Originally Posted by
Rivet Joint
no offence, but are you mad? Why on earth would you not want EZY to serve domestic routes? The fares alone would be halved. Do you like paying twice the money to fly on a smaller and slower plane? We are talking 200k odd annual passengers on the Scottish routes alone, you would hope EZY would want a slice of that. Would it be wild to imagine them doubling that total with much cheaper fares? Manchester, Newcastle, Dublin and Belfast also could be served. They only drawback is that frequencies might drop but who cares if bigger planes are flying to take up the slack. You ask anyone locally about BE and they all have the same hate filled opinion of them. They are nothing short of a basket case waiting to be put out of their misery. A shame because they had a lot of promise back when they started. Regardless of this, For SOU it is a case that BE are better than nothing. With EZY, they would fit SOU like a glove. Make it happen SOU!
Totally agreed Rivet Joint - it's one of the only airports in the Country which is reliant on Flybe (even Exeter has a TUI based operation) and personally I prefer to drive past the airport to fly on a Jet (hate those turboprops and flybes late record) from LHR but that could be cos i'm airplane geek. SOU is a major city and international port and it surprises me that it is stuck at 2m pax while the likes of NCL, LPL, EMA, ABZ (all comparable cities in my opinion) are at the 4-5m level with multiple carriers.