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Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
23rd May 2013, 07:54
Replies: 3,142
Views: 779,462
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

She's hardly likely to suggest different, is she?...

She's hardly likely to suggest different, is she? :ugh: They'll use those slots to serve Europe and anyone who thinks any different is deluded.
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
16th May 2013, 09:30
Replies: 3,499
Views: 1,335,218
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Fair point. Poorly expressed on my part. My point...

Fair point. Poorly expressed on my part. My point was that the slot sale may be to more than one airline and that Blue Islands are rumoured to be a second buyer.

Also agree that a slot is a slot...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
14th May 2013, 14:34
Replies: 3,499
Views: 1,335,218
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Flybe slots

Following on from the last couple of days news about BE flogging LGW slots, a little bird tells me that the deals being negotiated exclude the GCI slots.

Grapevine suggests they could be sold to...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
7th May 2013, 09:19
Replies: 3,499
Views: 1,335,218
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Last month there was some chat here about a major...

Last month there was some chat here about a major movement in the LGW slot portfolio. My sources tell me the bidding has hotted up and it looks like a three-way scrap between Easy, IAG/Vueling and,...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
12th Apr 2013, 09:53
Replies: 102
Views: 40,537
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Conferences are useful for catching up with folk,...

Conferences are useful for catching up with folk, eh? ;)
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
12th Apr 2013, 09:15
Replies: 102
Views: 40,537
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Intersting is dead right, Mather, but I'm not...

Intersting is dead right, Mather, but I'm not sure its CWL........

Apparently, Vueling are showing interest in buying one of the bigger slot portfolios at LGW. With their cost base, EZY might...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
13th Nov 2012, 09:02
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Depends how badly the owners want shot of it....

Depends how badly the owners want shot of it. Remember, BA Connect involved a dowry and share offer. No actual cash went from Flybe to BA but an awful lot went the other way........
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Nov 2012, 13:55
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

The thing about fuel hedging - as Flightrider...

The thing about fuel hedging - as Flightrider points out - is that every hedge runs out!

The challenge is then to move on to what the next best deal is and heads need examining if anyone...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
3rd Apr 2012, 12:12
Replies: 73
Views: 26,462
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Er, apart from the 770,518 pax that flew MANLHR...

Er, apart from the 770,518 pax that flew MANLHR in 2011, you mean?

Please don't fall for the trainspotter spin that everyone's upped and left MANLHR for the choochoo-train. There's still a lot of...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Nov 2010, 12:59
Replies: 5
Views: 5,347
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

This is the same one that blew in 2004 when there...

This is the same one that blew in 2004 when there was a limited impact on slights to and from Iceland and some transatlantics. This from Wikipedia:

A week-long eruption occurred at Grímsvötn...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
15th Sep 2010, 16:49
Replies: 1,534
Views: 701,555
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

PeteAndre

With respect, you are directly contradicting yourself.

On the one hand you say:



and on the other hand you say:
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Sep 2010, 15:27
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Flybe Finnair

Looks like there is still some Devon/Nordic chit chat going on. Just spotted this on ATI:

Flybe still discussing co-operation pact with Finnair
(09Sep10 15:20 GMT) David Kaminski-Morrow, London ...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
23rd Aug 2010, 14:07
Replies: 410
Views: 118,696
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Fog

Shocking day yesterday, dozens of flights cancelled. I heard a whisper that the backlog of pax stuck in LGW, GCI and beyond might not be cleared til Weds. Anyone with more info? :(
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
15th Jul 2010, 13:05
Replies: 1,534
Views: 701,555
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Smacks of a behind the scenes stich up to me. And...

Smacks of a behind the scenes stich up to me. And it looks like Flybe think the same, judging from this, on their website:

Flybe statement on proposed Aurigny sale


Following the news that...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
13th Jul 2010, 11:48
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

If I remember rightly, the AF/BE British...

If I remember rightly, the AF/BE British relationship was a franchise rather than a codeshare. A quite different relationship to what they have announced today.
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Jul 2010, 09:41
Replies: 2,244
Views: 624,743
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Do you mean just from DUB or as bases? We need to...

Do you mean just from DUB or as bases? We need to be careful not to set hares running.......
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
22nd Jun 2010, 09:18
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

I think the Sunday Times have got their numbers...

I think the Sunday Times have got their numbers wrong and might be referring to 07/08 profits. :bored:

Looking at the Flybe website, they refer to a £12.8m profit in 08/09 and no official word on...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
1st Jun 2010, 11:10
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

I understand the pax mix on the first MSE EDI was...

I understand the pax mix on the first MSE EDI was VFR, golfers and a decent smattering of suits. The last group slightly surprising but bodes well.
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Apr 2010, 13:53
Replies: 3,110
Views: 1,588,829
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Total and utter cobblers. Saw the aircraft...

Total and utter cobblers. Saw the aircraft myself. I know we like a good rumour here, but posting scurrilous bull**** like this is beyond childish and puts all of us at risk. :ugh:
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
29th Jan 2010, 21:20
Replies: 4,648
Views: 758,248
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Cloud 1 - you're much too polite about...

Cloud 1 - you're much too polite about q1W2e3R4t5.

Cr*p is way too polite - I think the word you're looking for is bo77ocks.

q1, Take you head from out of your ar$e and compare the BE snow...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
29th Jan 2010, 12:56
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Flybe results

More detail on ther website, as follows:

Flybe, one of Europe’s largest and most successful regional aviation groups, is filing accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2009.

Key...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
30th Dec 2009, 20:03
Replies: 95
Views: 15,995
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Then you obviously missed the NQYLGW route...

Then you obviously missed the NQYLGW route winning Anna Aero's cake of the week just before Xmas! New routes launched during the last week (Saturday 12 - Friday 18 December) | anna.aero...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
29th Dec 2009, 12:55
Replies: 2,654
Views: 648,986
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Completely agree, but only last week when I...

Completely agree, but only last week when I looked (prompted by a thread elsewhere on here), they were 50/1. Hence my use of the word 'suddenly'. :confused:
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
29th Dec 2009, 12:38
Replies: 2,654
Views: 648,986
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Paddy Power

Anyone else spot that Monarch are suddenly 4/1 favourites to be next to go? What's all that about? :bored:

Next airline to go bust? Betting...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Dec 2009, 10:47
Replies: 1,074
Views: 308,585
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

I heard that BE stepped in and underwrote the...

I heard that BE stepped in and underwrote the business for a week and that there are already 'buyers waiting in the wings'. Fingers crossed for everyone invloved.
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Dec 2009, 09:43
Replies: 393
Views: 139,376
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

And Flybe are offering a rescue fare over EXT or...

And Flybe are offering a rescue fare over EXT or SOU:

Following today's collapse of Flyglobespan, Flybe has stepped in with a special one-off rescue fare to fly affected passengers home to...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
16th Dec 2009, 12:16
Replies: 4,648
Views: 758,248
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Er, I think you'll find that's what Flybe said in...

Er, I think you'll find that's what Flybe said in Dec 2004 at the Commons Northern Ireland Select Committee and have said consistently for the last 5 years.
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
28th Nov 2009, 20:22
Replies: 2,984
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Views: 1,027,585
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Totally agree. Still amazed why our...

Totally agree.

Still amazed why our glorious media has looked at his actions and compared them to the likes of Fred Goodwin et al. What's the difference? They both buggered off with their...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
12th Nov 2009, 10:52
Replies: 4,648
Views: 758,248
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Of all the fights he needs to concentrate on, he...

Of all the fights he needs to concentrate on, he chooses the red herring of 'how many airports are needed in the province'. Wierd.

Surely not an O'Leary-esque exercise in shifting attention from...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
28th Oct 2009, 10:45
Replies: 938
Views: 236,923
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Diversion to Gatwick

BBC reports that the Stoke City team diverted into LGW last night. Usual media overreacion no doubt and trust all is okay.

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | S | Stoke | Stoke players in plane...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
13th Oct 2009, 08:41
Replies: 5,833
Views: 1,301,314
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Fr 1 Bbc 0

The lack of investigative quality speaks more about the pi55poor state of Panorama in 2009 than it does about Ryanair not having anything to defend. The journalism was so desperate as to be a joke...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Sep 2009, 13:29
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Flybe Training Academy

I see Flybe today announced they've got £4.3 million funding from the government (well, the learning and skills council at any rate) to help build their Training Academy in Exeter - £24 milllion...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
24th Jul 2009, 12:37
Replies: 29
Views: 5,317
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Flybe issued these sage-like words, so obviously...

Flybe issued these sage-like words, so obviously a good job done by the crew::D

Flybe Statement relating to Flight BE 1432 from Paris CDG to Cardiff

Flybe can confirm that Flight BE1432 flying...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Jul 2009, 12:37
Replies: 79
Views: 31,887
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Flybe issued these sage-like words, so obviously...

Flybe issued these sage-like words, so obviously a good job done by the crew::D

Flybe Statement relating to Flight BE 1432 from Paris CDG to Cardiff

Flybe can confirm that Flight BE1432 flying...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Jun 2009, 13:27
Replies: 3,930
Views: 1,919,112
Posted By Drink Up Thee Cider

Flybe Greek deal

Flybe have gone public with the Olympic Air deal (below). I know someone has already said this but it strikes me as a very clear (and I guess, profitable) way of finding a use for aircraft during a...
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