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Me too, as has to be only too obvious over the years!! I posted a similar sentiment yesterday at 09:13. My optimism received a great boost once the news of Nico’s appointment was announced last year. And again with Solenta’s involvement. This week has really come up trumps with some flight increases and encouraging load factors. Thanks to you guys digging out the info for us all to share.

Nice to see a couple of positive posts for a change. Thanks guys. Let's hope we can build on those loads.

PJMInvest (and others maybe):: Wasn’t there a suggestion sometime ago that the new in-flight magazine was to be called “Places”? Possibly taken from mediaupdate’s new slogan “fastjet-launches-taking-you-places-campaign”. Imagine my surprise when I saw its appearance just now on the same publishers as Travelsmart AND its May Issue 18!! (Last Travelsmart mag was issue no 17). It surely HAD to be?? https://issuu.com/palacereport/docs/plc-op3149_252x178_44pp_4c_pla_maga_8d5b1dc22e0abc

Ronwin: I did say I sometimes "used to" think...! It WAS pre-Solenta days.

I sometimes used to think that Sir Stelios could easily rescue his new baby at any time just by dipping into his massive fortune of very nearly two billion pounds. Just 2% of it would have provided a £40m injection. Actually, before Brexit, after which easyJet’s shares nosedived, he had been worth about £2.7bn, just 1% of which would’ve given us around £27m then. But that’s not how the very rich stay very rich is it!

Always quick to pick me up, methuselah! Keep it up. Sarcasm noun the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. Obviously you think yourself superior to Oscar Wilde who coined the phrase. Slapstick noun 1. comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events. If Punch is your idea of the best example of slapstick, then case closed. Go and see a Charlie Chaplin film! THAT’S slapstick at its best and displays real skill, never bettered. IMO of course!

How nice to see another practitioner of the “lowest form of wit”, sarcasm, back on the Board, blue2guit. It’s ages now since old Bedbug used to enjoy taking the **** out of me for showing any interest in the in-flight magazine though he was banned months ago for his behaviour. If you’d like to target me with another of his favourite jibes, I was also a great fan of the parrot logo and what bedbug liked to call the “paint-job”. I often appear on dismal days, many far worse than today, but apologies for not coming up to expectations today.

No-one around it seems to update the FB Home Page panels. Almost into June now and “On time performance” is still showing the 88% of April departures on time. As for the adjacent panel showing any Cancellations and delays, that’s not changed since 11 April. I know the new management have far more important things to attend to; just hope we’ll see some more signs of what, soon.

I was fully expecting to see your heading quoted by airport staff in the clip! Quite disappointed!

Fjetcrazy: Thank you for the link to the great if modest news of fastjet’s new recruitment advertising, and for the AircraftComparison website. Can’t wait to see more news and FlightRadar24 evidence of our expansion! Not to mention any upward effect on the Share Price at last. It has been languishing in the doldrums for SO long now with dwindling evidence of the “Nico effect”!

PJMInvest: Travelsmart 18 or its replacement would’ve been due in the cabins six weeks ago now. I very much doubt if issue 17 is still being provided as its print run would surely have been exhausted at least by the end of April. Unless crew are requesting copies to be left on passengers’ seats for desperate recycling!

Point taken. I keep losing track of just how many aircraft we're actually operating, until you remind me again! I suppose the A319 will be up for a maintenance check soon? Then what?

“On time performance” panel just been updated on our Facebook page, and, for once, not good news: On-time performance slipped back to 88% – not seen below 90% since October’s 89%. In January 2017, 97% of fastjet flights departed on time (defined as “less than a 15 minutes delay”) and 96% in February and March. So matching February 2016’s record of an astonishing 99% remains a long way off again. No worries though as much can be put down to this transitionary period! Can’t it!! Meanwhile, the adjacent “Cancellations & Delay Inf” panel still shows the “no disruptions” situation of a month ago!

Thanks, Rufiji. I’m sure all of your observations as a resident are valid and, as ever, such useful input to this Board. Would I be being too naive to suggest that, while it won’t avoid all the problems and challenges that businesses face, we shall soon be much better positioned once our HQ is properly set up and operational in Johannesburg, especially as far as any racial issues are concerned? I write in the context of four or more years of trying to run it from 4000 miles away! Even more important to have a physical presence there now if all you write of transpires. There will be some things we simply cannot avoid which is why I feel so strongly that (once the fleet changes are in place as well as our management and staff), we MUST make every effort to ensure check-in-staff and especially cabin-crew are properly trained with emphasis on customers being offered the very best service-with-a-smile. And that they are made to appreciate how very important it is throughout the company that we are seen to be the best as well as the most reliable and best value.

Thanks very much, tyche100, for posting your recent experience, flying with the competition, as you promised, and for the response from fastjet’s Customer Support team following your earlier journey with us. I DO try to be impartial at times! and while we have so much to catch up with, I do think Lynette’s reply comes across exceedingly well. Not just for not expressing the company’s regrets for inconvenience in stock-reply mode but for courteously explaining at some length its present operational and transitional difficulties causing such inconvenience to those passengers who write in to complain. We (shareholders) know her reasons are factual and I think it is good that she gets across our new fleet changes so lucidly while repeating her apologies with similarly emphasising her understanding of the inconvenience caused to our travellers. I do hope the service will be sorted out in time for your next reason to travel in that area and that you will choose fastjet and be rewarded with the sort of service you deserve and that we must all be hoping for at last.

Upon what grounds, shylock? I can't imagine any journal fabricating such a lengthy string of fiction without being aware of the obvious risks. Why would they? And what is our spokesperson doing talking such gobbledegook as a "value-chain miscommunication error"? A bad day for fastjet, IMO.

I actually had the same thought, taskmaster. Especially since their routes seem to be entirely domestic and largely southbound. So yes, as you suggest, their operation could increase our Load Factor from Dar Es Salaam to Harare.

.....but then, I don’t suppose fastjet does to them. At the moment.

taskmaster: (Love the pun!) Doesn’t look like TOO much of a threat to me, though.

Many thanks for that, taskmaster. Certainly a pic worth sharing. [Btw, I hope you took my Sat 12:47 post in the same spirit as yours to which I was replying! The sarcastic tone was not intended, the ‘sad’ face not helping either!]