Regional

[EHM-1554 Chris]

I had a thought the otha day and wondred what people think of a divison that does regional flights... in the real world for example British airways citiexpress or KLM cityhopper.

[EHM-0744 Alex]

Class 1 flights are very short, making shorter flights would not be realistic.

[EHM-1554 Chris]

well yes i understand but i kinda ment increasing the number of regional flights

[EHM-1464 Andrew]

regional flights are kinda in the timetables just as class one..

maybe some class 1 repaints in regional colours would be a good idea..

[EHM-1343 Jonathan]

I don't know, Class 1 flights tend to be very short and there are plenty of them. A regional service use planes like the F70 CRJ's and 146's, so these are in the fleet anyway, the Managment may want to add some internal(domestic flights) around the HUB airport using class 4 planes. This is basically a Regional service but in my opinion, we have great routes anyway!;)

[EHM-1199 Philip]

I'm with you there Razza. I live in Plymouth in the South West of England and the first flights listed (1000 and 1001 if my memory serves me right) are regional flights in and out of our EGLL hub. The planes flown in and out of plymouth on the London route are Dash 8Q300 but Air Wales operates a number of ATRs too so our choice of fleet is totally appropriate for EGHD operations.
When you look at the number of flights we have that still haven't been filed by anybody you realise just what an enabling timetable we do have and although a call for a new and interesting tour is always worth looking at a call for just 'more flights' should really be backed up by the line 'becuase I've already flown all that you offer'
We did have, I don't know if it still exists, a system for requesting additional specific flights to be added which is always a reasonable request if say a new pilots local airport isn't yet included in our timetable. After all, I guess we all like flying in and out of our own regional airports and flying routes that we have flown in real life.

[EHM-1554 Chris]

i see what u mean guys, i was just suggesting something that operates turboprobs or something a different divison of ehm, like i said KLM have City hopper and BA have citiexpress. maybve something to do wit charter i dnt know it just kinda popped up lol;D

Any body here got level d 767?

got it recently and realised how much of a great aircraft that is

[EHM-1199 Philip]

Chrisp I totally understand what you are saying but how does the timetable of KLM Cityhopper and BA Citiexpress (or for that matter any of the other small regional airlines like for example my local Air SouthWest compare with our Class 1 and Class 2 flights?) My own experience is that much that would be overed by a regional airline is already covered by our lower class flights. For example if you input London, United Kingdom as your starting point in the current timetable and only include class 1 and class 2 flights which are our turbo prop or regional aircraft you come back with no less than 54 flight possibilities. Even KLM and BA would struggle to ofer that variety in regional aircraft.

[EHM-1001 Robert]

I think it was the most clear representation of the situation

Since about a year or so, the timetable flights were changed a lot, to provide more realistic flights. In Class1 and Class2 it meaned you got regional flights. For EHM, having 6 HUBs, the regional means that the aircrafts fly around the 6 HUBs, and not around our home countries main airports.

About 3 years ago when I joined the VA, I was very happy, that I could do my own regional flights around my home airport: Budapest Ferihegy (LHBP) But it was not a regional for EHM, only for me. Now, I cannot do it, but I remember I was also happy to fly around my selected HUB, when started again my career.

So we do have enough regional flights around our HUBs.