seansasLCY From Hong Kong, joined Mar 2007, 719 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 13274 times:
British Airways are to launch services to Menorca, Angers and Quimper from LCY from May 25th. Menorca & Angers will operate 3 weekly with Quimper going twice weekly.
LCY now has links to quite a few regional French airports.
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11139 posts, RR: 63 Reply 4, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 13055 times:
Quoting seansasLCY (Thread starter): British Airways are to launch services to Menorca, Angers and Quimper from LCY from May 25th. Menorca & Angers will operate 3 weekly with Quimper going twice weekly.
Oh boy am I happy at MAH being launched. Not without some expectation, but still very happy!
LiverpoolA380 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2012, 140 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 12501 times:
Do yout hink BA will ever run LCY routes to MAN again?
LiverpoolA380 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2012, 140 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 12456 times:
AIR MALTA From Malta, joined Sep 2001, 2365 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 12018 times:
Quoting clydenairways (Reply 11): Nearly all the recent route announcments have been for Leisure routes. Has all the potential expansion to more Business destinations dried up?
I think for new Business Routes to open, you would need to invest in new planes to offer the early morning departures and late afternoon returns. All new routes are operated in the middle of the day to optimize fleet usage. And I think every major business center is now connected to LCY.
ba319-131 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 8267 posts, RR: 56 Reply 13, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 11999 times:
skipness1E From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2007, 2381 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 10387 times:
Apologies I think it was Vueling wasnt it? Even so would BA ever consider it?
There would be no point, as soon as the West Coast main line was fixed, all the point to point traffic that had used VLM from both LPL and MAN got the train, it's a no brainer.
LHRFlyer From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2010, 740 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 10130 times:
Interesting that two French regional destinations have been chosen, instead of other holiday destinations in Spain, Italy etc. This is distinctly CityJet territority.
LuftyMatt From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2009, 373 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 7478 times:
Quoting LiverpoolA380 (Reply 5): Do yout hink BA will ever run LCY routes to MAN again?
Good point. I don't think they ever did, as has been mentioned VG used to do the service. But I've been wondering the same as you, why don't they do MAN-LCY?
LHRFlyer From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2010, 740 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 6868 times:
Quoting LuftyMatt (Reply 17): Good point. I don't think they ever did, as has been mentioned VG used to do the service. But I've been wondering the same as you, why don't they do MAN-LCY?
The train has decimated domestic air traffic between London and Manchester. There's no way air travel can compete with the frequency and speed of the upgraded train service.
EuroWings From UK - England, joined Sep 2011, 298 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 6679 times:
Quoting LHRFlyer (Reply 18): The train has decimated domestic air traffic between London and Manchester. There's no way air travel can compete with the frequency and speed of the upgraded train service.
No question about it - central London to central Manchester every 20 minutes taking just over 2 hours.
Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18844 posts, RR: 54 Reply 20, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 6421 times:
Quoting EuroWings (Reply 19): No question about it - central London to central Manchester every 20 minutes taking just over 2 hours.
Absolutely! If you're travelling rough centre-to-centre, the train, with its impressive frequency, pretty short durations, and generally much more pleasurable experience for such a trip, makes MAN-LCY completely uncompetitive and uneconomic.
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LuftyMatt From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2009, 373 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 6194 times:
Quoting LHRFlyer (Reply 18): The train has decimated domestic air traffic between London and Manchester. There's no way air travel can compete with the frequency and speed of the upgraded train service.
Ah I see thanks, makes sense I suppose. I wondered if that may have been the reason
alasdair1982 From UK - Scotland, joined Mar 2008, 461 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 6170 times:
I wonder if INV-LCY is a possibility?
25 eljonno: Amen to that! The trains are such a pain in the ass from Cornwall! I wish they'd reinstate NQY-LGW. I loved turning up at NQY and seeing a BA 737 the
26 seansasLCY: If the service operated all year round on weekdays that equals roughly 18680 / 261 weekdays = 71.5 passengers per day or 35 passengers per flight on
28 PlymSpotter: The ASW flights to LCY were a huge missed, or rather ignored, opportunity. The loads going up to London in the morning and back to the South West in t
29 Viscount724: No but Milan is a much larger business market than Rome and there is twice-daily LCY-LIN service (CityJet Avro RJ85s).
30 Chimborazo: The train taking 10% of the traffic from LON to MAN made it uneconomic for airlines to continue service...?
31 seansasLCY: This service will shortly become an Alitalia EMB190 service. I believe Rome was served by Cityjet for a short while but then suspended.
32 flycro: In terms of business destinations I would have though FCO would have been a possibility. If WAW was tried, surely BA could give Rome a try or Venice f
33 nclmedic: Great news for BA and so good to see LCY being seriously utilised now. There's a definite market for Londoners using these routes and beats having an
34 AIR MALTA: I think these routes have been started while frequencies to PMI and Ibiza are shrinking. Can anyone confirm?
35 seansasLCY: Swiss is also to move its Basel services from LHR to LCY. LCY will once again receive two daily flights to Basel. Nice to see Swiss expanding again at
36 VV701: Last summer BA Cityflyer operated 5 times a week from LCY to IBZ: BA8461 E90: d. 12:05 Day 1, 06:40 Day 5 and 13:40 Day 7 BA8463 E70: d. 15:00 Day 1,
38 richardw: It will be interesting to see if BA Cityflyer stops doing the weekend summer charters for tour operators and perhaps does their own weekend W summer f
39 lhr380: These happen from GLA and not LCY due to LCYs runway closing over the weekends.
40 Eagleboy: Doubt we will see more of this operation. LCY-JFK is such a narrow market niche. Perhaps it could work with Boston or Washington DC. But the Wall St.
41 richardw: I'm aware of this. CityJet does W flights at weekends, so it is not unheard of.
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