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Target weekend work at least where LCY cannot offer leisure market runway capacity in making those BACF aircraft work harder would be a start!
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Unfortunately that opportunity was lost around 5 years ago reportedly due to SEN's inflexibility in not allowing BACF ground staff at the airport. That planned operation could have been quite extensive.
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Sounds like a fanciful rumour to me. What ground staff do BACF employ ?
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Yes, it does sound "a fanciful rumour' doesn't it?
Unfortunately I believe it to be true and I think from memory the operation was planned for the 2018 summer season and it would have involved BACF using their own check-in staff. I know for a fact that at a late stage in the negotiations they canvassed some of their LCY ground staff asking if they would like to transfer to SEN.
Unfortunately I believe it to be true and I think from memory the operation was planned for the 2018 summer season and it would have involved BACF using their own check-in staff. I know for a fact that at a late stage in the negotiations they canvassed some of their LCY ground staff asking if they would like to transfer to SEN.
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Just to employ Stobbart staff on a Saturday & Sunday, might find people unwilling to work say 20 hours / week at weekends only. I think they need to rethink on bringing in BACF staff where required. Could be the kick-start of say Luxair, Lufty & ITA adding but those are more business rather than leisure so maybe not.
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Would BACF staff, who must live over a wide area, really want to travel out to Southend for weekend work? I would think they quite like having guaranteed time off.
I don't think the details of the arrangements matters, but it does seem to be another example of how Stobart/Esken do seem to do business in their very own way.
A 'blue chip' customer just up the road who have a constraint that means they can't operate for part of the week and you aren't doing everything you can to get their business?
A 'blue chip' customer just up the road who have a constraint that means they can't operate for part of the week and you aren't doing everything you can to get their business?
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As an example they will operate on a Sat LCY-IBZ-SOU-MAH-SOU (night stop)-PMI-LCY.
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Also worth noting that when BACF were at STN they used handling from Gatwick Ground services and so that was probably also the intention for SEN, which might have proved a showstopper.
the ground staff do which is what’s being discussed, at least for roughly 24hours during the curfew
They don’t get guaranteed time off
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BACF have never employed their own staff to carry out check in/boarding/dispatch functions at LCY it is all contracted to GHAs, Menzies since 2014
At STN it was also Menzies when they started the operations, then from March to August 2018 it was GGS ramp staff, but Menzies check in and boarding agents until Menzies left due to the loss of 2 major contacts making staying at STN no longer financially viable
At STN it was also Menzies when they started the operations, then from March to August 2018 it was GGS ramp staff, but Menzies check in and boarding agents until Menzies left due to the loss of 2 major contacts making staying at STN no longer financially viable
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It wasn't going to be just "weekend work". The planned programme was seen as being more extensive than that.
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https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/232...ume-next-week/
So the question is what do the people working on these 3 flights a week do for the rest of their shifts and in fact for the rest of the week?
I can only see it adding to the airport’s losses but I could be wrong?
“This short-term logistics operation will operate three flights per week, and the income generated will support local jobs,” an airport spokesman said.
I can only see it adding to the airport’s losses but I could be wrong?
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Seems Southend is the go to place for filming.
This time it was for British Airways
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/232...thend-airport/
This time it was for British Airways
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/232...thend-airport/
