Highland Airways
 

I see from their website that Highland Airways is getting a Beech 1900. Are they moving away from the Jetstreams or is this for longer routes (quicker than J31?).

The Be1900 could be for the Cardiff - Valley route with the Jetstream moving back upto Inverness

WNC

It is an ACMI lease to evaluate the aircraft. It's exact disposition is yet to be determined, but it will be put to good use.
The Jetstreams are still going 'strong' (!) and recruitment onto type is still happening so unlikely to be binned just yet...

Is there a crew base at Cardiff or do Highland just rotate the crews between Cardiff and Inverness?

No there is a crew base at CWL.

with a crew and aircraft based at Cardiff, i'm very supprised that they haven't opened up another route for 2 sectors which they could do as Eastern Airways did with the BRU and the NCL.

I wonder if Highland would stick around once the 3 year funding has gone

Has Hiway got its Islander for the Hebridean services yet? I see they aren't advertising for an Islander pilot any more.
NS

An aircraft has been located and is being surveyed. A pilot has been recruited for the role, subject to a probationary period.

Highland route to Angelsey from CWL is doing very well - higher than ever anticipated. Average load of 12 passengers per flight with majority operating to capacity.

A larger aircraft would benefit this route such as a J41.........this will then give the range for additional services ex CWL. You would have though they would have looked at CWL-GCI or CWL-IOM especially on the weekends as these two destinations are not served direct from CWL.

Lets hope they spot this market for the Summer 2008 season !!!

The Cardiff-Valley service originated from a political imperative from the Welsh Assembly that there should be better transport links connecting North and South Wales, backed by a hefty subsidy from the UK taxpayer, not from any commercial considerations by Hiway, and their commitment to the publicly-funded Valley service will always take precedence over any other use of the aircraft.
NS

Is Angelsey - Cardiff purely an outbound market or is there reasonable traffic at the CWL end as well?

Loads are good on both sector - average 130 passengers per Mon-Fri on outbound sectors ex CWL - this is what I have been told by someone in the know !!!

Nice. That's a 72% load factor.

Highland Airways
 

Hi Guys,
Can anyone update me on the fleet information for Highland, are they still using all the Jetstream 31's?
They have received 2 Jetstream 41's with 2 more to come, anyone know what for?
Also, what routes do they operate apart from the scheduled ones? (i.e flights for BAE Systems etc) I've found the Warton - Filton...are there any more?

Cheers,
Sam

highland wales
 

they also fly cardiff to angelsey twice daily m-f with jetstream

Hello,

From what I can gather from G-INFO and various other places they have:
6x J31s (G-BTXG, G-CCPW, G-EIGG, G-JURA, G-LOVB, G-UIST)
1x F406s (G-LEAF and they also operate the 2x on behalf of the SFPA (G-SFPA and G-SFPB)
1x BN2 (G-SEIL)
1x J41 (G-TEXA with another arriving in the near future)

As far as routes go:
They do the newspaper runs for the Northern and Western Isles flying to Stornoway, Kirkwall and Sumburgh.
They have a PSO contract flight running between Inverness, Stornoway and Benbecula
They have another PSO contract flying between Anglesey (Mona) and Cardiff using a J31
The Islander will (eventually!) be used for flights between Oban, Coll, Colonsay and Tiree.
I think they also have 2x J31s flying for BAe beteen Warton and Cambridge and also do Oil exploration flights to Ireland (Cork, Shannon, Waterford) as well as to Norway (Bergen, Stavanger) and the Faroes (Vagar).
The J41 as far as I know will be used for BAe on the same flights as the 2x J31s (more pax!)

according to latest EBAN they have two J41s on order. Basil quoted as saying "a 12 month contract is lined up to provide a corporate shuttle from Scotland to the South west". Starting early summer. Eastern are bringing on more SAABs to replace the 41s:ok:

Jetstreamtechrecords

I believe that Eastern would like to get more Saab 2000's but there are none available, there was only ever 54 built and 1 of them was written off. I do believe however that the INV-AMS codeshare is now back on, watch this space

I do believe that G-MAJN is at this minute been checked out by Highland at Eastern, this aircraft was operating in Norway and was due to be sold to the Norwegians but the route on which it was operating for some company has decided to close it, and therefore a/c not now needed.

Just for the record, 63 Saab 200s were built. 2 have been written off.

Indeed there is almost zero availability. The last examples that came on the market were the ex Régional aircraft and they were quickly snapped up.

Cheers guys, I knew about the scheduled flights (eg what's on the website) BAe flights are hard to find information about. Can anyone tell me what sort of frequency/times the BAe flights are/or the newspaper runs.
So if the J41's will take over on the BAe flights from the J31's where will they put the extra 31's?