December loads
 

Here are the loads for four routes if you are interested:

Gerona 66%
Dublin 67%
Gdansk 68%
Katowice 70%

Hugh Lang taking over until a replacement MD is appointed.

You have my sympathy.

None Payment Of Local Rates
 

Hi,

before xmas it was on local news that finningley had asked the local gov. to not pay the local rates for upto 5 years (which at the time I was astonished by). The reason given is that the airport was having financial difficulties [Peel £££!!!]. Does anyone know the outcome to this request? I would have thought the answer would be simple: raise landing charges to create more revenue. Offering ridiculous deals to airlines to get them on board is fine but routes will only work if there is a genuine demand AFTER these deals have finished. I really do not think it is fair for an airport to ask to wave their rates just because they have over estimated local demand for flights. I don't want to antagonise finningley supporters, but surely the airport has to be able to stand on its own two feet on a level playing field?

Regards,

Leeds App.

Flyem At Dsa
 

Hi to everyone,

I work at MJV as Duty Manager and Handling Services supervisor. A few days ago, I was having a look to the slot request for the comming summer season and spotted a new airline whose OACI code is FEM, that had requested a weekly service operated on Saturdays from DSA to MJV.
I started my research work but just a few comments in some forums and a couple of articules mentioning the name are the results I got.
Could anybody of you give me further info on it?
Is an airlines that has not even been created ask for slots at an airport?

Thanks so much for any info provided

Javier

Thats interesting as up until now there has been no information thats its any more than an April Fools Joke. A certain enthusiast magazine has been the only source about their plans and that start date was given as April 1st ...

But if they have applied for slots then I presume they are for real. Though its getting late to launch for summer now

Not UK International Airlines by any chance? They do (did) have a B767 painted up in full livery last year and it did fly now and again on ACMI work. Don't know if they're still going but I do believe they had plans to fly out of DSA. However, more recent reports seem to indicate that they are already in a spot of financial trouble (bills and salaries not paid etc.).

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK-In...222/1283198/L/

There is no link between UKIA and Flyem. Flyem were registered at Companies House late last year. You can read the link below to the the only available information.

http://www.egcn.co.uk/1209.htm

A very professional website, which also confirms that unfortunately they're doing nothing and going nowhere.
I rung 4 of the travel agents advertised on their site, 2 said they'd committed time and their own staff costs to taking on potential work with the airline, the other two said that thaey'd refused to take any work from them until "certain assurances" could be given and none were forthcoming.

Read into that what you will.

Niknak - the only Flyem website I can find from a google search is currently 'under construction' :confused:

What I can not really understand is how they have been allocated slots at least at MJV if they have not even been born yet.
I thought AENA´s slot allocation department would have a look at every airlines´ situation before assigning the slot cause this way they prevent many other airlines (real ones) I mean from getting what they really want and the flights they do really want to operate.
It is actually a waste of time and money, because, at least in MJV´s case, Saturday mornings are really valuable for the operators. Fortunately they only applied for one weekly flight.

On the other hand, would you be able to tell me if there is an airline interested in opening a DSA-MJV direct link? Doncaster is actually one of the few airport we do not fly directly to.

Thanks!!!

Air Humberside - you are absolutely correct, it was there yesterday, advertising a wide range of different services, perhaps they've seen this forum and pulled it.

A classic case of here today, gone tommorrow perhaps?;)

DSA
 

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but can somebody in the know please enlighten me as to what is involved in the Marshalls Aerospace tie-up with Doncaster Airport.

As an aside, somebody told me that Mr. R***l has left the building.

Anybody?

On tour with Elvis is the rumour :)

http://www.marshallaerospace.com/new...tail.asp?ID=74

hope this helps BB.

NB: Other Doncaster/Sheffield Threads
 

Please note that there are two other threads on the Airlines, Airports and Routes pages. One's FlyEm at Doncaster (on page 2 of the subject list), but the other, main one is DONCASTER/SHEFFIELD, which is on p4 as I type this. If you read this, you'll see the info about changed personnel. Perhaps we should all use that one rather than be scattered all over the place?

Bloody hell, that guy on the picture on the right is about 8ft tall, would not mess with him

FlyEm
 

By my calculations, if FlyEm plans to carry 360000 pax in a single 737-800 in its first twelve months, that's approximately 1000 rotations i.e. 3 rotations a day, year round. Somewhat optimistic in my view, unless they are looking at short routes with year-round appeal :sad:

Anyone know what aircraft types thomsonfly will be operating at DSA this summer?

B737-300 and B737-800 I think