[LM24] Le Mans travel arrangements; a new airline?

[JimW]

The following has reached me from a usually reliable source (i.e. I don't think that it is spam) and may be of interest to some members. (I hope it is sufficiently far from advertising not to offend the Gods of the forum. )

From: Chagneau Sylvain
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:24 AM




(This is not an ad.)

Dear Sir or Madam,

We are writing to inform you that we are a french project group and we try, in relation with the airport of Le Mans to develop a temporary airline between Le Mans (72-France) and England.

This line would be made for people who want to attend « Les 24 Heures du Mans »(June 2006), the famous french motor race.

We would like to know if this idea could interest some people in your club, without any obligation from you.

Or you can contact us again if we can help in any way,

We would appreciate if you could answer us quickly so we could develop this project.

Yours faithfully.

Sylvain CHAGNEAU
Chérif BEN HENDA

Regards

Jim Whitaker

[Aysedasi]

Interesting. But not a lot to go on Jim. Perhaps you could ask them if they are developing a web-site or if they have a maliling list those interested could join?

[JimW]

They did quote a couple of websites but (having read the FAQs) I thought I should excise them.

I have suggested that they add some details here (in addition to the quoted email address).

Regards

Jim

[Aysedasi]

Understood. I wouldn't want to actively promote them, but we do permit links to other sites of direct use to members. If you wanted to post them, I could always take a look. If necessary, I could move the details to Cool Sites..

[JimW]

The originators also reference two websites, mainly (as far as a very quick look tells me) about the race:

For more information about this race, you can see these websites :
www.lemans.org
www.24hdumans.net

Regards

Jim

[paul-collins]

I've emailed them. Might be of interest as an alternative to the bus tour.

[Marcel ten Caat]

Question is...can they park another airplane on the field during the Le Mans weekend?

[paul-collins]

This is not a commercial venture at this time, more of a "can we get bodies together for some charters?"

Given the lead time, I guess now is as good as any to be looking for participants. I wonder if this could turn into an option for, say, Page+Moy?

[Fab]

Not as easy as a 'UK-Le Mans' airline, but there's already Stanstead-Dinard by Easyjet, almost for a song, and regular airlines (Britair/Air France, BA too IIRC, seeing jets from the cabin of my small Cessna when I practice with my teacher) to Nantes too.

We've got a new link to Ireland from Nantes, lately, and really cheap too.

FWIW.

[cherif]

hi fab and evryone
we are the organizators of this project...as you said in the previous post we agree that there are airlines between france and UK such as Air France British airways, easy jet but nowadays i ve never seen an aircraft from those companies landing or taking off from Le mans airport...and as you know le mans airport is 100 meters far from the circuit. thats why we propoze you this new service.and now it s up to u...we are expecting details for the price from airline cpies...do not hesitate if u need more info...

edited: took out your personal info (phone and email addresses). I don't want spammers to harvest your info via google.

People, please use the "email user" to contact Sylvain.

- p-c

[cherif]

hi this is again cherif and sylvain,

i didn t have any news from you since a long time...is the project uninterresting?We have taken contact with an airline company they are just waiting for you...I will give you later an aproximate price of the ticket...and remember...the airport is 1 minute far from the buggati...but in order to progress in this project we need a number of people aiming to go from uk to le mans by air...so ...do not hesitate... my mail is cherif72000 hotmail . com

[mcurtis26]

AFAIK a Bae 146 / RJ100 is the biggest jet that can land at Le Mans and several do go in from the UK during the weekend, we flew in from Biggin Hill with Airtrack.

[Bentley03]

Originally Posted by cherif

hi this is again cherif and sylvain,

i didn t have any news from you since a long time...is the project uninterresting?We have taken contact with an airline company they are just waiting for you...I will give you later an aproximate price of the ticket...and remember...the airport is 1 minute far from the buggati...but in order to progress in this project we need a number of people aiming to go from uk to le mans by air...so ...do not hesitate... my mail is cherif72000 hotmail . com

To be honest guys, the end of November was a little late for the Le Mans regulars on this forum. I would suggest that I speak for most of us when I say 2006 was already arranged (at least in the mind) by the time we returned home from the 2005 race.

I already have accommodation booked for 2007! That's how far ahead we work. A number of members travel out pre Test Day, a large number between Sunday and Thursday of race week, and relatively few (or so it seems) on Friday/Saturday. You have given us no idea of schedule! For instance will there be flights daily on Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon, and if so how many flights are planned on each day? How can we comment with so little information??

So, be more specific about the service you plan to offer and we will be able to tell you whether or not it's of any interest. We have very little to go on from what you've been able to tell us so far!!

[EliseGT1]

I'll take my own private jet this year....

[mcurtis26]

There is an existing service to the airport, admittedly only out on Saturday and back on Sunday, but with landing fees, the prices can be relatively high, so demand may not justify more flights than this. A shuttle flight from Paris may have a better chance of working as Paris can be reached form most UK regional airports, rather than a direct flight from one of the London airports or maybe Southend.