I just hope it brings in some much needed competition for the airport, it desperately needs it, too many eggs in one basket at the moment.

But Balfour Beatty have just sold London City haven't they?

Hmmm Flybe are on the local news saying the airport sale is threatening their business at the airport and jobs and routes may have to be pulled. I reckon thats Flybe speak for "we're !!!!ting ourselves that we won't have it so easy at Exeter and will actually have to pay a proper rate to fly from there and we might get competition" Anyone else got any thoughts??

I think Balfour Beatty were one of the bidders for LCY. They lost out to AIG/GE/Credit Suisse

So Balfour Beaty eh !, do they have any aviation background ? or is it " we can build an awful lot of houses on that big green open space, though not so many executive luxury houses"!, but we will soon get our 60 million back and some, quicker than £500,000 profits per annum. i hope thats not the case, but i do think they should have partnered Bristol when they had the chance.

I think there will be a clause in the contract maintaining the site is used as an airport rather than housing... I also believe Devon County Council will maintain a sizeable share in the airport thus ensuring it remains an airport. The Exeter Airport website has a full press release on the subject.
http://www.exeter-airport.co.uk/site...l?&nv_item=163

Devon Guy- right on both counts. Exeter is currently dependent on Flybe-but, equally, BE has a huge investment in their engineering facilities and Head Office, so an exit is highly unlikely. BE's threat may well be not to open any more services-if so, the Airport can only counter that by bringing in new, serious, competition and that will turn into a very robust discussion. Interesting times.

Hello guys.

Speaking of EXT-ABZ, anyone down your end know how sales are doing?

Specifically EXT through to ABZ rather than getting off at LBA. Any way of telling?

Was a tad surprised when Flybe announced it, not much to link us...except the Met Office!

Tourism?

Any oil rigs off your coast? ;)

EXT
 

Anyone know what's the latest between Flybe and the new owners of the airport RCA? Were they meant to be meeting on Friday according to somethign i read?

Like a lot of things in life when new management takes over, until Flybe gets stuck round a table and disscuss the future operations out of Exeter is is all speculations the new owners will not be helpful to improve operations out of there.

For many years Exeter has been behind the times but now Flybe has put fresh air into the area with all these new destinations

If we go back aboutseven or eight years they just had a Dash 8 200 (Very Little Dash) based there and now i think you will find One Boeing 737 300 to be replaced by an E195 shortly a Bae 146 which i would expect to be a E195 in the future and a super Dash 400.

This is a lot more seats than the little dash of thirty nine seats.

Also we must not forget the massive new complex of two very big hangars at the eastern end must have cost a million or two i have had the oppertunity to look around the smaller of the two last year and in that hangar alone was three 146s and a super dash and i understand the other hangar was larger.

The engineering work force they have and the service they provide to out side customers it would be stupid in my oppinion for the new owners not to work with Flybe.:ok:

The quotes I have read in the paper (on-line versions) are that the new management want to work with Flybe. I guess given the various opinions on this thread, do Flybe want to work with the new owners? Of course it would seem stupid if they both didn't want to work with each other! Lets hope they all get together successfully.

Flybe/BACON
 

wondering what people think about this and the impact on Exeter operations? will some BACON routes from Bristol move to EXT??

Think there is every chance of that happening!!

BA leaving Bristol
 

I hope not as I use them on a regular basis and I have no intention of travelling down the M5 would much rather go along the M4 to LHR.
Also I do think that they would be silly to pull out of BRS because of the catchment area and the much higher quality of the airport - but who knows :uhoh:

Cant see too much moving to EXT with the airport in its present state....but the new owner of the airport may change this.

The main problem of moving BRS routes to Exeter is, for most of the catchment area, LHR then becomes the better option, being a similar distance.

It does look bad for the BA BRS routes. FlyBe seem fairly committed to leaving BRS.

Ah well, dust off the CV.

The Flybe press release for BRS spoke volumes by not saying anything!

I havent managed to get down to Exeter for a few weekends. Has it all gone quiet with the airport takeover? Anyone have any news on plans or developments?

Looking good down here at EXT - new routes - to Nice, Rennes, and Avignon, plus more to be announced in the new year - DUS more than likely due to BE aquriing slots on an ext-dus service using the q400. Not quite sure how they can class the FAO as a new route tho (see website). Wouldn't be surprised if the EDI goes 3x daily and regularly have loads over 60 on both rotations, and once the sale goes through some flights to LCY? All gone quite on the EZY front - apparently some EZY ppl were seen measuring walls at EXT for signage - but no word as yet - maybe some of the 6 'strategic aircraft' (i.e. a/c they don't want to disclose a use for ) will be based at EXT, get some competition on the sun routes and edi, gla, bhd etc.

How are the new owners getting on? Anything about them in the local press?