Excelsis Airways from Durham Tees Valley to London City
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at 20:32 by continentalclub.
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VintageKrugParticipantA new start up carrier for the North East, Excelsis, has launched its website:
http://www.excelsisairways.com/press.php
Planning to link Durham with London, using Dash 8-Q400s.
I am always a bit suspicious about start ups which spend lots on slick websites and invite you to design their livery; smacks a bit of a schoolboy project.
1 Sep 2009
at 22:56
continentalclubParticipantSadly, given the real desire and demand to re-link MME with LON, this would appear to be a not-all-that-fancy fake. Sorry :-(.
The website is a cut-and-paste job from Porter in Canada. Compare:
http://www.excelsisairways.com/fly-smart.php
with
http://www.flyporter.com/en/experience.aspx
Durham Tees Valley’s silence on the subject is deafening, and even the local newspaper now realises that it was probably sold a pup.
Whatever transpires, it remains the case that the only commercially viable route between LON and MME is into LHR for (interline) onward connections; for O&D traffic, the train service from Darlington will almost always be quicker and more convenient.
So, this ‘project’ could be a particular shame as it may have diverted attention away from the real need, albeit accepting that neither BA nor BD are ever likely to relink MME with LHR.
2 Sep 2009
at 13:44
VintageKrugParticipantI agree the train service is fast and generally hassle free – and surely can only get better once Nationalised Express relinquishes the route.
How interesting about the duplicated website – thought it looked rather too good to be true; though it was confirmed they were in formal talks with the airport operator…
2 Sep 2009
at 18:31
StephenLondonParticipantAnd meanwhile, their “Corporate HQ” remains empty, no lease on any aircraft announced, no AOC granted, and no airport authority willing to 100% confirm that this is happening… I’m in the camp of not believing this is a real project – esp. when large tracts of websites are copied from another carriers website. Poor show. I would no more buy a ticket on this sham carrier than buy a bridge to Brooklyn!
3 Sep 2009
at 08:02
continentalclubParticipantAnd now, finally though not at all unexpectedly, the police have been called in to investigate alleged fraud and the lack of any substance whatsoever to the reported plans.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4679281.Excelsis_Airlines___fraud_squad_called_in/
15 Oct 2009
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