Time now for all us Wiggins watchers to move with the times and start using Planestation, the new company identity. The name Wiggins Group plc has now disappeared from the database at Companies House and Planestation is now listed on the LSE website.

So fellow travellers, forget Wiggins, the name of the game is now PLANESTATION. Lets hope it goes like an express train.

A couple of artices to read and pass comment as you all do :)

EUJET DOUBLES THE REASONS TO FLY FROM KENT

New low fares airline EUjet has today (4 October) nearly doubled the number of routes it flies from Kent International Airport. The move is part of a phased expansion programme and follows the successful launch of first services on 1 September.

EUjet is introducing seven new routes and will now operate from Kent to 15 UK and European destinations. Further expansion will see this number rise to 20 by the end of the year.

New services to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and Madrid begin today with flights to Shannon, Malaga and Palma starting at the weekend.

Speaking about the new routes PJ McGoldrick, Chief Executive of EUjet, said: Today is another exciting day for EUjet, as it represents another step in the airline's planned route expansion to a range of UK and European destinations from Kent International. The first month of operation has gone well and the reaction of passengers is overwhelmingly positive.

"We are regularly receiving compliments on the quality of our Fokker 100 fleet and in particular the spacious seating. Passengers also like the ease of using Kent International Airport, with easy road access, no queues and with good value parking. Repeat business is key for us and we are already building up a loyal following of travellers.

"Our new internal UK flights to Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh are being eagerly awaited by both business and leisure travellers. The business traveller will be now able to make same day return trips from either end, with sufficient time to take care of business at his destination.

EUjet will be launching a further five new destinations catering mainly for the skiing market, with flights to Geneva, Salzburg, Turin, Toulouse and Zurich taking off before Christmas.

PJ McGoldrick adds: "The doubling of EUjets routes gives travellers in Kent, South East London and the South East of England a new and hassle-free way to fly to European and UK destinations.

"We believe that once people have tried out the service, which puts the pleasure back in low fares travel, they will come back time and time again."

EUjet will now operate a fleet of five Fokker 100 aircraft from Kent International. Further European services are also being run from Shannon Airport in parallel with the Kent flight programme.

EUjet flights can be booked online at www.eujet.com.


Further enquiries:

Philip Bosley
PHB Public Relations
Tel: 01580 852500



Notes to Editors:

EUjet is an approved Irish airline with its head-office at Shannon, Ireland. EUjet was established in 2002 and launch scheduled services from Kent International Airport on 1 September 2004 and from Shannon on 18 September 2004.

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04 October 2004


RNS Number:6414D
Planestation Group PLC
4 October 2004



SCHEDULE 10

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1) NAME OF COMPANY

PLANESTATION GROUP PLC

2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

ARTEMIS FUND MANAGERS LIMITED

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18



4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them.

ARTEMIS UK GROWTH FUND - 8,257,724
ARTEMIS SPECIAL SITUATIONS FUND - 8,818,915

5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

3,343,382

6) Percentage of issued Class
(ANY TREASURY SHARES HELD BY COMPANY SHOULD NOT
BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHEN CALCULATING PERCENTAGE)

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed


8) Percentage of issued Class
(ANY TREASURY SHARES HELD BY COMPANY SHOULD NOT
BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHEN CALCULATING PERCENTAGE)


9) Class of security

15P ORDINARY

10) Date of transaction



11) Date company informed

1ST OCTOBER 2004

12) Total holding following this notification

17,076,639

13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification
(ANY TREASURY SHARES HELD BY COMPANY SHOULD NOT
BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHEN CALCULATING PERCENTAGE)

11.5%

14) Any additional information

THIS HOLDING IS STATED ON THE CONSOLIDATED BASIS

15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

CHRISTOPHER FOSTER
020 7495 8686

16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification

Date of Notification ... 4TH OCTOBER

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When I arrived at Cannon Street station this morning saw quite a few advertising posters for EUJet

Optomistic
I saw your post in the Cafe. Yes I did see the numbers posted by the localspy. I thought they were quite promising considering they have so far only targetted the local market with their advertising. Now they are widening their scope, both with advertising and destinations, the situation could get quite interesting.

There was always a risk that KIA might make a profit but EUjet could die on it's feet, that risk is reduced with a JV. Even if the JV only breaks even, Manston ceases to be a cash drain on PTG's slim resources.

I would be interested to know the extent of any advertising going on at the other ends of EUjet's routes. If they can get some regular 2-way traffic rather than just Kent based catchment it would help enormously.

Socrates
Will watch PTG from the sidelines with interest. I lost out on my last sojourn into the stock after a profit on the first, overall I am at a loss.
I don't follow the "I'll get even with you" policy but if I consider that PTG is back on the road to sucess I will jump on board again. At the moment it seems to me to be in a huge cash burn situaton with not a lot of friends in the market.
I hope I am wrong for current holders but I do think PTG could have a way to fall unless somethings happens to change the present position. Like less competition in the air travel industry, take over or just some good news.
Which? I am not prepared to bet on any at the moment.
opto

Socs
Take those blinkers off

In case anyone missed it, MK Airlines the freight operator who recently moved out of Manston, lost a Boeing 747 aircraft when it crashed on take-off. The crash occurred in Nova Scotia and there has been much speculation about the cause. Please don't fall into the trap of making assumptions like the media have, air crash investigations are long, thorough and very detailed, I know I've been there. Read the link for the details:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3742922.stm#

More detail on the air crash at this link:

http://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=78c55bc1-e2f8-4ad5-852c-3fdff9d17e8c

First news for a while, the September figures are out on the Planestation website.

Passengers 13605

Freight 690 tonnes

I'm sure there will be some discussions, the freight figure is not a patch on those achieved previously. However, though small it might represent a much more profitable turnover.

Passengers, not bad IMO for the first, albeit incomplete, month of operation.

Thanks for previous posting Socrates,
some more good news,

Planestation Melbourne,
extract from minutes of october meeting,

http://www.mlbair.com/news_pdfs/MN102004.pdf
'General Titus Hall said that when the PlaneStation representative updated the Board, he said the
timeframe would be some time in May or June 2005(mid-year). He thought the Board was operating on
a timeframe by the end of this year and that was reason that FIT was moved.
Chairman Buckley clarified that the last word was a start date of April, 2005.'

April 2005 for Planestation Florida flights looking more promising
Good luck
eddie

\I just wish the price-feed took account of the consolidation, there was no metoric rise in sp a few weeks ago. Earlier figures will need to be adjusted to account for the change.

can any body tell me what is going on with this company has i have held some shares for sometime now since 1999?????????????????????????/

llewellyn
Nobody knows for sure what is going on with PTG due to the dearth of information coming from the company. What we do know is that in September Manston had a throughput of 13,605 passengers.

For a first month of operation of an unknown operator from an airport that had never had scheduled services before I think that is quite respectable.

It is only my opinion, but I believe that if the figures improve and there are already more services running, there will be a sudden turnaround in how PTG is perceived in the market.

CAA provisional statistics for September 04 show KIA
as having moved 13743 passengers and had 494 flights.

This thread has died

Oh ye of little faith.

apro/27passengers per flight BIG DEAL////

bristlelad
Don't make assumptions that you cannot justify, nobody said they were all passenger flights, quite a few were freighters. Just how many we will have to wait to find out.

RNS posted, notice of interim results date.

Better short them quick. 20p here we come