Originally Posted by
STN406
I would say it is a loss. Flights are often full and I believe it takes a small amount of freight too.
Though yes we still have a service to Larnaca but it’s with a ‘Holiday Company’ who’s flights to Cyprus are aimed at more leisure passengers and don’t offer a premium product. Though yes Cobalts is nothing to shout about.
The biggest question no matter if it operates at Heathrow 4 times a week or daily. How did it get the slots and how did they afford them?
I’m sure if these slots didn’t appear at Heathrow Cobalt would still be daily and I’m sure one the newly launched Chinese routes would be at Stansted.
I think that the slots Cobalt obtained at LHR were previously with Aegean who were flying to Larnaca.
The recent influx of Chinese entrants at LHR are because they are generally using evening slots which are rare but have been available to these airlines hence the recent additions.
Some airlines such as China Southern have used existing slots to cover the new destinations that they are serving from LHR.
Those 'spare' evening slots will soon be harder to obtain and I'm sure that MAG would be in dialogue with any potential airline to start a service to STN.