Ok, Thanks.

T3’s weekday flights from ABZ-NWI are showing as being operated by BMI Regional on behalf of Eastern Airways through until the end of the S18 schedule. Flights are operated by a ER4. From what I can gather the lease began just a day after BM dropped there own service on the route.

Does anyone know why they have just not continued to operate one of there own aircraft on the route?

I see that Eastern are using the Saab 2000 more on the NCL-CWL route. I guessing this is due to crew availability as should be a J41.

BAladdy
 

They've closed NWI as a base.

Talking about ABZ I see they evacuated on the runways yesterday.

BAladdy They've closed NWI as a base
 

BMIR &/or Eastern?

If the latter is the writing in the wall for others? Bristows have facilities at ABZ

Can you expand on that?

Eastern have closed their NWI base.

bmi are now operating the flights on behalf of Eastern, but from ABZ and timings from Bmi’s former schedule.

Eastern are closing NWI as a base and wet leasing BMIR for the NWI-ABZ route.

Given they are a small scale operator will that result in job losses at Norwich?

Now that eastern airways have two atr72-600 do they just operate on the Aberdeen to scatsta to Aberdeen services only.

The ATRs have been through Leeds Bradford a few times recently.

Those days are long gone now, and they won't be back.

The ABZ based ATR72 seems to operate the ABZ-LBA-SOU-LBA-ABZ rotation on a Sunday.

Anyone fancy having a punt on when RL and BH will just give up with their airfix airline.........?

BH has gone. Rumours of a major row in the office in January and the Companies House records list him as having resigned on 31 January.

Pity anyone left. BH was one of the very few who was a calming influence on RL's more outlandish tendencies.

The rumours of the J41 fleet's days being numbered are interesting. Anyone aware of a definitive plan to retire them? Hope Duxford have room for one.

Seems they are being parked depending what they need done when they go in for heavy maintenance, if it's too much they are being parted out for the remainder of the fleet.

There is a ER4 that has come over from Nigeria, in Bristow paint scheme... are we going to start seeing more paintwork like this across the fleet?

I'd imagine the crews would be moved to another base, but depending how long said crew decide to stick it out at a base miles from home is anyone's guess!

Monday to Friday will be pretty much SCS flying, and once that's done for the day they may be used to cover tech/delays on the schedule. With no SCS flying at weekends, perhaps they cover flying on Sunday's for maintenance on the forever tech Saab's!?

"ATR", singular! ;) The second one, G-IACZ, only arrived in Aberdeen yesterday morning, a day late due to Wx.

Presumably depends on what happens with the flyBe deal?