Friday, July 24, 2015
Croatian-based European Coastal Airlines (ECA), Europe’s only scheduled seaplane service, has taken delivery of its third aircraft, a Dash DHC-6 Twin Otter, registered 9A-TOC. The aircraft will now be mounted with floats, giving it the ability to land on water. ECA will soon take delivery of another two hydro planes. Just a year following its launch, ECA has become a success story. The airline has previously said it expects to handle some 221.000 passengers this year.
221 000? With one 19-seater from 1.1.-31.7..2015 and two more from 1.8.? It looks like a joke.
ReplyDeleteone more per Aug 1st
Deletedid you report on the loss of one of their aircraft a couple of weeks ago?
ReplyDeletethat was a training aircraft, not a passenger aircraft.
DeleteGuys check your math please 221,000 even in a full 12 months with 3 full planes ( 19 seaters) doing 4 flights a day would only total
ReplyDelete83,220..so with a supposed load fator of over 300% can I invest!
at the moment ECA has 16 flights per day (incl. returns and stops at MLJ) with one aircraft. So that is a capacity of ?
Deletebravo! congrats! dont Forget on POZ Airport!
ReplyDeletein August one aircraft will fly 5 daily Split-Jelsa (Island of Brac),
ReplyDeletethe other one 2 daily Split-Pula (without stop on Mali Losinj)
Jelsa je na Hvaru
Deleteoh, it was only a training aircraft which crashed with loss of life. thats ok then!! Strange that it went without mention in this blog.......
ReplyDelete+1 agree - that should have been "news".
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