bases of BHX & STN...
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Nobody can answer your question as nobody knows - essentially the airline doesn't exist yet! Primera Air fly a handful of 737's on scandi to canary island and other holiday routes. Now they decide to get a brand new type, start a brand new type of flying on low cost long haul where no one has ever made money. If you choose to go there, then you are a braver soul than I. I wish them all the luck in the world but I'd be very surprised to see them around BHX or STN this time next summer.
PRIMERA started operations in 2003 as JetX under an Icelandic AOC
PRIMERA operate to 97 destinations of which 36 are scheduled.
PRIMERA have bases at 11 airports in Denmark, France, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, United Kingdom
PRIMERA employee approximately 300 people and made a 7.6 million Euro profit in 2017.
Not bad for an airline that ''essentially doesn't exist yet''.
Now they decide to get a brand new type, start a brand new type of flying on low cost long haul where no one has ever made money.
But as others have said, you've got to buy a ticket to win the lottery.
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Whilst I wish them well with this venture it does seem a high risk expansion, but yes you’ve got to be in it win it.
According to their website they have flown 403K passengers, it doesn’t make it clear if that was last year or since they started in 2003 by comparison Norwegian carried 2.3 million in Feb 2018 and 33 million in 2017
I very doubt Norwegian have made a dime yet out of max operations across the Atlantic, yes they were using brand new aircraft and engine combinations, new crews, new operating bases and a huge spend on publicity and the well document farce of US pilots licensing delays. This despite a establish presence in their respective markets, meanwhile we have an airline that out side of the world of Pprune is virtually unknown embarking on an operation that will have to work like clock work out of the box with new crews, new aircraft on ETOPS routes that like the max fly a lot slower than widebody aircraft and will be to heavy to get much above FL340 and they are starting further east than Norwegians Ireland and Scotland efforts, add more expensive airports and significant ground delays at the US end it could go horribly wrong.
On the plus side they are not starting in the winter when weather is bad and loads are low.
Next problem will be crewing them against the reported rosters, that will soon jade people and there are likely to be plenty of airbus jobs going forward, not least with Norwegian on A321neoLR of which they have 30 coming starting next year and it’s reported that a good number will be heading for London Gatwick.
Let’s see how things are in October, but brave and ballsy move ��
Whilst I wish them well with this venture it does seem a high risk expansion, but yes you’ve got to be in it win it.
According to their website they have flown 403K passengers, it doesn’t make it clear if that was last year or since they started in 2003 by comparison Norwegian carried 2.3 million in Feb 2018 and 33 million in 2017
I very doubt Norwegian have made a dime yet out of max operations across the Atlantic, yes they were using brand new aircraft and engine combinations, new crews, new operating bases and a huge spend on publicity and the well document farce of US pilots licensing delays. This despite a establish presence in their respective markets, meanwhile we have an airline that out side of the world of Pprune is virtually unknown embarking on an operation that will have to work like clock work out of the box with new crews, new aircraft on ETOPS routes that like the max fly a lot slower than widebody aircraft and will be to heavy to get much above FL340 and they are starting further east than Norwegians Ireland and Scotland efforts, add more expensive airports and significant ground delays at the US end it could go horribly wrong.
On the plus side they are not starting in the winter when weather is bad and loads are low.
Next problem will be crewing them against the reported rosters, that will soon jade people and there are likely to be plenty of airbus jobs going forward, not least with Norwegian on A321neoLR of which they have 30 coming starting next year and it’s reported that a good number will be heading for London Gatwick.
Let’s see how things are in October, but brave and ballsy move ��
To quote you ''essentially the airline doesn't exist yet''
PRIMERA started operations in 2003 as JetX under an Icelandic AOC
PRIMERA operate to 97 destinations of which 36 are scheduled.
PRIMERA have bases at 11 airports in Denmark, France, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, United Kingdom
PRIMERA employee approximately 300 people and made a 7.6 million Euro profit in 2017.
Not bad for an airline that ''essentially doesn't exist yet''.
PRIMERA started operations in 2003 as JetX under an Icelandic AOC
PRIMERA operate to 97 destinations of which 36 are scheduled.
PRIMERA have bases at 11 airports in Denmark, France, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, United Kingdom
PRIMERA employee approximately 300 people and made a 7.6 million Euro profit in 2017.
Not bad for an airline that ''essentially doesn't exist yet''.
Like I said: I have no harsh feelings towards the airline and many of my ex colleagues have gone there after events of last year. I wish them all the best of successes.
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I wouldn't get too excited about Norwegian and the 321, much more problems to get around before 2019 and no sign of any acknowledgement from the management that they need to take action at all.
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Worked with them in Dublin when they did all of Budget Holidays work post Futura. A wonderful airline with a smashing crew and cabin crew as well as a great ops team.Mind you they did operate a 737 700 that not exactly the most reliable airframe in the world but none the less very very happy memories of them
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It was the same when they started long haul, won’t work, can’t work, hasn’t worked before were the comments from some respected Ppruners and yet here we are a couple of years latter with an airline with currently 25 787’s and planned 32 by the year end, again the same with 738M won’t work people won’t fly long haul in 737, well it’s seems they will and do and Dublin to New York Stewart as it will soon be called starts double daily next month.
For sure it’s seems to have been a bumpy start and maybe Primera can avoid that if not they will need very deep pockets indeed.
When do they start operations?
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It’s seems people have been saying this sort of thing every since Norwegian became a player.
It was the same when they started long haul, won’t work, can’t work, hasn’t worked before were the comments from some respected Ppruners and yet here we are a couple of years latter with an airline with currently 25 787’s and planned 32 by the year end, again the same with 738M won’t work people won’t fly long haul in 737, well it’s seems they will and do and Dublin to New York Stewart as it will soon be called starts double daily next month.
For sure it’s seems to have been a bumpy start and maybe Primera can avoid that if not they will need very deep pockets indeed.
When do they start operations?
It was the same when they started long haul, won’t work, can’t work, hasn’t worked before were the comments from some respected Ppruners and yet here we are a couple of years latter with an airline with currently 25 787’s and planned 32 by the year end, again the same with 738M won’t work people won’t fly long haul in 737, well it’s seems they will and do and Dublin to New York Stewart as it will soon be called starts double daily next month.
For sure it’s seems to have been a bumpy start and maybe Primera can avoid that if not they will need very deep pockets indeed.
When do they start operations?
Personally, I don't think stating have many planes they have is much to shout about, it's not hard to borrow money and expand at all. The trick is being able to make money from it and keeping the costs under control.
