That, and the fact that next to nobody uses the service seeing as you can get to ORK at a fraction of the price from MAN. Same reason the JER service bit the dust. JER and ORK from LBA are completely uncompetitive charging full service fares when there are low cost options offered from other airports nearby.

Jet2LBA, Maybe a LCC could take up the route ex LBA to compete with those nearby airports once BMI finish. I'd be surprised if it didn't work on a daily run using a 733 to replace the Emb135 with proper fares. I wonder if there are any silver 733's knocking around at LBA that could be used?

What aircraft is gonna be used by scot airways and when does the route start?

Jet2 going in the right direction
 

AIM-listed Dart Group, parent of Jet2, saw its pre-tax, pre-exceptional profit improve by 5.8% year-on-year to £14.7m in the 12 months to end-March 2006.
Turnover grew by 19.3% to £319.6m, while operating expenses were up 18.8% at £312.1m, which resulted in a full year operating profit of £7.5m (+41.5%). Earnings per share were up 3.4% at 28.9p.

Net debt as at 31 March 2006 stood at £5.5m, compared with net cash of £2.4m a year earlier, following the acquisition of three Boeing 757-200 and one Boeing 737-300 aircraft.

Jet2, which flies to 26 destinations from six bases in the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, using a fleet of 22 B737s and three B757s, carried 2.25m passengers during the year.

Dart’s other business is temperature-controlled distribution company Fowler Welch-Coolchain. The group does not split out the results of its two businesses.

New routes ex LBA
 

Anyone know how this summer's new routes from LBA are going? Been told the INV usually has around 15 on it. I wonder how the BRS and NQY are doing? Are the October flights to TABA selling well? Also SSH shows in the summer 2007 Panorama brochure but nothing on their website or on LBIA's webpage...any ideas?

I have flown LBA-BRS once, it had 15 people onboard. Must be normally doing better than to sustain 3 flights a day!

Steve Lee of Jet2 quoted in the Bradford T&A regarding the announcement of 2 new LBA routes to be announced at some point.

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A300BOY
 

having lost Jersey,Iom,Warsaw and now Cork this year as well as our jewel in the crown Lahore last year lets hope these new routes are announced sooner rather than later and are a sucess ! Yes I know that Manx2 are to operate Iom from August so if all goes well that will be one back.

We have lost those, but compared to last summer scheduled wise, we have gained Inverness, Rome, Milan, Pisa, Mahon, Tenerife, Dusseldorf and soon will have Arrecife start.

On the charter front we have gained Paphos, Rhodes, Bodrum and Heraklion.

Not all bad :).

That will be the Las Palmas and Larnaca/Paphos then??

The last time I had chance to speak to the "man in the know", he said that there was much more to come for LBA.

More routes gained than lost good news I agree, but maybe...just maybe, the Jewel in the crown could return?
SWE FLY have been granted permits for India, and are as thier website qoutes " awaiting funding for fleet composition and airline start up"
Now the big question is, will they start the LBA route again???

Swefly
 

The last I heard they were intending to operate Boeing 777s from India via Sweden to the States so I doubt Leeds would be involved with this new operation but I just drive them not decide where they go !:)

Swe-fly have the permits rights for the following routes from India via stockholm.

India - Stockholm - New York
India - Stockholm - Tornoto
India - Stockholm - 2 UK Destinations

Luton and Leeds like last time you think??

It's interesting to see that Aero Asia, the Pakistani domestic airline which was grounded last month, has been bought by a Bradford-based company which specialises in bakery & confectionary. They are apparently wanting to develop domestic links and then branch out into UK-Pakistan services. Given their home base in Bradford, I'd say this was one to watch as a possible contender to revive LBA-Lahore / Islamabad.

Interesting comments in the Yorkshire Post from the head of the Yorkshire Tourist Board re the 'Bollywood' event coming to Yorkshire next year.

"As Judith Donovan, chairman of Yorkshire Tourist Board, says: "It's a four-day event, giving a four weeks' buzz and a four-year business legacy." It has been estimated that GBP10m will be added to the region's economy from tourism alone over the four days, and Mrs Donovan, who said direct flights from India to the region's airports could be introduced in time for the awards, believes that figure will increase to GBP20m per year over the two years following the awards as a direct result of the event."

...wishful thinking on her part or informed speculation re Swefly I wonder? (no guarantee of course that LBA would be the airport the flights would operate from if they did happen)

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whether it is LBA or DSA whoever gets the odd press charter....it is a huge coup for Yorkshire...maybe at last, the YTB will show the lead... rather than the Peel arrogance or the LCC intransigence.

Yorkshire beat the best in the world....a combined effort...this brings millions to the region....it beat New York on this.........not Manchester.....if the combined forces of the Yorkshire cities could do this again...then........maybe the airports could do the same...

BTW....Swefly.its EMA and LTN for their UK departure points, rather obvious when you consider the main Indian population areas in the UK

Cork and Galway just announced from Aer Arann

BombardierCR7 - where did you get confirmation of the EMA and LTN Swefly programme?

Cork and Galway
 

Bombadier are you saying Cork and Galway are to served from Leeds by Aer Aerran ?