In message <5v4agvF1kb890U1.DeleteThis@mid.individual.net>, at 18:51:43 on Tue, 15
Jan 2008, "tim (not at home)" <tims_new_home.DeleteThis@yahoo.co.uk> remarked:
>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7188963.stm
>>
>> Two aircraft. Wow. That'll be fun when one goes tech 
>
>I doubt that it will be any different to any other FR operation. They fly
>their planes intensively, so there's no slack if one breaks.
It was just the thought of them having to cancel half their flights!
Although servicing 22 destinations, with no more than perhaps eight
flights a day with two planes, the average frequency per destination
looks like once every three days. The excitement abates a little. (I
haven't looked at their timetables to verify these assumptions).
>> Nice to see an increase in the number of routes, though; although
>> Stockholm's the only one of those I think I might ever use.
>
>They plan to have 10 planes, to 22 destinations so that's an average of 1.5
>journeys to each, per day.
Once they have all 10 planes. Are they planning on only serving 4
destinations to start off with?
>Personally, an airport would have to be very convenient for me to risk
>a once a day opeartion, if I had an alternative choice.
Agreed, on these short-haul routes the minimum someone flying on
business needs is at least one flight at dawn, and another some time
early evening.
Although we can perhaps be too fussy... there was a period where I was
flying somewhere with one flight a week, which turned into two a week.
But that was better than the other ways of getting there (instead of a
direct flight, two separate flights plus a two-hour bus - daily, but it
took all day each way). And yes, inside the EU.
>I really liked the line about the 350 million pound investment in the
>airport. How much of that is the 2 check in desks and a couple of
>maintenance staff? The bulk of that must be the cost of the planes.
Don't they lease them? This is like Branson saying he's spent billions
investing in new trains, when the money has actually been invested by a
ROSCO.
>> I see they have Birmingham on their website already.
>>
>> That'll be the same website that took months to get changed to show fares
>> that include tax 
>
>Have they done that yet?
The home page claims the flight prices are now including tax and fees.
But as they start at £5, it seems to good to be true. My next low-cost
flight with BMI Baby has outbound "taxes and charges" of £16.95, inbound
£19.95.
--
Roland Perry
>> Stay informed about: Ryanair to open Birmingham base 
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