BeOnTop Airlines - Liège Airport

[Flanker2]

A regional by itself in LGG would be quite a challenge, unless they fly Q400's to Italy. A Q400 would still work financially while a RJ would not offer the CASM necessary to offer a competitive price and A320/B737 would be overkill and not really fall under the definition of regional airline.

I'm an optimist for new projects and despite quite the catchement area, it will be quite challenging to make this work.

[andorra-airport]

Zoom wanted to fly with a Do328 from Liege.......http://zoomnaturally.wordpress.com/

[Passenger]

Zoom wanted to fly with a Do328 from Liege.......http://zoomnaturally.wordpress.com/

Company behind Zoom Naturally: Flycav
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pd ... 130232.pdf

People behind Flycav: Filip Cannaerts and Koen Van Hecke
http://www.linkedin.com/in/filipcannaerts
http://www.on2fly.com
http://www.be.linkedin.com/pub/koen-van ... 955/7a1/nl
https://www.facebook.com/koen.vanhecke

[Passenger]

Pagtour isn't happy with this:

http://www.pagtour.net//index.php?optio ... le&id=4676

"... Le problème en fait est que le centre de Liège est à 42 km de Maastricht-Aachen airport et à 89 km de Brussels South Charleroi airport. Ces deux aéroports régionaux bien établis sont des concurrents directs de Liège pour le trafic passagers..."

"... Mais la vraie question qui se pose est quelle sera la réaction des compagnies desservant aujourd’hui Liège Airport qui ne devraient pas trop apprécier le zèle de l’aéroport à leur créer un concurrent ex nihilo. Que Liège Airport cherche de nouvelles compagnies aériennes existantes pour étoffer son offre est légitime et raisonnable, mais vouloir créer un nouveau concurrent à son propre marché l’est moins...."

"... Si l’initiative de Liège Airport se concrétise en la création d’une nouvelle compagnie, les conditions qui lui seront offertes par Liège Airport devront naturellement l’être aux autres, droit communautaire européen oblige..."

"... Le consommateur pourrait certes s’en accommoder sans état d’âme, mais quel serait le gain pour Liège Airport si les revenus aéroportuaires étaient écrasés par les demandes de la concurrence frontale entre compagnies aériennes chez lui et dans les aéroports voisins?..."

In brief :

- downtown Liège is only 42 kms from Maastricht-Aachen and 89 kms from Charleroi, both well established airports

- looking for new airlines is OK, creating one itself isn't (writes Pagtour)

- an own passenger airline will increase competition between local airports, and thus reduce benefit for... LGG

[Acid-drop]

Should you not open a waffle shop because there are already other waffle shops not too far ?
Common...

[Passenger]

Should you not open a waffle shop because there are already other waffle shops not too far ?
Common...

Yes, off course.

But what Pagtour says, is that if the airport opens an own waffle shop, it's possible that the actual waffle shops who now pay rent to the airport, may quit.

So LGG must make very sure that what it will earn with its own airline brings in more revenu then what Jetairfly and others now pay.

[Nevihta]

Aviation has nothing to see with waffles... comparing is not a good way to judge about a business opportunity.
Knowledge of Liege Airport and a former employee of Virgin Express seems quite light.
Unfortunately, Liege Airport already proved they lack of operational knowledge in aviation...

[Acid-drop]

They have canceled (postponed) the meeting.
They also confirmed LGG would only be a facilitator, not an investor.

[Passenger]

They have canceled (postponed) the meeting.
They also confirmed LGG would only be a facilitator, not an investor.

It's quite normal that the meeting has been cancelled: organizor Luc Partoune has to prepare himself for a court case for fraud:
http://www.lameuse.be/1-201/article/201 ... tribunal-c

The downgrading from "investor" to "facilitator" is probably because they had negative comments from their actual clients who didn't liked that their business partner was going to compete them.