Yeah just had a look at wx, LPL is down to 200m visability and EMA is down to 300m vis so i would think that is below minimums for most a/c to land. Doesnt look like its goin to improve soon either. If ur flyin from either i expect delays and cancellations!

The BHD to DUB was tried by Aer Arann a few years back and completely failed, the load factors were extremely poor. If they couldnt even fill an ATR 42, WW would have no chance with a 737. The road and rail service between the two cities is now very good and an air route with not be commercially viable.

Biggest maybe, but as neither is government owned, neither can be described as ‘national’.

1L.

EI is government owned at the moment, however the irish government want to float it and keep a 15% share in it.

Great news for the flying public, however, how DUB is going to cope with more pax, especially the very overcrowed A pier, its going to make the flying experience very unplesent!

FR are really moving into Spain big time now, im sure Iberia will be getting worried

[QUOTE=Dan05]I assume you mean you’ll be damp-leasing, as dry leasing doesn’t include pilots?[/QUOTE

Wouldnt someone starting up an airline, know the difference between dry, damp and wet leasing!

No disrespect but I really dont think were going to see flysunjet taking off. Wouldnt using an ATR be a bit of a contradiction to the name anyway since its a prop not a jet, and NCL isnt the sunniest place in the world in the middle of winter! Dont easyjet have a cabin crew shortage at NCL, yet an airline that hasnt even got a plane has over a 100 cabin crew wanting to work for them?

I have every respect for someone who has guts to start up there own business, especially in cut throat aviation. But you need deep pockets and a lot of start up capital, just to satisfy the CAA requirements. New start ups hemrige money.The lease on a used ATR is round the $300000 a month mark.

My advice would be to forget starting in NCL and head to Greece or somewhere, get a PSO contract and then at least you get money from the government regardless of how many pax you got! 😉

Good luck to ya anyway in whatever area of aviation you decide to go in to
Its all exciting! :dev2:

Most airlines wont give you much in the way of compensation. They dont have to give you anything once the bag arrives within 24hrs. This is really where travel insurance comes in handy. The reason why the airline did this could be due to a number of factors, not enough space in the hold, the aircraft may have been “overwight” for take off or they may have had an RTOW(restricted take off weight) due to runway size or conditions. And indeed you normally wont find out about it until you arrive at your destination as the attitute is, let the arrival airport deal with it!

Just out of interest what airline and aircraft type was it?

This Esperia thing looks like nonesense, the website is ridiculous and simply doesn’t work. I’ve not heard of ANYTHING in the industry and I get exposed to most of these start-ups etc. It has the look of a flight sim airline…i.e. a Virtual Airline, if anyone uses one of the websites related to this, maybe they could check it out? WHY oh WHY would a real airline have a picture displaying competitors in the top RH corner?? Also their timetable doesn’t stack up!! Its absolute bull****! I think its fair to say!

I would have to agree, this looks like a complete scam, something you might see appear on BBC Watchdog!

First Choice, there long haul is excellent, 33inch leg room, seat back tvs, the only charter Id fly long haul on. If you want the worst it has to be Excel, long haul 767 is really cramped and I had a 19hour delay with them last year coming back from Dom Rep!

Theres a travelodge close to the airport as well as the Tulip inn, all about a 5mins drive