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Old 21st Feb 2018, 11:10
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There is talk about 8 daily flights from Land's End, so they cannot all be for Tresco which never saw a lot of capacity back in the golden S61 days. Which begs the question - which type of passenger are they targeting if the same company offers fixed wing aircraft flights on the same route to ISC for half the price? While I hear claims that Land's End is closed for fixed wing ops 1 in 4 days on average, it would appear to be a rather bizarre business plan to mainly target stranded plane passengers once or twice a week (plus giving Tresco an - at this point unwanted - airlink). Is there not enough airlifit capacity to/from ISC since the demise of BIH so that people have to resort to the vomit comet and go by ship? Both heli proposals will add capacity to ISC, but will not make travel to/from St. Mary's cheaper.
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