Did they make a profit last year? Have most of their debts been re-structured?

Is it possible that they just want to fire the A320 family out all over Europe? They will have high pax loads, more reliable a/c, so it would make sense to stop payments on the A330’s, 757’s and 767’s and concentrate on making money this year, then see what they can run profitably next year?

I read on PPRUNE that a good few of the cabin crew that they had agreed to take on this year were contacted and told they had no job now, due to operational reasons.

dme

Hope they find some survivors. Bad weather?

Bad week for flying incidents.

dme

Yeah, they wave to each other here. Bikers also do it too.

dme

I heard the report this morning, but at the time didn’t realise it was Loganair. 🙁 It’s only been a few years since they lost the Shorts in the Firth of Forth.
A sad day for all concerned. 🙁

Yep, they also lost another Islander a few years back at Lerwick 🙁

dme

Just as an aside how much longer do Loganair have with the contract until Gama take it over?

Gama take over April 06.

dme

Is the runway active?

dme

I’ve never been to East Fortune – it would be good for a trip over.

dme

I just woke up to hear about this on the local news. Very sad and it highlights the dangers faced by the Loganair Islander air ambulance crews working in the conditions that they do.

I was working til midnight last night, the estimated time of the crash. And if the weather here in Glasgow was anything to go by, then it must have been pretty bad out in Campbeltown ? Although they’re saying weather was not a factor.

Condolences to those concerned. 🙁

Was it G-BOMG? The cloud base was at 400ft and the airfield is 44 foot above sea level, so it does not leave much room for error.

The Islanders have no GPWS and possibly no GPS, well apart from a Garmin 3 which does not highlight terrain. It was at night, low cloud on approach – not weather related? But in saying that the a/c crashed into the sea, so high ground may not have been a factor.

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