Danubewings

[Humberside]

As posted in the SEN forum, 'Cambridge (London)' has appeared in the booking engine of Danubewings

[Humberside]

Twice weekly service to Dole between June and September operated by an ATR-72
www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/143873/danube-wings-to-introduce-cambridgeas-first-international-link-/

Slovakian regional carrier Danube Wings is to launch its first flights into the United Kingdom and in the process will introduce currently the only scheduled international route from Cambridge Airport and the first scheduled link to the UK from the Franche-Comté region of Burgundy, in France. The airline will offer twice weekly seasonal flights between Cambridge and Dole-Jura Airport, a mainly general aviation facility located 7 km southwest of Dole and southeast of Tavaux. It will use a 70-seat ATR 72 turboprop on the route which will operate between June and September 2012.

There are currently no direct scheduled services from Dole-Jura Airport, also known as Franche-Comté Regional Airport although Ryanair will launch services from Porto from next month. Danube Wings already serves the small Eastern French facility on a charter basis but will open a base at the airport this year and offer flights to three other destinations - Bastia, Girona and Nice.

“I am ecstatic to welcome Danube Wings to the Airport,” Archie Garden, Airport Director, Cambridge Airport told The HUB. “This is a groundbreaking development and the first of many exciting international services we plan to bring to Cambridge, especially with one of Europe’s rapidly developing airline companies and to such a beautiful and largely undiscovered region of France. We couldn’t be happier with Dole-Jura our next destination.”

[expressflight]

Did the Danubewings service from Dole to Cambridge start on 25th July as planned? If so there should have been a flight on that day and on 30th July but the CAA provisional stats show only 43 pax for the month once the Jersey flights are taken into account. Four rotations carrying a total of 43 pax doesn't sound too encouraging.