I gather that the number of Beluga movements through Chester is about to increase quite a bit – Rolls Royce will shortly start sending their engines and other engine accessories to Toulouse on Belugas from Chester, rather than using road and/or air from EMA.

Andy

Indeed, the locals will be complaining about congestion on all those narrow roads you seem to have to drive along to get to the museum soon! 🙂

Andy

When you start from having a visitor or two once in a blue moon, clocking up a large percentage increase isn’t exactly a challenge! 😉

Andy

How about you cynics get off your behinds and go and show us how to start up an airline as it should be done then!

The much-heralded launch, followed by the postponement and collapse of the website, the subsequent claim that services would start before the end of May, and now no firm commitment on when services will actually start do not inspire confidence. In fact, on the face of it, it would be reasonable to suggest that a degree of business naivety was displayed in the way the project has been started.

I too am cynical – that doesn’t mean I could set up my own airline, it just means that having kicked around this business for nearly 20 years I have doubts about its long term viability. Clearly, if the funding is in place as has been inferred, then others do not share the doubts myself and some others have expressed. Good for Alpha1! But Sandy, there is a world of a difference between being cynical and actually hoping that the project will fail, which I don’t think any of us would wish to see happen – I do hope Alpha1 proves myself and the other doubters wrong, but that doesn’t reduce our rights to express our opinions right now.

Andy

When the launch was originally delayed, it was said on the temporary website that they’d be up and running before the end of May… Three weeks to go then!