God only knows if FCA will base summer 07, seems they are falling out with CWL as baseing a Skyservice a/c there this summer, fingers crossed for an FCA EXT base!

EXT back on the market. Lets hope the sale actually goes through this time!
http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/displa...=sidebarsearch

Would Flybe be interested in purchasing the airfield since they have invested a lot of money in there engineering facility there???

EXETER
 

There has been talk in the Norwich local paper that the majority shareholder of Norwich International Airport, Omniport plc may well bid for Exeter. There is of course a common denominator, Flybe.

EXT - LBA
 

Given the capacity increases on some routes from EXT, any possibility of EXT-LBA going double daily in the near future ?? SOU - LBA has just gone double daily with Flybe. I've heard that the LBA route is doing well in terms of loads and this must be a strong contender for a capacity increase. It's happened on the EXT route to that place over the pennines! Not sure how the WOW increased schedule from LBA (which starts tomorrow) will affect things for EXT route? Any ideas?

Ryanair want London Stansted - Exeter 12 times weekly from summer 2007

I was dreading this was to happen but if it does ahpppen then it is good news I supposse!!

Hmm I wander if this has anything to do with the apparent fall out with NQY, good news for EXT, more routes the better, I think you'd get a lot of custom from the BRS area, wish there was a BRS-STN or LCY route

hmmmm - STN to EXT upto 2x a day? i dont think so. with around 1200 pax per day using EXT scheduled services i dont think RYR is going to be able to add another 300+ seats to one destination which whilst popular, isnt that popular. espeically as the train doesnt take THAT long.

Where did you hear this rumour - can you post your source?

Would be good though! EXT needs to get out of its reliance on flybe, get in some other operators. an LCY service would be supportable, and also an AMS (maybe klm-uk?) and what about a berlin or somewhere in Germany (air berlin?)

fly20

Return of the Dash 8 100
 

If only Flybe kept the baby Dash would have been ideal to operate to the City

Let alone some of the other routes

Start off small end up big, little Dash (100) to big Dash (400):ok: :ok: ,

How long does it take to get to STN from Devon? Around 4-5 hours. It would not just cater for people travelling to London but also many people transferring to the plethora of services from STN to mainland Europe. I know the trains are pretty quick into Paddington but they're bloody expensive. And if you want to travel to somewhere like Essex or East London you can add another hour at least on to the journey and factor in the tube or pricey taxis. I'd love to see FR try STN, if anyone can make it work its them. VLM might be a possibility on the LCY route.

Can't see it happening but what if Ryanair flew Newquay - Exeter - Stansted much as Air Southwest via Plymouth to Gatwick? Then all the Newquay punters could link with flights out of Exeter as well?

Wasn't it Air Victoria that most recently tried to fly Exeter to London and lasted about a week ??

How much did Air Victoria charge? Ridiculous money if I remember, no wonder it only lasted a week. Can't see FR doing NQY-EXT-STN. I heard Flybe wanted to try EXT - LGW, to piss WOW off but couldn't get the slots. Again I think the time and cost it takes to get from Devon to Sussex and Kent would make the route work. Can't believe RE have started NQY-ORK I wonder how long is that going to last?!

Also surprised at RE doing NQYORK. It might be ok in the Summer months (inbound tourists from ORK to Cornwall) but year-round would be a struggle. EXTORK a better bet I would have thought.

Don't think EXT-London makes sense for anyone. It's an easy drive, and even easier by rail. Why would anyone want to drive to EXT Airport, park car, check in an hour before, one hour flight, collect bags at the other end etc etc etc. More trouble than it's worth.

Agree with everything you say - out of the blue 22. Exeter to Cork maybe but Newquay, I don't think so!!!

Surley there has to be another / other scheduled operator(s) that would be interested in opening up routes from EXT. Flybe is getting a little predictable:ugh:

There must be milage in ORK, IOM, ABZ as well as other euro routes:confused:

It would seem to me that EXT has a greater level of service to offer rather than PLH / NQY?

Air Hop
 

I understand where you are comming from but who will operate your ideas Air Southwest or AE Arann or do you have someone else like Ryanair???

I don't think that ASW would be interested. It has never appeared to be a very happy relationship in the past.

With the loads that Eastern seem to have out of BRS I would have thought that perhaps a transit stop to include EXT could work for some destinations, or pehaps someone like Jet 2 or BMI Baby. If MME can work for Summer to NQY there must be some interest to EXT with the 'business' use alone?

It has always surprised me that nothing has been done to Alderney? I would have thought that it had a similar draw / market as the Isles of Scilly?

Between Who exactly?
ASW and EXT ??

Well it does seem a little strange that as the airline for the South West they don't operate any scheduled services from the airport unless the weather at PLH / NQY / BRS is up to its usual god awful standards!

That would seem suggest to me that something between the two is not rosy.