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Easyjet route planners will not think "what unserved routes can we open at an airport to give pax the maximum choice of holiday destinations". Instead they think "how can we deploy aircraft to get the maximum profit"
Easyjet know Birmingham is not a strategically important airport for Virgin long-haul, and Flybe/Connect are perhaps unlikely to defend their BHX routes heavily if facing strong competition from a well-funded rival. Or to put it a more crude way - Easyjet can smell blood in the water at Birmingham |
From EDI, EZY operate domestic rotations in the first wave (LGA, STN, LTN, BRS, BFS), and then the frames go to continental destinations such as Berlin and Geneva at a more civilised hour. Seems to work.
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More Spain/Canaries and Turkey will be the fillers. Dull but profitable im sure. Though TFS will no doubt go down a storm and BCN always seems underserved. MAD would have been nice. |
Originally Posted by ScotsSLF
(Post 10544672)
Finally some competition on this route. FlyBe have made some hay on it with prices sky high on occasion. I do though wonder if the market is big enough for two operators. |
Originally Posted by SealinkBF
(Post 10545375)
Just checked some Flybe fares. £34 each way doesnt seem like gouging. Probably last minute fares are higher...
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The Canadian shareholder meeting for TS/AC quoted "Air Canada plans to preserve the Transat and Air Transat brands and maintain the Transat head office and its key functions in Montreal. Travellers will benefit from the combined companies" Suppose that still doesn't mean there won't be consolidation. Can we honestly expect ACr and TS to continue to operate GLA-YYZ in parallel (in summer total 8 times per week)? |
GLA figures missing from the CAA provisional July stats. |
Looks like A380 on the PM rotation with EK to DXB confirmed again and bookable for S20. I heard this forms part of a 3 year 'deal' to stick with the A380 on the route. I think we all know what might happen after that... |
Originally Posted by VickersVicount
(Post 10555655)
GLA figures missing from the CAA provisional July stats. |
DXB
Originally Posted by CabinCrewe
(Post 10559462)
Looks like A380 on the PM rotation with EK to DXB confirmed again and bookable for S20. I heard this forms part of a 3 year 'deal' to stick with the A380 on the route. I think we all know what might happen after that... Pete |
A nice positive increase in DXB for July up 3%. Not bad with all the extra A380 seats and flood of capacity at EDI |
New route with Loganair to East midlands replacing the Flybe flight which is ending at the same time, overall a reduction in seats.
Good news though to see Loganair expand more! |
Blimey, Loganair really are the great survivor of my childhood. They're now back on most of the routes that they lost to Manx(Europe) or lost to the locos. There IS a place for UK domestic aviation outside London even in the age of Greta Thunderbird.
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Sorry but who or what is Greta Thunderbird? |
Originally Posted by willy wombat
(Post 10573712)
Sorry but who or what is Greta Thunderbird? |
Ah the one who reminds me of Peter Sellers in “Being There “. Gotcha |
Flybe are to end the GLA-MAN route from the 26th October, I never seen that coming, I wonder if Loganair will pick up the route?
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It just seems like yesterday that Loganair and Flybe were knocking lumps out of each other on GLA-MAN. |
FlyLoLo
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.b...tland-50011548 A lot more people losing their holidays. Surely they knew before the day of flights they didn’t have any planes. |
Originally Posted by GLAEDI
(Post 10591821)
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.b...tland-50011548 A lot more people losing their holidays. Surely they knew before the day of flights they didn’t have any planes. |
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