Lets not mention the ASL 737 in BHD though.....

It wasn't great but not the worst idea.

Unlikely, but could IAG show any interest given that a lot of the EI regional routes are DUB feeders? Terrible timing though.

independent.ie reporting EIN regional ops have now gone out to tender.

https://www.independent.ie/business/...-39580887.html

I bet Cityflier bid...........

In many ways that notion makes a lot of sense with perhaps the capacity of the EMB being the largest drawback.

I very much doubt it. CF management do not have the capacity to think outside the box. Under the current manager they have no desire to operate anything other than the LCY operation. The current leadership team withdrew CF from the regional summer flying program before we’d even heard of COVID-19. That summer flying boosted CF revenue by millions per year.

IAG Board/management v CFE management one wonders who is ultimately the stronger then?

Are the management that poor that they would withdraw if it was profitable flying ? Revenue doesn’t necessarily equate to profit.

RJ100

I'm sure it did but I'm assuming that the additional positioning in/out costs every week weren't insignificant....

The question was...
In the event would the CFE management be capable of withstanding pressure & direction from the IAG Board if it was thought a benefit & strength to the Group to have a feeder op inhouse.
Appears it could make sense in the new extraordinary world, the one drawback being the capacity of the Embraers.

Conor McCarthy founder of Dublin Aerospace & an ex non-executive Chairman of Stobart Air has reportedly entered the race for the EIN Regional contract.

Stobart Group looking to a name change evidently.

Nobody was interested in the regional routes or PSO a few years back. In comes Arran/Stobart and they do a decent product and now everybody wants a sniff at it.

I think the incumbant has this in the bag!

That sounds as overly-optimistic as a Trump supporter saying the same thing.

Rumour has it that there are six bidders involved. Stobart will be one and this paper airline must be the second. With another four out there and no names as to who they are, I don't think it would be wise to assume or presume anything.

This white label or ACMI flying in the regional industry is very very marginal, historic has been and with the current market it wont be a goldmine now... with now even more "bidders" hunting for it the one that "wins" it is the one who is taking the most "commercial" risk themselves meaning spiral rat race to the bottom on price and conditions.

Also I presume, I do not know, but that the contract will be trimmed down... no one is flying at the moment so EI will not ask the historic routes and frequenvies I would say, and what are the fecking unions saying... can imagine they will raise their voice too on "stealing" the work, although EI has no capability themselves.

Aren't CityJet one?

I'm not so sure on this one personally. The CRJ900 will likely have performance issues out of some of the shorter runways such as BHD in wet conditions and if they're talking about E Jets, then maybe but this would be driving up the operating costs of routes which are efficiently served by props.

I imagine XFly will be after the work with SAS reducing ATR aircraft count. But the reality is, there's such an abundance of readily available 72-600's in the leasing market that it could be anyone's game if they are prepared to take on the fleet type.