There is a mentality amongst the travelling public that between two countries, let's say UK and Thailand, their only flight options would be BA and a Thai airline, when I lived in the midlands the amount of idiots that would drive past such an airport as BHX en-route to LHR for their believed only flight options!
Absolutely agree. The general public are completely unaware when it comes to flying. That's where EZY and FR do incredibly well as people seem to default to them.
But ultimate destination DOH is not a good price comparison example as DOH is not that many people's ultimate destination nor is it Qatar's core business, for those dates I just checked and one can fly LON/BKK/LON via DXB for £500 ... less than it costs to fly CWL/DOH/CWL!
CWL-BKK via DOH is £455.47
