Re: FlyGlobespan
 

STN-ATH starts 26/05/06
Scheduled daytime fight to TFS, then night sector to ATH.
STN-TFS 08.15-13.20. TFS-STN 13.35-17.40. STN-ATH 18.10-23.59.
ATH-STN 04.30-06.40.
Looks like only one based aircraft for the summer

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

Hell that's going to be one hell of a turnround, 30 minutes with a fair size fuel uplift.
They are not going to be top for punctuality, for summer 06 are they?

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

How are they going to turn a 737 in TFS in 15 minutes ?? I suspect the arrival time in TFS should read 1220 :confused:

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

Aye, but 1 hr 15 mins to turn around a 737. Not exactly the average LCC turnaround is it?

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

can someone tell me the logical thought behind pulling the EDI-BOH route before it has entered the crucial 4 week advance booking period??? 65% of all bookings for such a route would be made in those 4 weeks so what the hells goin on???

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

That's what everyone would like to know!! They've got a bad habit of taking such action, the same happened to EDI-MAD and GLA-ORY last year, although they blamed they dropping of GLA-ORY on lack of siutable slots.:rolleyes:
The difference here is that EDI-BOH is a domestic route, and Flyglobespan have chopped it more than 2 months before it starts. Which is why what you say refarding forward bookings makes it even more difficult to understand, it seems they've not even given the route a chance.

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

Hi, Could you please give me the link to the CAA publication. I can't find it.
Thanks

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

The correct arrival at TFS for GSM 667 is 12.45.

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

Ref. Maxjet/Eos CAA pub.: Try Eos thread 24/12/05

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

VERY interesting! The first low fares flights from the UK to Croatia! I would expect this area to experience considerable low cost expansion in the next few years.

Regards

Mike

Re: FlyGlobespan
 

Looks like my fears have been realised. :{ :{ :{ :{ :{

I am very pissed off as instead of booking a EDI-LHR//SOU-EDI open jaw I booked a one-way with BA EDI-LHR and a one-way with GSM BOH-EDI. The price on the SOU-EDI is now much higher. I'm also getting hit for a double whammy as the open-jaw would have been much cheaper.

What sort of twats are running this airline? If my marketing director kept making these types of decisions he be out on his ear.

For some reason I cant see that happening anytime soon!!

But who knows!

From the Herald via Scotavnet:-

BUDGET airline FlyGlobespan has scrapped all domestic flights from
Edinburgh. The city-based no-frills carrier said it was cancelling a
planned route from the Capital to Bournemouth and axing its service to
London Stansted. The cancellations, which come into effect at the end of
February, have left hundreds of passengers who had already bought tickets on
the flights now having to find alternative ways to travel. The firm has
been unable to sell enough tickets to the English south coast, while planes
flying to Stansted will instead be used to take holidaymakers to Europe. The
shock announcement bucks a recent trend for service expansion by
FlyGlobespan, who only this week announced two new destinations from the
Capital for next summer - a weekly service to Mahon in Menorca, as well as
the first flights to the Croatian resort of Pula. A spokesman said: "We
apologise to any customers inconvenienced as a result of the ending of these
flights. In order to serve the summer market and go to the resorts we want
to fly to, we need to take planes off the domestic services. We still have
ambitions for expansion and hope to revisit the domestic market."

It says they want to revist the domestic market!!!

Excellent interview there!
Nice one!

FLYGLOBESPAN
 

Engineering source tells me that flyglobespan will not operate a 767 this year as previously announced .They are aparrently going to wet-lease capacity (if they can get it).

Shame for the guys who went there for the 767.

Come on GLA GAZ give us the inside info' !

NF

Wet lease does not use the crews of the charting airline. The company that provides an aircraft under the west least arrangement generally provides it under an ACMI arrangement, sans the gas.

Wet lease = fully inclusive, ie fuel, crew etc
Dry = a/c only
Damp = ACMI

Interesting. Shame for the guys who have just trained up then. Does this mean that they won't be able to revert back to the 737 and will have to just sit around?

That's up to Globe Span... now isn't it.

Flyglobespan - B767
 

According to next months Airliner World,

"The airline expects to add up to six Boeing 767s to its fleet over the next two years, the first of which will be used for a Manchester - Cape Town service due to be launched in November"

TSR2 Globespan are always taliking up their game , believe it when you see it .

Sandford was supposed to start this spring on their own 767. Aint gonna happen.