Heard today on RTBF (french speaking belgian tv)
Seems that Liège airport will welcome Aer Arann, a company from Ireland.
3 destinations from Liège :
London (lutton)
Birmingham
Lorient (France)
http://www.aerarann.ie/
Source : rtbf (link in a few hours) and
http://www.lecho.be/actualite/ligneinfo ... dice=64437
New airline with 3 new flights in Liege airport
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There is only one reason to not have ryanair : liege airport cannot be called brussels east.
And ryanair like pretend they land close to the capital even when it's not true, there are many examples.
Yes, those are quite strange destinations for liege. Actually Aer Arann wants to develop in continental europe, that's why they choosed liege, but I wonder if it will work. These are not really the destinations people are dreaming about.
And ryanair like pretend they land close to the capital even when it's not true, there are many examples.
Yes, those are quite strange destinations for liege. Actually Aer Arann wants to develop in continental europe, that's why they choosed liege, but I wonder if it will work. These are not really the destinations people are dreaming about.
I would imagine London would be reasonably popular destination. Lorient is likely to be just a once or twice a week summer-only destination. They have reasonably good ties with Lorient airport.
Birmingham is the strange one. I can't see a huge amount of tourist potential on the route and business travellers are more likely to just use Brussels where there are multiple daily flights available. Also, the only other destination they serve from Birmingham is Cork, so they're not a big brand in the region.
Still, I wish them good luck with the venture.
Birmingham is the strange one. I can't see a huge amount of tourist potential on the route and business travellers are more likely to just use Brussels where there are multiple daily flights available. Also, the only other destination they serve from Birmingham is Cork, so they're not a big brand in the region.
Still, I wish them good luck with the venture.
More info in french (video):
http://www.rtc.be/index.php?option=news ... e&sid=3646#
Summary :
2 flights a day to london
1 flight a day to Birmingham and Lorient
Plane : ATR 72 (66 seats)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_42/72
http://www.rtc.be/index.php?option=news ... e&sid=3646#
Summary :
2 flights a day to london
1 flight a day to Birmingham and Lorient
Plane : ATR 72 (66 seats)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_42/72
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IOM-PIKan-148 wrote:I can't remember that they opened a new route to cancel it later on!
DUB-NOC (Loganair won the PSO contract from Aer Arran)
LPL-NOC (dropped due to loosing the DUB-NOC PSO)
1 daily to BHX isn't much use for business passengers. They might as well serve some where like EDI where there is some tourist demand at that frequency.Acid-drop wrote:2 flights a day to london
1 flight a day to Birmingham and Lorient
Hopefully LGG will get Aer Arran soon
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Many more details :
London and Lorient : starting in april
Birmingham : starting in may
both London and birmingham will have 2 rotations a day :
liege-london : 7.00 and 15.15
london-liege : 7.55 and 16.15
everyday exept saturday
liege-lorient : 10.55
lorient-liege : 16.40
only week days
liege-birmingham : 7.00 and 19.10
birmingham-liege : 8.10 and 20.25
everyday exept saturday
Source in french : http://www.proxiliege.net/index.php?pag ... 00&idrub=3
London and Lorient : starting in april
Birmingham : starting in may
both London and birmingham will have 2 rotations a day :
liege-london : 7.00 and 15.15
london-liege : 7.55 and 16.15
everyday exept saturday
liege-lorient : 10.55
lorient-liege : 16.40
only week days
liege-birmingham : 7.00 and 19.10
birmingham-liege : 8.10 and 20.25
everyday exept saturday
Source in french : http://www.proxiliege.net/index.php?pag ... 00&idrub=3
The airline uses both the ATR42 and the ATR72.
Lorient is a destination already served from Luton and from 4 Irish cities. It ia a place where many British and German citizens own rich villas, and therefore the Liege-Lorient route could attract a lot of German passengers.
As for Liege-Luton, I'm sure that former Ryanair passengers from Charleroi to Stansted will switch allegiance.
Liege-Birmingham might be a little more risky, unless Comet embarks on that new airline and destination in Belgium?
Lorient is a destination already served from Luton and from 4 Irish cities. It ia a place where many British and German citizens own rich villas, and therefore the Liege-Lorient route could attract a lot of German passengers.
As for Liege-Luton, I'm sure that former Ryanair passengers from Charleroi to Stansted will switch allegiance.
Liege-Birmingham might be a little more risky, unless Comet embarks on that new airline and destination in Belgium?
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5x weekly to Lorient seems optimistic. I wonder if Nantes might have been a better option, but it seems that Aer Arann have some kind of deal running with Lorient Airport.
There's an obvious gap in rotations for the aircraft that operates the Birmingham route. I wonder if we can expect to see and extra destination added?
As for Aer Arann scrapping unprofitable routes...
The have done it. As well as the ones above, some of the ones I can remember...
Dublin-Belfast
Galway-Birmingham
Derry-Birmingham
Derry-Manchester
There's an obvious gap in rotations for the aircraft that operates the Birmingham route. I wonder if we can expect to see and extra destination added?
As for Aer Arann scrapping unprofitable routes...
The have done it. As well as the ones above, some of the ones I can remember...
Dublin-Belfast
Galway-Birmingham
Derry-Birmingham
Derry-Manchester
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How would LGG-ORK work out rangewise for an ATR?Humberside wrote:I could see future flights to MAN, EDI and ORK, although not DUB due to FR at CRLiechist wrote:There's an obvious gap in rotations for the aircraft that operates the Birmingham route. I wonder if we can expect to see and extra destination added?
It would be great for me personally, because ORK is the closest airport to where my parents live and the trip to AMS is annoying when I'm going back to visit.
If we have a good look to the schedules of LGG-LRT and LRT-LGG, we can see a gap of almost 3h40':
that seems to be ideal to extend the flights from LRT and back to either ORK or WAT (seems really to be possible!
Than arise one question to any frequent AER ARANN frequent flyer: do they propose only point to point routes or does it happen that passengers can book the following leg of a plane and have the luggage kept in the plane at the first landingplace?
anybody to know the reply?
If yes, there would be AUTOMATICALLY one (i.e.ORK) or two (i.e.ORK and WAT) more destinations bookable from LGG and instead of the three inaugural routes there woulb be in fact 4 or 5 !!!!!!
B.T.W. for those who have seen the cockpit DVD of Aer Arann, the approach for Cork is BEAUTIFUL ! (If you fly to Cork, try to have a window seat, it's worth it!)
that seems to be ideal to extend the flights from LRT and back to either ORK or WAT (seems really to be possible!
Than arise one question to any frequent AER ARANN frequent flyer: do they propose only point to point routes or does it happen that passengers can book the following leg of a plane and have the luggage kept in the plane at the first landingplace?
anybody to know the reply?
If yes, there would be AUTOMATICALLY one (i.e.ORK) or two (i.e.ORK and WAT) more destinations bookable from LGG and instead of the three inaugural routes there woulb be in fact 4 or 5 !!!!!!
B.T.W. for those who have seen the cockpit DVD of Aer Arann, the approach for Cork is BEAUTIFUL ! (If you fly to Cork, try to have a window seat, it's worth it!)