Originally Posted by
inOban
With their rapidly-rising wage bill, are their costs still much less than Ezyjets?
And if Glasgow was profitable, they could have operated flights from STN, although that would lose the day trip business market, mainly southbound in the morning.
Look at their financial results, they make a massive percentage of their money on ancillary. Often unfair ancillary such as airport check-in. With APD it’s easy to see FR make a loss on basic fares on a lot of routes. FR have a lower cost base than EZY by looking at the markets they operate in, particularly Eastern Europe. GLA is not worth operating at business frequency with a STN based aircraft when there are limited A.M. slots from STN and the aircraft can be used on more lucrative routes.