John Wright Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 24 minutes ago, Lxxx said: It does end yes. Stobart allegedly offered Flybe better terms to maintain it but they're determined to retain all their old routes and set up a base here. There may or may not have been a sweetener in the deal in the form of the health service contract involved. As part of a co-ordinated strategy to tie in with the Steam Packet purchase so we retain some form of control over our transport links again. Apparently. Of course it’s all tied in to Stobart making an offer for flybe in February 2018. Flybe rejected and Stobart didn’t increase. Actually the Stobart offer now looks generous. Stobart has an aircraft leasing company which already leases planes to flybe, both on a wet and dry basis. As for flybe flying IoM into Southend, well that’s a Stobart owned airport. The current flybe flights to/from Southend are operated by Stobart flybe franchise. It’ll be interesting to see how it pans. Never really understood why IoM Stanstead didn’t work out. It’s good for budget flights onward. City is great for commercial London and some European business connections, but the two onward routes I had used, Venice and Barcelona, are either cancelled or have hopeless connection times now. yes, so we get a flybe base again, but lose a Stobart base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellanvannin2010 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 2 hours ago, John Wright said: Flybe are also taking back the franchise on IoM Liverpool etc from Stobart Air Except the IOM routes are not franchise routes for Stobart but are Flybe routes operated by Stobart on behalf of Flybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 23 minutes ago, ellanvannin2010 said: Except the IOM routes are not franchise routes for Stobart but are Flybe routes operated by Stobart on behalf of Flybe. It amounts to the same thing. The two were coterminous.Both end together. Only difference is that flybe will operate the IoM routes itself again, with its own aircraft, probably leased from Stobart leasing, whereas Stobart will either operate its Southend routes under a new franchise: Aer Lingus? Or it’s own name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battling the System! Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 On 7/10/2018 at 2:17 PM, forestboy said: Will the etc. include Birmingham? Flybe have a main base at Birmingham, so they would never really drop that route. All routes are as before though and with a possibility of a new route too, well to them anyways,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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