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Dec 12, 2008 | 7:21 am

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browserden

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Originally Posted by orbitmic

To be honest, on such a short flight I did not really care if the flight uses an F50, AR8 or even D38 if it pleases them. To me, the main consequence is that cityjet will thus use several of its aircrafts to operate routes that were previously operated by KL, so that consequently, it will not open new routes and might even end up closing some more To me, this is further decline in Cityjet's LCY operations rather than an improvement. The airline is increasingly used to serve the AF KL hubs of AMS, ORY and CDG instead of a distinct 'CItyjet for Air France' autonomous network from LCY which was great and highly successful but is melting away from month to month.

I was thinking the same, but it's not necessarily the case.

There's a number of aircraft being freed up:

1. The ScotAirways Dorniers that currently serve Eindhoven.
2. The VLM and KLM Cityhopper F50's that currently serve the LCY-AMS route. Some of the KLC F50's may be rebadged VLM and start running LCY ops.

Although from what route are the CityJet AR8's coming off or are they currently spare capacity?

I do agree the CityJet for AF network has lost some of its original promise, but then again they'd be crazy not to increase capacity on a route that is very profitable both as a point to point and a hub feeder.

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