Originally Posted by
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Might we have to conclude that just because the route has almost always existed doesn't mean it necessarily should? It doesn't seem to have brought, in recent years, happiness to those who have operated it. Further, flying those sorts of distances to that sort of size of airport in those sorts of sizes of planes is now almost extinct.
Not sure if it was LCY-ANR that doomed VLM 2.0. My guess is that they wasted their limited resources on routes like MUC-MBX and ANR-ABZ, although Stobart's competition on ANR-SEN certainly did not help. ANR-LCY probably works with a cheap 50 seater, but the problem is of course to generate econoies of scale from that basis. So a larger outfit like Flybe would be a better choice instead of a local mini-airline.