Eastern Airways-3
It's an Italian airline operating the flights using a leased a/c. I'm sure they have justified it's use to the Italian authorities, maybe a because it fills a gap in flights they already operate?. Hardly a unique situation. Will there be many a/c of that size available within the EU?
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Pax figures on the Paris services are, to put it politely, underwhelming.
For July they were: Cardiff = 770, Southampton = 990 and Cardiff 675.
Works out as 23, 31 and 21 pax per day respectively.
For July they were: Cardiff = 770, Southampton = 990 and Cardiff 675.
Works out as 23, 31 and 21 pax per day respectively.
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The CAA maybe but I am sure that there are those in government that would say the free market should regulate such practices, where first are seen to be unreliable then they will lose custom and not make enough money to survive (see FlyBe2 for recent case study). This becomes a problem where the company doesn't have competition and makes a profit irrespective of how badly it treats its customers (take your pick of the water companies).
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To be honest I don’t think 990 is that bad considering it’s one rotation a day with no opportunity for an evening return and that T3 are pretty much completely unknown. I’d say there is a lot more potential there for an AF or EZY.
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Not bad? It's absolutely dire. Assuming they flew all of the rotations in the month, it's a 22% loadfactor on SOU and worse on CWL and EMA. There is nothing remotely promising about any of it.
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You would have a point if Eastern were just selling it alone as a point to point service with no support. It's also being sold on the AF website (as they are using AF slots) and so have all that distribution power at their disposal from the home carrier.
The flights were eventually shown as being flown by Eastern Airways obviously with the AF code. But it's not ideal is it for those searching for flights between Southampton and Paris.
SOU Southampton should be on the websites drop down menu for UK airports without having to search for it. No wonder why the route isn't performing as it should be.
Once Air France has the spare aircraft capacity they might want to look at resuming Paris to Southampton themselves, fingers crossed 🤞 I'm sure if they did the flight would perform so much better with an airline everyone is aware of.
