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{{Infobox_Airline |airline=Flyglobespan|logo=Flyglobespanlogo.jpg|logo_size=150px|fleet_size=18|destinations=36|IATA=Y2|ICAO=GSM|callsign=GLOBESPAN|parent=Globespan Group plc|company_slogan=
Award Winning Airline|founded=2002|headquarters=
Edinburgh,
Scotland,
UK)|hubs=[Glasgow International AirportEdinburgh Airport
[London Stansted Airport
Manchester AirportDurham Tees Valley AirportBelfast International Airport 05 [Glasgow International Airport,
Scotland.
registered G-SAAW, landing on
Runway 05
Glasgow International Airport, Scotland.
registered G-CDPT, heading out to
Runway 05 Glasgow International Airport,
Scotland.
Flyglobespan is a
Scotland Low-cost carrier based in Edinburgh. It operates scheduled services from its hubs in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen to 36 destinations in
Europe,
North America, the
Caribbean and Africa. Its main bases are Glasgow International Airport and
Edinburgh Airport, with secondary bases at other airports in Scotland and also in England. The airline's tag line is "Award winning airline".
Globespan Airways Limited trading as Flyglobespan holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, it is permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats. Operating licence
Past to Present
Flyglobespan (a trading name for Globespan Airways Limited) was established in November 2002 as an offshoot of the Globespan Group. Operations started in April 2003 using two Boeing 737 aircraft provided by Channel Express on services from Glasgow Prestwick International Airport and Edinburgh Airport to 5 destinations in
Spain, France and Italy.
Globespan, an Edinburgh-based tour operator with over 30 years experience, already offered a comprehensive portfolio of scheduled and charter flights, cruise travel, rail and coach travel, motor home and car rental, and hotel accommodation tailored for holidaymakers visiting popular destinations in Canada, the United States and Spain. The scheduled flights, mainly to Canada, were operated by Air Transat from a number of airports throughout the UK, with Globespan acting as the booking agent and selling the flights under its own brand. In summer 2002, a similar arrangement was trialed between Edinburgh and
Nice, in the south of France. This was to prove particularly successful for Globespan, and led to the creation of its own
no frills brand,
Flyglobespan.
Services began in 2003 with aircraft and crews provided by Channel Express, though under the Flygobespan brand with red and white
livery, offering irregular flights to some of Europe's most popular holiday destinations. The offshoot was to prove successful however, and frequencies were increased to maximize aircraft utilization and expand its market share. At this point, the operator relocated from Prestwick to the larger Glasgow International Airport, which is much closer to the major population centers of central Scotland, within months of commencing operation. In 2004, so it could operate its own aircraft, the Globespan Group bought the defunct airline operator Cougar Leasing along with its
UK Civil Aviation Authority Aircraft
Operating certificate. Now with its own Operating Licence, expansion was swift for the new airline. New destinations were added to the network, including Prague, where the airline faced competition from
Czech Airlines, and further points in Spain, including the
Canary Islands. CSA withdrew their Glasgow to Prague service on 1 August 2005.
By March 2005 the airline had grown to offer 15 destinations across Europe, with a fleet of 9 aircraft, of which 3 were bought new, and had tripled its passenger numbers to 1.5 million annually. Profits for the year ending October 2004 had risen from
Pound sterling2m in its first year to �3.7m, on a turnover of �98m.
In May 2005, the first domestic services were launched, with twice-daily flights from
Glasgow International Airport and
Edinburgh Airport to
London Stansted Airport - routes that were already operated by the much larger low fares carrier
easyJet, with much higher frequencies. However, these services were withdrawn in February 2006, together with plans to serve Bournemouth from Edinburgh.
Despite high fuel costs and intense competition in the no-frills market, the airline continues to expand. Flights from London Stansted commenced in October
2005, though a new daily service between Glasgow and Amsterdam, replacing the twice daily easyJet service between the two cities, was withdrawn in June 2006 due to low passenger numbers.
On the 1 November 2005 Flyglobespan announced its first long haul service from
Glasgow to
Orlando Sanford International Airport in Florida, United States. The service commenced in June 2006 and is operated by a
Boeing 767 aircraft in a 3 class configuration. The three classes are economy, premium economy and business class which includes 50 inch sleeper seats, gourmet food and wines. Alicante and M�laga services have been upgraded to twice-daily throughout the summer for 2006, while Murcia is now served daily. Fuerteventura has also been added to the winter 2006 schedule, meaning all four main
Canary Islands destinations will be served from Scotland. Weekly services linking Glasgow with
Athens and
Heraklion were launched in May 2006 for the summer season. In January 2006 Flyglobespan announced a 70% rise in pre-tax profits from the previous year.
In June 2006 Flyglobespan announced plans to operate out of Aberdeen Airport now that 24 hour airport operation there has been confirmed. The first route to operate from Aberdeen is Tenerife, which commenced in winter 2006. It has also announced routes to Alicante, Barcelona, Faro, Murcia, Palma and Paphos, commencing in summer 2007.
Liverpool was added to the Flyglobespan network from November 2006, with flights to Tenerife. Also added is Liverpool's first connection with
Hamilton/John C. Munro International Airport from May 2007. The airline also began Liverpool's first long haul flight, to New York City (
John F. Kennedy International Airport), using Boeing 757-200 aircraft, daily in May 2007. However, after a long series of problems with the service, due largely to reliability problems with the route's sole aircraft, which resulted in repeated massive delays on the servicehttp://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/flygspan.htm Flyglobespan announced in early July that they would abandon the route in October of the same year, only 6 months from the service's inception.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6266518.stm
Flights to
Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada, from Manchester are due to commence in November, with two of the three weekly flights operated by Zoom Airlines, in accordance with a new codeshare deal between the two airlines. Zoom flights from Hamilton to
Belfast,
Cardiff, Glasgow, London Gatwick, London Stansted and Manchester are already available for booking on the Flyglobespan website. It will also commence three times a week service Manchester to
Cape Town,
South Africa, on November 4,
2006. Both these Manchester services will be operated by a Boeing 767.
Flyglobespan will also launch
Northern Ireland's first ever scheduled flights to
Florida with a weekly service to Orlando Sanford from Belfast International Airport in November 2006.
Flyglobespan have announced the start of new services in May 2007 from
Hamilton/John C. Munro International Airport, Canada to various destinations in the UK and Ireland, including
Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, this will be the first scheduled transatlantic flight to operate from the airport. Hamilton Airport is located between Toronto and nearby Niagara Fallshttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=YYZ&daddr=YHM&layer=&sll=47.97335,-67.741005&sspn=12.423842,29.882813&ie=UTF8&z=9&om=1, about 75 kilometres southwest, or an hour's drive from, Toronto's main Pearson International Airport. It should be noted that Hamilton Airport is slightly more than one hour away from Toronto's city centre.
Flyglobespan commenced services in May 2007 from
Ireland West Airport Knock to
John F. Kennedy International Airport with three services a week, and Logan International Airport twice a week. Some flights from Knock to New York (GSM 201/202) made unscheduled refuelling stops at a number of remote locations including Keflavik, Iceland; Bangor, Maine; Stephenville and St Johns Newfoundland. These refueling stops were scheduled when a 737-800 was used instead of the usual 757-200.
Flights will be operated from Durham Tees Valley Airport to Alicante, Jersey, Malaga, Pula, Faro, Lanzarote, Nice, Tenerife, Ibiza, Mahon and Palma de Mallorca, commencing summer 2007. Two aircraft are based at Durham Tees Valley over the summer period.
It was announced in July 2007 that the current Liverpool Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport and the Ireland West Airport Knockservice would be suspended for the winter season from October 30. Company gave the reason as poor passenger figures on the liverpool flights, particularly inbound passengers from the
United States. The passenger figures for Ireland West Airport Knock were higher than expected. The company also admitted to providing a poor operating service since the route was launched on 25 May 2007effected the passenger figures. The route will recommence for the Summer 2008 season Industry Watch.
It was announced on the 18th October 2007 that the CAA had suspended Flyglobespan's ETOPS certificate, the first time in 15 years a UK operator has lost ETOPS approval. This effectively means Flyglobespan transatlantic flights are forced to adopt a flight path which never takes the aircraft more than an hour away from the nearest airport, in case of engine problems. However, this only applies to Flyglobespan's own aircraft and leased-in aircraft can continue to follow ETOPS rules as these are operated by other airlines with their own
ETOPS approval.
Destinations
Fleet
The Flyglobespan fleet includes the following aircraft (at May 2007) UK CAA Aircraft Register:{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse"|+
Flyglobespan Fleet|- bgcolor=#ccccff!Aircraft!Total!Passengers
!Routes!Notes|-|Boeing 737|2|148|Europe and UK||-|Boeing 737|4|130|Europe and UK||-|Boeing 737|2|148|Europe and UK||-|
Boeing 737|3|189|Europe and UK||-|Boeing 757|3|214|Long haul destinations|2 Leased from Icelandair|5|290|Long haul destinations|2 leased from [Neos|2 orders ([ILFC)] over Summer 2007, reducing the 767 fleet to 3. Jethros
Aircraft orders
Flyglobespan announced in August 2006 that it would also lease two Boeing 787s from the International Lease Finance Corporation for ten years, to be delivered in March and November 2010. Boeing 787 leasing
References
External links
- Flyglobespan
- Flyglobespan Fleet Detail
- Photos of Flyglobespan aircraft
- British Photo Database - Flyglobespan
- Flyglobespan web page at Flightattitude.com
{{Infobox_Airline |airline=Flyglobespan|logo=Flyglobespanlogo.jpg|logo_size=150px|fleet_size=18|destinations=36|IATA=Y2|ICAO=GSM|callsign=GLOBESPAN|parent=Globespan Group plc|company_slogan=
Award Winning Airline|founded=2002|headquarters=Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK)|hubs=[Glasgow International AirportEdinburgh Airport
[London Stansted Airport
Manchester Airport
Durham Tees Valley AirportBelfast International Airport 05 [Glasgow International Airport, Scotland.
registered G-SAAW, landing on
Runway 05 Glasgow International Airport,
Scotland.
registered G-CDPT, heading out to
Runway 05
Glasgow International Airport,
Scotland.
Flyglobespan is a
Scotland Low-cost carrier based in
Edinburgh. It operates scheduled services from its hubs in
Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen to 36 destinations in Europe,
North America, the Caribbean and
Africa. Its main bases are
Glasgow International Airport and Edinburgh Airport, with secondary bases at other airports in Scotland and also in England. The airline's tag line is "Award winning airline".
Globespan Airways Limited trading as Flyglobespan holds a
United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, it is permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats. Operating licence
Past to Present
Flyglobespan (a trading name for Globespan Airways Limited) was established in November 2002 as an offshoot of the Globespan Group. Operations started in April 2003 using two
Boeing 737 aircraft provided by Channel Express on services from Glasgow Prestwick International Airport and Edinburgh Airport to 5 destinations in Spain, France and
Italy.
Globespan, an Edinburgh-based tour operator with over 30 years experience, already offered a comprehensive portfolio of scheduled and charter flights, cruise travel, rail and coach travel, motor home and car rental, and hotel accommodation tailored for holidaymakers visiting popular destinations in Canada, the
United States and Spain. The scheduled flights, mainly to Canada, were operated by
Air Transat from a number of airports throughout the UK, with Globespan acting as the booking agent and selling the flights under its own brand. In summer 2002, a similar arrangement was trialed between Edinburgh and
Nice, in the south of France. This was to prove particularly successful for Globespan, and led to the creation of its own
no frills brand,
Flyglobespan.
Services began in 2003 with aircraft and crews provided by Channel Express, though under the Flygobespan brand with red and white livery, offering irregular flights to some of Europe's most popular holiday destinations. The offshoot was to prove successful however, and frequencies were increased to maximize aircraft utilization and expand its market share. At this point, the operator relocated from Prestwick to the larger Glasgow International Airport, which is much closer to the major population centers of central Scotland, within months of commencing operation. In 2004, so it could operate its own aircraft, the Globespan Group bought the defunct airline operator
Cougar Leasing along with its UK Civil Aviation Authority Aircraft
Operating certificate. Now with its own Operating Licence, expansion was swift for the new airline. New destinations were added to the network, including Prague, where the airline faced competition from
Czech Airlines, and further points in Spain, including the
Canary Islands. CSA withdrew their Glasgow to Prague service on 1 August 2005.
By March 2005 the airline had grown to offer 15 destinations across Europe, with a fleet of 9 aircraft, of which 3 were bought new, and had tripled its passenger numbers to 1.5 million annually. Profits for the year ending October 2004 had risen from Pound sterling2m in its first year to �3.7m, on a turnover of �98m.
In May 2005, the first domestic services were launched, with twice-daily flights from
Glasgow International Airport and
Edinburgh Airport to
London Stansted Airport - routes that were already operated by the much larger low fares carrier
easyJet, with much higher frequencies. However, these services were withdrawn in February 2006, together with plans to serve Bournemouth from Edinburgh.
Despite high fuel costs and intense competition in the no-frills market, the airline continues to expand. Flights from
London Stansted commenced in October 2005, though a new daily service between Glasgow and Amsterdam, replacing the twice daily easyJet service between the two cities, was withdrawn in June 2006 due to low passenger numbers.
On the
1 November 2005 Flyglobespan announced its first long haul service from
Glasgow to Orlando Sanford International Airport in Florida,
United States. The service commenced in June 2006 and is operated by a
Boeing 767 aircraft in a 3 class configuration. The three classes are economy, premium economy and business class which includes 50 inch sleeper seats, gourmet food and wines. Alicante and M�laga services have been upgraded to twice-daily throughout the summer for 2006, while Murcia is now served daily. Fuerteventura has also been added to the winter 2006 schedule, meaning all four main Canary Islands destinations will be served from Scotland. Weekly services linking
Glasgow with
Athens and
Heraklion were launched in May 2006 for the summer season. In January 2006 Flyglobespan announced a 70% rise in pre-tax profits from the previous year.
In June 2006 Flyglobespan announced plans to operate out of
Aberdeen Airport now that 24 hour airport operation there has been confirmed. The first route to operate from Aberdeen is Tenerife, which commenced in winter 2006. It has also announced routes to Alicante, Barcelona, Faro, Murcia, Palma and Paphos, commencing in summer 2007.
Liverpool was added to the Flyglobespan network from November 2006, with flights to Tenerife. Also added is Liverpool's first connection with
Hamilton/John C. Munro International Airport from May 2007. The airline also began Liverpool's first long haul flight, to New York City (
John F. Kennedy International Airport), using
Boeing 757-200 aircraft, daily in May 2007. However, after a long series of problems with the service, due largely to reliability problems with the route's sole aircraft, which resulted in repeated massive delays on the servicehttp://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/flygspan.htm Flyglobespan announced in early July that they would abandon the route in October of the same year, only 6 months from the service's inception.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6266518.stm
Flights to
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from Manchester are due to commence in November, with two of the three weekly flights operated by
Zoom Airlines, in accordance with a new codeshare deal between the two airlines. Zoom flights from Hamilton to Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, London Gatwick, London Stansted and Manchester are already available for booking on the Flyglobespan website. It will also commence three times a week service Manchester to Cape Town, South Africa, on November 4,
2006. Both these Manchester services will be operated by a Boeing 767.
Flyglobespan will also launch Northern Ireland's first ever scheduled flights to
Florida with a weekly service to Orlando Sanford from Belfast International Airport in November 2006.
Flyglobespan have announced the start of new services in May 2007 from
Hamilton/John C. Munro International Airport, Canada to various destinations in the UK and Ireland, including
Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, this will be the first scheduled transatlantic flight to operate from the airport. Hamilton Airport is located between Toronto and nearby Niagara Fallshttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=YYZ&daddr=YHM&layer=&sll=47.97335,-67.741005&sspn=12.423842,29.882813&ie=UTF8&z=9&om=1, about 75 kilometres southwest, or an hour's drive from, Toronto's main Pearson International Airport. It should be noted that Hamilton Airport is slightly more than one hour away from Toronto's city centre.
Flyglobespan commenced services in May 2007 from
Ireland West Airport Knock to John F. Kennedy International Airport with three services a week, and
Logan International Airport twice a week. Some flights from Knock to New York (GSM 201/202) made unscheduled refuelling stops at a number of remote locations including Keflavik, Iceland; Bangor, Maine; Stephenville and St Johns Newfoundland. These refueling stops were scheduled when a 737-800 was used instead of the usual 757-200.
Flights will be operated from Durham Tees Valley Airport to Alicante, Jersey, Malaga, Pula, Faro, Lanzarote, Nice, Tenerife, Ibiza, Mahon and Palma de Mallorca, commencing summer 2007. Two aircraft are based at Durham Tees Valley over the summer period.
It was announced in July 2007 that the current Liverpool Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport and the
Ireland West Airport Knockservice would be suspended for the winter season from October 30. Company gave the reason as poor passenger figures on the liverpool flights, particularly inbound passengers from the United States. The passenger figures for Ireland West Airport Knock were higher than expected. The company also admitted to providing a poor operating service since the route was launched on
25 May 2007effected the passenger figures. The route will recommence for the Summer 2008 season Industry Watch.
It was announced on the 18th October 2007 that the CAA had suspended Flyglobespan's
ETOPS certificate, the first time in 15 years a UK operator has lost ETOPS approval. This effectively means Flyglobespan transatlantic flights are forced to adopt a flight path which never takes the aircraft more than an hour away from the nearest airport, in case of engine problems. However, this only applies to Flyglobespan's own aircraft and leased-in aircraft can continue to follow
ETOPS rules as these are operated by other airlines with their own ETOPS approval.
Destinations
Fleet
The Flyglobespan fleet includes the following aircraft (at May 2007) UK CAA Aircraft Register:{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse"|+
Flyglobespan Fleet|- bgcolor=#ccccff!Aircraft!Total!Passengers
!Routes!Notes|-|
Boeing 737|2|148|Europe and UK||-|Boeing 737|4|130|Europe and UK||-|
Boeing 737|2|148|Europe and UK||-|Boeing 737|3|189|Europe and UK||-|
Boeing 757|3|214|Long haul destinations|2 Leased from Icelandair|5|290|Long haul destinations|2 leased from [Neos|2 orders ([ILFC)] over Summer 2007, reducing the 767 fleet to 3. Jethros
Aircraft orders
Flyglobespan announced in August 2006 that it would also lease two Boeing 787s from the International Lease Finance Corporation for ten years, to be delivered in March and November 2010. Boeing 787 leasing
References
External links
- Flyglobespan
- Flyglobespan Fleet Detail
- Photos of Flyglobespan aircraft
- British Photo Database - Flyglobespan
- Flyglobespan web page at Flightattitude.com
