Air Wales cutting flights
 

More cutbacks at the Red Dragon. No flights will operate from Plymouth after 19 February, Paris (Beauvais) down to 3 a week (and the route has not even started yet), Exeter-Cork to operate only twice weekly. Also rumours of the fleet reducing to just 3x ATR42's. Feel sorry for the guys and gals there, it must feel like death by a thousand cuts.

Or could this be a clean up exercise prior to a takeover or merger with another? If so, wonder if the CWL -BHD will ever get started?

I was a bit dubious when they annonced all these new routes as they appear to struggle to operate the routes they operate at the moment:suspect:. I had thought the may well announce that the were buying some new a/c as part of the expansion but it does'nt look like thats going to happen:(. As far as pulling out of PLY you can't really blame them as a/c often get stuck there or end up diverting to EXT due bad wx.

The writing's on the wall people. To my ex-colleagues.....get out now!!!

:rolleyes: Can't say it's suprising but if true it is bad news!!

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They are pulling of the Cardiff-Plymouth route which sucks!! :{ :eek: :suspect:

Have they not just taken on 10 or so new FOs to cover the planned expansion.

Have they been chopped before they have even started ? Guess there will be no need for them with only a three a/c schedule.

Air Wales are also stopping the NCL-ABZ part of the route at the same time!!!

It will now just be Cardiff-Newcastle, before it was Plymouth-Cradiff-Newastle-Aberdeen so they are cutting the extened routes to Aberdeen and Plymouth!!!

Exeter-Cork will operate 2weekly as said before on MON and FRI
Newquay-Cork will operate 3 weekly on TUES, WED and SUN

Cardiff-Paris Beauvias will operste on WED,SAT and SUN

The rumour on the street is that Peter McKenna is finally being allowed to run the Airline as an Airline.
He is cutting out the deadwood of routes which do not pay , have little custom or make no money, ie Aberdeen and Plymouth, and concentrating on the routes which are successful.
Air Wales have been running with a depleted fleet for some time and the fact they are already running with a Fleet of 4 aircraft not 5 doesn't seem to have been noticed.

If the rumours at the airport are true then this could be the resurrection of the Airline not the death of it, finally having someone who knows what they are doing being allowed to actually run the Airline as a business not a hobby.

Well said flower, i hope you are right.

Flower, i salute your optimism. :confused:

I also admire your optimism, The chairman has never allowed anyone to run his airline and never will, as far as the FO's go I think only 2 will be kept on.

I thought all these new routes were planned by Peter McKenna.

Allmcc wrotesurely you will have the Aer Arrann service to CWL? How many do you need?:E :E

ps how are the plans for Air Berlin coming along? I suppose they will start on the same day WW move into the docks?

stone cold, thank f£$k we're out of there.So, lets start a new thread, how long do you give it......

What about the new routes to Rennes, France and Brussels, Belgium?

Originally they planned to increase flights on CWL - NCL to 3 daily from June. Has this now been scrapped?

I understand the 3 times daily flights to Newcastle is still correct.

Aer Arann aren't coming into Cardiff now.

That was my point ....:ok:

Shouldn't new airline stuff be in the Cardiff thread ?

flower,

I have continued the new airline topic (mentioned here by discretion) in the CARDIFF thread.

I posed a question re his/her post and I hope that discretion visits the CARDIFF thread so I might have an answer.