An extra 220 seats per day. Who's going to fill them. And, to who's cost ?

Wait and see what further announcements come from Flybe's new management in early December! Also, Blue Islands' pricing policy is more transparent and much more user-friendly that the BE convolutions/rules and regulations.

were is the ATR72 coming from !! ex !!

I'm not favouring either operator; my point being that there is simply not the demand for 450+ seats per day between EGJB & EGHI.
Someone is going to get badly burned !

c/n 529 - a/c heading to Billund first....

You missed my point which was rather vague I admit........wait and see what BE has to say when the new management makes public its strategy in early December.

OK. Will wait with baited breath !

Flybe's plan is currently due to be announced along side their results, which I think is something like the 11th November

G-ISLI
 

MSN 529. Ex American Eagle

Rumour of another ATR in March.
J32's therefore to be retired.
Would GCI-LCY work and would it be able to sustain adequate traffic numbers?

G-ISLI Delivered Yesterday :)

I wonder if Blue would look at SOU-LBA a route being dropped by BE, seems logical to me to try and increase their presence at SOU.

Could Blue Islands be a potential future operator of the now axed Flybe services from Luton?

If they fancy ferrying 12/13 people to and from Luton in the height of summer. But then again they may price it more sensibly than Flybe.

Was that a typical load factor on Flybe?


The route has done well previously so perhaps pricing was the issue in which case Blue Islands could perhaps make it work

Why should they cannibalize the LCY service? In fact, any seasonal summer service to London that is axed could potentially shift passengers to the LCY service. As that service probably sees less demand during the summer than at other times of the year, it appears to be more sensible to make some cheaper tickets available on those flights than run a dedicated LTN service that leaves both services with half empty planes. It is not as if JER passengers could go for a LHR service instead of LTN anymore....

I think they could really up their game now, but depends what's viable. I mentioned in the Cardiff thread that they could do well serving the CWL CDG route in a W pattern from JER. That could work i think. Not really many regional operators left.

To me the problem is that BE was not able to operate the Q400 profitably despite the fact that a Q400 can break even with less than 50 per cent load. (at least that is what was always said about the great economics of the Q400). How could SI expect to operate an ATR42 profitably given that the trip costs are not much different from the Q400 and the typical SI fare is much higher, meaning that they will only be able the non-price sensitive part of the market and the higher fares are waterred down by less passengers?

Eastern are takin it on

Eastern is taking it on - this was referring to Jerbourg's suggestion that BCI would maybe like to do LBA SOU!