Sorry for the long response, but here goes…
There are no airliners based at Biggin Hill so you would need to pay for a positioning flight. That won’t come cheap!
Biggin Hill doesn’t have any airlines cos there is currently a restriction prohibiting commerical flights from the airport due to residents concerns about noise and pollution, however, it can handle up to 737’s. They are trying to get this ban lifted.
Having said this, it would be a privately run business, and we wouldn’t do flights on every course, as I want to market to those people that may not want to pay the added cost of the flight.
Virgin charge £199, which includes the flight. I am thinking of offering a course at £99 that people can then top-up with a flight for the additional cost – can’t give an exact figure until I have worked out what a/c I would use.
Also when Monarch operated the flight last sunday out of LTN, there were only 90 pax onboard.
I was more thinking towards a BAe 146, as it can hold up to 100 pax.
I’d go with a 757 as they have plenty of seats, and are very cheap to run these days.
The BAe 146 is a smaller aircraft than a 757, but would it be cheaper to operate in the long term?
Much more reasonable on the prices – I only work with turboprop but even then you were taking at least a dozen times over them – Y64 vs Y150 on A319?
As I said about someone’s comment about a helicopter, I don’t think that using a turboprop would help, as the experience in the air is different, there are different noises (which is the biggest phobia related to fear of flying!).
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