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I think the jury is still out on whether MAN will return at all. A double daily service has been sitting in their system for ages, but on past form, it means it’s unlikely to happen!
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And I'm sure we all agree that we would much rather see Loganair operating 3 x daily on Southampton to Manchester rather than a totally unreliable service offered by Eastern Airways ☺️
Hopefully Air France at some point in the future will be resume their Paris CDG to Southampton service. There will be no Eastern Airways Southampton to Paris Orly service if that happens. Eastern Airways had every opportunity to expand from Southampton after the demise of Flybe (mark 1) and they totally blew it. They are totally unreliable, overpriced and a bad excuse for an airline. I've had several incidents involving Eastern Airways over the last two years and I'm definitely not a fan of the airline.
Hopefully Air France at some point in the future will be resume their Paris CDG to Southampton service. There will be no Eastern Airways Southampton to Paris Orly service if that happens. Eastern Airways had every opportunity to expand from Southampton after the demise of Flybe (mark 1) and they totally blew it. They are totally unreliable, overpriced and a bad excuse for an airline. I've had several incidents involving Eastern Airways over the last two years and I'm definitely not a fan of the airline.
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The sooner we have a reliable airline on the Paris service the better!
Clearly Eastern are not that airline,on a sparate matter loganair A 72 to Manchester would be a great move!
Clearly Eastern are not that airline,on a sparate matter loganair A 72 to Manchester would be a great move!
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The fact that the usual suspects don’t know about this proves they are not local and are just trying to exploit any negative. Whilst they must have very sad little lives to hold a vendetta agains an inanimate object those of you that keep giving them bites to their bait are just as bad. You yourself said you wouldn’t be responding to the troll in Luton yet you continue to give him the attention he’s obviously crying out for.
Good news on the changes with Eastern but as others have said the sooner they are driven out of the airport the better. Also at what point do Logan drop the tagline scotlands airline? The more domestic flying they do in England the more daft if seems.
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LTNman wrote
Offended Rivet Joint replied.
Don't want to be rude but if you think my comments are Trollish then you have some complex issues, as it wasn't even a criticism but a statement of fact. Maybe your world just don't like simple facts? All very strange. Perhaps you could start why you think my comment was negative, as it is lost on me, as it wasn’t my intention.
Oh I forgot, you don’t reply to “trolls” so I guess we will never know.
Most airports offer a free drop off at an airport car park with the inconvenience of a longer walk or a free bus to catch. Consider the station to be Southampton’s unpublished equivalent, as the cost of travelling through an airport will be a consideration for LCC passengers on a tight budget particularly those passengers where Southampton is one of many airports where they could travel from.
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It’s very telling the responses you have received from the usual suspects on this comment. It’s common knowledge locally that you drop off at the station and has been for years. I’m sure the same happens at all the other airports.
The fact that the usual suspects don’t know about this proves they are not local and are just trying to exploit any negative. Whilst they must have very sad little lives to hold a vendetta agains an inanimate object those of you that keep giving them bites to their bait are just as bad. You yourself said you wouldn’t be responding to the troll in Luton yet you continue to give him the attention he’s obviously crying out for.
The fact that the usual suspects don’t know about this proves they are not local and are just trying to exploit any negative. Whilst they must have very sad little lives to hold a vendetta agains an inanimate object those of you that keep giving them bites to their bait are just as bad. You yourself said you wouldn’t be responding to the troll in Luton yet you continue to give him the attention he’s obviously crying out for.
Oh I forgot, you don’t reply to “trolls” so I guess we will never know.
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Paris CDG
I too would like to see the Air France CDG service come back with it's Interline connections.
However, we do have KLM (AF's Flying Blue partner) twice daily AMS fights which offer all of the interlining opportunities to many of the same Euro and long haul destinations.
KLM & AF are also now a Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Rewards Partner.
All rather handy for me as I have just booked Venice-AMS-SOU on VS Miles in Business Class, for just 45 euros in Taxes.
With a 2-3 hour stopover in AMS, I can enjoy the rather nice KLM Crown Lounge there.
I can see the AF CDG coming back to SOU, but as for when, I have no idea.
There is of course the Eco hoo hah in France about culling all short domestic flights so maybe the AF CDG-SOU is not top of their list right now.
I think the Eastern ORY flight was frankly useless, and a wasted opportunity.
According to this morning's Guardian "Green Energy tycoon to launch the first electric airline"
https://www.theguardian.com/business...ectric-airline
This indicates operations to commence early next year with a Twin Otter between SOU - EDI! Don't think that Loganair will lose any sleep over this competition?
https://www.theguardian.com/business...ectric-airline
This indicates operations to commence early next year with a Twin Otter between SOU - EDI! Don't think that Loganair will lose any sleep over this competition?
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According to this morning's Guardian "Green Energy tycoon to launch the first electric airline"
https://www.theguardian.com/business...ectric-airline
This indicates operations to commence early next year with a Twin Otter between SOU - EDI! Don't think that Loganair will lose any sleep over this competition?
https://www.theguardian.com/business...ectric-airline
This indicates operations to commence early next year with a Twin Otter between SOU - EDI! Don't think that Loganair will lose any sleep over this competition?
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Have I missed a post or is the claim that the runway extension has attracted a potential Twin Otter operation that could probably take off using just the runway extension?
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My only negative, was that the BACF's all only had one set of boarding steps ISO two -
This meant no pax boarding until the refuelling was finished - that then caused boarding delays, and missed slots.
(We missed out slot into JMK and had to sit on the ramp for almost an hour)
I fed this back to the BA Crew (who had already noted this each weekend on their flight reports) and to the SOU's Ops Director and he said he was not aware of this.
But in his favour, he did say he would take it up with the Handling Agents as a matter of importance.
Do we have 2 sets of steps on the BACF's this summer?
Best R.