Originally Posted by
shamrock7seal
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.
But those airports don't have the restrictions that Southampton has. I do think SOU needs to be careful not to drive away Flybe as they bring a lot of connections that EZY won't and they'll never have the same scale operation. And as someone who's flown Flybe quite a few times their no worse than any other airline.