The one at Exeter has recently been seen disguised as a Viking MD-80

I have seen a Hola Airlines 733 at Exeter operating for flybe recently, but this is only for a short lease of about 3 months. I think Exeter will eventually have an Astreus 737.

If you look at the ‘b’ in ‘flybe’ on the 737, you can see that at the bottom it isn’t shaped properly! :rolleyes:

I’ve heard that although the aircraft are damp leased from Astreus, some of the pilots are actually flybe pilots but are being temporarily employed by Astreus to operate the aircraft.

Nice selection BigJet! 😎

BHXlocal – welcome to the forum, and nice avatar! 😀 (I know it’s not exactly the same but still…)

SPECTACULAR!!! 😮 😎 😮

Boeing’s new product for LCCs… Introducing the 737-Lite.

Congratulations!

36 exams! 😮 What are they on exactly?

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been able to find BHD-BHX-BHD with FlyBe, tickets costing nothing but total being £35 due tax, otherwise I’d have a second home in BHX by now (g)

Yeah, The Air Transport Users Council study (and my own personal experience) showed that flybe’s fares contain the largest percentage made up from taxes and charges.

I think that the full price might as well be shown from the start because after all it is what the passenger will end up paying regardless of how it is broken up.

When airlines are advertising in newspapers, billboards etc they do tend to show the lowest possible fare including taxes and charges. It’s only in the first stages of the internet booking process where prices are shown without taxes and chargers ussually.

The concern of the Air Transport Users Council is that passengers will only compare airlines by looking at the base fare shown at the start of the booking process, and then choose the airline with the cheapest base fare without comparing the prices after the taxes and charges have been added. easyJet tend to have higher base fares but lower taxes and charges, and Ryaniar lower base fares but higher taxes and charges, so although EZY might offer the lowest total fare, the consumer will choose Ryanair because they only compared airlines by their base fares.

I agree with that, and want to see fares shown as a whole at all stages.

Sometimes, even fuel costs are included in the charges, which is really just one of the overheads associated with running an airline and so shouldn’t be seperate IMO.