Suspect this is a case of Chinese Whispers and the press release actually refers to additional flights on Sunday mornings, not every morning?

Easy go-around
 

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/...r-conditions1/

Can't recall what the weather conditions were like 28/3 but I think there was one day last week that it was bla'ing a hooly.

Better safe than sorry, but interesting apparent remark by one of the pilots about the runway being 'too short'... just like the good old days.

Yes, runways are generally too short if you land too far along them :rolleyes:

flyVLM
 

VLM Airlines starting 3 weekly Antwerp to Aberdeen route from 4 June 2018.

Standard procedure, nothing to see here!

Antwerp
 

VLM thread saying one service is direct, others via BHX.

Sounds like another Groningen or Esbjerg to me. Specialist oil route, limited demand, why hasn't anyone else tried it before now.

Thought we might get a RTM before ANR.

However will be nice to see VLM here, let's see how they go.

What's the oil interest in Antwerp??

It’s more renewables and decom out of Antwerp. Lots of heavy lift vessel providers in Antwerp and Rotterdam

VLM’s timetable

VO172 ABZ 13:10 ANR 16:10 F50 1
VO174 ABZ 13:10 14:40 BHX 15:10 ANR 17:35 F50 35

VO171 ANR 11:40 ABZ 12:40 F50 135

That’s a long way in a F50! Can’t see this lasting terribly long.

T3 will will take over operating BE’s LCY service from 07MAY18. Flights will be operated by a 50 seat S2000 11 x weekly (2 flights on weekdays and 1 flight on Sunday).

Long term T3 plan to replace the S2000 with a E70 (S2000 showing as operating through until at least November)

BE7611 ABZ 07:15 LCY 09:05 S20 x67
BE7616 ABZ 17:10 LCY 19:00 S20 x6

BE7612 LCY 09:35 ABZ 11:10 S20 x67
BE7617 LCY 19:30 ABZ 21:05 S20 x6

Eastern Airways to take over LCY-Aberdeen route | Buying Business Travel

Flights are currently operated by a 78 seat DH4 12 x weekly (2 x daily Mon-Fri & 1 x daily Sat/Sun)

So effectively BE have dropped LCY and T3 are taking it over.

The lead in fares are also at typical T3 eye-watering levels, £100 o/w (minimum, often even higher!) This is about a 75% premium over other options - who in their right mind would pay that for Eastern’s unreliability which has been discussed ad nauseam???

Also, TUI released S19 schedules today and LPA is dropped in favour of a W with GLA which is surprising as, load wise at least, it has performed well. I wonder if there might be something on a scheduled front in the offing for S19?

The 4th weekly PMI is a 2300-0600 sector on a Saturday evening/Sunday morning in peak season only.

Wideroe E290
 

Doubt we'll ever see them on schedules here (I'm hoping for some reverse psychology!!) but Wideroe's first jet & launch customer for the E190-2 presumably arrived at ABZ on its delivery flight, routing LPA-ABZ-BGO. I've seen shots of it (not at ABZ) & it does look impressive.

I thought they had bought some C series?

From what I read they looked at CS100 and ruled them too large for their ops.

easyJet
 

Looking at the EZY W18/19 release this morning and it appears that the Wednesday GVA flight is gone, only bookable on Saturdays from what I can see.

Sumburgh is seeing a significant increase in pax numbers due to increases in oil industry traffic;

Hial highlights growth in passenger numbers at Sumburgh | The Shetland Times Ltd

The whole focus of oil exploration and production is moving north to replace the declining reserves further south.

Mission....
 

They're trying, bless 'em.

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/...-destinations/

Leeds thread suggests LBA next for the chop.

More positively, Riga flights restarted today for S18.