Looks like its stopping.

Will have to use the EZY service at the weekends.

NSNO

Usually do, but it's nice to have an alternative.

Am I the only one who is thinking that this take-over of Bacon is looking a little shaky? Obviously there must be sticky points to negotiate,and I'm not convinced that fruition is inevitable.

Why give £15 million of your business to BA,when you could just let Bacon close and have free range to fly any of those routes you wanted without competition?
(You would have to be quick though,as other airlines would also have free range!). You would also have jobless crews begging for work at your terms.

Anybody know if pen has been put to paper yet?

FLYBE -Oshkosh George
 

I read your post re Why give £15 million of your business to BA,
I understand that BA are to gain 15% shareholding in the new enlarged Flybe/BAconnect business.

Flybe are gaining a whole new raft of services , staff and the withdrawl of BA. Surely you confused 15% with 15Million???

The overall details of the deal were not revealed . But it has been mentioned that BA will sell its shareholding in FLybe when the company goes on the SE.

BA obviously have confidence in Flybe's ability to remove cost from the business and make the new business a profitable one. Clearly JimFrench and his team have achieved alot in the last few years.

I predict that BA will keep there share holding in flybe and probably increase it as time goes on.

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Flybe are gaining a whole new raft of services , staff and the withdrawl of BA. Surely you confused 15% with 15Million???---End quote

You're quite right,I did! My point still stands,however,that the above gains would have come without BA gaining 15% of the business.

My dad reckons he read somewhere that Flybe are starting services to Bulgaria from EXT. Is he right?

they said that they were looking at Eastern Europe

It would make some sense. The E195 has range and payload advantages that the 146 never had, and Bulgaria is a booming budget holiday destination and increasingly popular choice for 2nd home owners. With 2 E195s to fill by the summer out of EXT, a few new routes would be just the job.

From what i have heard the deal will be completed Tomorrow 14th of Feb, does anybody know if this is correct?

BAR BACON and FLYBE @ BHX
 

My brother who works for BAR at BHX has been told that they will be expected to work now until May. They will be "Taught" to use the Flybe check-in system and work along-side Swissport employees on the ground at BHX, still managed by BAR managers. Very few of the staff were happy to do so! BHX will retain only 5 ER4 from BACON for use on "european scheduled routes along with E195" The fleet of DH8s will be used for domestic and French routes.

Looks like BHX will see a further erosion in served destinations and frequencies.
Daza

The fleet of DH8's won't be used for much at all. The first four will be handed back by the end of July with the last 3 following shortly after.

Precarious times for all of us in this dying company.

skiddy

Maybe dead would be a better phrase skiddy!

Get out soon fella, save yourself!.

And what about INV / IOM TO LGW ?

What about INV/IOM to LGW.:E

It would be nice to know what is happening to the routes, if only so that people could actually book flights for summer holidays with a tiny bit of confidence that they are actually going to operate or are BACON going to introduce self-drive flights if the deal gets delayed much longer.

Not to worry though I am sure our Dept of Transport has a plan B up its sleeve:E

How about the full timetable now the take over is almost there????

Or is it not fully there yet?

Is there more to come out of this mess?

Not only aircraft problems but staff??

Cynics might say that all this was a plan by BA to have the staff leave of their own accord saving all the associated costs of redundancy etc or it could be there is some major brinkmanship going on here

At the rate it is going is there going to be much left for Flybe to take over?.

Yeah I meant the two routes into LGW that are served by BA Connect ! Would like to know who is taking these routes over !

Just been on the news a Flybe Q400 has been in a ground collision at Manchester. Anybody know anymore?