Good news and bad news today.
Good news is that Riyadh air made their long awaited debut today with a flight to LHR
Bad news is that Icelandair has now accelerated their 767 retirement to 2026, essentially putting an end to non-US 767 operations in europe
Sad news hope they can be rescued, but Eastern Airways has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators.
Under this latest business move, the company has 10 days to address its fiscal problems before it goes under.
Launched in the year 1997, Eastern Airways has served destinations in England and Scotland.
The carrier reported a £19.7 million net loss for the year to March 2024, with total debt amounting to £26 million.
The development risks flight cancellations for up to 800,000 passengers, including those using its key charter services for Premier League and rugby teams.
Administrators could step in if rescue efforts failed, which would transfer the control of the company and stopping operations immediately.
Really doesn’t surprise me, Loganair barely manages to make a profit, and that’s with money being fed to it every so often from the government. Is a shame, but bound to happen.
I think its the parent company that’s going into administration, been all over the radio today. They lost a contract to do a Dutch wind farm and filed. Sucks, wanted to go next year up to Scotland to try and fly the jetstream.
D-ABON (Wir Lieben Fliegen livery) has been withdrawn from use, and flew from Düsseldorf to St Athan this morning.
That’s really sad. They only do scrapping at St Athan I believe. A lot of Jet 2s went down there. Need to put it on display at the aviation park in MAN 
From what I saw, they are going for storage vice scrapping, as the 2 previous retired 757s were still there in their full Condor livery a couple of weeks ago. Might be wrong though, as it doesn’t seem to be overly certain what’s going on with these 757s after their time at Condor, look at the Icelandair 300s for example.
Nah the BA/BEA A319.
Yeah be sad if Loganair go, or other two regional airlines in UK Aurigny and Blue Island.
Yeah really would do, do like the regional air services, if they do go i just couldn’t see BA pick them up though, maybe easyJet would do a few.
Nah that should be down here at the Gatwick museum : p
Do think Gatwick should do a RVP.
We just need FlyBe 2.0, sorry 3.0. Bring back FlyBe I say.
Yeah, the useless things we pay tax for, might as well pay to run a regional airline…
If only a certain airline saw the potential to do anything outside of London…
Nah, not physically possible for them haha, they prioritise profit which is fair enough, but i think they’d make a huge profit expanding euroflyer to Manchester Newcastle Birmingham and Glasgow. Possibly even Cardiff or Belfast too.
Even turning Cityflyer into a more prominent regional airline would be a good start, as Cityflyer does seem to be BAs answer to routes that don’t involve London.
I know they used to do stuff out of Southampton and I think Edinburgh, but I thought they stopped those, Definitely Southampton
They did some leisure routes out of MAN as well at some point including a weekly flight to LCY, I know they are launching Glasgow to Palma next summer.
Glasgow to Palma should do well, hope it does as it’ll probably lead to expansion there!
