House in order29 Nov 2018 10:08
Now that it is public knowledge about MAEL/Flybe ceasing ties i can express my opinion.
Flybe were paying monarch A LOT of money to carry out the maintenance on the flybe fleet. For those that know the industry, out sourcing maintenance at outstations (INV, DSA, CWL, ABZ) where there are only a few based aircraft makes good sense. Outsourcing it at your main bases does not.
This move to go back to having Flybe maintain their own aircraft as these places is a good decision IMO (reversing the stupidity of previous management)
This is not something that had just happened. I firmly believe this has been in process for sometime on the back of some private discussions between the higher powers.
I think Virgin will win this battle and it will be driven my AF/KLM (remember COW has serious connections at AF) BA/IAG have just got involved to make life difficult.
Form the BMI sale we know Virgin offered far to low and missed out....