flybe / BA Connect

jet2uk · Post by **jet2uk** » 08 Jan 2007, 11:35

anyone got any idea when this deal between flybe and ba connect is due to be finalised? last i read it should have been completed by the end of 2006, but still no word. i want to book ba connect flights for april july and august from manchester, but im concious that i dont want them to be booked through ba, then have the route canclled by flybe when they complete the acquisition. ba connect is supposed to disappear by the end of march apparantly...

fcw · Post by **fcw** » 08 Jan 2007, 13:49

The answer to all your questions:
http://www.flybe.com/qanda/default.htm

They still quote 1st Jan, but , to my knowledge postponed till 1st feb.

Charlie Roy · Post by **Charlie Roy** » 05 Mar 2007, 22:10

Flybe's website saying today that they will be flying BRU - MAN from March 25th, taking over from BA connect.

What's the current and future situation of brussels airlines on this route? Is there a code share? The aircraft of which company are used?

SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 05 Mar 2007, 22:24

Completion of acquisition by Flybe of BA connect. 05 March 2007
Flybe announces that it has completed the acquisition of BA Connect, (which does not include BA Connect’s London City or Manchester / JFK routes)

Manchester – Brussels
• Flights will operate from 25th March
• Fares from £44.99 one way including taxes and charges

Flybe · Post by **Flybe** » 05 Mar 2007, 23:47

they will be flying BRU - MAN from March 25th

Nice that my avatar namesake will introduce flights to BRU, and that even on my birthday!

Now, when I chose this name for Luchtzak, I just did it because I liked the name, but I just knew something special had to come from it

Unfortunately I'm not planning to visit Manchester anywhere soon, otherwhise I would know which airline to try! :kvole:

Greets,

Pieter

SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 06 Mar 2007, 11:19

BA said the sell-off will cost them £105million.
Flybe's acquisition of BA Connect creates Europe's largest regional airline, with 152 routes from 22 UK and 34 European airports.

Flybe's numbers nosedive into red: FLYBE slumped to a £12.2 million pre-tax loss in its latest trading year, reversing from a profit of £7.8m the year before.

433 Jobs axed as BA sell routes: The cuts come as British Airways signed off on the sale of their loss-making regional business BA Connect to rivals Flybe.
Doubts were cast last night on the right of British Airways to "fly the flag" as it announced hundreds of job losses in Scotland.
Ground staff in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh were yesterday told they would almost certainly be transferred to handling agents. The news was broken to some while they were serving passengers at check-in.

All ground handling at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester airports is being transferred to contractor Aviance UK.

In all, 730 jobs are affected across the UK and BA staff have been offered voluntary severance, a move to London or a possible transfer to Aviance.

‘Aviance’ is an alliance created in 1999. Members:
Flightcare
Aviance UK
Aviance Ghana
Laufer Aviation
ADPHandling
Aviance France
Çelebi
JetAviation
Fraport Austria
ATS
SATA
SEA Handling

Passengers fear for services as airline hands over subsidiary to no-frills Flybe

SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 06 Mar 2007, 19:33

Flybe is to close down its operations at Bristol airport except for its Jersey route from 25 March.
Paris, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Glasgow and Edinburgh will be affected.

nldogbert · Post by **nldogbert** » 07 Mar 2007, 14:22

Hi,

Well, I guess I had the opportunity to fly one of the last few flights on BA Connect last weekend from Bristol. Truthfully, I do understand why they are closing this station. Load on both of my flight, BRS-GLA and EDI-BRS, the loads were really light. If it was not for the onboard food purchase, you would think you were flying in your own Exec. class with just about 1:8 ratio.

In my opinion, I really think that the BA Con as part of BA was not appropriate, it just did not go along with the general impression of the service you normally would obtain from a mainline service, ie food for purchase onboard. Since now FlyBE has taken most of the route, this would seem more appropriate to have this food for purchase onboard.

PS: Anyone know why is there is direct flight of SN (or Brussel Airlines) direct from BRS to LYS? I am not sure if it has a stop in BRU, but at BRS I noticed that it was quoted with a final destination as LYS. I did not know that they could fly direct from UK to France. Any comments or info on this.

fcw · Post by **fcw** » 07 Mar 2007, 14:45

nldogbert wrote: Well, I guess I had the opportunity to fly one of the last few flights on BA Connect last weekend from Bristol. Truthfully, I do understand why they are closing this station. Load on both of my flight, BRS-GLA and EDI-BRS, the loads were really light. If it was not for the onboard food purchase, you would think you were flying in your own Exec. class with just about 1:8 ratio.

In my opinion, I really think that the BA Con as part of BA was not appropriate, it just did not go along with the general impression of the service you normally would obtain from a mainline service, ie food for purchase onboard.

The main reason to stop these flights is competition with EasyJet who is very succesfull on BRS-GLA and BRS-EDI.
BA created BACON in an attempt to compete with Easy, BmiBaby and Ryanair but it didn't work... Just like Go and Dba didn't work when they were BA.

jet2uk · Post by **jet2uk** » 10 Mar 2007, 14:47

some of the new code-sharing from BA/flybe seems quite random, why, for exmple are they continuing to code-share from birmngham? BA itself has no more operations there...unless it's to connect passengers through from SunAir of Scandanavia..?Also, why code-share Edinburgh-Paris? Is it for the benefit of Finnair passengers that may want to connect through? I think they'd do well to code-share routes like LGW-BHD, LGW-GCI,LGW-JER, MAN-NWI, MAN-EXT and MAN-SOU

Vinnie-Winnie · Post by **Vinnie-Winnie** » 10 Mar 2007, 19:17

Does anyone know which aircrafts flybe will use from MAN to BRU? Will they continue using BA connect aircrafts till they get new ones or will they already switch to FLYBE aircrafts? (Embrear 190 for example

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SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 10 Mar 2007, 20:19

fcw wrote:BA created BACON in an attempt to compete with Easy, BmiBaby and Ryanair but it didn't work... Just like Go and Dba didn't work when they were BA.

What about Comair, fcw?

Post by **sn26567** » 11 Mar 2007, 08:42

Vinnie-Winnie wrote:Does anyone know which aircrafts flybe will use from MAN to BRU?

Initially, the BAe146s taken over from BA Connect, but later the Embraers of all sizes.

The timetables have appeared in Brussels Airport's website. And it seems that the codeshare with SN has gone...

flyoften · Post by **flyoften** » 11 Mar 2007, 10:33

Takeover completed on 5th March. New schedules from the end of March are out. Hope this helps. Flyoften.

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