Kruger Aviation
 

Apparently Kruger Aviation have intensions on building a facility at BOH, anyone know or heard of them? Are they possibly a similar outfit to Gama? (maintenance etc)

Possibly this company? Based in Hamburg? Homepage - Krüger Aviation

Still no passenger figures available for Nov / Dec in relation to the 7 Santa charters and the Bergen / Barbados flights
The Santa flights did, in fact, go full on nearly all occasions in Dec which should add another 2500 passengers to the figures

2019 / 20 winter charters are being added slowly and an increase from Transun holidays and Omega will all help

Unfortunately, after 25 years of operating it looks like Turin ski charters for next winter with Crystal Ski have been canceled as not bookable after this winter . These first started with Palmair Bae146
Also, it looks like Easy jet to Geneva are not continuing into April this year as still not on sale from either BOH or SOU

Flybe will wind up airline if shareholders don't back sale

Flybe directors have warned they will be forced to wind up the airline if shareholders do not approve a sale to a consortium led by Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Air.

In a statement on Thursday, they said they believe the terms of the acquisition remain in the best interests of Flybe and warned shareholders their shares are likely to be worthless if it doesn't go through.

The consortium, Connect Airways, has offered £2.2 million for the airline's parent, which Flybe admitted was 'disappointingly low'.

Flybe has already agreed to sell Connect its operating assets - the airline and the website - for £2.8 million in a deal which doesn't require shareholder approval.

But on March 4 shareholders are due to vote on the sale of the parent company.

The directors' statement described a challenging air travel market.

"There have been a number of airlines who have gone out of business over the past year and several others have issued profit downgrades," it said.

"While Flybe had made tangible progress in delivering its strategy, maintaining momentum had been hampered by the challenging market environment.

"Ongoing fuel and currency impacts presented particularly significant headwinds for Flybe as did the rapid and significant tightening on Flybe's liquidity from the card acquirer market.

"In addition, the general economic outlook and conditions had impacted the business leading to a further weakening in consumer demand, affecting cash, revenues and profit adversely."

What has this got to do with BOH?

Nada/rien/nothing!

The Flybe developments will have undoubtedly have significant implications for most UK regional airports, positive and negative, which will probably be significant by the summer 2020 season. The new Flybe owner has said that it wants to concentrate on feed to Virgin Long Haul at LHR and MAN, but not LGW – Flybe recently sold their only LGW slots to Vueling. It's also worth remembering that Virgin is 49% owned by Delta, and is now 31% owned by the Air France-KLM group, in which Delta also own 10%. On that basis it is likely that the new Flybe (Virgin) will be operating more domestic routes and flights into LHR and MAN, and its probable that links from UK regions to the AF/KLM hubs of CDG and AMS will increase to feed AF/KLM/Delta using Virgin code share. So we can expect new links to both LHR and MAN, which will impact UK & CI airports.That still leaves a good many existing routes that will either survive or fall based on aircraft availability and profitability. Competitors will certainly be after any low hanging fruit, taking advantage of the uncertainties at Flybe meantime. So change, good and bad is ahead, especially at the existing Flybe hubs.I could see Ryanair moving, either directly or indirectly, on some of the Dublin routes, to Cardiff for instance. It is likely too that the return of DUB-BOH, announced at 4/week, will be increased to daily in short order.

SOU will certainly see some big changes too, probably negative initially (a reduction of Flybe flights), but more likely positive longer term - new operators. FF

As a local Dorset resident, I'm fed up of seeing people try and pit both BOH & SOU against each other, they are both good airports that in my opinion compliment each other, also very different airports - comparing the two is like comparing London City to Biggin Hill ;)

Also playing on Flybe's potential demise is a bit sadistic to be honest, especially with the number of jobs at the airline that could be lost & the businesses across the south that would be affected, let's keep a positive frame of mind and hope Flybe's fortune has a positive turn under the new Connect management.

Cheers
T87

Both the two above posts make sense, it's sad to see airlines and airports fail in this unknown economic environment.
Flybe's business model may change, we could se it becoming a feeder to KLM/AIr France/Virgin/Delta at their hubs at CDG/AMS/LHR/LGW/MAN etc from many airports are the country. The odd non-feeder flight may still work such as from the south England to NCL/Scotland as their only competition now is the train, and flying is so much better than a 6-8 hour trip on the train.

Fog again and maybe tomorrow too - the GVA-BOH is currently on approach 3000' over new forest

EGHH Wind variable 3kt. Visibility 200m. RVR runway 26 400m. Fog. Temperature 6°C, dew point 6°C. QNH 1033hPa




No inbounds at the moment at SOU - some Deps' have got away OK
Wind 100° 3kt. Visibility 450m. RVR runway 20 550m


Edit
the GVA just landed at BOH - well done

That's a well done to the computers and systems that carried out the Autoland.

Well it was a pea souper -

Not flown into BOH for about 14 years but as 26 now has "Magic Carpet" Touch down zone lighting, I assume it is Cat III and therefore 400M RVR should not be a problem for an A320.

S19 Summary
 

Seems like a good time to post this, as ever let me know of any changes etc... Thomson have quietly dropped Naples this summer, although it seems to return next year.


Loganair

Guernsey (New) - 1 weekly ER3 (from 11/05)
Jersey (New) - 3 weekly ER3 (from 29/04)

Newmarket Holidays

Bergamo - 22/05

Ryanair - 1 738 based

Alicante - 4 weekly
Dublin (New) - 4 weekly (from 02/04)
Faro - 4 weekly
Girona - 4 weekly
Las Palmas - 1 weekly
Krakow - 2 weekly
Malaga - 6 weekly
Malta - 2 weekly
Murcia - 4 weekly
Palma - 6-8 weekly
Paphos - 2 weekly
Prague (New) - 2 weekly (from 04/04)
Tenerife South - 1 weekly

TUI - 1 738 Based

Antalya (New) - 1 weekly 320 (from 25/05 - Freebird?)
Corfu - 1 weekly
Dalaman - 1 weekly 320 (Freebird?)
Heraklion (New) - 1 weekly (from 03/05)
Ibiza - 1 weekly
Kefalonia (New) - 1 weekly (from 07/05)
Lanzarote - 2 weekly
Las Palmas - 1 weekly
Mahon - 1 weekly
Palma - 1-4 weekly
Paphos - 1 weekly
Rhodes - 1 weekly
Tenerife South - 1-2 weekly (Norwegian)

Overall:

60-65 weekly departures (45-52 in S18)
9 daily departures (6-7 in S18)

That's right Dixie. Full Cat III is good for 200m RVR. So much easier than flogging in there with the Herald! (although Ken H probably managed it :)

Cheers, Judders

Originally TUI had scheduled a Norwegian aircraft to operate one of the weekly summer flights but they have terminated the contract concerned the airline is in trouble. I believe they switched it to a TUI plane which meant NPL couldn't be operated. Hence it's return next year. Also Crete is to be operated by a 752.