According to FlyBE it is only 6 of their aircraft that require checks (aircraft with over 10,000 hours). Only the 400 series are involved.

Following these mergers

The My Travel Airways name will disappear and the fleet will be absorbed into the Thomas Cook fleet.

The First Choice Airways name will disappear and the fleet will be absorbed into the Tuifly fleet.

Monarch Airlines are part of the Cosmos Travel group. Cosmos aren’t merging with anyone at the moment and so the Monarch name will remain.

Excel Airways are owned by the Avion Group and it’s highly unlikely that they will merge with anyone.

That will really only leave Flyjet, Astraeus and European as independent charter companies in the UK.

It will be interesting to see what happens with Flyjet in the future. Silverjet are wanting to start up new routes from other European Airports to the US and following the new EU open skies policy they may opt to concentrate on that side of the market instead and rebrand their aircraft.

European? Who knows.

Good luck Astraeus!

Atlantic Airlines have axed their service from Stansted recently and so BMI have a bit less competition.

I told you so

lbaspotter

I told you this last week but you didn’t beleive me!

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Originally Posted by UK Commercials
I’ve heard from a reliable source at BMI that the LBA-CDG services will be withdrawn in the very near future as this route is under performing.

Hi

This can’t be right. The Paris route is one off the better performing routes from LBA for bmi regional. Theses Flights are always over 35/40 passengers on them. Even though it’s up against a 1 daily mid day Jet2 B737-300 service.

If any route was under performing from LBA for bmi regional I would say it’s the Glasgow route. Passenger figures a dropping like fly’s just at the moment for some reason. They are having to stick the smaller ERJ135 on sometimes, as they can’t even fill the larger ERJ145 that is scheduled to operate the route.

If you’d asked this question a couple off months ago though. I would have said the Brussels run would have been axed. But this route seems to have picked up just off late. It’s scheduled to be operated by the ERJ135 but now they are having to put the larger ER145 on it.

What do the rest off the LBA regulars think???
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Not all good news for LBA!

I’ve heard from a reliable source at BMI that the LBA-CDG services will be withdrawn in the very near future as this route is under performing.