What are Flybe offering pax on cancelled flights - any effort to re-book or just a refund, I hope they are treating them reasonably for the future of the business, although customer loyalty doesn't count for much today so there isn't as much to lose as in the past.
Not sure that Connect Airways will be involved at the operational level yet. They may be not recruiting crew at the moment as they expect to need fewer to operate future schedules and possibly they have an idea where the routes are that are likely to go so allowing the brunt of disruption to fall there but that is as far as it goes. For all the bleating on here about DSA and CWL doing deals with local authorities/devolved governments so that an operator uses aircraft on unfavourable leasing terms they can't rid themselves of on routes which take holidaymakers on routes that are operated on commercially viable basis from an airport or airports just down the road is not a viable long term strategy for an airline. If I lived in Cardiff or Doncaster I wouldn't want my council tax to fund it. |
https://ukaviation.news/flybe-to-clo...-exeter-bases/
Well looks like I got that post in just in time - I have no connection with Flybe |
Originally Posted by 22/04
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What are Flybe offering pax on cancelled flights - any effort to re-book or just a refund, I hope they are treating them reasonably for the future of the business, although customer loyalty doesn't count for much today so there isn't as much to lose as in the past.
Not sure that Connect Airways will be involved at the operational level yet. They may be not recruiting crew at the moment as they expect to need fewer to operate future schedules and possibly they have an idea where the routes are that are likely to go so allowing the brunt of disruption to fall there but that is as far as it goes. For all the bleating on here about DSA and CWL doing deals with local authorities/devolved governments so that an operator uses aircraft on unfavourable leasing terms they can't rid themselves of on routes which take holidaymakers on routes that are operated on commercially viable basis from an airport or airports just down the road is not a viable long term strategy for an airline. If I lived in Cardiff or Doncaster I wouldn't want my council tax to fund it. |
Thanks for that and fair do's. t the risk of thread drift I think that is a valid strategy and one that has served SEN well - thought I also believe that with EMA DSA and LBA ( and arguably HUY) there are too many airports chasing too few customers in that area.
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I wonder if the way the airline was disposed of to Connect, separating it from FlyBe plc, might make it easier for the new owners to walk away from the deals with DSA and CWL? |
Originally Posted by G-FORZ
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My understanding is that FlyBe's arrangements at DSA are with Peel the airport operator not Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.
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Cardiff seems to be getting on ok with FR though - if they can make money they will fly from there.
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Flybe boss has just confirmed on the Radio that it is pulling out of Cardiff and Doncaster at the end of the summer, Jet ops to stop from Exeter as well at the end of the summer season, which was kind of expected if we are all honest.
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ith the 10 year contract that was signed in 2015 between Cardiff airport and Flybe On of the lessons people struggled to understand when I was in the pharma industry was it doesn't matter if you are right it's hard to win against a big company with their access to good lawyers. |
Originally Posted by NickBarnes
(Post 10437459)
Flybe boss has just confirmed on the Radio that it is pulling out of Cardiff and Doncaster at the end of the summer, Jet ops to stop from Exeter as well at the end of the summer season, which was kind of expected if we are all honest.
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So far the following 15 round trips have been cancelled. A number of flight are also showing delays of 60+ mins. BE122/BE121 GLA-BHD-GLA BE141/BE142 SOU-NCL-SOU BE153/BE154 ABZ-BHD-ABZ BE292/BE293 EDI-MAN-EDI BE321/BE322 ABZ-BHX-ABZ BE361/BE362 BHD-EMA-BHD BE400/BE403 BHX-BHD-BHX BE553/BE554 GLA-EMA-GLA BE731/BE732 BHD-LBA-BHD BE761/BE762 EDI-SOU-EDI BE845/BE846 EDI-BHX-EDI BE1013/BE1014 SOU-AMS-SOU BE1843/BE1844 BHX-BOD-BHX BE4471/BE4472 EMA-DUB-EMA BE4583/BE4584 CWL-VRN-CWL |
A wide selection of bases there, not just those mentioned for closure this morning. Is this a network-wide crew shortage which has somehow becone acute this morning, or is there a wider issue of discontent among all staff, not just those at CWL, EXT and DSA? |
I don't think you should read into it that deeply. There's a major crew shortage on top of the bad news this morning. That's it.
I'd be very surprised if the announced cuts today is the end of it. |
Frankly, I don't think anyone should be surprised that the Ejets are going. The article says that it is not the companies intention to make any pilot redundant however the prospect of going back onto the Dash might well lead to some looking for pastures new perhaps.
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Originally Posted by Reverserbucket
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Frankly, I don't think anyone should be surprised that the Ejets are going. The article says that it is not the companies intention to make any pilot redundant however the prospect of going back onto the Dash might well lead to some looking for pastures new perhaps.
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all jets to stop, just been on skynews
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It's difficult for the layman to understand how you can suddenly have both shortage of crew and forthcoming redundancies at the same time ...
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Would think it’s just the 195 s that are going |
Base Changes
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Expected the NWI sun routes to go but will the NWI-EXT run still be going on the Dash?
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