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Couple of reasons for the larger aircraft: - Charter rates on the B738 are now often in line with rates from smaller aircraft operators. Generally because aircraft/crew need to be kept current/airworthy, desperate need to keep cashflow coming in and the low cost of fuel at the moment. -...

Taking a look at the VY booking engine, appears as below for this Summer: ALC July - 1 x Weekly (Thurs) August - 1 x Weekly (Thurs) September - 2 x Weekly (Mon/Thurs) October - 6 x Weekly (Except Fri) PMI July - no flights August - 1 x Weekly (Thurs) September - 1 x Weekly (Thurs) October - 3...

Not surprised with the prices for a pint!

An excellent post, thank you. If you're living then you're learning!

Absolutely, I agree. Personally i'd love to see APD devolved to Wales but without getting too political, I don't trust either the WAG or the UK government to make any logical decisions at the moment, they're far too busy playing for career advancement rather than doing good for the country...

I believe the 'quote' was taken from a walesonline article, which as is often the case, factually incorrect. The 'loan' awarded to flybe would represent less than 10% of the figure quoted, and is likely to account for £2-3 per seat available. Government often makes decisions based on many...

Unfortunately, the article is poorly written and factually incorrect. The figure actually 'invested' is a small fraction of that. I think the 'journalist' has got confused with the number of 0's..