Primera Air
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No one can deny that the company has taken a bashing on social media, much of it is its own fault and some not! Pprune is not as influential as it used to be, load of other sites like Facebook and Tripadvisor are significantly busier with passenger traffic.
I’m on the Airbus fleet and I can tell you that the feedback we receive has generally been very good. I can’t comment on the 737 operation. The National 757 debacle is now hopefully behind us and terms and conditions and day to day management of the operation is showing signs of improving. Many of my flightdeck colleagues are from good airlines like Monarch, Thomas Cook, Wizz, Turkish, Gulf and many others. We are without exception aiming to do a professional job and offer good customer service.
I’m on the Airbus fleet and I can tell you that the feedback we receive has generally been very good. I can’t comment on the 737 operation. The National 757 debacle is now hopefully behind us and terms and conditions and day to day management of the operation is showing signs of improving. Many of my flightdeck colleagues are from good airlines like Monarch, Thomas Cook, Wizz, Turkish, Gulf and many others. We are without exception aiming to do a professional job and offer good customer service.
The 738 debacle is a disgrace.They are cancelling flts from BHX at short notice .Today cancelling the main flt to Malaga but running an extra flt not advertised.However it doesn't return.So the passengers booked on the return must be flying back with another airline or another airport.
I have friends who's flts with them have been cancelled at short notice weeks ago from BHX.
Yet they have had no refund and e mails not replied to.When they phone they just get an answering machine told to leave a message but get no reply..utterly appalling airline and I advise everyone NOT to book with them .
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Good luck to the company getting a 321neo off a 5,600ft strip at Southampton to Newark if the media reports are true..must be one of the worst most clueless airlines in Europe .
The 738 debacle is a disgrace.They are cancelling flts from BHX at short notice .Today cancelling the main flt to Malaga but running an extra flt not advertised.However it doesn't return.So the passengers booked on the return must be flying back with another airline or another airport.
I have friends who's flts with them have been cancelled at short notice weeks ago from BHX.
Yet they have had no refund and e mails not replied to.When they phone they just get an answering machine told to leave a message but get no reply..utterly appalling airline and I advise everyone NOT to book with them .
The 738 debacle is a disgrace.They are cancelling flts from BHX at short notice .Today cancelling the main flt to Malaga but running an extra flt not advertised.However it doesn't return.So the passengers booked on the return must be flying back with another airline or another airport.
I have friends who's flts with them have been cancelled at short notice weeks ago from BHX.
Yet they have had no refund and e mails not replied to.When they phone they just get an answering machine told to leave a message but get no reply..utterly appalling airline and I advise everyone NOT to book with them .
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Go back and read the earlier posts and you will see it's a cynical comment, it's supposed to be funny. Just think SOU and an A321!!. Now wake up and smell the coffee!
Anyway I’m out of this conversation honestly got better things to do!
That can't have been a Small Planet 321 that I saw go to Finland from SOU last December on a Santa special then!
But, in general, agree SOU can't support regular 321 ops (especially with any load/distance).
Apols for thread drift!
But, in general, agree SOU can't support regular 321 ops (especially with any load/distance).
Apols for thread drift!
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It struck me this morning that Westjet, far larger than Primera, had a torrid time in their first year of transatlantic ops. Hopefully things will improve significantly as more new aircraft come online and they rely less on unreliable third parties.
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As are Cork and Shannon, Norwegian struggle in the off-season at Cork so it would be interesting to see if they'd try it. We can safely say they wont be starting at SOU.
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I'll start by saying that I in no way ever expect to see Primera (or anyone) ever starting transatlantic flights from SOU. The following is purely a way for me to kill time while I'm waiting on a delayed train.
So, you're all right in that the idea of transatlantic from SOU is fantasy for performance reasons and probably also due to its proximity to LHR.
But, what if it was a one-way inbound flight? USERNAME described it as Newark to Southampton, maybe that's all it would be?
Southampton-New York is one of the most iconic cruise routes in the world. Apart from that, Southampton is a major cruise port with numerous weekly departures from lots of different companies. Who's to say there aren't at least 200ish avid cruisers a week in the whole New York metro area who could be sold packages for European or transatlantic cruises including a direct flight from their home city to the departure point?
The flight could operate CDG-EWR, EWR-SOU, arriving on say a Friday morning ahead of the busy cruise turnaround weekend, and then fly a midday sector back to CDG but with tickets sold to recoup some of the positioning cost, (with Flybe only currently flying SOU-CDG in the mornings and evenings they may pick up some leisure traffic), and resume the CDG schedule once it arrives back there.
Pie in the sky I know, I just thought I'd throw another point of view in there. You're all right in saying that SOU-EWR is a complete non-starter.
I should also add I don't know a huge amount about Primera or the appetite for fly-cruise holidays among New Yorkers, so if this idea is worse than terrible then that'll be why.
Tin hat firmly on, awaiting incoming...
So, you're all right in that the idea of transatlantic from SOU is fantasy for performance reasons and probably also due to its proximity to LHR.
But, what if it was a one-way inbound flight? USERNAME described it as Newark to Southampton, maybe that's all it would be?
Southampton-New York is one of the most iconic cruise routes in the world. Apart from that, Southampton is a major cruise port with numerous weekly departures from lots of different companies. Who's to say there aren't at least 200ish avid cruisers a week in the whole New York metro area who could be sold packages for European or transatlantic cruises including a direct flight from their home city to the departure point?
The flight could operate CDG-EWR, EWR-SOU, arriving on say a Friday morning ahead of the busy cruise turnaround weekend, and then fly a midday sector back to CDG but with tickets sold to recoup some of the positioning cost, (with Flybe only currently flying SOU-CDG in the mornings and evenings they may pick up some leisure traffic), and resume the CDG schedule once it arrives back there.
Pie in the sky I know, I just thought I'd throw another point of view in there. You're all right in saying that SOU-EWR is a complete non-starter.
I should also add I don't know a huge amount about Primera or the appetite for fly-cruise holidays among New Yorkers, so if this idea is worse than terrible then that'll be why.
Tin hat firmly on, awaiting incoming...
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I'll start by saying that I in no way ever expect to see Primera (or anyone) ever starting transatlantic flights from SOU. The following is purely a way for me to kill time while I'm waiting on a delayed train.
So, you're all right in that the idea of transatlantic from SOU is fantasy for performance reasons and probably also due to its proximity to LHR.
But, what if it was a one-way inbound flight? USERNAME described it as Newark to Southampton, maybe that's all it would be?
Southampton-New York is one of the most iconic cruise routes in the world. Apart from that, Southampton is a major cruise port with numerous weekly departures from lots of different companies. Who's to say there aren't at least 200ish avid cruisers a week in the whole New York metro area who could be sold packages for European or transatlantic cruises including a direct flight from their home city to the departure point?
The flight could operate CDG-EWR, EWR-SOU, arriving on say a Friday morning ahead of the busy cruise turnaround weekend, and then fly a midday sector back to CDG but with tickets sold to recoup some of the positioning cost, (with Flybe only currently flying SOU-CDG in the mornings and evenings they may pick up some leisure traffic), and resume the CDG schedule once it arrives back there.
Pie in the sky I know, I just thought I'd throw another point of view in there. You're all right in saying that SOU-EWR is a complete non-starter.
I should also add I don't know a huge amount about Primera or the appetite for fly-cruise holidays among New Yorkers, so if this idea is worse than terrible then that'll be why.
Tin hat firmly on, awaiting incoming...
So, you're all right in that the idea of transatlantic from SOU is fantasy for performance reasons and probably also due to its proximity to LHR.
But, what if it was a one-way inbound flight? USERNAME described it as Newark to Southampton, maybe that's all it would be?
Southampton-New York is one of the most iconic cruise routes in the world. Apart from that, Southampton is a major cruise port with numerous weekly departures from lots of different companies. Who's to say there aren't at least 200ish avid cruisers a week in the whole New York metro area who could be sold packages for European or transatlantic cruises including a direct flight from their home city to the departure point?
The flight could operate CDG-EWR, EWR-SOU, arriving on say a Friday morning ahead of the busy cruise turnaround weekend, and then fly a midday sector back to CDG but with tickets sold to recoup some of the positioning cost, (with Flybe only currently flying SOU-CDG in the mornings and evenings they may pick up some leisure traffic), and resume the CDG schedule once it arrives back there.
Pie in the sky I know, I just thought I'd throw another point of view in there. You're all right in saying that SOU-EWR is a complete non-starter.
I should also add I don't know a huge amount about Primera or the appetite for fly-cruise holidays among New Yorkers, so if this idea is worse than terrible then that'll be why.
Tin hat firmly on, awaiting incoming...
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Primera offered them a sum of money which would not pay for a return flight with anyone else, still ongoing, as a totally unacceptable offer.
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