....... new Terminal at CBG??????

In ten years time the only thing there will be several thousand new houses.

VdG

I wouldn't put money on Cambridge loosing its airport to houses. A growing High Tech city needs good communications - road,rail and air. Luton and Stanstead are getting pretty busy and Biz jets may find it easier to operate out of Cambridge especially if there is a smart new terminal.

As for houses, they are going to build at Oakington and improve the rail network to get people into the new business parks in the west of the city.

More bad news for ScotAirways from today's Scotsman:

[quote]Scotairways to suspend service from Aberdeen

JANE GILLARD Northern Business Reporter


SCOTAIRWAYS is to suspend the operation of its Aberdeen to London City Airport route on Sunday, just two months after taking it over.

The Cambridge-based carrier, which is part-owned by Stagecoach founder Brian Souter and his sister Ann Gloag, has blamed a lack of customers and a downturn in the aviation industry following the 11 September attacks for the termination of the service.

Fares ranged from £99 to £310 return for the three times a day route.

Scotairways commercial manager Jerry Froggett said: "Given the current trading environment for airlines we found it was not viable for us.

"It is very disappointing and we certainly didn’t expect to have to make an announcement to come out of Aberdeen so soon."

The year-old Aberdeen to London City route had been operated by British European before it was taken over by Scotairways at the end of October.

The suspension of the service came just a day after the airline announced it was suspending flights between Inverness and London City after just four months of operation.

Both routes failed to match the success of Scotairways’ flights from Dundee and Edinburgh to London City.

"Everybody is talking about 11 September and it had a very big effect as there is less confidence in the travelling public’s mind at the moment," Froggett said.

He added he was surprised there was not a better use of the service early on.

However he declined to give figures on the number of passengers using the route.

Froggett stressed that the service was being suspended rather than axed at this stage. The suspension of the Scotairways route leaves Aberdeen serviced by easyJet and British Airways.

Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce chief executive Amanda Harvie said the loss of the service should not be blown out of proportion.

Harvie said: "There are 26 flights from Aberdeen to and from London every weekday and a total of 164 per week so I don’t think the business community will see an adverse reaction. There is still frequency and there is still choice."<hr></blockquote>

ABZ, INV, CBG ... and now GLA !

ScotAirways seems to be really pruning back services to keep going at the moment... Glasgow is now rumoured to be next on the list of bases to be made past-tense!

Wish them all the best, and here's hoping that this will suffice!

Capt Crash

Biz Aviation is exactly one of the markets that could develop @ Cambridge, but until it becomes 24 hrs then the market would not look at it.

What would local residents think of 24 hour ops @ CBG. A long way off unfortunately, I think...

Very sad news for all concerned at Scotairways. I was given my big break into aviation by Roy Suckling. I enjoyed every minute in the Do 328.

As a young first officer, tackling London city's steep approach at night with max crosswind, gave me the sort of grounding that money can not buy. I know I am a better pilot for the time I spent at SAY.

Good luck to all at Scotairways, especially all GLA based crews.

P.S. Dear Norman Stanley Fletcher, give me a call. I do miss the time we spent together in our cell at Barlinny.

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These are definately uncertain times. Some of us think (hope?) that we are on the climb again from the doom and gloom after Sept 11. However, we then hear about yet another airline with problems. I feel for the guys at Scotair (I know two that left my company for pastures new at Scotair....and mainly due better suited locality). Ironic if crews are now forced to move around to support other bases. <img src="frown.gif" border="0">

Sad times indeed - notice has been given that GLA closes on 13th Jan as a ScotAirways base (in addition to CBG, INV and ABZ). Remaining bases are SOU, LCY, EDI, DND. GLA aircraft to go to EDI. Bottom 10 of the seniority list to be given notice - this includes the 2 who had already been made redundant. Good luck to all at the company and I hope you see it through.

Hey, VdG!

Been watching you from further afield that you've been watching your old mob!

Your talents were wasted at SAY and GoldAir! You thrived on the cut-and-thrust of Big-Boy operation at CX; you need to get your hide out here to EK - it's never too late to party!

All the best,

SA.

Like Father, like Son.......

I thought you chaps were banged up in HMP SLADE.!

The lovely D328 was still flying at GLA yesterday.

With reference to, the ABZ route being chopped. I can understand why the average businessman decided on an alterative carrier. In the local ABZ paper, a local reader wrote in and said that he could fly to LGW with BA for half the price and get a train into the center of London and still arrive into the center on London before he would on the first Scot Airways flight of the day!

Need I say any more?

MG

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Seaton Approach? Hmmmmm. Would you be somebody who enjoys a green coloured, Red Bull based drink bought in a bar underneath a downtown DXB hotel who has a friend from SA who chundered out the back window of a taxi and over his T-shirt on the way to another bar having scoffed several of the said green coloured drinks??