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- With 32 seats, the Dornier is probably the right size for this kind of operation. I'm not sure about that, the VLM-Fokkers are often fully booked. There are many other routes flown by VLM where 32 seats would be plenty... I agree Sun-Air would have a hard time providing enough capacity to serve t...

Danish carrier Sun-Air - operating mainly as a British Airways franchisee - is exiting the London City to Hamburg market as of May 8th. BA will start flying this route themselves, mostly to raise capacity beyond what Sun-Air could provide with the Dornier 328 jets/props they use between HAM and LCY....

Nothing but bad news after bad news coming from VLM since the "management buy out"... This cancellation is just the prelude to the bankruptcy. I'm not saying they're doing great - not at all - but cancelling this deal doesn't automatically bring them any closer to bankruptcy. Quite the co...

With VLM's loads what they are, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually took this opportunity to add some smaller planes. A 32-seater (or thereabouts) might give them some more flexibility on the thinner routes, with even Waterford-Luton now often having a load factor of 45 to 50 procent. If they k...

One of the advantages that Chalair has and VLM didn't is that their tickets are being sold on the Air France website and also that passengers can collect Flying Blue miles on those flights. Which is a huge advantage to be sure. But because they're not operated as code share flights with Air France,...

hopefully they do not offer drinks?!! What about the crew? Layover of 20-25 min..they abandon the aircraft after pax disembark and just before boarding to run for the loos at the terminal? What if the toilets are full and they have to wait? Flights delayed? And those planes are probably at remote g...

crew1990 wrote:The the plane will be based in Antwerp during weekdays, and in Caen during weekend. Witch aircraft type will it be by the way?

A Beech 1900D with 19 seats and - famously - no toilet

Monday CFR-ANR-GVA-ANR 0615-0730 0755-925 955-1125 Tuesday AND Thursday ANR-GVA-CFR-ANR-GVA-ANR 0700-0830 0900-1030 1100-1215 1615-1730 1800-1930 2000-2130 Wednesday ANR-GVA-ANR 1335-1505 1535-1705 Friday ANR-GVA-ANR-CFR 1335-1505 1535-1705 1735-1850 So no direct ANR-CFR flights except on friday? O...

Are Chalair reliable? They've just abandoned LUX-LYS a few weeks after launching it. They did, very shortly after Hop announced they would start flying the route... but long before those flights actually started. So I wouldn't especially call them reliable or in it for the long run. But who knows, ...

But what will be the fare to travel to geneva?? In france there are also another company (twinjet) flying with the beech 1900 doing domestic flights and they are not really that cheap!! Well i was hoping another company doing this flight. Looks like the cheapest flights are around 255 euro return. ...

French company Chalair will indeed take over the flights between Antwerp and Geneva (no date mentioned, but I assume they could start as early as March 14). In addition, they will start flying between Antwerp and Caen (Normandy) 3 times a week as from April 4th. This is their new routemap: http://i....

A new airline will operate from ANR. The name will be announced on wednesday, they will take over the route to GVA wich VLM left and start a new route. And looking to the expansion and good loadfactors of JAF at ANR, i think the problem is rather VLM wich is unknown by most flemings... If we're goi...

VLM is a bike without pedals they go where they get big subsidies and they have to leave when the supports stop Following the subsidies is one thing, pissing off a long-term partner like Antwerp Airport is another. Don't expect much goodwill from ANR towards VLM in the future - and thus little to n...

Strange, sad, disappointing that ANR is not an economical viable base to develop and sustain multiple routes, next to the LCY de facto 'winner' route It hasn't been for VLM no. But even if FDH turns out to be a big success for them and they end up leaving ANR altogether, I'd still consider Antwerp ...

Looks like VLM will stop operating the RTM-LCY route for CityJet as of March 26th this year (at the end of the winter season, more or less). As far as one can look in the reservation engine, all flights from that day on are operated by RJ85 instead of the Fokker 50's. Nothing changes on the ANR-LCY ...

Maybe Marcourt can start up Air Meuse again

And what to think from Chalair? Also a small French company flying several Beechcraft 1900's (19 seats). You know more than most of us it seems :) I looked at Chalair as well, but they seemed to focus more on destinations in the South of France and less 'adventurous' compared to Twin Jet. But of co...

Could it be "HOP" perhaps?? I was thinking among the same lines at first, as they already have a (small) presence at Geneva. But then again, it would be an odd addition to their route network for sure. As it stands, all of their flights start or end in France and their operations at GVA s...

And the site is back. No sign of any big changes.

I was actually looking at maybe booking Antwerp-Friedrichshafen but... VLM's site has disappeared. It just displays a rather unhelpful message saying that the server doesn't know which website to actually show but that users should 'simply enter the domain name in the location bar of their web brows...