Originally Posted by
GayFriendly
And there was me thinking it had been quite a while since another route dropped post at BHX, oh at least a couple of weeks
No surprise, dreadful frequency and timings and no advertising. I wonder how many flights were actually flown, it was usually Non Op on FIDS.
The Route Un-Development Team office must be such a depressing place to work these days.
It's really hard to know which market SAS thought they were trying to serve at the frequency and times this service was flown. The summer lay-off suggests business traffic, but the frequency and timings were useless for business, the frequency, if not the timings suggested leisure traffic, but then, why can it during the summer holiday season? Muddled thinking doesn't really, on the face of it, seem to come near. No wonder Norway are pulling their shareholding in this multinational pantomime horse.
Monarch proved a demand last summer with a more leisure orientated frequency and timings - perhaps the price they had to sell the seats at were just not sustainable, but they certainly put bums on seats. Perhaps Jet2 might look at the route, operating on a similar basis to that which Monarch operated.