No but with a tight regional operation defying the odds in a low cost generation im sure they would do something with HUY. Problem is would they just run it as an operating base and not talk with other operators?

Hope a more informed poster will enlighten us...

7006 Fan...
BAA own 7 airports in the uk.:confused:
Heathrow
Gatwick
Stanstead
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Southampton
:}

Some good news
 

It has been posted on my forum that Icelandair using EMA is temporary while DHL are short of planes. The fish is being trucked up to HUY. And the perishables hub is under construction

ooops forgot about the baby ones!!! :}

Lake and Huxford would turn the airport into Eastern's playground, they would have a sports complex and a big office and empire all for their own pleasure. Until they got bored with it all and decided they no longer wanted to play with planes!
Imagine Lake doing gentle PR when things went wrong with the baggage rail etc, he loves to blame, but hates blame...bit like Mad Mick!

Well, who do we have here?
 

Have a guess who made their presence known today at HUY?

Well it depends on who you believe!

Firstly do you believe the 'truth' from the :mad: high and mighties :mad: who said it was some people from MAN.

Or do you believe the obvious 'rumour' that it was the big bosses of OMNIPORT being shown around. Considering they had to show their ID at the Security Gatehouse, clearly stating who they were....i think i will believe the latter!

I thought it was quite funny seeing them being slowly driven round the airfield in a crappy bus used by Fire Section. Im sure they could have used something more becoming, but then again it sums up HUY.....useful but not at its best!!

Omniport
 

Could this be a good thing or a bad thing? I know the development fee's they charge can annoy at NWI.

I wonder who else will be interested...

Theres a light at the end of the tunnel!!!
 

HUY - buyer in place already.

No names mentioned.....unless you want to bribe me!

Keep your ears to the ground on this one!

'Theres light at the end of the tunnel'
If its Omniport expect a very long tunnel!!!

Shouldn't this be moved to the Humberside thread??

And the choice for SLF will still be AMS or AMS !

As my nearest "international" airport, if hacks me off that I have a choice of 1 airline to get me where I need to be, or face the 2 hour run to MAN.

In the "good old days" there were a couple of flights to Paris, although the the KLM/AF merger, that would hardly help. What it need is LH or similar to offer access to another European hub, and give us punters some choice. I expressed similar views when surveyed there a few weeks back.

Perhaps, whoever they are, they might like to reinstate DUB somehow? Also LTE ;) to operate scheduled services to the med and get those destinations back in line like they were a couple of years ago....

Lets hope they (Omniport?) can bring fresh ideas here though

Pug,

I don't want to be rude, but the services which have been tried in the past from HUY have failed because they weren't financially vialble for the airline or the airport, or both.
Remember that HUY has suffered from competition from Robin Hood and others and HUY will continue to be uncompetitive because they simply cannot afford to offer the deals others can.

It's extremely unlikely that Omniport, or whoever is buying the place, will be able to offer anything new for any significant period of time without the deal significantly impinging upon HUYs own profits (more likely losses).

KLM offer services via AMS worldwide, Eastern go to ABZ, other than the extremely competitive summer IT market, there's no hope of long term scheduled services to anywhere else unless HUY pay the operator to do it.

I would agree that in the current economic climate, it wouldn't be easy to make money from HUY. However, there is undoubtedly demand for more routes but with more appropriate aircraft.

The 738 was too big for Dublin with a daily frequency. Something smaller with a reduced frequency could and would work. Brussels is another route that has been proven in the past, as has Paris, both of which were stopped because of reasons unconnected with Humberside itself. Alicante, Malaga and Palma for sure hold some potential, but no-one has the right aircraft for the job at the moment with Jet2's 733s being the only realistic possibility.

A Scandinavian connection also has potential maybe SAS to Copenhagen or Eastern to Stavanger.

It remains to be seen if the new owners can achieve anything more than has already been tried, but we live in hope.

Regards

Mike

:=It`s not Omniport:mad:

Though sadly FR could just reduce DSA-DUB fares to stupid levels such as 1p (plus taxes and charges) and trash any HUY-DUB operators yields to make it unviable for them.

If it's not Omniport, then it must be Eastern/LakeHuxford Enterprises..:p

TCX have added LPA on the first three Saturdays in November with the outbased aircraft

Ah well as long as its not Peel...?

Whether new services could be added remains to be seen. Cant see CDG returning, some niche routes with small point to point services like Denmark could be tried. Hopefuly such operator will not be afraid of adding T3 some competition say BE to ABZ daily for the workers not fortunate for paid expenses and who currently use land based transport...

Main priority is an operator with long term vision.

if it`s not Omniport then who is it please?