Mpprh Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Easyjet buys GB Airways, will fly Gatwick - Montpellier ?http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7061246.stm The report also says that BA will operate some of these routes themselves.I'm not sure that they will attempt to do Montpellier. Once their monopoly on flights to this region was eroded (c 1999) they have consistently reduced the service.But, a new foothold for Easyjet, presuming they keep the Montpellier route.If so, maybe they will consider other routes. They are quite active in flights from Scotland, Newcastle, and Belfast (also EMA, Luton, Stansted, Liverpool and Bristol, but they won't want to compete with existing Ryanair routes ?).Interesting times !Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audois Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Very interesting, there's a lot of speculation in the south in regards to who will be flying where & with Ryanair dropping two days of flying into Carcassonne from the end of this month it could be interesting to see if they will move all their operations to Beziers where no doubt they're getting more hand outs to fly in there. Who will take up the Carcassonne routes if that happens; I would like to see EasyJet here which might make financial sense as flying into Blagnac can't be cheap! Or FlyBe?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Sud-Ouest newspaper recently announced new daily flights to Angouleme from LGW with GB Airways and Ryanair from STD starting in the Spring, don't know whether Easy Jet will take on this route...............watch and wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Does anyone know what's happened to Montpellier-East Midlands which was started in march this year? No sign of it on the RA site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joidevie Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Is there really talk of Ryanair quiting Carcassonne? I thought it was one of the most established routes?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baz Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 [quote user="joidevie"]Is there really talk of Ryanair quiting Carcassonne? I thought it was one of the most established routes??[/quote]Routes go out of favour for many reasons, never rely on especially the low cost carriers maintaining destinations.Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joidevie Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 For sure never rely on a route, but I was surprised at the suggestion about Carcassonne - 2 generally full planes in season a day, and now a cut back to 4 a week still pretty busy (albeit at the cheap fares) during the winter.. The local area has become quite interdependent with the influx of foreigners from UK, Ireland & the rest of EuropeI would have thought Beziers was a little close to Montpellier for comfort.. Maybe Perpignan would be the weaker destination..?Audois, I'd be interested in what exactly has been 'speculated' ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpprh Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 [quote user="raindog"]Does anyone know what's happened to Montpellier-East Midlands which was started in march this year? No sign of it on the RA site.[/quote]Ryanair have been flying to East Midlands from Nimes and Carcassonne. Haven't heard of flights from Montpellier ?Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 [quote user="Baz"] Routes go out of favour for many reasons ..........................[/quote]Don't agree Baz - there's only 1 reason, more money can be made doing something somewhere else with the plane.Johnnot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 [quote user="Mpprh"][quote user="raindog"]Does anyone know what's happened to Montpellier-East Midlands which was started in march this year? No sign of it on the RA site.[/quote]Ryanair have been flying to East Midlands from Nimes and Carcassonne. Haven't heard of flights from Montpellier ?Peter[/quote]cheers, i'll check out the Nimes flights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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