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Post by Thames Gateway on Dec 20, 2017 21:22:13 GMT
E/Flight, thanks for the explanation. Seems a bit drastic to cut flights on just a Prob40 forecast, rather than conditions that have already developed and are forecast to stay.
Looks like the MAN service is dropping to twice a day on Tues/Weds/Thurs for most of January.
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Post by expressflight on Dec 21, 2017 8:08:59 GMT
Yes I believe it was only a Prob40 when they cancelled the flights although it was upgraded to Becmg 300m (I think) later in the day. The forecasters certainly got it wrong that time which is quite unusual and the conditions did seem right for fog to develop as I recall. It's always a 'brave decision' to cancel flights on the strength of a forecast and Stobart didn't do the same yesterday even though the forecast was even worse with fog to develop as early as 1600 - again it didn't happen though. I always thought it was better to deal with the conditions as they actually panned out rather than anticipate what might happen. When we were running three SEN-BRU-SEN freights flights each night in the 1980s when fog was forecast the shippers would often ask "can you guarantee getting into BRU tonight?". The answer depended on the severity of the forecast and often the accuracy of the previous night's forecast also had a bearing on my answer. Still, all part of the fun of running an flying operation.
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Post by tagron on Jan 14, 2018 18:09:03 GMT
A report in pprune suggests Stobart Air will shortly acquire an unspecified number of ATR42-600s to replace the ATR42-300s. There are only two -300s remaining with Stobart Air and at 27 years they they stand out as significantly older than the rest of the fleet. At this stage there appears to have been no official announcement.
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Post by aurigny72 on Mar 10, 2018 19:01:16 GMT
Stobart to start ticket sales on their new routes from Carlisle to SEN, DUB and BHD probably next week and flights will operate with a 30-40 seat aircraft, my guess would be a Loganair Saab340 or Do328
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Post by Thames Gateway on Mar 26, 2018 8:24:14 GMT
Looks like Titan A320 G-POWM being used today to cover for sick E195 - on the GLA flights first.
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Post by Thames Gateway on Mar 26, 2018 21:37:25 GMT
I've put these under Stobart now, as more STK than BEE these days!
February 2018 figures (% on last year's figure)
Budapest - 1,076 - Cologne - 1,727 - Dublin - 7,421 , best February on route. Glasgow - 2,390 - Groningen - 1,636, down 14%. Lyon (see passenger numbers, January) Manchester- 3,603 - Prague - 3,627 - Rennes - 3,297, down 7%. Vienna - 798 -
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Post by Thames Gateway on May 9, 2018 8:34:23 GMT
March 2018 figures (% on last year's figure)
Antwerp: 269, new route. Budapest: 1,440 - Caen: 94. down 88%, re-started route. Cologne: 2,128 - Dublin: 9,033 , highest ever monthly figure on route. Glasgow: 2,580 - Groningen: 2,555, up 26%, highest March figure on route. Lyon - see passenger numbers, post for March. Manchester: 3,928 - Prague: 3,980 - Rennes: 3,417, up 4%, highest March figure on route Vienna - 725 -
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Post by tagron on May 25, 2018 9:44:43 GMT
Bulgaria Air E190 operating for Stobart today, first day of expanded summer services, positioned in from Sofia yesterday. Stobart's third E195 not yet ready ?
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Post by Thames Gateway on Jun 1, 2018 8:19:04 GMT
With all the delays, diverts and cancellations, one has to ask whether any effort has been made to charter another aircraft (JOTA/WDL/AWC) to reduce the delays/backlog/negative publicity.
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Post by expressflight on Jun 2, 2018 7:57:58 GMT
I agree with you that the situation cried out for a chartered aircraft to help get things back on track but I do wonder how easy that would have been at this particular time. WDL are providing a lot of capacity in Germany to easyJet on the ex-Air Berlin routes, Titan seem extremely busy in general and have a number of aircraft flying for BA out of LGW who took up the Monarch slots and two of Jota's aircraft were fully committed to HOP and Cityjet. G-SMLA was not flying but that had diverted into SEN with a tech problem a couple of days ago while flying DUB-LCY so may still have been unserviceable.
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Post by tagron on Jun 2, 2018 22:30:18 GMT
Its also possible Jota did not have a flight crew available since they positioned G-JOTE from BRU to NWI on May 31 (for painting, at a guess)
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Post by tagron on Jun 17, 2018 20:35:29 GMT
What on earth is going on at Stobart Air ?
The Bulgarian E190 went back to Sofia ten days ago and the third E195 from Flybe has still not arrived. They are trying to run the schedule with 2 x E195 and 3 ATR72, instead of 3 xE195 and 2 x ATR72 and of course it does not work, not so much because of the slower speed of the ATR but because they don't want to put the ATR on the longer routes like PRG and VIE . So every day of the past week major delays have built up, with some flights arriving after midnight. They have used Titan to some extent, but two flights (MXP and MAN) were running so late they went to STN instead of SEN. Today it appears one E195 is out of service, they have been unable to get Titan and the delays are appalling.
The third E195 (G-FBEN) appears to have been on the ground at Exeter throughout, apart from performing what might have been an air test over a week ago. According to Jethros it is due to be delivered in "mid June" as EI-GGC. How this situation has developed I have no idea. One can only feel sorry not just for the passengers but for the staff who have to try and sort out the mess, which has the potential to damage the Flybe brand and with it Stobarts attempts to use the airline to build up SEN traffic. It is hard to see any underlying cause other than a serious failure of management.
Late addition - I see that after writing the above the late Dublin and the Glasgow have both been cancelled.
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Post by Thames Gateway on Jun 17, 2018 21:31:19 GMT
Indeed. The mid-afternoon DUB-SEN has only just departed DUB - maybe there were a few seats spare that could have been taken by those on the laterflight. G-FBEF again....
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Post by tagron on Jun 18, 2018 9:06:23 GMT
The same source (Jethros)shows that the current two E195 G-FBEF & G-FBEH will return to Flybe in the autumn. In their place Stobart will receive G-FBEL and G-FBEM, also to be Irish registered. There must be some logic to doing things this way. Could it be connected with heavy maintenance requirements ?
Stobart's ACMI contract with Flybe for the operation of the two ATR72-500s from the IoM ends on March 31 2019 . Will they lease them, sell them, or even use them for expanding SEN services ?
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Post by Thames Gateway on Jun 18, 2018 12:48:52 GMT
April 2018 figures (% on last year's figure)
Antwerp: 1,583 - Budapest: 1,563 - Caen: 1,309 down 10%. Cologne: 2,734 - Dublin: 10,475, highest ever monthly figure on route. Glasgow: 4,226 -highest figure since starting. Groningen: 5,267, up 91%, highest figure since starting. Lyon - see passenger numbers, post for March. Manchester: 4,576 - highest figure since starting. Prague: 5,226 - highest figure since starting. Rennes: 3,015, down 33%. Vienna - 993 -
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