EXETER
 

:bored:anybody got any info on whats in flybe maintance hangars or due in, have not seen much outside lattley, seems very slow just the stored planes being checked.

Are there still ex-BA Connect/Flybe 145s in there?

Most of what has been in recently can be seen here Flickr: Exeter International - EGTE along with some other classic shots. Don't think that any of the E45's are still inside.

BB are selling there 60% stake in the airport.

As an employee of "Said" Airport I'd be interested if you could provide some evidence for making that statement. Thanks

I am only going on what I have read in the news.

Balfour Puts Exeter Airport Stake On Runway

Balfour Beatty to sell Exeter Airport - Telegraph

Balfour Beatty ?seeks bidders? for Exeter Airport stake | News | Construction News

Based on "reports" and the original post should ave read "reportedly selling there 60%....."

It's not like I just randomly made it up lol. Exeter airport will be fine anyways, if flybe weren't in such a finial position I could see them wanting to buy the stake.

Cheers, as usual the Staff get to find out last.....

This has now been sold by Balfour Beatty.

Exeter joins Coventry!
 

Balfour Beatty has sold its majority interest in Exeter Airport to Rigby Group division Patriot Aerospace.

The sale of the 60 per cent stake is for an undisclosed sum and the proceeds of the deal are to be used to repay Balfour Beatty's funders. The company added that the carrying value of its investment had been written down to nil in 2012.

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Rigby Group Acquires Exeter International Airport | Airports International | The Airport Industry online, the latest airport industry news

Only in name.

Two quite different airport scenarios, ours was bought because of the attractive development opportunities around it.

This thread seems quite quiet, but I have always understood BE yields from EXT to be quite reasonable, although I doubt there's the volume of catchment to bring in many other players.

So presumably it is business as usual at EXT, or is there some development land included with the deal? That's not my understanding of the airport site.

Peter Rigby made his money as an IT reseller. Could someone explain to me the knowledge and expertise he brings that will turn Exeter (and Coventry) airports into thriving hubs ?

Peter rigby wants to buy plymouth city airport and turn it into a heliport now.

Well he runs the largest fleet of helis in the UK, has his own little Citationjet and a couple of hotels in Devon and Somerset, so Exeter could be quite useful....will he move British International Helis from Newquay to Exeter...or Plymouth if he buys that too?

I can't see the logic in this. Surely the whole point of helis is they can get in and out of very small places. If there's a runway capable of taking fixed wings at both ends, the fixed wings win every time.

The cost per mile of running a heli must be several times more than even a twotter with all the dangly bits still hanging (sorry, not in a techie mood today).

So even PLH is more than twice the distance back from Penzance, and Exeter - well why?

Bodmin is a licensed aerodrome, Penzance demonstrates that those flying thingies with their dangly bits don't need a strip of tarmac to do whatever they do to get in to the air, so why a sought after piece of real estate such as Plymouth never mind EXT?

I guess they'd need Plymouth to tech stop for fuel en-route to/from EXT!

He'd be better off on Perranporth

Bodmin has an A30 and a railway!

... and sits in the clouds

Robin,

Put it this way, and I remember it vividly being on duty that day, where did 20 fatalities perish due to cr@p weather on 16 July 1983, arriving/departing the mainland or arriving/departing the islands?

I believe BIH have the FOST Contract to run the Dauphins for the Navy that used to be based in Plymouth. They presumably moved to NQY when PLH closed so that they were still close to FOST operations (eg, Thursday wars) in the SW approaches.

Heliport for Plymouth
 

And here's a link to an article about Sir Peter's interest in Plymouth airport...

Plan to 'reopen' Plymouth City Airport with helicopters | Plymouth Herald

How many heliports does Plymouth need?

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...um/5668536.jpg

Good question! Staddon Heights seems to be fairly busy with several visiting helicopters most days.

For whoever asked, all BIH choppers including the FOST aircraft moved to a hangar at NQY when PLH closed.

Well all apart from those deployed to the Falklands.


cs

Looks like Balkan holidays have quietly dropped this summers flights from Exeter to Bourgas

This happened a couple of years ago as well , noticed they have added Newquay as departure point for 2 flights next year but no Exeter

Flybe W13
 

Is EXT losing its based E195 because looking at the connections timetable it would suggest the Spanish routes are served on W pattern from SOU for the winter?

Will this mean EXT will only have 2 Q400s?

Thought the 190s were leaving the fleet ?


cs

I believe it's losing it's 195 for the Winter. 4 are meant to be parked for the Winter, temporarily replaced by the 4 175s arriving over the winter. The 195s are due back for the Summer 2014, when the 4 175s due over the Winter will then replace Q400s.

I dont think all the E195s will leave, they were on 6 year leases I believe but deliveries were scattered. Not sure what Flybe's strategy is because they have openly said they want to take more advantage of leisure routes - and this is reconfirmed by the increase in sun routes for S13 and S14. Will there be any other jet replacement to allow these to continue? The E175s are much more limited on range are they not?

Also are the jets being parked in one location or are they scattered across the network as hot spares?

re: new routes
 

Will there be any routes from Exeter that are not sun routes or charter operations?? Surely there is demand for more routes within the UK and Ireland and new routes to countries such as Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Denmark/Norway/Sweden??

Petey156 - not quite sure what you mean, there are a number of city/key business destinations in addition to sun routes available from Exeter.

Year round:
Amsterdam
Paris
Dublin
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Belfast
Manchester
Newcastle
Jersey
Guernsey

Summer:
Dusseldorf

Winter
Salzburg
Geneva

Those that are seasonal, are very difficult to operate year round with BRS up the road. However it would be nice to see some of them operate more frequently especially GVA and DUS

BRU has been tried and died an awful death. I think Rome or Milan would do quite well

There are also many more routes available via Paris, Amsterdam and Manchester with various interline and code share arrangements; Sydney, Bangkok, Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong, Delhi, Johannesburg, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Madrid etc my flight to Exeter from Sydney cost the same as flying to London but was certainly more convenient- Manchester Airport was a breeze in comparison to Heathrow.

flybe grenoble
 

just heard on heart radio add winter ski routes fro exeter to geneva, chambery, and grenoble new route, no salzburg on add. so grenoble new route.

just seems as though all new routes that are being announced are leisure routes or additional frequency on destinations already served.

Thomson are having a tinker about with there flights for next summer

Bodrum has been dropped and Dalaman has been moved into the Thursday slot instead of Friday and is now operated by Thomson based B738 instead of using the Onur Air A321 this year

Still no news on which airline is operating the new Crete service

Flybe to axe three routes from Exeter Airport | Exeter Express and Echo

Newcastle ends 28 March, seasonal Barcelona and Nice will not reappear for summer 2014

I hope somebody takes up the NCL flights...pax figures seemed to be on an upward trend.

Thomson / First choice holidays have released there winter 2014 / 15 programme and an extra service to Tenerife has been introduced on a Saturday taking the number of flights to 3 a week

Aegean Airlines is operating the new route to Crete next summer with Air Europa to Las Palmas and Nouvelair to Tunisia all on behalf of Thomson Holidays