I’ve flown WOW a few times now and had to take the bus for MAN-PLH once because G-WOWB got stuck in the snow a BRS. They did get a coach to leave dead on time but ofcouse it arived in Plymouth a wee bet later that advertised!. Havent as yet been on a replacment aircaft yet but I am doing two trips next week with them and a change of machienry world be a nice surpise. I rate them very highley, some of the BA lagacy remains with this LCC which means they do look after you pretty well.

If you really are presenting to the board remember that they will want to see a complete design concept. How will your ideas look on advertising, web site, stationary, signage etc. Make sure you have a complete package for them. The other thing you need to do is justify it all. The big question will be ‘how will this make more money for the company?’ If you can’t answer this then you haven’t got a hope! Time to role out all the wanky business lingo you can muster. ‘I feel that this design signifies a dynamic airline that is looking to the future…..!’

As for my opinion I rather like it. I’m not sure of the red roof though, I think you would do well to produce an orthographic projection to clearly show how this design would look in the real. If your feeling really flash you could render it in a 3d package. This will give a very good idea of what the real thing would look like but as I said the livery is only a small part of the package so don’t forget the rest of it. Good Luck.

“One bag in every 100 goes missing” That can’t be right can it? Seems very high to me.

Does anyone know when I will be able to book a VS flight to oz? I have looked at their web site but no joy. I ask because I am about to book a flight there and would like to check out how much VS are going to be, the best I’ve found so far is £850 with BA.

Newcastle is about an hour and a half longer on the train than Leeds but with essentially the same flight time which gives flying a significant time advantage.

Bare in mind that even if Jet2 offered advance fairs of zero, just charging taxes etc, the cost of a return would be around £20-25, the cheapest advance rtn on the train is £19 so there is no way Jet2 could compete on price. Given that it would be imposable to offer a cost saving or a time saving I really do not think that it would work.

Don’t get me wrong I would love to see a low cost service to London from LBA, and yes I would rather fly than get the train but for most travellers how they get there is not as important. The train is quicker, cheaper, and with over 15 services each way each day I don’t think Jet2 could ever make it successful.

Nice work mate

FlyBe could prove tough competion for Air South West who have also just started a BRS-JER service. Does anyone know how good their load factors are?

Had the same happen to me with WOW a few weeks ago, although I thought the ground staff at both PLH and MAN were very helpful and a bus was found pretty quickly. I think that one of their planes is always having maintenance on Saturdays, they’ve only got two but only run a half schedule (PLH/NQY – LGW only) on Saturdays. I’m back on them next week, despite the odd coach trip I think they’re great!