Sam

Routes that dont make money always have a countdown timer next to them.

While having an enthusiams for your local airport is good, dont be blinded to the basic business facts of running an airline. If people wont buy the seats, airlines wont fly the routes.

EMA's direct route network is still very healthy, and FR are the major reason why. As/When things pick up economoically you can be sure FR will open up new destinations, possibly ressurect ones that are not paying in these lean times.

EGNXEMA

Exactly - spot on!

FR Cutting Prague.
 

Last Flight Bookable is the 14th of July 2009:(.

Will leave only EZY On this Route.

Cheers.

OliWW - are you and SAM best mates?

The reason FR have chopped PRG is that there are no longer big groups of lads with the pocket cash to go on the lash for the weekend in PRG. The market has shrunk.

There is no way that any reasonable person, airline employee or enthusiast, can say that FR do not know how to advertise, schedule or make their fleet work for them.

Please! Keep with the program.

Here's a tip for all armchair "Route Planners" - read the business sections of your local and regional press. Know the corporates in the EMA region, feel the pulse of where the general travelling public in the EMA region is feeling like they have cash in their pocket to splash on a weekend away (ie house prices are going up) or if they are feeling poor (ie house prices going down and a number of local business closing/announcing redundancies). Many people may not actually be less well off than they were a year ago, but the certainly FEEL poorer and less likely to treat themselves.

Learning to do this will help all armchair airline route planners to better understand sound business decissions of FR EZY WW and EMA, and alsio make the watching more interesting.

This is not a dig - in no way am I wanting to wet OliWW and SAM's enthusiasm for all things EMA - but guys.........keep it real ay??

:ok:

My post was simply to confirm the loss of the INV route. I then chose to point out what routes have also been lost. At no point did I suggest any reasoning or anything related to the business of the airline / current situation. I'm certainly not disputing the loss of the routes were perfectly justified. I simply collated a list of lost routes. I fail to see what was so wrong with that.

SAM-EMA

Ryanair PRG
 

I am surprised at Ryanair coming off this route, given their alledged lower cost base and WW already off the route i would have thought it would support both Easy and Ryanair?

PRG is of course an expensive airport to operate into and i am sure Ryanair are not cutting because they are making money on it!

On a broader note is it something the airport operators worry about to have Ryanair come on to routes and drive other airlines off them for Ryanair to then pull off the route?

baby back to Prague for winter 09
 

Just announced EMA-PRG from Dec until March 2010 weekends + extra for Xmas

Or perhaps East Midlands pax just don't want to fly RYR...
even if the tickets are £0.99!!

Binder

Yep.. nail on head I suspect. Certainly for me RYR is very much last chance saloon. Always check their price, but massively loather to undergo the "RYR experience."

Or perhaps, FR made a sound decision. How well is it going for U2? Yields not bums on seats count. Ryr have tried several routes and unfortunatley people weren't travelling!

"The last chance saloon", Helicraig FR provide some of the cheapest most efficient air travel to the airline industry with one of the highest on time performances. So even thought their your last resort you still check them for prices:E So you must look at them first and compare??

The flying harp will outlive the flying scouser (orange)

Flying Scouser?! Last time I checked, easyJet was founded by a Greek and is based in Luton, nowhere near Merseyside...

easyJet must have been doing alright on EMA-Prague if Ryanair decided they wanted a piece of the action as well. If there was only enough of a market for one airline, and easyJet were already on it, would Ryanair risk a fight to try and push them off? If that was their intention, it obviously hasn't worked. And now bmibaby are starting it up again as well, so obviously there must be a market there.

Fortunately, Ryanair don't have everything their own way...

EMA introduces pay for fast track
 

I see the money men at EMA have decided that they have made security such a hassel that they can now charge £3.50 a pax to bypass the snake that yesterday went into the Easy/Ryanair tent.

Well you can turn up early and spend even more time in the shops & bars

But i guess after you have been raped by Ryanair/Baby/easyjet for everthing from printing a board card to paying for passport details to be entered, you wont mind another few quid to escape the crowd and drink over priced beer and under cooked food.

I am alone in thinking that its getting to the point where its all too much hassel, i think airlines and airport companies are worse at ripping you off than estate agents,car dealerships and double glazing companies put together.

They'll be want you to stand on the aircraft next.......deep joy, glad i am not starting out in this industry, just a couple of more years to do, i don't think i'll miss it

Sadly Inkjet, you're not alone. I'm so fed up with cancelled flights, security, the hassle of waiting around airports (shopping halls), the rip off add-ons to flights etc that I've decided that my next trip up to Edinburgh from EMA will be by car. I looked at the rail alternative and the price of that is ridiculous as well.

...and 'yes' I know that the relative final price of the flights are cheap compared to what they were before the advent of the locos. BUT it just riles me to have to part with money just to pay for the ticket. That and 65p a minute to contact reservations to rearrange a flight that they cancelled in the first place.

Whinge over .....

Kiss Flights Egypt HESH.
 

I See the Koral Blue Airline A319 Was in again today. Starting last wednesday The 1st of July. Anyone know how many seat are on this A319. Looks a long flight 4 a 319. Over 5 hours From HESH. Anyone heard how loads have been on the 1st two flights.

Thanks njtcf.

Flying - too much hassle
 

Flying within mainland UK makes little sense really. The obsession with security, baggage restrictions (what you can carry - again security realted), check-in queues, security queues, boarding queues, waits at baggage carousels - thats before the car parking costs.

No, there is a better way - the train, if you can afford it, and even driving on our crowded roads is preferable.

There would have to be a compelling reason why I would fly domestically for pleasure - business possibly though, but only if time really is an imperative, over a long distance.

Maybe a new thread should be created for all of you to whinge to each other about UK domestic flying!?!

Nobody's making you travel by aircraft, but I know that as an individual within the industry I will always support this method of travel and my local airport.