NOW start date

[bmibaby.com]

Whilst I know it was just a typo, I believe that flysnowflake operate their fleet of Boeing 737-800s with just 150 seats in them.

Although SAS mainline operate their all-economy services with 179 seats, so why two different configurations for the same operation I dont know?

[Yarpy]

Anyone received a contract yet?

[MaxMet]

No Contract yet

But I have been invited to attend an informal meeting in LTN next Friday.

I do hope that things get moving soon as I want to get out of my current job as fast as possible.

I give it until the end of September and then I am calling it a day and pursuing other interests.


maybe just maybe?


Max

[Powerjet1]

It was at the end of July that the company website was last updated, stating that bookings would commence "in a couple of weeks", at which time a full timetable, prices, final destinations etc would be announced. That still hasn't happened and contracts still don't seem to have gone out yet. Whilst I personally, have no potential employ with Now, I do appreciate the frustration that many fellow Pruners must have who have been offered positions and just want to get on with it. Hopefully things will come to fruition quite quickly and no doubt the forthcoming " informal get-together will shed more light to those concerned.

Good luck to you all.

[jmc-man]

Looks like my case of champagne is safe for a while yet then

Thomas Cook Man

[tailscrape]

I don't think they will get off the ground now either. Too long in getting sorted.

Glad I turned down the opportunity really, too stressful to sit around worrying about it.

[VIKING9]

watch this space and all will be revealed

[TartinTon]

Who cares? Apart from the foolish people who've thrown in with this clearly deluded crowd!!! Their business model is a joke. The "all one price" model is a great theory. The problem is it doesn't work. Airlines used this model when they first started. One price for Y, one for C, one for F. Then they found that they couldn't fill all the seats at one price so they segmented the market by introducing minimum stays, advance purchases, penalties for changing etc etc. Now this airline thinks they can start an operation in October using what they think is an original model but is actually one that was tried by all airlines and failed!!! I really hope that not too many people have sacrificed a career in pursuit of a tried and failed ideal. It all sounds like Debonair but without the charisma of the chairman........

[VIKING9]

TartinTon so presumably you'll eat the hat you wear when it does work ?? I too have no idea if their plan will work, but full marks to them for at least trying. They might just prove everyone wrong.....

[Goldstone]

Have to agree with TartinTon. Very unlikely to happen. If it does it will fail. Bad business model. And think about it, how many successful scheduled airline start-ups have there been in the UK in the past ten years.

[Alloy]

Goldstone, try easyjet, Eastern Airways and Air Wales to start with.

[bmibaby.com]

I too have to agree with TartanTom, that the Now idea is not a good one.

Whilst they have a strong network of routes, many that dont have any or serious competition from an existing carrier, they are going with a pricing idea that failed to work with Go and debonair (so they both dropped the idea) and that EasyJet used only for the winter season of their operation before introducing the word "from" to their advertising.

And I'm sure that EasyJet will start to breathe down their necks soon enough! I mean EasyJet have hinted they want to expand in Germany (Dusseldorf), could take the same road as Go and expand their routes from portugal (Lisbon sounds nice!) and Monarch will crush them on the Tenerife route . . .

Nice ideas . . . but unless they change the price policy I give them 12 months!

[VIKING9]

BMIBABY.COM you mention

Whilst they have a strong network of routes

and yet NOW's route structure has not yet been released to Joe Public. EZY will no doubt breathe down their necks but lets face it, competition is healthy and EZY's reputation for being on time and having not-so-low airfares, isn't doing them any favours at the moment.

[Mad Max]

easy's Punctuality - take yesterday for example....

Sorry chaps, couldn't help but overhear....

Yesterday's Ontime Performance Stats for the easy fleet as follows.

First Wave = 68 out of 70 a/c away on time (within 15 mins of STD).

Over the day = 80.3% of flights departed on time, (remember we now do over 500 flights per day).

Late flights in excess of 1 hour delay = 1.8%.

Canx sectors = Nil.

+4Hr delays = Nil.

Oh and BTW, the LF was 85%!

Cool figures eh?

Cheers, Max (Keep it real chums please)

[Fifty Above]

... so 100 flights were late eh, Max? What about all the other days?

[jmc-man]

Mad McB et al...can we keep this one on topic...please?

We are now 6 weeks from October, and so far we have no AOC application, No identified aircraft, no contracts for pilots and cabin crew, no confirmed timetable, no tickets on sale....

..and Viking 9, can I assume your enthusiasm is driven by the possibility that someone might actually give you that job which has eluded you for so long?

Thomas Cook Man

[VIKING9]

jmc-man not at all, far from it actually. I just know people who ARE employed there already. I'm doing my own thing but wish them well and hope they get off the ground as planned.

[A Very Civil Pilot]

The Now website is still saying that they are looking for type rated pilots. I assume that it hasn't been updated, rather that it being a current situation.

Have contracts been signed and returned, or are they still on the hunt for crews?

[fmgc]

We apologise for the delay, which has been caused by the finalising of operational issues.

.........like no such airline exists.

Every month the time for bookings is put back a month. This is a Walter Mitty set up.

NOW......it certainly isn't.

[Buster the Bear]

Route licence application in the name of SunJet airlines, was this week amended to; Now Airlines with the CAA.

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/213/1605.pdf