Anyone reckon this is as far as they will be painted up? logo on each ex BACON aircraft?

Yeah, I don’t think they will go much further than this with the c/s because they plan to get rid of the entire BACON fleet and replace them with the E-195 and Q400.

Maybe it’s part of the route network restructuring after the KLM-Air France merger as KLM have had an AMS-BRS feeder for years. Perhaps it will replace the KLM service? Anyone know of plans for the AMS route to be dropped?

I think fleet commonality is just one of many factors that need to be considered by fleet planners, and it’s prominence in forum discussions by enthusiasts is excaberated by the fact that it’s a very simple and easy concept to understand. Other possible factors that are taken into consideration by fleet planners may be so complex that many enthusiasts don’t have the time/ability to understand them, so this has led to the fleet commonality factor being used disproportionately to other factors in discussions.

The importance of fleet commonality of course is likely to vary greatly in each specific situation. Internal organisational factors such as the size of the airline (larger airlines may be able to absorb the costs of a second fleet type better than smaller airlines), and factors in the external environment such as oil prices (compromise commonality for gains in efficiency from a different, new type of aircraft) will affect the priority of fleet commonality in the complex equations fleet planners are likely to use.

wELCOME. Bring on da bling. Please use proper language and sentence construction.

Yes, a Boeing 747 did land at LBA. http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/uk/england/leeds/airport.htm

Thats interesting, Thanks WD.

Very well. If you think Economy is good, why would you ever pay the Business or, worse, First Class fares?

Legacy carrier who offers too much frills in Economy would be in danger that both it costs a lot to provide frills to Economy, and that people no longer want to pay for Business even if they could afford to.

There is still a huge gap in terms of service and comfort between a good economy product and a business class product.

Good luck to him, but I’m not very optimistic about it. The fares will be significantly higher than other larger and more established low-cost airlines. The difference from other low costs appears to be the slightly longer routes to the canaries, and these longer routes will mean that less sectors can be flown by each aircraft per day. This will also mean higher costs and therefore higher fares. It depends on whether people will be willing to pay significantly more to fly to these slightly further destinations compared with easyJet’s mainland Spain/Portugal destinations for much less.
They will also have the charter seat-only flights as competition which already offers services to this type destinations.

On the news he was saying how he thought there was a gap in the market for these services but I don’t really see it.