Eastern Airways in Ibiza

[LTNman]

A couple of weeks ago I saw an Eastern Airways Saab 2000 touching down in Ibiza. Anyone know if this is a regular charter flight or a one off?

[Johnny F@rt Pants]

Nice too

Can't help you with the IBZ question, but I saw one in Nice the other week. I assume they're ad hoc charters.

[LTNman]

It can't be the best aircraft to travel to Ibiza in from the UK. Would have thought it would take at least 3 hours as well from a southern UK airport and maybe 4 hours from the north.

[AircraftOperations]

The Saabs not that slow, are they?

[GrahamK]

Could be worse, how about all the way to Ibiza in a J41?

[K.Whyjelly]

Originally Posted by AircraftOperations

The Saabs not that slow, are they?

The following data would seem to indicate that the aircraft is quite nippy...........


Saab 2000 Regional Transport Aircraft Aerospace Technology

[SummerLightning]

Not necessarily a flight from the UK. There are holiday charters to IBZ from all over Europe, including many now from E Europe... plus many private planes in and out. I haven't been for many years, but it wasn't unusual even in the 1990s to see smaller twin-prop planes on scheduled internal flights or to and from destinations in Italy, southern France, N Africa etc.

[jamestkirk]

charter, yes

Eastern do alot of charters on the Saab.