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See in the Airport Operator's latest marketing email "Lets Fly" that "We are delighted to welcome the new Flybe to Southampton Airport".
Presumably they were successful in retreiving all outstanding debts from the previous Flybe by detaining aircraft via liens placed upon them when Flybe Mk1 went down the pan. Were Swissport quite so fortunate?
Presumably they were successful in retreiving all outstanding debts from the previous Flybe by detaining aircraft via liens placed upon them when Flybe Mk1 went down the pan. Were Swissport quite so fortunate?
were released to their rightful owners, the lessors.Flybe limited are a completely new Airline with nothing orher than existing liabilities connected to start up costs. Ir's UK company law, get it?
Once the airline went into administration, any assets were frozen prior to the administrators eventually dstrbuting funds based upon payments by creditors. In the case if British Eagle International Airlines, it took 40 years to complete the wind up. Most of the aircraft were never the property of Flybe and once a formal winding up commenced,
were released to their rightful owners, the lessors.Flybe limited are a completely new Airline with nothing orher than existing liabilities connected to start up costs. Ir's UK company law, get it?
were released to their rightful owners, the lessors.Flybe limited are a completely new Airline with nothing orher than existing liabilities connected to start up costs. Ir's UK company law, get it?
Swissport, the SOU handling company, is not covered by this section of the Civil Aviation Act and therefore would have needed to stand in line with other creditors to claim whatever pittance, if any, was left when funds were distributed.
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The Swissport CEO is the same guy that was the Stobart CEO who had very strong influence on/with the previous Flybe. There is effectively no bad blood between the two organisations anyway.
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KL Friday schedule change from 8-Jul-22
KL have re-timed KL919/920 from evening to morning (1010/1050 at SOU) from 8-Jul-22 until 26-Aug-22 with no flight at all on Friday 5-Aug-22.
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Let's hope for a positive announcement very soon,but for Southampton it's critical that the decision does not go against it.
as a local resident I have to say I like the airport just the way it is. I feel sure that extension or no extension the airport will continue just fine. looking forward to the French routes re starting soon .
Why does the very survival of the airport depend on a marginal runway extension? SOU's core bread and butter will surely remain what it has done well with in recent years? That is one VERY constrained site very close to Gatwick. It is what it is and that's fine, there's nothing wrong in being a decent niche.
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Why does the very survival of the airport depend on a marginal runway extension?
According to a report on this evening’s BBC South Today a ruling has been given to indicate the EBC’s planning consent for the runway extension was lawful. Standby for an appeal?
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It's a waste of money,but further delays Im afraid,in the meantime airports recover and gain holiday routes!.
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Paul also then mentions Ryanair as a potential operator, don't think we'll ever see them at SOU.
What the airport corporate PR person says publicly as a reason for extending the runway.... and what the airport management intend privately may not be the same. It is the job of a journalist to be aware of this difference.
Is not the term “off the record” relevant?
Very disappointed with the report from the normally well informed BBC South Travel Correspondent Paul Clifton. He has done the airport no favours with:"It wants to be able to handle larger planes....." Thought and hoped that the previous airport operator's own goal of wanting the runway extension to accomodate "larger aircraft" was dead and burried to avoid playing into the tree huggers and anti airport lobbyists' hands.
Paul also then mentions Ryanair as a potential operator, don't think we'll ever see them at SOU.
Paul also then mentions Ryanair as a potential operator, don't think we'll ever see them at SOU.
I've tweeted him before that his words haven't helped SOU and to be fair he did respond, but only to say he has only a short time to try to articulate a complex issue, so has to do it in a way that Joe Public will understand
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