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JB007 15th Nov 2013 21:24

Also just heard...un-real! Thoughts are with you and familes.

hobnobanyone 15th Nov 2013 22:47

Thanks guys...

Jwscud 16th Nov 2013 08:26

There's no need to be coy - BALPA have put the full details out via their Facebook page. Sounds awful - seriously impressed with the still cheerful Jersey call signs :(.

Good luck ladies and gents.

fade to grey 16th Nov 2013 11:20

179 - !
Not good.
Always just before Christmas as it was with me and astraeus .

Good luck finding something else folks, have to see if my mate at Exeter is safe...

Sir George Cayley 16th Nov 2013 19:42

So coy all of you. What is the fact you cannot name?

Here on "Airports Airlines and Routes" there's far more facts.

This forum always surprises, both for its ability to be quick to chide and slow to bless and its random reticence to bring facts forward.

Manchester, Birmingham and Southampton bases will continue. The rest are not featured in Flybe's future.

There I've said it. Jehovah.

mad_jock 16th Nov 2013 20:15

I also heard that the jet fleet is going. Only Q400 for a period.

Artic Monkey 16th Nov 2013 21:21

SGC

Wrong on that count I'm afraid. The plan is to operate 7 bases.

Mad jock. That is certainly a rumour flying around the bases but until it's confirmed it's only a rumour of course.

mad_jock 16th Nov 2013 21:36

Well I suspect it will do what they want.

I presume most of the TUPE and high salary pilots are on that fleet.

I also would like to add that I haven't forgotten the Cabin crew and engineers at the closing bases. In some ways this will affect them more than flight deck.

Sir George Cayley 17th Nov 2013 15:32


Flybe is closing six bases in the UK as part of its cost-cutting plan, the airline has announced.

Bases at Aberdeen, Guernsey, Inverness, Isle of Man, Jersey and Newcastle are due to close as the airline looks to save GBP£85 million and shed 500 jobs.

The lead base at Exeter is to face the biggest number of job losses with 116 proposed redundancies, with Belfast City next with 52 job losses.

Saad Hammad, who took over as the the airline's chief executive in August, said: "I know that these proposals are creating great personal uncertainty, but they are necessary to secure a long-term future for Flybe and I am grateful to the various union and staff representatives for the very constructive manner in which we have been able to commence the consultation process."

(Reuters)

So if these 6 close, EXT and BHD continue with MAN BHX and SOU which are the other two to make 7?

Artic Monkey 17th Nov 2013 15:36

Look North of the border. EDI & GLA

fade to grey 18th Nov 2013 15:22

See the BA city express thread, getting 3 more EmB jets.....

Surely space for some flybe ?

Wycombe 18th Nov 2013 16:13


I also heard that the jet fleet is going. Only Q400 for a period
I'm sure all those Flybe customers that make up >90% of SOU's passenger no's are going to love flying to AGP, ALC and FAO in a Q400.

Surely it would cost more to break into leases on fairly new aircraft (esp. the E175's) than to keep flying them....unless the leases can be sold on for a profit, of course??

Leg 19th Nov 2013 00:48

Airlines don't want experience, they want cheap crew so that means cadets.
Chippy firer is no different, no room there for experienced and some of the best pilots in the UK, ex flybe.

Wycombe, the jets will still fly on the 'sunshine routes', the 195's will make a reappearance next summer.

Hatchet Hammad wants rid of the 175 order. He is so much a beancounter it's almost laughable how he fails to grasp the whole jet vs prop debate. He has absolutely no idea of customer service.

God help those left in a very exposed and drab flybe, he will finish off and destroy what could be a great airline. French/Strong/Rutter started the rot, this idiot will kill the company. How anyone falls for this guys forked tongue & bullying is beyond me.... :mad:

speedrestriction 19th Nov 2013 13:26

Leg,

I respectfully disagree with almost everything you say. The restructuring is thoroughly necessary - it's a shame that the previous management didn't have the wherewithal to make the necessary changes. The only problem is that the staff are left carrying the can for the previous management's failure.

Lord Spandex Masher 19th Nov 2013 15:25

The "Sun Routes" from SOU have historically poor yields. Wouldn't surprise me if they were the first to go.


Originally Posted by Leg
Wycombe, the jets will still fly on the 'sunshine routes', the 195's will make a reappearance next summer.

If you had spoken to any of the Embraer pilots in SOU you might not have written that.

mad_jock 19th Nov 2013 19:36

funny enough that's were I got my rumour that the jets were going Spandex.

Jet Set Willie 19th Nov 2013 21:10

Just from a point raised above, Cityflyer now hiring type rated EJet First Officers. Great working there, just not industry leading wages!!

Leg 20th Nov 2013 00:06

Speed restriction, I deal with the here and now and look forward, not the past.

As I said, the 195's will return next summer, I never mentioned SOU, the company have contracts they must fulfil.

dontdoit 20th Nov 2013 08:10

Hearing there are some bases where the entire quota of jet crews are being made redundant? Any truth?

FlyVeryHigh- 20th Nov 2013 11:30

dontdoit,

BHD?


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