Great to see attention and expansion moving away from the Londons/Manchester and Liverpool!!!
Cardiff – first week of bmi baby flights!!
Leeds/Bradford – Based airline JET2 with 4 733s from Feb/March, and also talk of a new based charter airline for autumn 2003.
Bournemouth – Buzzing in are the yellow planes from Stansted, also the Palmair 732’s to GLASGOW
Coventry – Based airline Air Atlantique hoping to take Lo-cost flights using the huge population centre around Birmingham in.
Good on ya all!!!
By: wysiwyg - 31st October 2002 at 19:51
RE: What a fortnight for the
Wouldn’t that be great!
By: Ren Frew - 31st October 2002 at 18:36
RE: What a fortnight for the
Air Atlantique to move into low cost airline market ?
I wonder if they’ll be using their DC-3’s and Electras ???
Please Please Please !!!!!!!!!
By: dan330 - 31st October 2002 at 18:00
RE: What a fortnight for the
Agree with all the comments about low costs. A friend flew on MyTravel Lite the other day and said it was half empty.
The thing about low costs is that they get most of their sales direct, like on their website. They need to be very well recognised quick, which means a big advertising campaign. I think the whole idea of easyjet being on airline (the TV progrmme) was absolutely brilliant, even though there is some (well quite a lot) of bad press, they are probably rivalling BA as the best known airline in the country, every one knows easyjet!
Its easier if your working from another airline such as bmibaby, but any new start-ups will find it very difficult and I don’t think it will be long before the bubble bursts!
By: EGNM - 31st October 2002 at 17:42
RE: What a fortnight for the
Well look at bmi baby – it had the funding for bmi mainline – JET 2 has channex behind it at LBA an airport that has been crying out for a loco – and there we have 1- an untapped market with the financial backing
By: dcfly - 31st October 2002 at 16:53
RE: What a fortnight for the
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 31-10-02 AT 04:54 PM (GMT)]Isnt it lucky that nobody’s called Dee I C Kay on this forum, it’d never get printed would it?
sober at last
Dee A Vee Eee
By: dcfly - 31st October 2002 at 16:51
RE: What a fortnight for the
Saab
Isnt that what normally happens to anything thats new and successful, every Tom ##### and Harry gets in on the act until the wagon gets top heavy and then, crash!!!(remember Debonair?) the only ones left are those that started it in the first place, probably with big smug grins on their faces.
sober at last
Dave
By: Saab 2000 - 31st October 2002 at 08:30
RE: What a fortnight for the
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 31-10-02 AT 08:30 AM (GMT)]Coventry is a crazy idea.With MYT Lite at BHX,GO and bmibaby at EMA, is there a market for an expansion of Coventry?Anyone remember Sheffield?
Personally i’m sick of all these low cost airlines coming around. Ryanair,bmibaby,Easyjet are all good but come on, every single airline coming around is jumping on the low fares bandwagon and quite honestly I don’t think many of them will be around in 10 years time.
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