Originally Posted by
Expressflight
I would have thought their main target market is outbound traffic from the Paderborn area to London.
There are also Brits in the area as a legacy from the MOD days where they had a base there. This is why for a few years Air Berlin flew to Southampton (and then Bournemouth) and Manchester until things first started unraveling for them. They also operated daily to STN for many years.
Pre-Air Berlin, there were charter flights from STN a couple of times a week with British World and later European.
When Stobart first launched European routes with the two ATRs, Paderborn was a route I was sure they would try as it seemed an obvious gap in the market having lost all its UK services.