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Yes, my calculations were on 180 seats - brain fade today.
The Embraer change in late October 2017 put a lot of extra capacity on the AMS route. A Fokker 70 had 70 seats but there was a "middle seat vacant" policy which meant that KLM would normally only sell around 64 seats (this varied but 3 rows of business would be typical). An E175 has 88 seats which means over 25% more capacity than before.
To put recent traffic into context, June 2019 (E175) was 34% up on June 2017 (F70). Also 10,988 pax in June (and assuming 3 daily weekday, 2 daily weekends) is an average of 69 pax per flight so we are a bit away from getting a 4th daily flight or a move up to an E190..
The Embraer change in late October 2017 put a lot of extra capacity on the AMS route. A Fokker 70 had 70 seats but there was a "middle seat vacant" policy which meant that KLM would normally only sell around 64 seats (this varied but 3 rows of business would be typical). An E175 has 88 seats which means over 25% more capacity than before.
To put recent traffic into context, June 2019 (E175) was 34% up on June 2017 (F70). Also 10,988 pax in June (and assuming 3 daily weekday, 2 daily weekends) is an average of 69 pax per flight so we are a bit away from getting a 4th daily flight or a move up to an E190..
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July CAA stats:
Terminal passengers: 12,922 - up 11% v prior year
Rolling 12 month passengers: 144,264 - highest since 2013.
Terminal passengers: 12,922 - up 11% v prior year
- Aberdeen: 1,511 - down 17%
- Amsterdam: 9,431 - up 4%
- Jersey: 599 - up 1%
- Burgas: 1,274 (new)
Rolling 12 month passengers: 144,264 - highest since 2013.
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Good stats there. Jersey and Burgas show that if flights are provided to places that people want to go to, people will use them! I still reckon that the east end of Darlington alone could easily fill a weekly 737 to Alicante, but we'll see what happens over the next year or so.
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MME-ABZ
Hope I am wrong, but I would expect to see a reduction in the passenger numbers to Aberdeen after the introduction of the Loganair flights from Newcastle. Some fares from Newcastle, especially on Flybe/Eastern are down to £65, while they are still charging £243 one way from Teesside.
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" are still charging £243 one way from Teesside. "
Sounds like a good way to go out of businees. Compete or go under, unless you can offer something better than the opposition.
Sounds like a good way to go out of businees. Compete or go under, unless you can offer something better than the opposition.
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No-one to start engines?
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/t...rport-16889394
never heard of a diversion because no-one was available to start an engine....
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Yes, I suspect there was a technical issue with the aircraft and they didn’t have the equipment or qualified personnel to deal with it at MME. In which case, sounds like a non-story...
The headline reads like it was a routine task and MME were short staffed...
The headline reads like it was a routine task and MME were short staffed...
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/t...rport-16889394
never heard of a diversion because no-one was available to start an engine....
What most methods have in common is a system for removing the air supply and disengaging the starter motor when the engine has reached self-sustaining speed. To achieve this an electrical solenoid will shut the start valve when this occurs. Should this solenoid fail it is possible to operate the start valve manually with an appropriate tool; box spanner on an extension bar. To carry out this procedure an engineer plugged in to external intercom is positioned by the engine to be started. At the point in the checklist when Start is selected the engineer is instructed to open the start valve and when the start is complete he closes the valve, secures the access panel and all proceeds as normal.
Clearly this his procedure requires that the ground personnel are qualified and trained which means having an engineer qualified on type. No suitably qualified engineer available then no capability to start the engines. I am not saying that this was the case here, but it seems highly likely as dispatching with an unserviceable air start valve is not unusual.
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I wonder what the total diversion cost. Several thousand pounds I'd suspect including hire of several coaches a) to bring the landed pax at N'cle to Teessider and b) to take pax from Teesside to Ncle. Wasn't there a spare, certified, engineer, in Ncle who could have jumped in his car and been at the airport in less than 50 minutes? A saving of a massive amount of money and the service which the pax had paid good money for. Who does the final cost that day fall on? Teesside Airport of KLM?