DYOR/300 oil men fly out to Falkland Islands from Gatwick

noh

I've done my own research and discovered as above there is a weekly oil industry charter LGW to MPN. The aircraft used is an A310 maximum 194 seats.
So the fact that a flight took place on Friday is nothing unusual nor is the fact that they were carrying spare parts
Who do they work for? Obviously the oil companies involved in exploration around the Falklands. If you want to know who they are see here.
http://www.falklands-oil.com/

Loughton_Monkey

blackrat779 wrote: »

300 oilmen flew out of Gatwick to the Falkland Islands on Friday armed with some heavy luggage in the way of spare parts.

They were all going to a wedding and all had a perverse desire to be a spare part at one.

jimjames

noh wrote: »

Apparently there is a weekly oil industry charter from Gatwick to RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falklands via Ascension. Operated by a company called HiFly.
Apparently seats bookable via the Falklands Island government.
Info found here:-
http://www.pprune.org/airlines-airports-routes/226299-gatwick-43.html

So the "news" that a flight left on Friday is hardly anything of merit or mention as it happens each week.

You could ramp up a travel company or hotel because a flight left from Gatwick to Algarve on Friday.

Exactly DYOR and see that it is no news at all. @OP, If you knew this why bother posting?

lvader

jimjames wrote: »

Exactly DYOR and see that it is no news at all. @OP, If you knew this why bother posting?

Did you actually do your own research or just take another persons word for it?

lvader

http://www.flightmapping.com/airlines/royal-air-force/

The Royal Air Force operate the only regular flights to the Falkland Islands, with a twice weekly TriStar service operating from Brize Norton RAF base in Oxfordshire. These flights, which operate via Ascension Island for refuelling, can be booked from the RAF directly by telephone.

Aslo see Gatwick destinations for further evidence or lack of it.

http://www.gatwickairport.com/flights/destinations/

noh

I don't know for sure but the evidence does point to there being a regular oil industry charter to the Falklands. It may have only recently started.
The link I posted to the professional pilots rumour network forum shows a question from someone who had seen the destination on the departure board at Gatwick and an answer saying that it is a charter by the oil industry.

The flightmapping site, at the time of it being written, no doubt contained the correct information but it certainly isn't correct now. The current aircraft used, I believe, are Boeing 767s ( The RAF Tristars were retired from that route long ago) and the service is contracted to Air Seychelles . More here.
I have been on that flight (BZZ-MPA) a few years ago for a quick trip to the Falklands and back. It was and I am sure still is, fairly full and with few seats available for civilians.
It makes perfect sense for the oil companies involved in exploration in the Falklands to jointly charter a flight from the UK. There must be alot of personell there now and there will be a regular rotation of people.

I'm not surprised it is not listed on the Gatwick website. I wouldn't expect them to list private charters.

I know it is not firm evidence as it is on Wikipedia but the page for RAF Mount Pleasant mentions Hi Fly as a carrier using the airfield with a destination of Gatwick.

So my research using the interenet leads me to believe that currently there is a regular weekly charter using one or two Hi Fly A310 with maximum 194 seats.

Edit:-
Here is a link to a photo of one of the planes http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sporting-Clube-de/Airbus-A310-304/1868155/L/
read the remarks.

blackrat779

Well some good points raised. Yes perhaps I should have done more research into what I was saying and no I didn't know any better.

I think my question has been dwarfed by what I thought was exciting news. The main point to my original question was how do you do your research into stocks? Do you have any favourite ways of doing it, as a newbie I was after some help.

Blackrat

blackrat779

Sausage_egg_and_chips wrote: »

Sounds like someone has made a bad investment and is trying to bump up the price.

Well I don't think so (I would say that) I have invested in Rockhopper.
People who are far cleverer than me say that it should do ok.
I guess you guys are cynical because of all the ramping/deramping that goes on.

To steer it back to the original post, I was (and still am) after some help. The bit of info I added seemed important as I thought I had found some exciting news, turns out it may just be routine.

So how do you do your research? Or is it the case that AIM "investment" is just luck and rumour based and you just gamble?

Blackrat

jimjames

blackrat779 wrote: »

So how do you do your research? Or is it the case that AIM "investment" is just luck and rumour based and you just gamble?

Blackrat

In the main I believe it is but I don't study AIM shares, most seem to move on no real news but hunch or rumour. Things like P/E are pretty irrelevant for most AIM shares when a single piece of concrete news could cause huge changes in the price.

sabretoothtigger

I think Aim does follow chart patterns, with volume and news being rather dominant but still I see gradual gains occur like normal shares. Quite often that all collapses, aim is more risky for sure

PE is very distant logic yea