Citywing
 

With routes from the Isle of Man Airport seemingly disappearing one at a time, week by week - does this increase the chance we will see more routes from this ticketing agent?

Citywing
 

Hopefully not

Citywing
 

I hope so.

In November 2012, Manx2 rebranded as Citywing and picked a new logo with a strong similiarity to that of Tame in Ecuador. It ended up with Citywing agreeing to change their logo to something else.

Both companies still seem to have a very similiar blue pseudo-bird logo. Anyone know what's happening with the matter ?
https://www.tame.com.ec/
Citywing - Cheap flights with Citywing
Citywing to modify logo after TAME objection

New Glasgow route
 

I see citywing are to commence the Glasgow route from March 31st after talks with the Alex Salmond in the summer,


Flights between Scotland and Isle of Man take off | Citywing News

What was the reason that heads of Govt needed to be involved in the es?tablishment of an air route ?
Is Citywing beholden to political pressure, or did Govt have to provide some sort of cash subsidy ?

there's no show without Punch?

Interesting that the Citywings press release uses the description:

Probably less irritating for the travelling public than "citywing is a Czech airline registered as VAN AIR Europe a.s"

City wings
 

And carefully not mentioning previous company name and this weeks report,
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New Glasgow routes and subsidies are a bit vague these days, seems their chambers of commerce can offer cash incentives to lure airlines from other Scottish airports. I doubt Government subsidies are involved. One must of course also suspect similar IOM business involvement.

Really?
 

"seems their chambers of commerce can offer cash incentives to lure airlines from other Scottish airports". I'd love to see the evidence behind this claim Mr Curry.

Here we go again.... and one with familiar common denominator....:yuk:

Yup, common denominator indeed. Any opportunity to disparage Glasgow is this poster's raison d'etre. Even route announcements at his "beloved" airport are twisted to be a dig at Glasgow.

The IOM government identified a market that isn't currently served. Get over it!

Troll.

Was Gordon Dewar 'trolling'?

Edinburgh Airport chief claims public purse used to lure services to Glasgow - Scotsman Tablet

And you reckon Gordon Dewar hasn't spoken to the various public bodies in Edinburgh about doing similar? Get a life. If he hasn't looked at all sources of available 'support monies' both public and private then he is naive and incompetent, both of which I doubt if he is. You really want to remove that huge chip from your shoulder.

Anyone know if City wing are using Van Air let410 or links air j32 for their new Glasgow route? Did notice a j32 buzzing down the Ayrshire coast, past few days around the time the flight is due

Its the Jetstream, although I don't know which is worse.
Let was operating to GLA today though !

Pity Citywing don't operate something slightly larger than a J31, they'd be perfect to take on the now vacant IOM-LTN route

Citywing don't operate anything, they are a ticketing agency pretending to be an airline. The nature of that veneer is evident from a perusal of the accident report on the Manx2 Metroliner accident in Cork.

The fact that they are allowed to continue this pretence is down to a loophole in the CAA regulations relating to aircraft with 19 seats or fewer. If Citywing operated something "slightly larger" than a J31 they would have to become a real airline, with the oversight and safety systems that go with that. :cool:

This is not to cast any aspersions at all on Links Air, who fly for them and who by all accounts are a reputable carrier. But as the Manx2 report made clear, the "ticketing agency" wasn't carrying out any meaningful oversight or auditing of the carriers who flew for it. For the passengers it was therefore the luck of the draw whether you got a good carrier (e.g. Links Air) or you didn't (Air Lada/Flightline BCN).

Manx2
 

Went to manx2.com and the detail on the page made for interesting reading. Stated that Manx2 ceased trading end of 2012 and all queries should be directed to Spain. Clearly little changed except the brand on the aircraft and the metros were gone ... They did a good job of distancing themselves from the reputation damage that was manx2 and the cork crash ...