June 13th - Stobart Air Takeover
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
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🗓️ 13 June 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Aer Lingus and British Airways take over from failed Stobart Air.
easyJet cancelling flights in July.
Lufthansa deploying its biggest planes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Sunday the 13th of June and here's the latest on travel and destinations from the Greenlist and the travel desk of the Independent. |
| 0:11.9 | Today, Aer Lingus and British Airways are taking over from the failed Stobart Air. |
| 0:19.1 | Easyjet is canceling flights into July and Luftanzer is deploying its biggest |
| 0:25.7 | planes on flights to Mayorka. Of course this podcast is completely free as is my weekly travel email. |
| 0:33.5 | Do sign up at independent.co.uk forward slash newsletters. Well yesterday I brought you news about the |
| 0:42.1 | sad demise of Stobart air which flew mainly in the colours of air lingus for the air lingus |
| 0:50.3 | regional operation mostly to and from george Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland, |
| 0:56.5 | and also some flights to and from Dublin in the Republic. |
| 1:02.0 | And immediately this happened, which we became aware about on Saturday morning, |
| 1:07.6 | Air Lingus said all flights have been cancelled do not go to the airport. Well, |
| 1:12.6 | what a difference, as they say, a day makes. Of the 12 routes that were immediately impacted |
| 1:19.8 | by the collapse of Stobart Air, Aer Lingus is going to be operating five of them. So quite remarkably, almost half are going to be |
| 1:31.2 | saved and they're going to be run by nice, smart, airbus aircraft, so you'll go faster and you'll have |
| 1:36.8 | more room, etc. And at least two others are going to be operated at least for the next week by |
| 1:42.5 | B.A. City Flyer. Now, just to put things |
| 1:45.7 | in the picture, by far the biggest Irish airline is Ryanair, of course, completely outside this, |
| 1:50.9 | but Aer Lingus has done incredibly well to survive and indeed prosper. It is part of IAG, along with |
| 2:00.5 | British Airways. So therefore, there's quite a degree of cooperation |
| 2:04.5 | between the two. And so today, for instance, on Sunday, you can fly very happily, and these |
| 2:11.0 | are mostly afternoon, evening departures from Edinburgh to Dublin, from Belfar City to Edinburgh, Birmingham to Belfast City, Belfast City to |
| 2:21.6 | Manchester, those are all being run by Air Lingus. On top of that, BA City Flyer is going from |
| 2:28.4 | Belfast City to Exeter and to Leeds Bradford and of course back. And that sort of pattern is going to continue, I think, for the week ahead. |
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