Their brave. They must be confident that they can strike a deal with the unions but i don’t see how. They only have one plan and the unions rejected it because it shed a quarter of the workforce, plus the Italien Government have showed their willingness to let Alitalia go bankrupt. Like you sed galdri, they say they run out of cash at the end of September. If they do go I wonder who’ll take over the Rome & Milan hubs? I can see a smaller airline emerging taking over part of Milan like Swiss came from Swissair but I can’t see the viability of operating Rome as a second hub. Thats partly Alitalias problem;to keep both political parties happy they have to operate a hub for the north & a hub for the south which results in more costs and less profit because their simply isn’t the demand for that bigger network at Rome.

when will the improvements on Geronas runway take place? I guess it’ll be this winter because with all the holiday traffic in the summer it would be impossible.

I know Manx had a much stonger network from CWL than Citiexpress did when they took over but I’m not sure how many routes they actually had. Does anyone know how many routes Manx had from CWL and what they were?

Ah, they used to have quite a large presence at Cardiff because they made it their European hub, then they disappeard and BA Citiexpress moved in and I didn’t make the connection. BA cut back alot of the previous Manx routes then, getting ready to pull out when they did.

Just got back from Cyprus so only just heard the news. As much as I want it to work I don’t think it will. Heres the facts:

The demand for Norwich-Dublin is huge, but it’ll never work with only 3 flights weekly, it has to be once daily at a minimum.

The timings are odd-not much good for business.

There isn’t much coverage for the weekend tourist market.

The flight from Cardiff-Norwich is a positioning flight with tickets for sale, it has no commercial viability at all.

I am saying this because I know the reputation my flag carrier has; A property developer from Swansea decided he wanted to make more dosh so got together a bunch of amateurs & set up an airline. The Manchester, Galway, Liverpool & Brussells services have shown that they don’t look into the viability of routes, but they see a gap & fill it, whatever the cost. I would love to see this route work but as far as I can see it this is another flawed decision by a worried airline.

ps. the London City route has been cut back- They have reduced their previous twice daily (except Sat) service- it now only runs on Sunday, Monday and Friday.