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Just a wee question. Why do flyglobespan only have GLA to PFO seasonal? First Choice & Thomson, sorry, Britannia are year round. There is a huge demand for Cyprus winter season flights - I flew Excel Airways direct GLA to PFO last year! FC & BY report high yields. Seems odd that GSM have stopped for the winter as they could easily outprice the others & continue to get high pax yields. Bout time for a direct EDI to PFO by the way!!!!!!!

And with Jet2 about to open its 3rd base in EDI a new fight is on..

3rd base?

Er.... Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle, Belfast, Blackpool, Edinburgh...

As my roster rarely shows a -800 i assume that the info i got is correct; all planes get their tale "waxed" but it is rumoured that a new scheme is in the making.... to put on the tail.

Pointer :E

Jet2 has had a base at EDI since the beginning of this year, or thereabouts.

Sorry I was not very clear.. I was reading from this arlicle

Jet2.com has announced it would like to make Edinburgh one of its main bases.

The Manchester-based low-cost carrier has said it would also be introducing new routes to popular holiday destinations, such as Murcia in Spain, from the Scottish capital.

Philip Meeson, boss at the airline, told the Scotsman why Jet2.com has decided to expand on the Edinburgh – Manchester route: "We feel that there is a great opportunity to extend our services to other exciting destinations in Europe."

He went on to say that the route had been introduced as a result of demand by the Scottish people.

Earlier this month Jet2.com was one of the airlines singled out by Which? magazine as "side-stepping" its responsibilities to passenger safety by forcing pilots to work long hours.

main base? Fair enough. Presumably means atleast one more based aircraft. I wonder if Channex are going to use G-CELR for Jet2 duties when it leaves Flyglobespan at the end of this month? If they do that'll probably stay around, 2 QCs, that would be nice....:E

"I wonder if Channex are going to use G-CELR for Jet2 duties when it leaves Flyglobespan at the end of this month?"

They are still using this aircraft for flyglobespan flights through the winter and next summer, so you information is wrong!

Where did you get this from then? Flyglobespan are ending their association with Channex from the end of this month, that's the plan anyway, as has been reported.

http://www.jethros.i12.com/FLEETS/Li..._GLOBESPAN.htm

So where did you get your info from then?!

Well jethro is wrong!

A mate flies with Channel not from Edinburgh, but he fills in there from time to time and its business as usual he says, at least through the winter, flights to Malaga and Prague for globespan he tells me.

Do not trust what you read on spotters webpages!

ok, thanks for providing more detail, however, Channex's flights for Flyglobespan operate with an EXS code, there are no flight codes operating with an EXS code this winter from EDI, all are GSM. So I'm still not convinced, will wait and see...

All globespan flights are now under the GSM code so you would not know which are actually being flown by a third party, but I can assure you Jethro has got is wrong, and he should not be putting out false information... The Channel association with globespan is ongoing... after Jet2 expand at EDI its anyones guess what will happen, most likely globespan will dump Channel before then anyway as globespan continue to get more aircraft and cover their own flights.

I see, but we can trust the information posted by an anonymous person, to an open forum, which was obtained from ‘a mate’!

jethro

Well maybe you should enlighten us where you got your duff gen from jethro?


My mate (well actaully an aquantance), told me he is operating a globespan flight from Edinburgh to Malaga next month, he works for Channel, not globespan, so unless his company is keeping him very much in the dark, then they are still operating for globespan. That is fact jethro!

And incase you are new around here jethro, most people are anonymous seeing as how it is an "anonymous" forum... Doh!

But just to reiterate... Channel are NOT ending their relationship with globespan (or vice versa), period.

Flyglobespan have updated their timetable today, there's a EDI-ALC Saturday flight with an EXS code during the winter timetable starting from December now showing.

Two new EDI routes next summer

Murcia on Saturdays
Ibiza on Saturdays and Sundays

B733 GCELR returned to Channel end of lease 31 Oct

B733 (A/C varies) to op for Flyglobespan 17 Dec 05 - 25 Mar 06 Saturdays only Operates EDI / ALC under EXS flight No

Flyglobespan association with Channel ends 25 Mar 06

jethro

GSM launch transatlantic flights
Daily GLA-SFB from next summer

Thats good news (presume they're direct) Anyone know from where they will be getting the 767(s) and what series they are? Hopefully they won't be old Excel Airways ships! With brand new 738's in the fleet, FlyGlobespan want to keep this good image going.
Any news on expansion from EDI? I would like to go to SXM soon!!!! lol.

ex Air New Zealand B763ERs apparently.

EDI will feature eventually in there long haul plans, if not summer 2006 then the following year.