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And I wouldn't believe that for a nano-second. They are actively involved, but their involvement is channelled through the board that they appoint to act on their behalf. So although the statement is technically true, it paints a picture which could arguably be misleading.

As I said, today is a different day to yesterday. And there is a vacancy too.

All very fair questions. Tomorrow's another day, so let's see what that brings.

Now there's a loaded statement if ever there was one.

Correct, it's a customs requirement because Jersey is outside the EU (at that time) and the UK today. SOU-LBA-ABZ might not be beyond the realms of possibility in time - they have bases at both ends as of November. If SOU-MAN also goes well (and there's every reason why it should) then it...

The announcement of the SOU base is very likely to mean that any renewed presence at LBA has gone into the far edges of the lawn, if not the long grass. They had apparently looked at several options but rumours of an Emerald base at Southampton including SOU-MAN and Scotland routes had driven...

It's the same everywhere for Jersey and Guernsey though - the market is a fraction of what it once was. Dan-Air weekend capacity (and British Midland thereafter) was largely to service Wallace Arnold which is no more - the coach interchange fed the LBA flights and a coach interchange at South...

I understood that Emerald had dropped plans to open a UK mainland base in favour of putting more capacity into Dublin this summer now that the passenger limit has been lifted (temporarily, at least). They had looked at quite a number of options but backed off. Also bear in mind that Emerald...

Led to believe that any developments - if they occur - will be in the back half of this year (after July and more likely September). All related to aircraft and crew availability. Still by no means certain it will involve LBA.

I don't think it was that they were unhappy with LBA, more that a certain airport over the way may have been making commercial offers that would be hard for the airline to refuse, to the probable detriment of the other airports around them.

Based aircraft slots will be difficult but not impossible for first wave departures, with terminal capacity likely to be more of a constraint than the runway. But if they are flying from away bases into the UK and turning round, they'd be pretty much fine.

I'd like to think I'm wrong, but have a feeling that a sizeable operation at MAN in place of LPL and LBA might materialise.

Despite the good progress on several fronts including Ryanair, Jet2 and easyJet of late, I have a nasty feeling about Wizz Air. The programme is now so small as to be inconsequential in their world, and I think they have another UK airport courting them heavily which would not be helpful to...

You can - the key question is whether today's customer will actually buy flights at those times. There's a price to everything, but there is no saving in fuel or other operating costs by flying at night - indeed some down-route airports levy surcharges for night flights now. There's also an...

The Capital Shorts 360s were all 39-seat 360-300s (to use the manufacturer's marketing name). All 360s were certificated as 360-100s per the CAA, but the Capital aircraft had the more powerful -67R engines and the higher max take-off weight (12,292 kgs versus 11,999 for a standard 360) which...

It's absolutely possible - but the number of "deep night" leisure flights nowadays is a fraction of what it used to be. If you take the example of Manchester, it has two late-night Friday departures in summer 2024 - a TUI to Corfu and a Sun Express to Dalaman - where it had 32 flights in the...

BTS still on sale for next summer via the Ryanair website at present (with different days to the winter operation). But I'd be sure that if it's axed, the based aircraft capacity will still be deployed somewhere else.

Concern noted. There is a [legal] difference between disclosing physical data and what's said here - I don't actually have data, but have seen a summary of route-by-route changes in frequency and seat count for a snapshot in Summer 2025 across several airports. It's really no different to the...

Hmmm. I'm less sure that something will be coming from the Tartan Army than perhaps at this time last week. There is still some growth to come from Ryanair, I believe. Likes of getting WRO, WMI, OPO and ZAD up from two to three per week each + some extra flying to LIG and PGF and GRO going...

My route guesses were clearly completely wrong, but one route 2 x weekly and one route 4 x weekly indeed it is.