So it was a hypocritical pubicity stunt .....W&K take and empty jet to SCOTLAND and everyones gone quiet. Interesting

[NaughtToThreeSadOnions]

After days and days of threads about harrys stance on having more than two chidren. Which btw william has preached about the effect population growth has on the enviroment days after announcing he was adding to that population for the third time, and mass outrage about H&M taking a plane paid for by Elton on hoiliday and how wonderful Wills and kate were for their flybe.

Which i didn't hugely get because if the protests about tje sussexes were on ecological grounds then surely a fucking massive flybe plane has bigger engines and produces more admissions but oh look the cambridges fly economy .

So is no one actually going to mention that in fact no no they didnt fly economy at all what they did was use a massive poluting flybe plane as a private jet. Ahhh really ecological and abusolutely nothing like ecoonomy.

Did everyone really think they'd flown with everyone else? Two future kings of england flying economy? Pull the other one.

It was desogned to humilate tje little brother

metro.co.uk/2019/08/24/flybe-sent-empty-plane-william-kate-travel-economy-10625866/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Well OP won't be back but this is a spectacular reminder of how stupid some people are!

It's one thing not comprehending the article.

It's another thing ranting about the article you couldn't comprehend.

But it's quite another to tell those that were patiently explaining your idiocy that they're stupid

I don't think the OP will post under this name again

Oh, hi Meghan 👋

Unfortunately the OP has a recognisable posting style which is likely to reveal her as the Flight Queen in the future.

Might be worth coming back and holding your hands up, OP!

Well this is all a bit embarrassing.

The plane used was an Embraer145. Flybe don't have any of those. It wasn't Flybe branded. The press are talking shit.

I’m on a train right now that goes from London to Aberdeen. No need to fly atall.

The reasons I’m suspicious are different: I’ve never seen anything about kate m wills using public transport before until immediately after the Meghan thing (sorry if actually you’ve all been sat next to them in the past on Ryanair) and it does seem convenient Meghan getting it in the neck all the bloody time at the same time as all the rumours about wills inability to keep his trousers zipped up abd uncle andys dodgy friends does it not.

Poor Meghans not the new Diana she’s the new fergie abd nothing she does will ever be good enough.

Armi

Eh........... because I have travelled from London to Aberdeen without flying. Because I know a lot of people who have gone from further than Norwich to Aberdeen without flying using the bus, car, train etc.

If they were going to say South Africa, South America somewhere, Australia etc. then I would understand why it's not feasible to take anything other than to fly.

@RJnomore1

They've been photographed on commercial flights for years. It's not new. Other members of the royal family have also used normal flights. It's usually just buried at the bottom of the news because it's not really news. This one made headlines because of the Harry and Meghan thing but it's really not unusual.

Having flown recently on that route and others a few times with FlyMaybe, I guaranteed it had less to to with branding and more to do with making sure it was one of their newer shinier planes they use for the passengers they deem more important and not the shabby, dirty old planes they use for the passengers they know have fewer options out in the sticks.

But what's easier? Drive from Sandringham to Peterborough, catch the train to Edinburgh, decant the kids, onto another train for Aberdeen, all the time people tweeting and instagramming "kate and wills on the train!!!". Even without a change in Edinburgh, it's 7h 30m on the train. with three small children.

Or, drive to a small airport close to your house, straight through security and board the plane last. Flight time to Aberdeen 90 minutes tops. Nobody tweeting and facebooking because on a plane you can't. Straight off the plane and into cars for the drive to Balmoral.

And if they'd used the Royal Train they'd have been criticised for that too. If they even have a royal train any more.

RJ they didn’t leave from London.

Get your facts right OP.
Have a

Ha this is funny

First rule of Flight Club...

Oh, wow 😂😂😂😂

Oh, OP.

Where possible, planes operate as shuttles - deliver one set of passengers and pick the next lot up. Sometimes, that arrangement doesn't work out - maybe due to poor weather, a technical issue for the plane, strike action, timetabling issues. Therefore, quite often, a plane will leave from an airport empty, and be moved to another airport where it is needed.
Who the fuck is the OP thinking are the stupid ones here?!

I didn’t say they left from London I said the train I was on did!

Ok fair enough if they do it all the time...

You've made a right dick of yourself eh😂

Where possible, planes operate as shuttles - deliver one set of passengers and pick the next lot up. Sometimes, that arrangement doesn't work out - maybe due to poor weather, a technical issue for the plane, strike action, timetabling issues. Therefore, quite often, a plane will leave from an airport empty, and be moved to another airport where it is needed.

This. Aircraft operate in sectors and usually they are A-B then B-A then A-C etc.

There are many reasons why an aircraft may need to reposition, and in some cases it's part of the schedule (although not in this scenario) for instance the Virgin 747 that operates out of Glasgow isn't based there and positions empty from Gatwick to operate the Glasgow-Orlando it then positions empty from Glasgow to Belfast to operate the Belfast-Orlando flight.

The planned aircraft may not have been able to operate that flight so another was brought in. It's an everyday occurrence.

Also, I will just reiterate, Flybe do not have any of the aircraft type that operated the flight.

TSSD
I think RJ was trying to illustrate the point that she was coming from even further away than Norwich and she was on a train.

OTRACOSA
It's not about the ease and convenience, I am sure it was easier for H&M to fly on a private jet.

Bearing in mind that they recently had a real threat from Neo Nazis who were actually convicted, for it, so a real threat. I imagine that when given an offer for a more secure private flight they just went for it. I believe they had the baby with them, babies are more vulnerable. Imagine how everyone would be in arms if anything happened to him when they know they just recently got a threat. How stupid were they etc. K&W are basically sainted now since the Meghan media attacks, and no one has been convicted of being a real threat to them.

I’ve flown from London to Aberdeen. Why on earth would I go on the train for hours when I could get there quicker by flying.

Op I came back from my holiday last week. The plane I was on was being repositioned after our flight. Not unusual apparently. I only know as I was waiting for my wheelchair & was making conversation with the crew.

scotwood, Flybe and Loganair have confirmed that it was a BE aircraft that operated the flight. The report must be incorrect in the plane type, probably because they've looked at historic data for the route (it is usually a ERJ-145). You can confirm this on flightstats.

The issue is more around the Loganair plane that had to reposition empty (this time it really was an ERJ-145), because the airline had decided on the aircraft change for no good reason. Again, this can be verified on flightstats. (This decision was nothing to do with the royals.)

However a Flybe spokesperson refuted the allegations.

They said: ‘Flybe denies any involvement in the decision over which aircraft to fly on this route, which is fully operated by Eastern Airways.’

@scotwood

They are denying that they made the decision. They aren't denying that it happened. And the plane which was meant to be used was not flybe branded. The plane they swapped it for was. So I'm calling bullshit on their denial.