About time too!!

Air Wales’ services don’t fit into REs at all, RE serving routes to Ireland only, Air wales going here there and everywhere. Air wales do operate alot to Ireland, particularly ORK, but theres too much baggage that goes with them- other UK routes, debt, continuing losses. It just doesn’t seem worth it from REs point of view, and Air wales couldn’t afford to buy another a/c, let alone anotehr airline. Close co-operation yes, takeover no. Remember babys frequency to BFS is only going to be once a day, and Air Wales to BHD twice. baby timing is not aimed at the business traveller either, Air Wales is. It is quite likely that RE will try to compete more with baby for leisure pax, and then compliment Air Wales on one of its business timings. Certain baby 737s are full at times conveniant for business, so it’s feasable to operate two services at the same time. For DUB, Ryanairs timing is crap, and Air Wales have not mentioned anything of it so far- it is unbookable, and despite other routes being unbookable 6G have named routes that will go on sale- NCL & ABZ- with increased frequencies etc and promised to correct website mistakes. DUB however has not been mentioned. Possibly they have given it to RE, and RE have let them operate NQY & EXT to ORK instead of starting it themselves.

Yes it was very good for them- probably why they stopped it.

Could it be they just have’nt started taking bookings for the summer season yet

No, you can book other routes well beyond the 26th up to October, presumably when the winter timetable comes into effect.

OMG!!!! The same goes for NCL as well, no flights beyond the 26th!!!!! Looks like theres going to be a lot of room for WOW to expand.

It appears that Air Wales are competing head to head with bmibaby. baby will operate their own route to BFS using their own a/c, while it would appear that Air Wales have decided that they can make a service to BHD work as well. From next March, CDG will be the only route that baby and Air Wales operate in partnership, all others will be seperate. I don’t know what terms they ended the discussions on. If baby pulled out against Air Wales’ wishes, this could be a retaliation attempt. Or, they could be timed to compliment each other, freeing up a/c for both airlines. We will have to wait and see Air Wales timings.

Or- this could be another error. remember when I contacted them about PLH- LBA & MAN showing up. They said that their website was managed by an outside operator and they were incorrectly entered. Unlike NQY-ORK, they have not made an announcemnt today, which could mean that this is untrue. However, due to the fact that I know they were interested in starting CWL-BHD again, I think the chances are this is true.

Can’t imagaine it’s permanent, why would they change it to that? Air Atlanta Icelandic own them now don’t they? Maybe it’s one of AAIs aircraft just leased to XL with a temp livery