Blue Islands

[Quadhop]

Originally Posted by Brexoff

Its about £45k for captains and £25k for FO’s I believe which is only really appealing to locals who don’t want to move away and or people who already have wealth.

Not sure how anyone can survive on those wages over there without someone or something supplementing their income.

An FO I know who left a few years back only managed to put up with is because his parents sent him £500pm to top up his wages before he found something better.

It was more like 50K for skippers last year I think

[SealinkBF]

Luxembourg trial and Isle of Man returns

Isle of Man to Channel Islands direct flights return after trial - BBC News

Channel Island flights to Luxembourg to be trialled - BBC News

[AerArann62W]

Is G-ISLK out of service also now with G-ISLO?

[jethro15]

Is G-ISLK out of service also now with G-ISLO?

Another victim of the current worldwide ATR maintenance problems?

[AerArann62W]

Originally Posted by jethro15

Another victim of the current worldwide ATR maintenance problems?

G-ISLK re-entered service this morning it seems after 5 weeks or so.

[amyisraelchai]

Marathon E175

Blue Islands leasing a Marathon E175 from June 9th as per this link

Starting on June 9, our aircraft will operate on routes connecting Jersey to key UK destinations like Southampton, Nottingham, Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Norwich, and Guernsey, as well as Dublin in Ireland, and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, ensuring passengers enjoy a smooth air travel experience.

[OltonPete]

Sub charters

Originally Posted by amyisraelchai

Blue Islands leasing a Marathon E175 from June 9th as per this link

Yes they have had some wretched luck. Failed to get a single departure away from BHX the last two weekends, which was unfortunate as it was the May Bank holiday with all 4 cancelled due tech aircraft although they did mange to get one of the Friday flights away on the Saturday and at least one inbound. A Danish Saab has been in a couple of times this week as well which was really good work getting hold of an aircraft even if not quite a 70 seater.

One bright spot for them at BHX, is that not many pax lost to easyjet as they suspended their service after 1st June until 15 June.

Pete

[jethro15]

Blue Islands problems are not of their own doing. Just sayin'

[jmdavies86]

Originally Posted by amyisraelchai

Blue Islands leasing a Marathon E175 from June 9th as per this link

Let's hope they have better luck than Air Serbia who terminated their agreement with Marathon after an E195 that they were wet-leasing struck ground infrastructure on take-off and was forced to return to Belgrade after:

https://simpleflying.com/marathon-ai...minary-report/

[Albert Hall]

Flybe 2 had Marathon in for quite a while - and they seemed to perform better with the eJet than their own Q400s, but maybe that is not much of an advert.

[FQTLSteve]

If they didn't operate any scheduled flights for two weekends from BHX what happened to the passengers?

[OltonPete]

BHX

Originally Posted by FQTLSteve

If they didn't operate any scheduled flights for two weekends from BHX what happened to the passengers?

No Idea but easyjet operated on the Saturday although they for once were well loaded anyway and I suppose the only alternatives were rebook, fly on the Monday or make you way down south to Southampton or Bristol. The one weekend BHX had both flights cancelled they managed to operate both Bristol services for some reason and I suppose some BHX might have been on those services.

The evening flight today is showing cancelled but a Blue Island aircraft turned up at midday on the 8.30am flight so perhaps they have bene combined them today but good that at least one flight has operated. What has helped is cutting the double daily Monday and Wednesday and the Tuesday service similar to Aurigny at BHX who have cut Tuesday and Thursday until July. Another ATR operator Emerald has also reduced BHX from 6 daily to 5 daily in the week and the service seems more robust.

Pete

[Albert Hall]

Word on the street is that Emerald also have an ATR72-600 out of service being used as a Christmas tree to provide parts for the rest of the fleet. Don’t know if that’s 100% accurate but I guess when you have as many of them as they do, it’s easier to cover the impact of being one ship down than it would be for BI or Aurigny.

[Alteagod]

I think more than one being used as a uni part depot

[Albert Hall]

You have to wonder how much damage this is all doing to ATR’s customer base. Passengers won’t tend to see all of this, but if airlines aren’t making profits then they aren’t leasing or ordering new aircraft. It seems like the engine problems at Airbus and the production problems at Boeing are getting the headlines but there is a story every bit as bad unfolding for ATR operators with every UK airline flying the things impacted.

[SWBKCB]

You have to wonder how much damage this is all doing to ATR’s customer base.

Where will they switch their custom?

[Albert Hall]

Presumably why ATR appear not to give a s***. There is nowhere else for these operators to go. But airlines making no profits buy no aeroplanes all the same.

[Skipness One Foxtrot]

G-ISLM off to Monchengladbach today, maintenance?

[AerArann62W]

Is G-ISLO the only AT75 left in service currently for BI?

[Gurnard]

Originally Posted by AerArann62W

Is G-ISLO the only AT75 left in service currently for BI?

Yes - at the present time.