Archive Eastern Airways from Leeds Bradford Airport

[LBA4EVER]

Well firstly giving routes a try

Looking at flight times

Looking at pricing of flights

There’s a few for you.

You cant just give a route a try in the hope it will do well, you have to do plenty of research first, although im sure many on here could certainly put eastern and other airlines in the correct direction. And i hope the airline industry does check out these forums

 

[A400]

You cant just give a route a try in the hope it will do well, you have to do plenty of research first, although im sure many on here could certainly put eastern and other airlines in the correct direction. And i hope the airline industry does check out these forums

I get what your saying but eastern seem to be making alot of cuts recently on routes that I presume do good.

An example is Cardiff-Belfast City they have pushed back the restart date to June.

I wish nothing bad on eastern but I’m disappointed with them recently.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Its not necessarily that the routes dont do OK, its just they have identified others that will do better.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Its not necessarily that the routes dont do OK, its just they have identified others that will do better.

Exactly im betting that bristol may have some high frequency routes to belfast and perhaps it affects the cardiff eastern operation

 

[Finger66]

You mean just like Leeds West (aka MAN) does at LBA!

 

[a300boy]

Just had a couple of days at Manchester and without Easyjet and Ryanair ,who they kept at arms lenght for years, the place would be pretty empty.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Just had a couple of days at Manchester and without Easyjet and Ryanair ,who they kept at arms lenght for years, the place would be pretty empty.

others carriers that used to fly into MAN before the pandemic will gradually return im sure

 

[A400]

Well hopefully they’re committed to Newquay and keep that going.

5 weekly’s not bad though.

 

[michael]

From memory is Southampton's runway limited in plane size? Obviously the E190's can get in but can a 733/738/320 get in?

 

[a300boy]

I remember a British Airway BAC 1-11 making an emergency landing there many years ago with the Captain half way out of the failed left side windscreen.
The first officer landed the aircraft on his own very well in a very trying situation.
Sadly I believe the Captain died.
And yes the larger aircraft you refer to can land and take off from the runway but weight restrictions on the short runway would probably make commercial operations difficult and unprofitable.

 

[CM.]

I remember a British Airway BAC 1-11 making an emergency landing there many years ago with the Captain half way out of the failed left side windscreen.
The first officer landed the aircraft on his own very well in a very trying situation.
Sadly I believe the Captain died.
And yes the larger aircraft you refer to can land and take off from the runway but weight restrictions on the short runway would probably make commercial operations difficult and unprofitable.

(off topic I know)

I know which accident your on about. BA5390. The captain actually survived that accident and it turned out that the wrong sized bolts that keep the window in were the wrong size and weren’t strong enough to keep the window in. This happened during maintenance at Birmingham the day before. The pilot recovered and resumed flying duties about 5 months after the accident.

The aircraft managed to land at Southampton with a full load of fuel as the BAC-111 can’t dump fuel.

Southampton can accept larger aircraft such as A320s as Easyjet use A320s on the Winter seasonal route to Geneva.

 

[White Heather]

I remember a British Airway BAC 1-11 making an emergency landing there many years ago with the Captain half way out of the failed left side windscreen.
The first officer landed the aircraft on his own very well in a very trying situation.
Sadly I believe the Captain died.
And yes the larger aircraft you refer to can land and take off from the runway but weight restrictions on the short runway would probably make commercial operations difficult and unprofitable.

The Captain was Tim Lancaster and he didn't die. He recovered and continued flying for BA until 2003, when he moved to easyJet. He retired in 2006.. It was the subject of one of the Air Crash Investigation programmes.

Southampton can only take 737s etc with limited loads - hence their application to extend their runway. A bit like LBAs problem with larger aircraft types.

 

[lbaspotter]

Eastern have axed a further 2x summer seasonal ATR72 routes from its Southampton base to Nantes and Rennes.

At this rate they'll have no routes left to operate.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1496821101996949507

 

[Len Fish]

(off topic I know)

I know which accident your on about. BA5390. The captain actually survived that accident and it turned out that the wrong sized bolts that keep the window in were the wrong size and weren’t strong enough to keep the window in. This happened during maintenance at Birmingham the day before. The pilot recovered and resumed flying duties about 5 months after the accident.

The aircraft managed to land at Southampton with a full load of fuel as the BAC-111 can’t dump fuel.

Southampton can accept larger aircraft such as A320s as Easyjet use A320s on the Winter seasonal route to Geneva.

Also, unlike most aircraft where the windscreen is fastened from inside the cockpit so the pressure forces it against the airframe, the BAC-111’s windscreen was bolted from the outside so once the bolts failed pressure ensured it flew off. The engineer who replaced the windscreen was said to be experienced and conscientious and decided to use new bolts instead of re-using the old ones. He chose the size of bolt from the stores by sight, a common practice, but unfortunately on this occasion got the wrong size with catastrophic results.

 

[Finger66]

Personal opinion here, nothing I know - honest. I think SOU will be back, but whether or not with T3 remains to be seen. There is a market there, just probably a bigger one from over the hill right here and right now. T3 do love to chop and change at a moment's notice

 

[lbaspotter]

Well the using the ATR72-600, G-IACZ is operating the Southampton to Manchester flights once daily along with its services to Dublin and Belfast City, whilst the BAe Jetstream 41, G-MAJB has sat on the deck doing nowt at Leeds/Bradford since it arrived back from Southampton on Sunday evening.

I also noticed the airport have been listing the Southampton flights on the Arrivals & Departure boards this week, with all showing "Cancelled contact Airline" next to them

 

[CM.]

BAe Jetstream 41, G-MAJB has sat on the deck doing nowt at Leeds/Bradford since it arrived back from Southampton on Sunday evening.

Waiting patiently to do the Newquay flights from next Monday.

 

[lbaspotter]

Waiting patiently to do the Newquay flights from next Monday.

How odd, 1+ LBA-NQY flight on Monday 14th with no return, Then nowt again until the next LBA-NQY-LBA rotation on Friday 25th?

I thought the aircraft was needed down south to operate the SOU-MAN 2x daily service?

LBA J41 going to SOU to fly 2 x daily SOU-MAN (an increase from early March) which is on sale as an ATR72 but for which there are only two ATR72s in the fleet. With one in NQY and the other on SOU-BHD, something had to give.

LBA-NQY may well survive on the NQY-based ATR72. But it looks like the end of the road for SOU.

Saying that anything thing could happen, it is Eastern Airways afterall.

 

[CM.]

Looks like eastern are pulling the plug at Leeds as it’s not showing on their website at all.

 

[lbaspotter]

Yeap Leeds-Bradford - Newquay looks to be axed along with the base.