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From: A post-punk postcard fair
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From: A post-punk postcard fair
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From: A post-punk postcard fair
They use the pre/existing hangar 5 I believe, seem to recall it was used for a while by one of the helicopter operators (bond or Bristow?) previously,
Could be wrong but I think they use a room in the helicopter terminal as a crew room. Expect if DSA doesn’t reopen and they decide to stay at HUY there might be the appetite to build a facility more fitting.
Could be wrong but I think they use a room in the helicopter terminal as a crew room. Expect if DSA doesn’t reopen and they decide to stay at HUY there might be the appetite to build a facility more fitting.
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Or perhaps that the fleet now based at HUY is on a shorter contractual response time (e.g. 2 hours versus 4 for the 727s) which means that a move from DSA to MME would mean mass relocation of crew and support teams in a way that moving the 727s doesn't, as you've still got sufficient time to meet the contract response time without an expensive move of house?
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Depends really, there must be some tie ins with the work going on at the Bristow hangar re. coastguard SAR contract. That was a purpose built facility. It would seem that they want to retain their office functions at DSA so would make sense to have a fairly local operating base, unless they moved lock stock to Teesside including the functions currently at DSA. Also, as Buster says, HUY is ideally located for the coastguard contract.
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Probably a bit more than that but the main point is the distance between DSA and HUY being not that much is perhaps why they decided to put their fleet there. Whether there are any deals with Teesside remains to be seen, but I expect HUY is favoured for this operation for the reasons already outlined, otherwise why didn’t they just relocate the lot to Teesside from the start?
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Yes it appears to have been dropped, unsurprisingly. They originally intended to suspend it during the summer lull in business travel, but it now looks like it’s been quietly removed from the booking engine. Hardly surprising when it was seeing on average less than 10 passengers per flight. Can’t compete with the flexibility of KLM.
NQY increased to 4 x weekly, some shared with EMA so that seems to be doing ok. But if HUY want to increase passenger throughput then the only viable means of doing so is by catering to the latent demand that exists for flights to popular leisure destinations, particularly with the demise of DSA. KLM has the rest covered.
NQY increased to 4 x weekly, some shared with EMA so that seems to be doing ok. But if HUY want to increase passenger throughput then the only viable means of doing so is by catering to the latent demand that exists for flights to popular leisure destinations, particularly with the demise of DSA. KLM has the rest covered.
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Tiny in the grand scheme of things, but looks like TUI have added a second weekly PMI for S25 this time on a Saturday which would allow for flexible stays outside of 7 or 14 nights. Judging purely by load factors on the service, I would expect a Saturday to sell even better. I understand a lot of this years flights were sellouts quite early on. Long way off yet, and things can and no doubt will change, but it’s good to see additions rather than more cut backs.
