Originally Posted by
G-FORZ
There are some deals, but cheapest DSA-ALC for Jun/Jul this year £140 return with BE, competing with lowest fares LBA £109, EMA £71 all chasing same catchment. There is demand but at half the price most Yorkshire folk will travel 45 minutes down the road to EMA
For leisure routes this sounds very plausible. But even for domestic/european destinations the share of time sensitive business passengers does not seem to be high enough to make higher frequencies or more routes viable.