What concerns me at the moment is the possible impact low cost carriers will have on national carriers in Eastern Europe. Currently these regional airlines generally fail to offer low prices and sustain their operations on a full service model. When the big guys like Ryanair or Easyjet take up the opportunity to move into the market then it will be highly effective on the national carriers when cost saving European travellers take the cheap option and desert their national carriers. Fine, it should stop national carriers having the monopoly of the routes in Eastern Europe and it will make them revamp their prices or change their marketing strategies, but how low can they go and for how long? I just don’t believe that an airline like Malev would have the expertise and finance to offer any sort of opposition to the new wave of carriers.

It will be interesting to see how Malev and Sky Europe compete.

There are a few off the top of my head,
London-Dublin
London-Amsterdam
London-Paris

Not really accurate but probably amongst the busiest in general.

I’m not sure what relationship Swiss has with Cathay but it mentions it on the Oneworld article, whether it is code-sharing or just frequent flyer links I am not sure.

Some very cool pictures on the Oneworld site welcoming Swiss in style…

At what grades are these at? A-C or the actual pass boundary? I’m taking my GCSEs this school year and those actually seem quite reasonable compared to what I had thought would be needed in terms of qualifactions.

Interesting, I already have 2 GCSEs under my belt so here is to the rest :p

I think the notion of flying between Luton and Jersey in the winter with a 737 is absolutely absurd. Flybe. could not even support the Dash 8 in the winter. I wish them the best of luck but the demand by locals for Luton is minimal and I doubt it is the most popular time of the tourist season for UK visitors.

Yes their fleet will be rather under-utilised. While three new flights to Prague, Faro and Geneva may take up some of the reductions in capacity they will not account for destinations like Alicante or Barcelona where there has been quite a drop in frequency or Nice and Bergamo, which suggest through loads that they could be dropped. To me it seems rational if they have spare capacity then they launch some new destinations with these new aircraft to destinations that would seemingly do well in the middle of winter rather than having aircraft laying about.

Some pretty good pictures there. The AF 777 looks fantastic at such a close up and perculiar angle.

Very good news for Jet2, I have seen a few of there load factors and they seem to be doing very well on certain services. They do seem to be making use of their available capacity but can Leeds/Bradford hold this?

I reckon that you will probably see a few more high rotation flights such as Belfast etc in the future. It would seem logical if you were basing more aircraft at the airport and recruiting more cabin crew.