Archive Eastern Airways from Leeds Bradford Airport

[pug]

Sad…another airline gone and now less routes within the UK.

Very sad. I know a few people who will be having sleepless nights over this and wondering how they’ll pay the mortgage. There is some hope that the jetstream operations will recommence quite quickly but as they’ve effectively all stopped flying for the time being it feels like this is false hope.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Very sad. I know a few people who will be having sleepless nights over this and wondering how they’ll pay the mortgage. There is some hope that the jetstream operations will recommence quite quickly but as they’ve effectively all stopped flying for the time being it feels like this is false hope.

But Eastern are survivors, I am hoping they have a plan.

 

[pug]

But Eastern are survivors, I am hoping they have a plan.

I’ve never known them to stop flying, even in their more troubled times in the past.. But something tells me he has something up his sleeve as I understand he’s handed some of the assets over to a successor in the family. Be nice to see them continue with the more lucrative stuff and the rest gets ripped out, like the massive overheads they presumably have due to the failed KLM contract.

 

[Len Fish]

Very sad. I know a few people who will be having sleepless nights over this and wondering how they’ll pay the mortgage. There is some hope that the jetstream operations will recommence quite quickly but as they’ve effectively all stopped flying for the time being it feels like this is false hope.

Indeed. As aviation enthusiasts whilst we bemoan the loss of another airline and the routes that go with it it’s easy for us to overlook the human cost when one goes under.

 

[White Heather]

Now official that Eastern are now in administration.

 

[Finger66]

And that's now the LGW-NQY PSO gone to Skybus (no actual surprise in my book) but also probably a logical move as they based in the right area.

if per chance T3 do resurrect I am not sure what will be left for them. Possibly ABZ services that they previously operated.

Or may be a 4 a/c J41 base at LBA 😜 not

 

[Ian Gratton]

Newquay-Gatwick will be operated by a Blue Islands ATR until they have an IOS Skybus branded ATR which will be leased from Aurigny. Aurigny have a Twin Otter leased from Skybus entering service soon, so nice co-operation from the SW based airlines. Skybus MD is Johnathan Hinkles who many of us will remember from his LBA spotting days many years ago

 

[752]

NQY would be a great addition for S26.

 

[Finger66]

NQY would be a great addition for S26.

Wouldn't necessarily be betting against that happening, but not with T3, or any resurrection of said operation

 

[White Heather]

NQY would be a great addition for S26.

I suspect that we would have had a better chance of Newquay if Eastern were around.

 

[dmrodgers]

Wouldn't be surprised to see DSA throw yet more bucket loads of money on another failed operation so they can at least say they have an airline ready and waiting to launch Ros's vanity project.

 

[Starflyer]

I suspect that we would have had a better chance of Newquay if Eastern were around.

I wouldn’t be too sure. There was no love lost between LBA management and Eastern. Remember that Eastern did fly NQY post-Covid before their unceremonious departure from LBA after an aircraft was impounded !

Based on the recent Blue Islands arrival, anything could happen!

 

[Finger66]

Certainly know where my money has been placed!

 

[pug]

I suspect that we would have had a better chance of Newquay if Eastern were around.

Eastern will never be around again. There were mutterings of them returning with the Jetstreams under a different guise, but the chances of this now are slim to none as the administrators start to try find buyers for the assets. I understand the AOC might have been of interest to some, but I’m not sure as to re status of this now that they’ve entered formal administration. Some avionics upgrades are being completed as we speak, but I think this is more out of wishful thinking and (ironically) administrator incompetence than of any real will to see the core ops resurrected. Who knows, perhaps they’ll find an operator in Africa who want to put them to some use. Some of the things I’ve heard the administrator have done offer comedy value, hopefully I will be able to share this down the line!

As before, feel so sorry for the staff in all of this as it’s been badly handled all round.

 

[lbaspotter]

Talk elsewhere Humberside based Eastern Airways / Air.Kilroe has been bought and it’s BAe Jetstream 41’s will fly again soon.

 

[Finger66]

Talk elsewhere Humberside based Eastern Airways / Air.Kilroe has been bought and it’s BAe Jetstream 41’s will fly again soon.

Yes rumour is it's sold to Ecojet. Lovely environmentally friendly aircraft the J41!

 

[YorkshireLad]

They really just refuse to die don’t they, even if the company/assets exists in a different form. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a company come back from the brink so many times, and honestly respect to them

 

[Silvercity]

I wouldn’t be too sure. There was no love lost between LBA management and Eastern. Remember that Eastern did fly NQY post-Covid before their unceremonious departure from LBA after an aircraft was impounded !

Based on the recent Blue Islands arrival, anything could happen!

Ditto at Liverpool Airport, I spoke to someone senior a while back, he stated Eastern were difficult to deal with as a business.

 

[Ian Gratton]

All the airworthy Jetstreams under took a short flight from Humberside last week, could be a test flight for potential new owners

 

[paully]

Not for nothing is the owner known as Tricky Dicky