As pointed out in the first post, SIXC hasn’t flown for about 18 months now. Probably the biggest reason for this is following the recent expansion of the EU, the freight market was flooded with much cheaper aircraft from countries such as Ukraine. Prior to this, operators from these countries would have to lodge a ‘Non-Objection’ request with European operators capbable of carrying the load and if the EU operator had availability, the chartering company would be obliged to use them, even if they were more expensive.
This is no longer the case and because these Eastern European companies have much lower operating costs and can therefore offer lower prices, all the work went in their direction.
Noise was not the problem it was often perceived to be although as Moggy says avgas supply was beginning to become an issue.
It is sad the work is no longer there, however we can no longer afford to have the aircraft sat around doing nothing. I would rather they move on to new owners than continue to drain money from the rest of the Classic Flight.
Tom.
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