Well if it is true we should just remember that just like a football club being bigger than any player an airport must be bigger than an airline!

MME can survive without bmi sad as it may be given the history between the two-worldwide connections will move over to KLM (who would perhaps go to a fokker 100 or 4 daily on the F70) and a london service would be offered to LGW or STN by either GSM or FR (similiar to their BLK-STN route)

If bmi are planning it I wish they'd get on with it!let's face it the future of bmi the company is in as much jeopardy!

on a more niggling note having to fly from LBA later this week to CDG on LS-any ideas when/if MME will offer this service again. What were the WW loads like?surely with disneyland paris and the attraction of paris itself this could be offered by GSM along with Rome and maybe PRG?Definately would like to see more city break destinations being offered!

DTV

I think it has also been quoted though by someone else on BMI thread and in the press that the number sold isnt far off or is in fact equal to the number acquired through the BMED purchase - prehaps a little scaremongering going on working out which routes are impacted by the sell off but you never know he may have it right - although why sell at all and to your biggest competitor at an apparently knockdown price is a mystery!

Does anyone know what the incident was this morning causing disruption to flights at DTV?

An unidentified bag was found apparently, the Midland 330 was held at Delta 2 for about an hour with its pax onboard, obviously it can't get up to Stands 11-15 because work is on-going on that taxiway, (there is lots of holes in it where they have been digging lol) The Midland came in about 0745 and the terminal building didn't open till about 1000 this morning, no flights had departed before then!

S Insania

I think you are wrong there, Easterns Brussels and Aberdeen had already gone by then

Yeh, your correct..a woopsie by me :ugh: They obviously got out before the terminal shut then nothing left lol

MME4eva wrote
Your'e not being serious there are you? (are you???:rolleyes: )

Something seemed a little strange last night @ MME. I wonder if anyone has any information.

I landed on the KL1539 at around 22.10, and parked up was the BMI RJ, presumably ready for its late Heathrow rotation. At the same time though, a BMI airbus was just taking off, though I don't know to where. Why were there 2 BMI aircraft on the ground at once? Aren't we supposed to be all ERJ operations now?

It may have been a delay on the earlier LHR rotation?I thought we were all embraers now but without being a bmi-hater you never know they might have mixed and matched it again!!

I dont think im the only one here to say bmi might not be around for much longer..if only due to a merger rather than financial ineptitude!!

The evening BD338/8WT came in last night and was an Embraer! Though when it got up here it went tech! As they couldn't fix the problem in time they cancelled the flight but didn't bring up a spare or anything!
The night BD340/9WT came up and was about half an hour early, they obviously needed to bring a bigger aircraft up to put both sets of pax on, therefore they brought the Airbus A319!
The Embraer then started up at about 2230 as Midland 5TW ie the 339 obviously with no passengers on though! It taxied out to the Bravo and asked if it could do a high powered taxi down the runway so it could test out the breaks (the technical problem was with the breaks). It did this run and then taxied back down to the 23 end and took-off safely back to LHR!

Thanks for the replies...answers the questions perfectly!

Durham Winter 07 Released
 

Flights for W07 released:

ALC - Thurs/Sun departure
ACE - Sun departure NEW ROUTE
AGP - Mon/Wed/Sat departure
PMI - Saturday departure
TFS - Tues/Fri departure - Increased Frequency from W06

At the moment, only 1 A/C utilised - more route to perhaps GVA, LPA?

Unfortunately, judging from the dialogue used in Flyg's press release, the winter is dropping to a single-aircraft base operation.

Still a very sensible choice of routes however! :)

MME-WAW starting on 20 July instead of 28 July due to early delivery of new aircraft.

There is a very interesting if sad article in todays "Independant" newspaper. It's the lead in the travel section.

Independent article
 

Link here - if he'd arrived by car he could have mentioned the road signs (last weekend still stated "Teesside airport" on the A1 and A19...)

http://travel.independent.co.uk/news...cle2467315.ece

GSM Maybe should have put some city routes up for winter

Charter flights start Soon :}

Independent Article
 

Having read the ‘Independent’ article then it does paint a rather bleak picture on the area, whilst being fact based. It is a fine example in illustrating that that the saying ‘there is no such thing as bad publicity’ is well wide of the mark !
If it wasn’t for the likely development potential of the land at DTV possibly in some cases with projects with only tenuous links to aviation, then I wonder if Peel would still be around?:E
Although on a lesser scale the case of Sheffield springs to mind !:(

On a brighter note, Wizz flights now start on 13th July, more than 2 weeks earlier than originally planned. They are operating a non-standard schedule in the first 2 weeks of Mon, Wed, Fri flights, before moving to the standard Mon, Wed, Sat from the original launch date (28th). I see they move back to Mon, Wed, Fri from October however.

As for FlyGlobespan, well hopefully they have started encouragingly with loads/yields. Their mix of low cost flights alongside holiday packages should do them well! The winter is shaping up to be a good one for them, more to be released yet as the schedule does not even fill up one aircraft never mind two (if they keep two over the winter).

Summer season starts properly a week today!

GSM winter routes
 

A good set of destinations offered again by GSM that should prove very popular with MME-ers:)

I too hope to see more city breaks offered as there is definately holes to plug in this regard e.g. CDG, PRG and maybe GVA which would be popular for skiiers too!

After all of the good news lately with Wizz and FlyGlobespan, there had to be some bad news....

Thomsonfly look set to drop the based aircraft after this summer, next summer (2008) is showing just two flights, one to Alicante on a Tuesday operated by the Newcastle base (on a W) and also a Saturday Ibiza operated by Air Europa. Of course this could all change as there is a long way to go yet til next summer, but I wouldn't expect the based aircraft to return!