Originally Posted by
AirportPlanner1
That’s a flawed arugument. In that scenario the passengers should bare the cost of doing that, and you would then get shouts of “why does it cost us here in XXX hundred more than XXX”. There is a long tradition going back well into pre-LCC days of Air 2000, Britannia, LTU, Air Berlin, Transavia, Scanair etc etc across Europe flying from primary cities and areas of good catchment down to the sun and then back to base. Air Europa, Spanair etc on the other hand would start their day in Spain and head to the likes of Norwich, Humberside, Saarbrucken, Kristiansand. So those communities “lost holiday” as you put it, but as none were of them had the market to support a based aircraft it’s a shortened holiday, a long drive elsewhere, or no holiday at all.
If the times aren’t what you hope for, go elsewhere. The market will determine whether the flights are maintained in future. There’s nothing stopping people taking the outbound of one airline and the inbound of another if it works better for them.
This thread started at #1067/1068 about Ryanair basing all their aircraft serving GLA at away bases. Some of their PIK aircraft are also away based. Anyone from the Glasgow area who has seven nights booked anywhere and is looking for flights will get better value out of their accomodation by avoiding these away based aircraft. Jet2 is providing the required services that Glasgow wants to buy.