Originally Posted by
Nakata77
Sorry but any operator that says it will fly a Fokker 70 to Greece is not someone I would want to spend my money with. It doesn't have the range unless you plan to ship the passengers baggage separately later on.
The concept of operating only at peak (Jul-early Sep) with low prices is flawed and may only be a one-off or limited time concept to soak up excess capacity that may exist.
This is another Powdair and the airport better steer well clear.
when i was looking after AE at LGW we had Fokker 100's (new) and occasionally these would have to step in for an AOG 757 say to Corfu or ATH
we had to send one a/c with the pax and one for the bags
another 737-300 would also take a full load and bags plus any remainder we could not get on the Fokkers
SOU-JSI is a route that def can attract the demand if they advertise it enough and operate it without too much payload penalty - and/or sell a block of the seats to the JSI holiday specialists such as Sunvil, James villas, IONIAN ISLAND HOLIDAYS and Olympic Hols to share the risk - most of these are upmarket and a regional departure like SOU would be attractive to the JSI market (skiathos skopelos alonissos and the Pelion region)
apart from the view of the question of being viable operationally
departing from SOU - most flights returning to the UK from JSI cannot depart with MTOW out of there going home to UK and stop for fuel at Volos, Lemnos (sometimes split load) or Saloniki, sometimes Kavala or Corfu - this makes it a 3 sector day for crewing