Loganair for sale
Oct 10, 2022, 3:34 am
#18
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: GLA
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 2,964
I can't see why either BA or VS would be interested. Loganair is seemingly successful, but it's not focussed around feeding traffic into LHR.
So either BA would have to be interested in operating a non-London focussed U.K. (predominantly Scottish) network - which would be at odds with its behaviour over many years now, or it would have to try to refocus its fleet of small jets and turboprops away from the routes they currently serve and into LHR, which just doesn't sound realistic or profitable.
So either BA would have to be interested in operating a non-London focussed U.K. (predominantly Scottish) network - which would be at odds with its behaviour over many years now, or it would have to try to refocus its fleet of small jets and turboprops away from the routes they currently serve and into LHR, which just doesn't sound realistic or profitable.
Oct 10, 2022, 3:36 am
#19
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 950
Due to the current shambles with ferries at the moment Loganair are doing well with passengers at light cargo to the Hebrides. Whether this is sustained in 2 years time who knows.
Highlands and Island residents do get a subsidy but travel to GLA/EDI is still very expensive.
As for BA, I can't see this being a fit for them so I doubt it would go beyond being a fag break conversation. Would be nice to get TP's and lounge access on EDI-BGO trips though. Maybe will just have to wait for BA to start operating the route again.
Oct 10, 2022, 5:34 am
#20
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: London, Babylon-on-Thames
Programs: BAEC Blue (back to Earth)
Posts: 1,508
Who are surely still paying a load of mainline BA cost overheads, certainly for maintenance. And they fly BA owned aircraft trained on BA simulators with pilots only semi-detached from the BA seniority list. Historically Finance always had a way of allocating costs in a way that killed regional or non LHR flying, not saying it's intentional, I don't know, it's just not credible that BA could own Loganair and not massively screw it up. It's what they always did in the past.
The only way I could see them trying would be merging into the distant Didsbury home of BA CityFlyer which would more than likely cause them to start losing money trying to make sense of a fleet that got hugely complex overnight.
The only way I could see them trying would be merging into the distant Didsbury home of BA CityFlyer which would more than likely cause them to start losing money trying to make sense of a fleet that got hugely complex overnight.