I really wonder what went wrong at Primera.
13 years of successful charter flying and suddenly the decide to double the size of the airline to operate transatlantic routes.
The new aircraft were late arriving, so ratty replacements were hastily found at great expense.
New aircraft kept coming thick and fast, only the roster of new routes grew faster - but revenue from the fantasy route network couldn’t sustain the winter.
The A321NEO has been chosen by airlines like EI and TP for similar routes, EI and the US3 have been operating the 757 on these routes for year, so the model can work. Globespan had similar rapid expansion, high hopes and dramatic implosion.
I suppose my question is weither the long haul LCC model doesn’t work, or if it was a case of overly ambitious timelines and financial strain stretching that caused their doom. In short, would they have been OK if the A321s had been delivered on-time?