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In message , at 23:11:52 on Fri,
16 Oct 2009, Neil Williams remarked:
I've also been on flyBE. I don't think that I'll be doing that anytime
again soon.


The ex-BA "Barbie jets" are very nice, but operationally they're
atrocious, and they aren't even all that cheap.


I'm a bit confused here. It seems they don't run any ERJ145's any more,
and their E-195's were bought for FlyBe (not inherited from BA). Which
planes did you have in mind?
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Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 23:11:52 on Fri,
16 Oct 2009, Neil Williams remarked:
I've also been on flyBE. I don't think that I'll be doing that anytime
again soon.


The ex-BA "Barbie jets" are very nice, but operationally they're
atrocious, and they aren't even all that cheap.


I'm a bit confused here. It seems they don't run any ERJ145's any more,
and their E-195's were bought for FlyBe (not inherited from BA). Which
planes did you have in mind?


FlyBe inherited a lot of Embraer ERJ145 jets when they took over the BA
Connect routes. However, they have now disposed of these and run the
ex-BA Connect routes with other planes. bmi seem to have bought at
least some of the ERJ145 jets.

For instance, I understand that FlyBe now operate the MAN-FRA route with
Dash-8 turboprops: formerly this route was operated by ERJ145 jets. I
don't have personal experience of this: I prefer to use the Lufthansa
alternative.
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Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Jeremy Double remarked:
FlyBe inherited a lot of Embraer ERJ145 jets when they took over the BA
Connect routes. However, they have now disposed of these and run the
ex-BA Connect routes with other planes. bmi seem to have bought at
least some of the ERJ145 jets.


Branded BMI-regional I think. Now running on EMA-BRU, which was formerly
a 737 iirc.
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:21:24 +0100, Roland Perry
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I'm a bit confused here. It seems they don't run any ERJ145's any more,


I meant those. Didn't know they'd got rid of them, but then I
(deliberately) haven't flown with them for a while.

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