Originally Posted by
stewyb
BMI service ends on the 24/03. A shame and clearly some UK airlines are struggling to survive and make routes profitable, I include Eastern, Cityjet (Eire) and also Flybe in this as well. Me thinks further consolidation beckons!!
That is ridiculous. Obviously we are not privy to the yields but surely at their prices, an over 50% erj-145 is making money for them. The recent decrease is probably largely down to the fact it went down to a single rotation. A route like this could become a gold mine with the LH codeshare. When I used it recently there were all sorts of nationalities on the flight. Why ride out the hard times when BE were operating the same route only to throw in the towel? I had high hopes of them opening more routes to Frankfurt, Brussels etc which are all routes which have been served a few times previously. This smacks of them seeing a quick buck in the wet lease market over their bread and butter. You only have to look at cityjet to see where that goes.