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Post by kirmingtonuser on Feb 1, 2012 17:37:01 GMT
Split from a thread about new Aer Arann/Aer Lingus Regional Bournemouth-Dublin service
Do these negotiations increase the prospect of a similar arrangement at Humberside? There would be many fewer seats to fill than on a Ryanair 737-800.
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Post by Humberside on Feb 1, 2012 17:51:55 GMT
You never know but:
RE/EI failed with DSA-DUB. If that couldn't work, then could HUY-DUB?
How much would depend on the city break market, and how has been affected by the recession? (Note the comment in the last MAG annual report about a reduction in disposable income within HUY's catchment area)
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Post by kirmingtonuser on Feb 2, 2012 12:00:05 GMT
The size of the Irish community and the distance from the nearest alternative airport (in HUY's case LBA and EMA) would also have an effect.
When I travelled on the British Airways HUY/DUB service some years ago, almost all the passengers were Irish.
Having said that, the Irish economy is not currently the Celtic Tiger that it once was !
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Post by pug on Feb 2, 2012 15:38:56 GMT
Was the BA DUB service operated by Brymon? Its one thing I've found strange, some years ago there were a number if established scheduled flights, but since then the market has grown substantially due to low-cost airlines and other deregulations(?), and other airports that seldom had such routes are filling larger aircraft now, HUY hasnt managed to replicate this.
I can think of a few routes, namely BRU, CDG, CPH and DUB (not to mention LHR/LGW), which have been successful and have sustained relatively long operations in the past. Is it solely down to HUY trying to keep KLM happy? I know there was a major Scandanavian operator poised to open another hub-spoke route to HUY a few years ago, but after final talks had been a success never actually happened (thanks kirmingtonuser for info)..
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Post by kirmingtonuser on Feb 3, 2012 16:53:37 GMT
Yes, it had been Brymon. The branding was rather woolly at the time when they were operating from HUY (1992 and 1993). Brymon Airways of Plymouth had merged with Birmingham European Airways to form Brymon European Airways. This was the brand name of a company called The Plymsol Group which was owned jointly by British Airways and the U.K. subsidiary of the Danish airline Maersk Air.
Brymon wasn't the most sparkling of brand names, so, towards the end of their time at HUY, they changed the flight numbers from BC to BA and put their route network on to the British Airways map.
At the same time they reverted to their original shareholder constituents, so the British Airways flights from Kirmington were operated by Maersk Air U.K. (which had previously traded as Birmingham European).
Maersk used a J31 from HUY with Mon-Fri departures to Glasgow (Abbotsinch) at 07.00, 14.35 snd 17.50. There was a 7 days per week departure to Belfast International at 10.30. The Dublin service was on Saturdays and Sundays only at 14.15. APEX leisure fares were available at £96 return (in the days when ticket prices were all-inclusive).
Over the years, Humberside has been very successful at attracting the major airline brands as operators, particularly from their primary hubs i.e AirUK/KLM, Air France, and Sabena.
Through-ticketing on an airline or alliance is a superior service to interlining or do-it -yourself connecting.
Compare HUY with East Midlands which (apart from a brief KLMuk Fokker 50 service a few years ago) never had an integrated hub service until British Midland joined the Star Alliance.
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