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Old 20th July 2009 | 12:00
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ryanair1
 
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Limoges may not seem the most 'low hanging' of the fruit to pluck from BOH, but sometimes it depends more on where the deal is best and which route timing can be fit into the schedule. Remember we took over the BOH operation of Buzz. We have seen first hand the forward bookings on the Buzz service to EGC (and others) and it wasn't viable to continue in our minds (then). But things change and it may not be a bad route from BOH at the right price and frequency when we can actually do it. But we are trying out routes where we can from BOH, there will be more - some will succeed and others may not. in fact there haven't been terribly loss making routes from BOH, it's more that some make significant R.O.P and others just 'contribute' - its a case of filtering out only the significantly profitable ones so we can see a long-term successful operation.

Prestwick was a case in point. But recently due slack economy and leakage to EDI, yield went too low and demand also weakened so we had no choice. If the economy picks up and more a/c become available (based a/c) at either PIK or BOH, with the right flight times it may come back. PIK based a/c capacity is being cut for the winter period and the lower yielding routes (like BOH) took the hammer first as a result of that reduction.
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