The Excel aircraft is mostly flying on behalf of MyTravel (tour ops), so I don't know where on earth that rumour started from. As far as I can recall, you hardly have any MyTravel Airways presence at HUY anyway, but tour ops is there to stay.

NoR

I hope to heck those rumours are untrue.
Ain't that just the aviation industry.smile whlist the stiletto slips in, I think that is why airlines don't run airports!!!
MT were a hot potato 9-12m back, some airports stuck by them, others resisted. Now MT are healthy, may it be remembered?

:)

A spokesperson from Mytravel recently said that they remain comitted to HUY, despite DSA being down the road they said that the HUY catchment area served 1million people!

I dont think they have a big presence at HUY and it would make sence to operate from DSA but i think, like thomsons have done, they will stay at HUY! They know there is a market for both airports and why put all its eggs in one basket? There are plenty of passengers to go round, for the forseable future anyway.

They run a business not a charity. Airlines always have and will continue to do what is best for themselves.

7006 fan mytravel aren't just an airline.
Also it was mytravel who pulled out from airports and not airports throwing mytravel out, why would an airport do that? Mytravel decided they needed restructuring. This involved not only a reduction of flights from UK but all over europe, remember the large holiday companies operate all over the world. They sold off many assets as well. I'm not even sure if you could class them as being out of trouble yet. Yes they are better off than they were 12 months ago.
Also I don't want to rain on your parade but don't get your hopes up just yet. You only have to look at mme, they were told that they would have 2 bmibaby aircraft from the start of operations but it is still only a one aircraft operation. Wait until you can actually comfirm what all the other holiday airlines are doing and even then you could have late cancelations of flights, happened at mme when bmibaby started went from 7 or 9 flights a week down to 2 or 3 for the winter they started.
Although even if it is only a based aircraft doing nothing extra compared to this summer it's still good news.
Humberside deserves a break and this could be it.

Ergo my post 17th June, lets wait for the announcements, all this talking up and slagging down is pointless until 'the truth is out there'.

;)

7006

i'd go for that, but in the meantime can someone pass the prozac to me.

Sorry, NoR
I've taken it all! Wow that snail is moving fast!

:E

That's not the prozac 7006fan. The snail was running away. It was a stowaway on the 4:15 from Paris. It's what you call conditioned behaviour.

Mr Dearne,
Was that the snail from the DSA Paris service, arriving the day after but still on time thanks to the Mussolini method of flight scheduling used there?
Please go back to the DSA thread, no-one seems to have anything to say on that site.

Back to DSA bashing 7006 fan?

Nice to see on this thread you are able to hold a constructive conversation as opposed to the DSA thread!

Personally I think 7006fan is a well balanced guy. He has a chip on both shoulders.

humberside
 

I've come to the conclusion that 7006 fan is employed by some anti HUY group,out to shut the airport. He certainly isn't helping the HUY PR.

Not really, just confused by the posting, as I know not what 4.15 from Paris he is referring to, so assumed it must have been a DSA one, that's all -unless he knows of a Paris for HUY!?!

Full XLA timetable looking like:

TUE ALICANTE 1950-2330 0030-0225

WED PAPHOS 0700-1335 1435-1735
WED RHODES 1855-0105 0205-0435

THU ARRECIFE 0700-1120 1220-1635
THU MALAGA 1800-2200 2300-0055

FRI TENERIFE 0700-1140 1240-1705
FRI DALAMAN 1830-0040 0140-0410

So looking like a split operation with Cardiff. A/C must POS in on a Tuesday and oprate through to early Saturday morning before positioning back to CWL.

This means 2 further new destinations to HUY's charter programme, Rhodes and Paphos. Along with the proposed Fuerteventura, Monastir, Zakynthos and Corfu, not bad for next season.

Regards

Mike

Are any flights to AGP/ALC/DLM/Lanzarote/TFS being dropped for these flights or are they additional?

For those that are interested. Apparently there will be two cranes in this weekend to hang the doors on the new maintenance facility hangar.

Any word on who will use the hangar and when it will open?

Do not think the XL routes are dip in-dip out. The other major tour ops web site still carry the routes, mightbe a re-allocation/consolidation but that seems weird, why consolidate 2 planes into 1 with all the loss of charges etc, must be new/additional routes.
As to the hangar...to quote the Rochdale Cowboy
"b..ger.d if I know pal!"
All I can say is 'at last', began to think it was being designed as some sort of fancy wind tunnel or sportzplatz!!! Get a few 'badders' courts in it!
Maybe it could be a film set to re-enact the famous T34 scene from Cross of Iron!
No, thumbs up to the developer :ok: for 'going for it' hope it works out well and brings in more skilled workers and opportunities to produce more skilled workers, got to be better than minding a bubbling bowl of molten iron, surely or filleting fish (both of which are highly skilled jobs in their own right, but I know which I would prefer, if I was a teenager)

Have you read the article on Rob Goldsmith on thisisgrimsby? Very interesting and the prospect of seeing an Egypt for summer 06.