3 x SF340 at CAX today? Something’s gone wrong then.

Or perhaps need for a G- aircraft operating on Loganair AOC as more appropriate as Secretary of State for Transport (Chris Grayling) apparently a passenger on the inaugural Southend flight?

I had a ride on ES-NSD over from Belfast and nice to see it was very tidy internally considering the age and smaller aircraft generally harder to look impressive anyway.
Did notice LGNC sat on the ramp at Carlisle and what I thought was another Nyx aircraft on the far side - good of them to presumably station a spare one in Carlisle should anything go wrong.
Healthy loads it seemed for me on the first one, 21 from Carlisle to Belfast and 16 on the return Belfast to Carlisle and I’m told the Southend departure afterwards was ‘full’. Did ‘NC operate this as just noticed it heading back to Glasgow after presumably operating the Southend. Wonder if this was down to Nyx only having one set of crew for day one, with the other set having brought in the spare?

Does anyone know if the Nyx aircraft is operated by Nyx flight and cabin crew?.

Yes crew are NCL based for the time being.

I believe Loganair were planning on opening a base in Carlisle but this was shelved/ delayed due to the late opening of the airport. Anyone know of any plans or timescale to do so in the future?

This aspect has already been discussed at length further up the thread in posts 545-552.

London City want LM to switch there current DND flights back to there airport.

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/f...d-from-dundee/

their airport.

They’ll lose the EK connection at STN.

Apart from the shorter distance to some parts of London, what are the benefits of moving the route back to City?

I would have thought there would be more of a chance of the route shifting to SEN over City tbh.

I was looking at the CAA stats and they might give Loganair some confidence about moving DND to SEN...

The Aberdeen route from LCY carried 3,263 pax in May 2018. This year Loganair’s new SEN service carried 2,411 after starting on May 12th so on average load that equates to 3,568 across whole month. That is the equivalent of taking all LCY’s pax AND finding themselves a few more. Of course it’s early days, but you’d naturally expect what is effectively a replacement route to what is perceived a distant airport to attract less people in its first month, not more.