New budget airline for Britain

Please can they start flying from Farnborough to CDG,AMS and FRA!!!
I think there is still room for more routes, there are still many that low costs dont fly. Low cost flights from London to Frankfurt,Munich,Dussledorf, Paris,Amsterdam are very thin on the ground. It would be nice to have a low cost that actually flys somewhere I want to go. Unlike Ryan Air whos sole destination of interest(i.e. somewhere with aircraft to look at) is DUB! Shame they cant fly into Le Bourget for Paris?

Originally posted by andrewm
Yes we are! www.primeflight.co.uk are starting Belfast Intl to Brussels on 1st March twice daily. Its expenive at around £200 one way (+ tax) but you get 3 course meal and all benifits first class pax. get etc.

Looks good!

Latest news from Oxford is that there was a major meeting today between the airport management and an undisclosed party believed to be Hop. Rumours have been flying around at OAT all day about it, I can’t confirm that the meeting had anything to do with the airline, but fingers crossed eh?

?! Whatever.

The URL http://www.flyhop.co.uk has been reserved, (Nothing there yet)

anyone know if they have a website yet ???

wys, it certainly is the type of airline I’d love to start with, who knows 🙂

Fresh Air are under investigation for selling tickets even before having a license.

Martin, I read about Hop for the first time in the Sunday Independent while positioning down from GLA to LGW. I thought then that this is right up your street.

I believe Now has gone into recievership, although nothing is as yet confirmed.

I think this one looks a little more promising than some we have seen. Ok Cambridge is a little unutilised shall we say… but Eastern are based at Humberside! It doesn’t nessecerily mean they will use the hub and spoke system, but then again we’ll have to wait and see what comes about. If they are based with smaller aircraft such as the Donrier 328 or alike from Cambridge, with cheap deals through Cambridge it may work with the University city, – if fares are cheap the students can use it etc etc…

T5, are NOW not actually going to start up?

HOP are allegedly in negotiation with Glasgow Airport according to press sources today.

EVENING TIMES

There have been many rumours going round at OAT today about this new airline. It actually sounds surprisingly promising! They are apparently looking to utilise smaller airports like Oxford and Cambridge to provide quicker alternatives to trains, now there’s no way I can confirm this and it probably is just rumours but I dare say an airline that did operate in such a way using smaller airports may well succeed where so many others have failed.

They are also said to be in talks with us at OAT about taking some of us on a first officers!!!

😮 Here we go again another loco, woopdeedoo:rolleyes:

Well all the luck to them, anymore info on FlyBlu, supposed launch flights to the US??

They’ve got a nice Livery too. Not all eurowhite you’ll be glad to hear.

Originally posted by adamdowley
SIGH. That makes 57 loco’s in Europe. are we ever going to see new airlines in Europe that aren’t low cost operations?

adam

Yes we are! www.primeflight.co.uk are starting Belfast Intl to Brussels on 1st March twice daily. Its expenive at around £200 one way (+ tax) but you get 3 course meal and all benifits first class pax. get etc.

New budget airline for Britain

Hop is aiming for 20-minute check-ins and frequent flights
The launch of a new British airline, tagged the world’s first new generation domestic service, has been announced.
Hop, which will have a head office at Cambridge, aims to Americanise air travel in Britain.

The airline plans to fly frequent Greyhound-style services on a network of routes from up to 20 UK airports by the summer with 20-minute check-ins.

Its founders predict fares on 30% of the routes will be less than £10.

Hop’s chairman, Kit Malthouse, announcing the launch on Sunday, said he believed domestic flights were the answer to the UK’s traffic problems.

Fed-up with waiting

He said Hop would offer commuters a real alternative and could provide a solution to Britain’s transport problems.

Mr Malthouse added that as a frequent traveller, he had become fed-up with waiting in traffic jams, on platforms and at airports.

He said cross-country journeys were particularly frustrating because London was at the hub of Britain’s radial transport network.

“At the end of a week when the Transport Secretary has announced a major review of the rail services and a month after the government admitted it hadn’t beaten traffic jam targets, British business and leisure travellers are more than ready for domestic travel to move in to the 21st century.

“The budget airlines have demonstrated how cost-effective air travel can be and Hop is heralding a new generation.”

First services

Hop’s founders believe it can run up 20% more efficiently than existing budget airlines by making maximum use of the county’s smaller airports.

The airline also plans to lease smaller planes and fly them regularly.

Mr Malthouse said the company hoped to begin operating on seven routes by July with the first services being announced in May.

The company’s chief executive officer is Tony Camacho, former chief commercial officer of budget no-frills Dutch airline Buzz.

hopefully they will fly from bristol so more low fares by me 😀
i wish R.A.F lyneham would become swindons airport as its got the runway space and convienient to get to virgin were thinking of buying it when it is no longer an raf base and all planes and services to brize norton they were thinking of a new london airport aparently but i just hope it becomes a reginal airport and bigger 😀

‘Hop’ has risen from what was formerly known as ‘Oniva’

SIGH. That makes 57 loco’s in Europe. are we ever going to see new airlines in Europe that aren’t low cost operations?

adam