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Worry is...Eastern eat away at very small markets,using the mayors purse.
KLM decide ..hey! That’s it guys..going to concentrate on the bigger markets?..We live in strange times.
KLM decide ..hey! That’s it guys..going to concentrate on the bigger markets?..We live in strange times.
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SeanM on Twitter is saying the Easter has secured more slots for Teesside-Heathrow. Treat with a bit of caution but he is normally pretty reliable.
https://twitter.com/SeanM1997/status...14416834105344
https://twitter.com/SeanM1997/status...14416834105344
Surely it's a bit chicken and egg - numbers are low because the schedule isn't particularly useful? I think we have to see this route as a long term project (with some significant losses to start with) while the customer base builds up. Diving in now at the bottom of the market presumably is an attempt to get access to slots for the long term? Needs a decent schedule and interlining agreement to build up creditability.
Or it all could be just extreme electioneering!
Or it all could be just extreme electioneering!
Still uneasy about the amount of money being pumped in to this “project” while the region..like others could put the cash to better use?
Factual that some flights are departing with..shall we say ,not many folks on board..while businesses across the region are suffering big time.
Both will only get worse over the winter while the mayor continues to use up valuable awarded resources..Suppose Eastern are not too bothered as it covers their losses during the quiet winter period.When the money runs out..so will they!
Factual that some flights are departing with..shall we say ,not many folks on board..while businesses across the region are suffering big time.
Both will only get worse over the winter while the mayor continues to use up valuable awarded resources..Suppose Eastern are not too bothered as it covers their losses during the quiet winter period.When the money runs out..so will they!
Still uneasy about the amount of money being pumped in to this “project” while the region..like others could put the cash to better use?
Factual that some flights are departing with..shall we say ,not many folks on board..while businesses across the region are suffering big time.
Both will only get worse over the winter while the mayor continues to use up valuable awarded resources..Suppose Eastern are not too bothered as it covers their losses during the quiet winter period.When the money runs out..so will they!
Factual that some flights are departing with..shall we say ,not many folks on board..while businesses across the region are suffering big time.
Both will only get worse over the winter while the mayor continues to use up valuable awarded resources..Suppose Eastern are not too bothered as it covers their losses during the quiet winter period.When the money runs out..so will they!
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Still uneasy about the amount of money being pumped in to this “project” while the region..like others could put the cash to better use?
Factual that some flights are departing with..shall we say ,not many folks on board..while businesses across the region are suffering big time.
Both will only get worse over the winter while the mayor continues to use up valuable awarded resources..Suppose Eastern are not too bothered as it covers their losses during the quiet winter period.When the money runs out..so will they!
Factual that some flights are departing with..shall we say ,not many folks on board..while businesses across the region are suffering big time.
Both will only get worse over the winter while the mayor continues to use up valuable awarded resources..Suppose Eastern are not too bothered as it covers their losses during the quiet winter period.When the money runs out..so will they!
Surely it's a bit chicken and egg - numbers are low because the schedule isn't particularly useful? I think we have to see this route as a long term project (with some significant losses to start with) while the customer base builds up. Diving in now at the bottom of the market presumably is an attempt to get access to slots for the long term? Needs a decent schedule and interlining agreement to build up creditability.
Or it all could be just extreme electioneering!
Or it all could be just extreme electioneering!
Agree re the interlining, however I don’t think it will ever get that far.
Perhaps this would have been easier to overlook during normal times, but right now, when in ordinary life elsewhere, throughout the length and breadth of the country, where every penny counts, it’s a little distasteful and inappropriate.
You do have to wonder though, if things are so bad that even KLM are losing too much money (I'm assuming nobodies making any at the moment...), whether this is the right thing to be doing just now.
Or maybe we should just have the discussion once it's confirmed....
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Eastern Airways is expanding MME to LHR flights, On Heathrow website to 3x daily from 25th October
LHR arrival times:
09:10 Mon-Fri
10:05 Sat
15:20 Mon-Sat
16:00 Sun
17:20 Mon-Fri & Sun
LHR departure times:
09:40 Mon-Fri
11:00 Sat
16:15 Mon-Sat
16:55 Sun
18:10 Mon-Fri & Sun
LHR arrival times:
09:10 Mon-Fri
10:05 Sat
15:20 Mon-Sat
16:00 Sun
17:20 Mon-Fri & Sun
LHR departure times:
09:40 Mon-Fri
11:00 Sat
16:15 Mon-Sat
16:55 Sun
18:10 Mon-Fri & Sun
Could the expansion perhaps be delayed instead until maybe spring 2021, when there might at least be some semblance of passenger demand for this service
It seems a bit like a bus company deciding there is huge demand for buses from suburbs to a town centre at 3 am on a Tuesday, convinced that if only public transport was good enough, the shops would all stay open 24/7
It seems a bit like a bus company deciding there is huge demand for buses from suburbs to a town centre at 3 am on a Tuesday, convinced that if only public transport was good enough, the shops would all stay open 24/7
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We should not be measuring the success of routes at all in the current environment. That said, I know there are widespread concerns over marketing (or lack of) and as such awareness of services is likely quite low, has anyone seen any advertising of any kind for any of our services? And is it true we are the only airport in the UK to be cut by KLM - if so why are we standing for this??
On Heathrow website to 3x daily from 25th October
Could the expansion perhaps be delayed instead until maybe spring 2021
We should not be measuring the success of routes at all in the current environment.
That said, I know there are widespread concerns over marketing (or lack of) and as such awareness of services is likely quite low, has anyone seen any advertising of any kind for any of our services?
And is it true we are the only airport in the UK to be cut by KLM - if so why are we standing for this??