LOL...........

The route isn't compatible with the ERJ135.

I seem to recall that GCI cannot take a fully loaded 145 due to stopping distance, but the 135 is ok - am I right?

Is take off distance not the issue?

Loganair website now has Orkney inter-island airports listed in drop down menu.
With Flybe being valued at £24m last week might BM/LM pounce? That would be a turn up!

How would that benefit them?

Or pick on the carcass?

which I doubt they would have the strength to do.

Does anyone have any ideas on what the next route announcements will be, I expect Glasgow will get a few and Edinburgh will also probably get a few more routes seeing as the based Emb135 at Edinburgh only has a daily flight scheduled and would be sitting around for a while.

Have you had a look at who owns it? I think they have the strength to do pretty much anything their owners want to do. The key in there is the shareholders wanting to do something, which can't always be taken as a given.

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Restore connectivity lost when Flybe threw their toys out of the pram.

Before a restructure which saw Manx take over most of their routes, Loganair was a huge UK regional airline. Flybe routes like Belfast to Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh were all Loganair routes.

The E135 is NWI based. The EDI Euro routes are being operated as a W pattern from there, so I reckon the next announcement will be GLA routes only.

The INV ERJ has a fair bit of spare time, especially in the winter, any chance of more euro routes from INV? Perhaps CDG with their AF/KLM links? They could ever do this route from GLA as well, seeing that they might have more success than HOP with their smaller A/C.

Nothing yet about the proposed Carlisle routes.....if a March 19 start is planned, surely they must be going on sale soon?

Over Longer sectors they tend to work better. In this case it will be hit or miss, especially considering GCI's regular spells of low vis.

The E135 schedule is certainly tight during the week. 8 sector days with generally only 30-45mins ground time.

GCI is a seasonal flight only on saturdays, so very little risk as the aircraft will most likely have a more relaxed schedule on saturdays.

Makes more sense than the ideas of many other posters.

Can't see it. At most they will pick up on any dropped BE Scottish routes.

Loganair's parent company, Sector, could well have deep enough pockets to take Flybe. It would probably have to go with a shake-up of the whole AIL, with all BE and BM Scottish operations moving to Loganair, BE ERJ services moving to BM, and Loganair's NWI operation moving to BMI, seeing that it's becoming an ER3 base anyway. CAX ops could move to whats left of Flybe.

Probably not likely, though.

Flybe would be an awfully big mouthful (in relative terms) to be digested by the combination of Loganair and bmi. Furthermore, Loganair has prospered by being a rather conservative airline - they are not known for taking great risks.
That said, I could see Loganair biting off a *chunk* of Flybe - perhaps taking on some aircraft, crew and the thinner routes from Scotland to airports in the rest of the UK which won't support double daily A320 service (most definitely not the ones to London)

Loganair have signed an interlining single ticket agreement with Emirates for their Dundee-Stansted PSO service covering onward travel STN to DXB & a further 155 connecting destinations.

Thanks SSB - some real, meaningful news amongst all the yards of speculation.

Should help the "global connectivity" which is what this PSO route is all about.

Loganair have announced new routes from Bournemouth to Jersey and Guernsey on E135 aircraft.

Are these w patterns- if so probably a good way to use the aircraft especially in the current climate- sadly they will take business for next summer from an ailing FlyBe

Poetic justice after what they tried and failed to do to Loganair in Scotland. As you sow.....

I can honestly see some Scotland routes from BOH being added before next year as well, strike while the iron is hot so to speak!!!

Do you have this on good authority?

I am sceptical about the success of 'regional' airline services from BOH because of the list of failures in the past and the inability to compete with the high frequency of flights at SOU. What seems to work at BOH is low cost as it appeals to a wider catchment area and is far less bothered about frequency. The higher fares of regionals reduce that potential customer base and make it unviable (for BOH).

BOH saw double daily services to Prestwick with Ryanair but the pax were all paying next to nothing. Flybe also tried double daily Glasgow flights that lasted less than a year before being consolidated at SOU.

The operators that have tried and failed with BOH-Scotland include:

Euroscot Express (1-11 and ATR-72), 55,000 pax to GLA (1997/8)
Gill Air (ATR-72/42), 29,000 pax to GLA (1999)
Ryanair (738) 120,000 pax to GLA and 80,000 pax to EDI (2003-2010)
Flybe (Q400) 33,000 pax (2015)