Evening chaps, need to cheer myself up after the fitba! :{

Have T3 finalised the agreement with KLM to fly the AMS-INV route with the SB20 yet?

Will it be a codeshare arrangement, or one where pax interline with the KLM network at AMS?

T3 looking for any more routes for INV?

Not Sure about INV but watch SOU

Angers is a town of 150,000 citizens, catchment area approx 270,000.

About 200 miles SW of Paris.

Wasn't this destination planned to be operated by Air Wales before its demise?

SOU-Angers
 

Yup! ;)

T3 have confirmed it, 3 weekly.

Bit of a surprise to see a quality business airline taking on Flymaybe on a leisure route. Any other SOU routes planned for T3?

Darren1 - the company is called Flybe - no may about it.

It doesn't surprise me if I am honest - its a dog eat dog world and BE have taken alot of T3 business what with the BRU announcement amongst others (LBA, NCL, IOM etc)

Out of interest, what is the S2000 like from a passenger perspective....is it as noisy as the D400??

And ANE has always been a BE summer route only - therefore not bookable post end of October. We will not know if it will be back until their full summer schedule is released.

Be very interesting to know how the Saab2000 would go down with pax on longer sectors than those currently flown by Eastern. I know that FlyLAL use it betweeen Vilnius and Amsterdam, and Golden Air fly Helsinki - Stuttgart, both sector distances greater than 700nm. Any views appreciated.

Rgds

GT

I have travelled Amsterdam - Palanga in a FlyLAL Saab 2000. Nice ride, significantly quieter in cabin than Q400 or ATR72-500, even close to prop plane. The noise attenuation system clearly works. Block times close to jet aircraft, so a good route developer if you can get the aircraft at the right price and have good technical support. Eastern are apparently very happy with the technical dispatch reliability of their Saabs, it is a pity that more were not built.

Grrr, no it :mad: doesn't! When I book this route I don't expect to either:

a) Wait 8 hours for a later flight after the 1st one gets cancelled!

or

b) Traipse across to and from Manchester!

Which seems to happen far more often than the flight ever actualy operates as intended.

[Rant Off]

The Saab is a lovely a/c from what i hear, however the SOU routes are on the Jetstream.
Prices to Angers look good though, £99 return, that`ll keep Flybe on their toes!!!

Ok people- if you insist on posting on this forum I have to insist factual information.

BE has its fair share of problems but I know countless times when this service (LBA/SOU) has been on time so FlyerGuy, just grow up.

From LBA website (The SOU one does not show all todays arrivals just current ones) So they can operate on time....

http://www.lbia.co.uk/graphics/airlinelogos/be.gif http://www.lbia.co.uk/graphics/clearfiller.gif
BE173 SOUTHAMPTON 1600 LANDED 15:52

If anyone has had a bad experience get over it. :mad:

Moving on BACK to EASTERN.......

How long is the ANE flight then....in a J41 - hmm Well obviously they think it will work so good luck to them. I think Southampton has a good range of destinations and any additional services, even if they are already served, is a boost :)

scratchingthesky cheers for that. I fly the route quite a bit and take a mixture of Eastern and FlyBe. Often Eastern are actualy cheaper if you book less than 2 weeks beforehand anyway.

The problem with FlyBe on this route is LBA is usually the first to get dropped from SOU when there is aircraft trouble down there. Not so much FlyBe bashing, just the fact that they seem to have certain routes they'd rather ditch before others in the event of irrops.

G-IJYS sold
 

According to CAA G-INFO G-IJYS has a new owner (Avient the African DC10 operator),

Is this now the end of J31/32 operations for Eastern? The passing of an era??

ADC2604

"If anyone has had a bad experience get over it."

I am sure your inconvenienced pax would be comforted by that sort of attitude. If you said that at the gate of a canx flt you would have a riot on your hands.

Pretyy much sums Flybe's approach to its customers, flt ops and service delivery:=:=:=

liquid sunshine

The point I am TRYING desperately to make is that this is an EASTERN AIRLINES thread - not Flybe.

If anyone wants to slag / bitch / moan about Flybe do it in the Flybe thread.

Thank fully I do not have any contact with passengers - their not always as innocent as they make out and can be bloody rude so thank god I do not work near the gate.

BACK TO EASTERN

All one and the same soon enough. :E

I sure am , and it sure is. Guess indigestion from eating too much bacon only lasts so long. :}

Its when it comes out the other end they need to worry but I am sure that Flybe (with the reputation as being the biggest ####holes of the airline world) will be just fine! I hope for Easterns sake that the rumours are just that! I would miss seeing them in Bristol!

What happened to Eastern's Embraers - seems such a long time ago but they looked well nice in their livery.