New routes: IAG budget long-haul, Flybe @ Heathrow, KLM @ City, Flybe @ Southend

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• Mycity says:

  24 Dec24 December 07:12

  Slightly o/t report on Flyertalk that BA are restarting/adding routes from Man long haul and Europe.

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    24 Dec24 December 07:21

    This could be very interesting news.

  • Boi says:

    24 Dec24 December 08:07

    How I wish this is true….

• Anna says:

  24 Dec24 December 08:53

  PLEASE keep us updated on any BA/Manchester routes. It drives me nuts having to go everywhere via Heathrow, and Gatwick flights have become a thing of the past since the shuttle from Manchester was abandoned. JFK and Orlando services would be awesome.

  • Anon says:

    24 Dec24 December 09:37

    Anna, you know Virgin fly from Manchester??

    See their new routes starting in the Spring

  • Ro says:

    24 Dec24 December 09:40

    I suggest stop flying BA…

    • Mr(s) Entitled says:

      24 Dec24 December 09:53

      I for one have pretty stopped flying BA. It’s gone from a carrier of choice to one that I am indifferent too.

      Door to Gate at MAN is 30mins for me and I have Virgin/US Carriers going West and M.E., EU and Asian Carrier flying East. If I have to change I’d rather do it somewhere more interesting than T5 were the lounges have been eroded so much over the years.

      Priced up Dublin yesterday. Ryanair had twice the direct availability of IAG and was half the price. For short haul Ryanair is simply a better product. Also have Monarch, Jet2, EasyJet and Flybe.

      My only interest in BA returning would be for potential RFS to longer distance short-haul destinations. RFS from the regions doesn’t make sense anymore.

  • James67 says:

    24 Dec24 December 12:11

    BA?? I hadn’t realised people in the north west had such low aspirations.

• Kathy says:

  24 Dec24 December 09:25

  Wonder how long the Southend routes will last. (I was hoping for Dublin.)

  • Rob says:

    24 Dec24 December 12:04

    As Stobart also owns the airport, I imagine it is pretty low risk for them as they benefit from both sides (eg money from the flight and money from whatever passengers spend at the airport).

• Rich. says:

  24 Dec24 December 10:38

  Flybe using dash8-400 props is not my cup of tea,!!!

  • mark2 says:

    24 Dec24 December 15:38

    I have just changes an Alaska Airlines booking so that we are flying on Q400 rather than 737-900 (more convenient time too). I wanted a small (Q400 is actually fairly small) aircraft as we shall then fly home on A380.

• Anna says:

  24 Dec24 December 10:55

  Yes thanks, aware re Virgin, however I use BA to collect and spend avios, e.g we have CW flights to Grand Cayman next year courtesy of avios and companion voucher,and BA is the only UK carrier to fly this route so it works quite well for us. But it would be great to be able to fly direct to some other destinations. Also Virgin actually work out more expensive than BA in school holidays which at present we are stuck with!

• James67 says:

  24 Dec24 December 12:07

  FlyBe have now suspended Dundee to Amsterdam, presumably due to radar issues.

  • CV3V says:

    25 Dec25 December 00:20

    The radar issues isn’t the true story. True story is that the Dash 8 on the AMS route does a lot of tail scrapes if it’s a circling approach. Logan air fly a SAAB2000 in and out without issue.

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      25 Dec25 December 22:55

      Why would Dundee’s runway be any different from tail scrapes than any other runway?
      I know it has weight issues, so that rules out anything of a decent size, but I can’t fathom out that.

      They’ve also been very poor in handling the re-routes.

      I flew it once, and it was fine, but on of use for point to point. I couldn’t rely on it for a same day connection.

      • Alan says:

        26 Dec26 December 00:25

        Agree, I’d be very interested in hearing more of the story behind this. Very disappointing they’ve cancelled it, a lot of people had already used the route and there was a lot of excitement about it locally.

• Adrian says:

  24 Dec24 December 15:09

  I thought IAG already had budget longhaul……..it’s called BA CW!

  • CV3V says:

    25 Dec25 December 00:21

    +1

    I was about to make same comment!

• ECR says:

  24 Dec24 December 17:43

  I don’t really why anyone would want to operate as Flybe franchise, unless it a very cheap way to access a booking system.

  It is a shame BA don’t seem to franchise in the UK anymore as that would be much more interesting.

  • Rob says:

    24 Dec24 December 19:28

    Loganair found it worked (and then didn’t).

    In what is a low margin business, though, the fees must add up.

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