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Bye Globespan....

Postby Mictheslik » Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:35 pm

The latest airline victim of the economic climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 417183.stm

Here's hoping all those in the Falklands get back for Christmas.... :-X

.mic

PS...on the bright side it could make the traffic at Brize a bit more interesting....767s are so dull...bring back the OAI DC10s!
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Re: Bye Globespan....

Postby C » Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:42 pm

The latest airline victim of the economic climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 417183.stm

Here's hoping all those in the Falklands get back for Christmas.... :-X

.mic

PS...on the bright side it could make the traffic at Brize a bit more interesting....767s are so dull...bring back the OAI DC10s!


Well, I doubt the FI schedule will be leaving tonight - at least not a Globespan flight. Hopefully they'll get another charter put out ASAP to run the two routes before Christmas.

As for the new tender, it's a bit of a poisoned chalice. Apart from OAI, the past three operators have been Zoom, XL and FlyGlobespan...
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Re: Bye Globespan....

Postby Rich H » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:03 pm

I guess it's all a case of survival of the fittest until we get out of this problem.
Still sad they went down though.
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Re: Bye Globespan....

Postby expat » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:05 am

The latest airline victim of the economic climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 417183.stm

Here's hoping all those in the Falklands get back for Christmas.... :-X

.mic

PS...on the bright side it could make the traffic at Brize a bit more interesting....767s are so dull...bring back the OAI DC10s!



Not just Falkland's, they also did/do trooper flights in and out of Paderborn.

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